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Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-065-008

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 1910

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-065-008-a

Description: Shows a new European settlement near Ohakune, amongst an extensive tract of felled timber, with trees and bush in the background. Mount Ruapehu is in the distance. Other Titles - The above photograph depicts a pioneering scene near Ohakune, on the route of the Main Trunk railway, and shows the birth of a new settlement in the heart of the bush. In the background towers the majestic snow-clad peak of Ruapehu ... Extended Title - Supplement to: The Weekly News. Special Christmas Number. 1910. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 462 x 662 mm

Date: 17 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, David Edward, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0419/02

Description: Ted Buchanan was born in Reefton in 1927. Recalls his family moving from Ikamatua to Haast when he was five. Describes how his father was frequently away as he was a mill worker. Mentions that the six children had chores and his mother, Isabel Buchanan, was tough and capable. Recalls her ploughing fields to plant potatoes. Talks about the vegetable garden, making bread, bottling and storing fruit and making jam. Describes going to school at Okuru, Te Taho and Ikamatua. Mentions his father died when he was twelve. Recalls playing cards, listening to the radio and catching cockabullies for recreation. Describes going to Christchurch for six months when he left school, returning to Haast, felling bush in the Arawata area with his brother Henry and living at the Public Works Department (PWD) camp. Mentions also doing road work. Describes whitebaiting at Cascade and bringing the whitebait out by horse or boat. Mentions constructing an air strip and taking freezers in. Describes deer stalking with Des Nolan for two seasons and gives details of working at Carters Mill as a bushman. Talks about marrying Collette Brazil who worked in a hotel in Hokitika. Mentions visits from the dentist at Hokitika and Dinny Nolan who also pulled teeth out. Talks about ways of getting out to medical help. Recalls the Duggan family, the McPherson family on the Turnbull River and Myrtle Cron who could shoot and skin a deer. Recalls shifting to Mosgiel for his children's education. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2896.

Date: [ca 1910-ca 1920]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/4-54905-F

Description: Two men with a large Kauri log in native forest, Piha, New Zealand. Photograph taken by William Williams sometime between 1910 and 1920.

Date: 1910 to 1919

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-180

Description: Partial index inside cover of album: "In this series of photographs we have endevoured to depict the manner of working kauri timber in the North of New Zealand...Northwood Bros." The Northwood Brothers worked from their Kohukohu studio from 1910-1919. Partial index relates to pages 1-58; no index for pages 59-66; pages 67-100 are blank. Images include various aspects of the kauri industry, including tree felling; transportation of logs by bullock team, horse tramlines, timber waggons, and on water; views of campsites, including a cook calling the men to dinner; and men climbing kauri trees in search of gum. Album at PA1-q-180 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover, entitled `Views of North Auckland by Northwood Bros. Kohu Kohu, Hokianga'; 27 x 35 x 11 cm

Date: 1946

Reference: MapColl-832.17gcrm/1946/Acc.29642

Description: A copy of a base map of Tongariro timber areas including state forests, the Whakapapa, Wanganui and Taringamutu Rivers to Lake Taupo, Tokaanu and the road from National Park to Taupo, has been used to identify ownership of various blocks of timber. A key indicates the ownership by the Crown, Native, Crown & Native, Cut-over, Committed, State Forest and Suggested Units for Exploitation, all of which are colour coded. Areas of suggested units for exploitation are named a) Waione, Waimanu 2G, Okahukura No.3. b) Orakura, Waiunu. c) Oraukura. d) Waimanu 2D, 2G, 2F. e) Waimanu 2G, 2F, 2A. f) Mangahouhou. g) Mangahouhou, Orakoura. h) Pukepoto. l&m) Puketapu. The base map includes rivers and streams, main highways, private roads, including distances to National Park and Mananui. The Pokaka Timber Company and Ketetahi Smg. Co are named. A note states that this plan was compiled for reference inspection S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. August 1946. Includes the names of Hopkins, Speirs & Winger, C.P. & P.D. Smith, Weir & Kenny. Base map: Plan of Tongariro timber areas as at 26.7.1946 / S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1946. Title supplied by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, coloured, scale indeterminable, 71.9 x 73.6 cm.

Date: ca1970s-ca1980s

From: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995 : Negatives, prints, register and minute book from 20th Century Photography studio, Taumarunui

By: Peacock, Morice Gladstone, 1916-1995; Houpapa, Vonda Elsa Maureen, 1941-

Reference: PA12-0356

Description: Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Hardy, Anthony John, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0159/03

Description: Tony Hardy was born in Gisborne in 1945. His early childhood was spent in the Ureweras and the State Hydro Department (New Zealand Electricity Department) Tuai Power Village. Describes the family's move to Lower Hutt in 1956 where Tony Hardy's father worked as an attendant at the Haywards substation (NZ Electricity Department). Describes qualifying as a motor mechanic and spending three years on the West Coast hunting and employed in bush work, mainly for the Kopara Sawmilling Company. Explains the relationship between this privately owned company and the Forest Service. Comments on exploitation of beech forest and gives opinion on conservationists and forest management. Talks about selective logging and sustainable yields. Talks about some time spent in Sydney, getting married and becoming a logging contractor in a partnership with Lou Weinberg in Mapua in 1973. Describes work with Nelson Pine Forest Company, operation of the gangs, their output compared with the Forest Service output, wages, safety aspects of the work and the need for something to be done with the Forest Service by the time it was corporatised. Talks about chipping, working in the Golden Downs Forest and for H.H. Baigent and Son. Discusses the privatisation of the Forestry Corporation and effects on local Nelson timber companies. Talks about Timberlands and Tai Swiss. Compares log hauling with log skidding. Comments on the capital investement involved in machinery. Venue - Nelson : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr Hardy's home at Nelson Accompanying material - Bound in with abstract and describes in abstract record Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001885; OHC-001886; OHC-001887 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 294. Search dates: 1943 - 1988

Date: 1903

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1359-1/2-F

Description: Bush tramway line through Price's Bush in the Akatarawa Valley, showing the wooden rails. An unidentified man is sitting on the rails, on a bend in the line which is surrounded by native bush. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1903. This image is a film negative taken by Godber. Price's Bush was an area owned and milled by Thomas Price (1838-1906), who owned milling operations in Lower Hutt and Petone. Identification of place and date from Godber Acquisitions Register (Photographic Archives) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.25 cm

Date: 1935

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: PAColl-8550-11

Description: Forestry workers with timber transportation equipment in the Pukemako bush, 13 miles east of Mangapehi, Waikato. Shows several men standing on a log on a railway system through the trees, and another man on a 1934 Caterpillar diesel 75 tractor with a winch on the back. Photograph taken in 1935 by an unidentified photographer. Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1939. `Making New Zealand' 1(9): 28 For further information regarding the tractor in this photograph see Ken Anderson, Servicing Caterpillar : the story of the Taumarunui branch of Gough Gough & Hamer (Taumarunui [N.Z.] : C & S Publications, 2000). The tractor was on an eight month contract that started in January 1935. Caterpillar dealers Gough Gough and Hamer contracted to sawmillers Ellis and Burnand Ltd, to demonstrate the advantage of using tractors in the bush. Ellis and Burnand purchased the machine at the start of 1936 and used it at Ongarue until 1943 when it went back to Mangapehi. It was eventually scrapped in the early 1950s. Source of descriptive information - Information regarding the date, location, and tractor from Library client - June 2007 Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Original caption: Left - Modern methods of transport in timber milling at Mangapehi, Taranaki.; Verso - centre - Photo I-69 / Reduce: 6" x 4 1/2 "; Verso - bottom centre - Timber Milling, Mangapehi, NZ; Verso - bottom right - Govt Tourist Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.3 cm Provenance: Photograph from the Government Tourist Department for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40). Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 634. Timber industry. Transport. Rail.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001298-G

Description: Hauling logs in "Punga Bush" (Ponga Bush ?), Manunui, photographed circa 1920s by William Archer Price. Looks across logs towards a timber worker and a steam hauler. Other Titles - Log Hauler Punga Bush Manunui Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Log Hauler Punga Bush. Manunui 2703 D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1947

By: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976; Carpenter, Ken, active 1995

Reference: MapColl-832.17gcrm/1947/Acc.39816

Description: A copy of a base map of Tongariro timber areas includes state forests and covers the area from the Whakapapa, Wanganui and Taringamutu Rivers to Lake Taupo, Tokaanu and the Waikato River, and the road from National Park to Taupo. A key indicates the ownership by the Crown, Native, Crown & Native, Cut-over, Committed and State Forest, all of which are colour coded. The majority of these forestry blocks are named on the map but some boundaries have been revised and the resulting blocks re-numbered and occasionally named. Some rivers have added tributaries marked. Pencilled annotations include named forestry blocks and their distances from various settlements, blocks reserved from cutting, a site of a proposed communal village. The sites of McKee's Mill and A. Mario's house are marked. The base map includes rivers and streams, main highways and private roads. The Pokaka Timber Company and Ketetahi Smg. Co. are named. Includes the names of Hopkins, Speirs & Winger, C.P. & P.D. Smith, Wier & Kenny, McKee Bros., K.R. Kapoor. A note states that this plan was compiled for reference inspection by S.A.C. Darby, C.T. Sando, August 1946, revised 18/6/47. Base map: Plan of Tongariro timber areas as at 26.7.1946 / S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1946 Title of this map with ms annotations taken from original title of base map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on diazo print, coloured, 71.5 x 72.9 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0358.

Date: 1946

By: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976; Carpenter, Ken, active 1995

Reference: MapColl-832.17ee/1946/Acc.39815

Description: A copy of a base map of Tongariro timber areas includes state forests and covers the area from the Whakapapa, Wanganui and Taringamutu Rivers to Lake Taupo, Tokaanu and the Waikato River, and the road from National Park to Taupo. A key indicates forestry areas as Crown, Native, Crown & Native, Cut-over, Committed and State Forest, all of which are colour coded. The majority of these forestry blocks are named on the map. Pencilled annotations refer to possible access of tracks through forestry blocks. The west shore of Lake Taupo has detailed information about Maori occupation naming pa and whare sites, geographical features, settlements, references to Waka, also some names of people. All names are in the Maori language with some English translations. The base map includes rivers and streams, main highways and private roads. The Pokaka Timber Company and Ketetahi Smg. Co. are named. Includes the names of Hopkins, Speirs & Winger, C.P. & P.D. Smith, Wier & Kenny, McKee Bros., K.R. Kapoor. A note states that this plan was compiled for reference inspection by S.A.C. Darby, C.T. Sando, August 1946. Base map: Plan of Tongariro timber areas as at 26.7.1946 / S.A.C. Darby & C.T. Sando. [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1946 Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour on diazo print, coloured, 72 x 71.9 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0358.

Date: [ca 1 December 1911]

From: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928 :Photographs of Marlborough

Reference: 1/2-110310-F

Description: Timber being hauled by railway from Brownlee's Mill in Carluke. Photograph taken circa 1 December 1911, by James Raglan Akersten. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Brownlees Mill Carluke "Hauling timber to Pelorus" Protected 1.12.11 "Akersten" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: ca 1915

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: MNZ-1752-1/2-G

Description: Unidentified men pitsawing at Anawhata, Auckland region. Photograph taken circa 1915 by Albert Percy Godber. Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 9, page 12 Making New Zealand caption reads: "Pitsawing. The photograph shows how the man in the pit takes his share of the work." A print from this negative is at Godber album PA1-q-102, page 6 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Provenance: Item lent by Albert Percy Godber to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/2-019339-G

Description: Bush scene at Erua, with stacks of split logs, bush railway lines, and a steam log hauler, photographed by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1920s. Persons unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: ca 1910

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18

Reference: PAColl-7581-52

Description: Unidentified man transporting logs on a wire, Owaka Bush, circa 1910. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - Shooting logs down wire Owaka Bush Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.8 x 13.2 cm

Date: 1903

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1357-1/2-F

Description: Bush tramway line through Price's Bush in the Akatarawa Valley, showing wooden railway track. An unidentified man is standing in the distance on a bend on the railway line. The banks along the line are covered in native ferns, some low bush, with large trees in the background. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1903. This image is a film negative taken by Godber, from an original print in Godber Album Vol 106, p 7 (PA1-q-100) Film negative taken from original print in Godber Album Vol 106, p 7 (Pa1-q-100) Price's Bush was an area owned and milled by Thomas Price (1838-1906), who owned milling operations in Lower Hutt and Petone. Identification of place and date from Godber Acquisitions Register (Photographic Archives) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 17.25 x 11.25 cm

Date: [between 1908 and 1915]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-001296-G

Description: Ellis & Burnand's sawmill and surrounding timber yard at Manunui. Photograph taken by William A Price. Ellis & Burnand's Manunui Sawmill burnt down in 1915 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

Reference: PAColl-6181-60

Description: Kauri boom alongside the Parker-Lamb Timber Co Ltd, Auckland, circa 1920s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print