Places

Date: 1928

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-4-047

Description: Drawing of a kauri log boom with buildings on the left and the impression of hills in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 140 x 233 mm

Date: 1975

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

Reference: C-132-281

Description: Shows the Government Good Fairy speaking to a nervous Arthur Faulkner who is sitting in a pumpkin coach which is about to leave for the Kawerau mill on the hill in the background. This is a variation or pastiche of the Cinderella story. Original drawing for the cartoon published in the Dominion, 5 June 1975. Other Titles - Last week Cinders Faulkner was left behind to look after the industrial scene at the mill while the ugly sisters (Skinner Knox) went off to the Geneva Ball - alas! this week on the homefront there is still more trouble at the mill Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 330 x 450 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1907

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-101

Description: Telegrams from Smith to Field, and from other people to Field; correspondence; legal documents and one telegram in Maori from Smith to Te Peehi Te Opitinene, Raitihi [sic] Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1792 - 1939

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/5-Acc.37945

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, spars etc) and shipbuilding. Accompanying material: O L C (old land claim) 833.835 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 57 x 44 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1980

From: Connell, Marjorie Bertha, 1907-1995 : Seed family papers

Reference: 88-051-19

Description: Biographical notes prepared by Majorie Connell on Arthur and Bertha Seed, their parents and children (especially Marjorie who became a kindergarten teacher and married Jock Connell). Includes information about life in Upper Hutt, Mangaroa Valley, May Morn timber mill, Khandallah, and Mrs Connell's career. Includes family tree showing descendants of Arthur William Atkinson (1864-1905) and his wife Ruby Nina Seed (1881-1937); Seed family tree showing descendants of John Seed and Anne Nash Franklyn who arrived in NZ on `Marha Ridgway' 8 Jul 1840; newspaper cutting re William Seed (Aug 1960); notes re Sid Wilson. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1900 - 1920

From: Bathgate, Alexander William, 1881-1961 :Collection of photographic prints, negatives and lantern slides

Reference: PAColl-3001-01

Description: Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1986

From: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9392-034

Description: Notes, photocopies and other papers concerning timber milling at Turua and other parts of the Hauraki District Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 12 Apr 1948-1949

From: West Coast Miners' Unions : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1071-067

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1908-1909

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-102

Description: Includes draft deed re right of way, telegrams from Abbot[t] from Wanganui and Raetihi, and from Borlase, correspondence re P G Smith's loans, detailed summary of costs of Smith, copy of deed of covenant, Smith with Raetihi Timber Company, correspondence between Field and Donald McBeth re Smith,and Field with Smith Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1907 - 1915

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1911-01

Description: A catalogue of a firm of engineers, iron and brass founders, at 258 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. Includes illustrations of machinery as follows: winches, haulers, hand stackers, hoists, cranes, breaking down mill, disintegrator, swing hammer pulveriser, log hauler, breaking-down saw frame, circular saw gear, breast bench, shaker screen, steam driven deal frames, shaker screen, clutch couplings, lawn roller, garden seats, bakers' ove fittings, wheels. Dated from a note that says the company probably started in about 1881 (refers to "Indus. in N.Z.", - 289-290. at NZ&P q919.31) Quantity: 1 sales catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 38 pages, 247 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, August 2002.

Date: [1900-1930]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-100

Description: Draft agreements and legal letters, undated telegrams, Smith to Field, valuation appraisal of timber on Smith's property by Ammunson, and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1978-1980]

From: Haas, Anthony Roger David, 1944-2019: Photographs and recordings

Reference: PA12-8383

Description: Photographs showing uses coconut palm wood. Tourist views of Vanuatu. Photographs of Pacific islanders in Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand. Tital supplied by the Library Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Provenance: Donated by Mr Anthony Haas, Wellington, 2007

Date: 1860 - 1915

Reference: MapColl-832.11gf/1860-1972 (1972)/Acc.35846

Description: Map of the Kaipara Harbour land area showing pioneering industries from 1860-1915, including timber and flax mills, gum, sheep, cattle, stock fattening, dairying, winemaking, bootmaking, honey, wheat, maize, lime, brickworks, pottery, flour, canning, saddlery, turkeys, oysters, fish, leadlight windows. Shows Otamatea County Boundary, main settlements and features (approxiamtely 32) and Maori settlements (5). Three inserts list the major timber mills, the vegetation (light or heavy bush) and the major sources of income for the first half of the century (timber, gum, flax, sheep, stock fattening). Below map sources are listed. Descriptive text accompanies parts of the map. Traced over Cadastral maps - Ruawai (N27) and Manungaturoto (N28). Map is signed A.P.B.W. (Aug 1972). Other Titles - fifty Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Felt tip pen on tracing paper, hand coloured, scale [ca. 1:63 360], 51 x 76 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975. Papers (Exact reference unknown).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11320

Description: Transparency slides of timber industry related scenes taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Includes images of the site of a timber mill during demolition, the logging of native timber [Ruapehu District?], logging truck owned by Dominion Timber Company (Owhango), and a MG magine glazing cylinder for paper (bound for the Kinleith Paper Mill on a George Dale & Sons truck). Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11669

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1974-1975, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11670

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1850, 1875-1909

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2653

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests in land, timber and gold mining. Includes shipboard diary of his voyage to New Zealand in the Sir Edward Paget in 1850, reminiscences, a notebook and other papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

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: 1907 - 1915

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]

Reference: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1910-01

Description: A catalogue of a firm of engineers, iron and brass founders, at 258 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland. Includes illustrations of machinery as follows: bakers' oven fittings, brickmaking machinery, crushing and grinding machines, garden and park seats, lawn rollers, lifting and hauling gear, sawmilling machines, flat-rimmed wheels. Dated from a note that says the company probably started in about 1881 (refers to "Indus. in N.Z.", - 289-290. at NZ&P q919.31) Quantity: 1 sales catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 36 pages, 243 x 185 mm. Provenance: Purchased from South Sea Books, Christchurch, in 2001.

Date: 1983

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-100

Description: This privately printed family history details the lives of William Asher (1832-1918) who arrived in Otago on the Alpine in 1859 a penniless assisted immigrant and ultimately employed over a thousand men at his sawmills on Stewart Island and in Southland. He and his wife Eliza are commerated in the Asher windows in the First Presbyterian Church, Invercargill. Their son Rev John Alexander Asher, Presbyterian minister at Gore and Napier, became Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1919. The book also has chapters on Jessie Asher, Joseph Asher, Joseph Hargreaves, Lisette Hargreaves, Innes Asher, professor John Alexander Asher, Josiah Waller, Helen Jane Waller (Mrs Helen Begovich), Monica Asher, Raynor Asher, Dr Innes Asher (Mrs Innes Champion), Gavin Asher, and John Alexander Asher (V). Includes family tree of the Asher family and many photographs Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter Finding Aids: Published guide available.