Places

Date: 2003

By: Friends of the Hill Society

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2003-02

Description: Calendar featuring historic group photographs and landscapes around the Denniston Hill area. The cover shows various portraits of the Mullan brothers. Other photographs are of a view across Denniston, Denniston School 1931, miners at Taipo, the 1921 rugby team, a strike at Burnett's Face 1932, the Denniston Brass Band at Burnett's Face 1945/46, Earl Marr and Pat Webster driving horses, miners at the end of a shift at Coalbrookdale, wash day at Burnett's Face, Chapman's house at the "Camp" under snow, engine room at the Denniston Power House. Quantity: 1 calendar (plus duplicate). Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 425 x 300 mm.

Date: 1937, [1980s]

From: Wellman, Harold William, 1909-1999 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-7919-10

Description: Annotated maps relating to greywacke reconstruction; done on reverese pages of Brunner Collieries wages pay sheets for Wallsend Colliery (1937) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2010

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to miners and mining in New Zealand]

By: New Zealand. Parliament

Reference: Eph-B-MINING-2010-01

Description: Booklet for the memorial service to the 29 miners who died as a result of explosions in the Pike River Mine, on or after 19 November 2010. Shows a page of photographic portraits of the miners, of the Pike Stream and of the area near the mine. The order of service included songs by the Greymouth District Combined Primary School Choir, and Nga Kura o Te Tai Poutini, with speakers Reverend Canon Mere Wallace, Reverend Tim Mora, Mine chief executive Peter Whittall, Greymouth Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand, Prime Minister John Key, singing led by Carolyn Williams, prayers led by Father John Morrison. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 300 x 212 mm. Provenance: Donated by Margaret Hurst, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 27 Jun 2000

By: Ferguson, Bruce Archibald, 1917-2010; Dawber, Carol, 1951-

Reference: OHColl-0489/1

Description: Bruce Ferguson was born in Nelson in 1917. Gives details of the early history of Ferntown including his family's settlement at Pakawau. Describes his childhood there. Talks about the Mt Burnett coalmine, Puponga shipping and coalminers, the Pakawau timber mill and the Dry Road project. Describes working at Kaihoka and building a house there. Talks about local personalities including Edmund Davidson, James Mackay and Joe Taylor. Describes deer, pigs, godwits, ducks, kaka and other wildlife. Recalls travelling to Nelson on the `Wairoa' and the sinking of the 'Kotiti'. Talks about gold prospecting. Interviewer(s) - Carol Dawber Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1843.

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: [195-?]

By: Openshaw, Arnold, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-0576

Description: Includes poem: Song of the Buller (2 leaves) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 2002-2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000328

Description: Photographs relating to history in the West Coast Region. Includes the re-opening of the Brunner bridge, various memorials, and the opening of the Groom Bros Butchery replica store at Shantytown (the Open-air village museum). Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Historic" Quantity: 179 digital photograph(s).

Date: [190-?]

From: Lamond, G (Miss), fl 1966 :Postcards

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6338-03

Description: View of Kaitangata from the hill above the coal mine, taken ca 1900s by Muir & Moodie Inscriptions: Recto - top left - 4979 P. C. View of Kaitangata & River from Hill above the Mine; Verso - bottom left - Issued by Muir & Moodie Dunedin N.Z. from their Copyright Series of Views Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcard

Date: 7 March 2002

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000239

Description: Photographs relating to Chinese visitors to the Solid Energy New Zealand Ltd Stockton Mine. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Commerce (Solid energy (Stock-China))" Quantity: 19 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2010

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016248

Description: A group of members of the 'Mining Safety Commission' sit round a table listening to a coal and smoke blackened miner who has a canary in a cage in front of him, say 'They should never have taken the canaries out of the mines...' Context; the Pike River Mine disaster in which an explosion on 19 November followed by several more killed 29 miners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016150

Description: Shows the entrance to a dark tunnel from which a bright star shines. Text reads 'A tragic blast has paralysed our country Stunned, in shock we wait expectantly for a sign, a light in the darkness Because hope springs eternally'. Refers to the Pike River Mine disaster of 19th November 2010. At the time this cartoon was drawn there had still been no contact with the miners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0016229

Description: The cartoon shows the words 'A Miner victory' against a dark background. Above are the words 'The Grand Slam'. Context; the miners killed in the Pike River Mine disaster were honoured by the All Blacks with a Grand Slam-winning performance. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008167

Description: Shows two snails armed with artillery that is extending out of their shells like they are tanks. Refers to the endangered giant Mount Augustus Powelliphanta snails which are endangered on the West Coast by mining. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0025955

Description: Shows a scene at Huntly mine, where a dump truck labelled Solid Energy carries away a large bag labelled 'Executive salaries'. A voice inside the truck says "Lucky we found a good use for the heavy-duty dump trucks after the staff cuts!" Refers to news reports on 15 August that Huntly East mine will cut another 93 jobs, bringing the total number of redundancies in 2013 to almost 700. Wider context refers to the company's financial issues and discussions with the Government regarding bail-out options. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0026171

Description: The hand of the government finally begins to unlock the investigation into the Pike River mine disaster. In July 2013 Pike River Coal was ordered to pay $110,000 to each of the victims' families and fined $760,000 - but in the end didn't pay the fine and only paid $5000 to each family. In Spetember 2013 the New Zealand government announced plans to re-enter the sealed-off Pike River Mine where 29 men died in a series of explosions nearly three years after the event. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0026776

Description: Two Wellington civil servants react to a newspaper headline saying 'Govt turns down compo for Pike River families'. One says 'That's terrible.' The other, carrying a satchel indicating that he works for 'Govt PR', agrees: 'Sure is. He missed a great photo op!' On 14 November 2014 the National government decided that there would be no government compensation paid to the families of the 29 men who died in the Pike River Mine disaster of 2011. This was a widely unpopular decision. The prime minister's knack of manipulation of the media for photo opportunities in favourable publicity events seemed to have deserted him. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024139

Description: Shows members of the National Party walking across a precarious, crumbling stone path over a fiery abyss with a monster labelled, 'market forces' towards a cave labelled, 'coal mines of failure'. Prime Minister John Key asks Gerry Brownlee, former energy minister if he's sure this is the safest route. Kate Wilkinson, former minister of labour, and an unknown fourth person are following. Refers to the financial troubles of Solid Energy, the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and a state owned asset, as well as the Pike River Mine accident in 2010, which resulted in the deaths of 29 miners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024334

Description: Shows Prime Minister John Key standing in front of the Spring Creek mine, which is boarded up. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Bill English, is in a mine cart labelled, 'Return to surplus 2014-2015', which is racing backwards down the mine shaft. English asks Key for help, and Key continues making his speech, discouraging wild financial predictions. Refers to the loss of 225 jobs at the Spring Creek coal mine, part of the state owned enterprise, Solid Energy. (Stuff.co.nz, 26 Oct 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024206

Description: The New Zealand public contemplate a dead drought stricken landscape. As well as lack of water, there is a lack of moderate pay scales for CEOs, satisfaction with EQC, quality TV, generous insurance companies, brilliant Solid Energy management, the integrity of John Banks (and by implication that of other MPs), quality education ministers, worthwhile overseas trips by the Prime Minister, 'clever' NZ First MPs and a boost for the West Coast among others. Considered from a Canterbury perspective, the drought of early 2013 becomes a symbol for many of the recent political and social ailments afflicting the land. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024207

Description: Enraged West Coasters from the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival chase the former CEO of Solid Energy, Don Elder, who is clasping his 'fat salary'. The financial collapse of Solid Energy, which had serious economic repercussions for the West Coast Region, had less serious results for its former CEO, Don Elder, who was able to keep an extravagant salary package. The cartoon refers to the annual Hokitika Wild Food Festival which was held in March 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).