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: 1874

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-1874-01-05

Description: Shows an elevation of the side of a cottage with three windows along it, finials on top of the two gables, a frieze along the bottom of the roof. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving on page 205 x 277 mm.

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: 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: 1792 - 1839

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/10/4-Acc.37944

Description: Identifies: Enforced settlement (marooned sealers); Sealing station; Seasonal and permanent whaling stations; General farming settlement; General trade (flax, timber etc) and Ship building. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen. Scale [ca. 1:1 584 000] 58 x 45 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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: [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: 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.

Date: [1833-1838], n d

From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0047-10

Description: Copies of letter from Thomas Florance to Mair and Pavdik re sawmilling, Bay of Islands (1838), of note from Robert Mair re Norfolk pine planted by Gilbert Mair (?1837), of judgement dispute, Maxwell v Mair, of Busby (1833) and photograph of Mair Park, taken by Robert Mair Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca1938-ca1943

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-06

Description: A saw mill in operation; dredge gold mining on the West Coast; nurses and clients of a Plunket service in Christchurch in 1943; a toll bridge and the Wellington/Porirua motorway at the Tawa junction. There are also photographs relating to the Rev Taylor and Waimate North, and a portrait of Guide Rangi. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1912

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

Reference: APG-1397-b-1/4-F

Description: View looking towards the Kaihu Railway Station, with a narrow road to the left of the railway line, and stacks of sawn timber to the right of the line. Railways rolling stock is on a siding, centre right. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, 1912. This image is a film negative copy taken from the print in Godber Album Vol 110, p 181 (PA1-q-103). This negative is a film negative copy taken from a print at Pa1-q-103 (Godber Album vol 110, p 181) Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Main street. Kaihu ["& Railway station", in pencil] Another copy negative of the page in Godber's album is at APG-1397-a-1/2-F Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 11.5 x 7.5 cm