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Date: 1907-1970

By: United Mine Workers' Union of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Group-0407

Description: Minute books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers from several West Coast mines; includes awards, West Coast Trades Council minutes, agreements, papers relating to the Westland Labour Representation Committee. Labour Party reports, photographs of the ship Awatea Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es) (24 folders). 3 volume(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Provenance: Possibly collected in the 1970s by Ray Grover Includes material originating with James Begg Kent, a former MP for Westland, and photographs and a ship's specification, which were originally owned by the Union Steam Ship Company Transfers: To Book Collections - Various pamphlets, agreements, rule books and constitutions - To Drawings & Prints Collection - 6 Chinese coins.

Date: Circa 1900 to 1905

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-295

Description: Album of photographs, probably taken by George William Barltrop, chiefly taken on a tour around the South Island. The first images relate to an area around Wellington, including Waiwhetu and Wainuiomata, including scenes of the Wainuiomata Reservoir. Two photographs taken in a park show three women wearing hats, full-length outfits, and carrying umbrellas, the "McNabs". One photograph shows a group of men and women, members of a camera club. The tour aound the South Island travels from Sheffield, down to the Otira Gorge, up to Lake Brunner and Inangahua, past Murchison, through Longford. In Wellington Harbour the steamship Ophir is sailing out, with people standing on the wharf in the foreground. Also in Wellington, is a large group portrait of men associated with the Missions to Seamen, gathered together on Labour Day 1901. Five photographs are taken around Otaki, one a pastoral scene, and two of three young Maori people (a young woman and a young girl in two scenes, with a second young girl in the third scene); a water mill; and a group of four people having a picnic in a field (two women (one obscured) and a young boy on the left, and a man with a bandaged hand on the right). The last few scenes are again of the South Island, at Temuka, Otago Harbour, Dunedin (including the Octagon), and a tram belonging to the Roslyn Tramway Company with a group of men on the front cab, and three standing in front. Inscriptions: Album page - G W Barltrop Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, entitled `Photographs'; 16.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: [ca 1920]

From: National Archives of New Zealand : Photographs of coal miners' houses at Burnetts Face, and Denniston Hill, West Coast

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: PAColl-D-0817

Description: Six views of miners' houses at Burnett's Face, Buller District. Photographs taken by John Pascoe, ca 1920s Inscriptions: Backing board recto - above image - Title; Backing board recto - bottom right - J D Pascoe Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 6 albumen prints (various sizes) on display card

Date: [ca 1976-1981]

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

Reference: PA12-7840

Description: Landscape and vegetation of the Poor Knights Islands and the Buller-Denniston district, taken by Geoff Park Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm in plastic mounts

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-23-01

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950, [1961]

By: Munro, William Alexander, 1903-

Reference: MS-1695

Description: Source of title - Cover title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (30 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: [19--]

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PA7-49-27

Description: Photograph of the premises of the Westport Coal Co Ltd. Photograph taken by Muir & MacKinlay, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 20 x 15 cm on card 30 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1922

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbhm/[ca.1922]/Acc.10641

Description: Shows 3 cross sections. Quantity: 1 map(s) photocopy. Physical Description: 33 x 64 cm. Scale 1:95 040

Date: [1930s], 1966-1967

By: O'Brien, Clarence T, active 1966

Reference: MS-Papers-1142

Description: Comprises radio scripts done for broadcasting on NZBC; stories about goldmining in the Buller district during the 1930s depression; a Roa coal mine; a Maori in the Mackenzie country; the Haast air service and Rimu Farm Settlement titled `The Haast Air Service', `The Amateur', `The Minstrel', `The Rimu Farm settlement', and `They gave me a gold mine' Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-072

Description: A study of a tall native tree with extensive epiphytes in its lower sections Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on part of page of sketchbook, image size 147 x 105 mm.

Date: 31 May to 4 Jun 1999 - 31 May 1999 - 04 Jun 1999

From: Coastal and inland voices

Reference: OHInt-0365-010

Description: Interviews with long-term residents (three generations) from the Buller district. The interviews include brief life histories and word lists. Interviewees are: Amy Absalom, Jack Brown, Marj Crawford, Clarisse Cotter, Andy Kerr, Geoff Kitchin and Rosie Mathewson. Interviewer(s) - Dinah Priestley Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-13652 - OHC-13660 Form folders: OHA-4888 - OHA-4894 Quantity: 9 C60 cassette(s). 7 folder(s). 7 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstract(s) to come OHA-4888 - OHA-4894 (forms). Search dates: 1999 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 15 Dec 1945

By: New Zealand Labour Party. Buller District Branch

Reference: AI-91-274

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (AI size). Physical Description: Mss

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PA7-23-21

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-067

Description: A list of photographs taken around the Buller area, from Westport to Inangahua, Reefton and south of Charleston It is not certain whether the photographs referred to were taken by Hodgkins himself or not, although there is no evidence in the sketchbook of his visiting areas like Inangahua and Reefton. It seems more probable that he purchased photographs of the area, while in Westport. He refers in an earlier drawing in this sketchbook to a photograph of Fiordland taken by the Burton Brothers The first photograph mentioned may be a copy of the photograph 'Gold claim, Addison's Flat' reference number PA1-q-069-02-2 Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, page size 105 x 180 mm.

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-455

Description: Cartoon shows four vignettes: a Railways worker clearing the rocks on the Paekakariki line, Labour Party members dancing as they reach high for the ball of "Party leadership", an employer and a worker both twisting the arms of an Arbitration Court judge, and Keith Holyoake dancing with Timaru and Buller (electorates where there were 1962 by-elections) and in the process hitting Buller in the face with a suitcase labelled "Budget". Other Titles - New Zealand Paekakariki Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing and collage 255 x 345 mm, on sheet 323 x 345 mm.

Date: 3 August 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: D-001-040

Description: View of the coast half a mile north from Kongahu. Karamea and compass bearings marked. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ansicht nach Norden 1/2 Miele Nord von Konhagu Insel. 3 August 1860; Verso - centre - Kongahu Insel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper watermarked "Whatman 1850", 110 x 600 mm.

Date: [1954?]

By: McGhie, Thomas Hope, 1898-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-0738

Description: Brief history and description of the coal resources and their exploitation (C/f A-J 1954 C2) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1860-1869

By: Burnett, James, 1826-1872

Reference: Micro-MS-0806

Description: Letters to his wife, Jane, mostly written from the West Coast coalfields; full description of an expedition with von Haast to make a geographical and topographical examination of the area 1860; application for a lease for coal mining in Buller Reserve 1866; report on coal in the Whangarei district. Includes typed transcripts of some letters. Whangarei and Nelson settler, Nelson Provincial Engineer, 1858 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1978

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

By: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009; Walls, Geoffrey Young, 1951-

Reference: PA12-7841

Description: Landscape and vegetation of the West Coast, New Zealand Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm in plastic mounts

Date: 1870 - 1879

Reference: MapColl-834.1gmbd/187-?/Acc.7678

Description: Plan of Charleston, with cadastral and topographic information, showing named roads, creeks, bays, powder magazine, cemeteries, schools, churches. Shows land belonging to the Crown, John Warne, Brook, Coghlin, Cronin, E Drennan, Nile, Small. Shows hotel (Mary Smith), Lavery's Pit, Sweeney's Pit, Powell's coal pit, McCarthy's Hotel, Hall's Racecourse Hotel. Note on map: The sections numbered are in Square 137 of Nelson Land District. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 39.5 x 32.5 cm