Places

Date: 1977 - 1979

From: Various architects :[Plans for Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-op Assn Ltd, Taita and Kuku Manakau; Hutt Milk Corporation Ltd; New Zealand Pig Development Co Ltd; Farm Products Co-op Ltd (Wgtn). 1967-1986].

By: Group Architects & Engineers (Palmerston North, N.Z.)

Reference: Plans-2002-043-009/011-a

Description: Includes two versions (1977 and 1979) of preliminary scheme, showing ground and first floor plans and sections. Also includes two copies of a perspective drawing of the exterior, hand-coloured in felt pen. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, some with felt pen, sizes varying around 600 x 850 mm. Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt in 2002.

Date: 1894

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-169-019

Description: Cattle grazing on a plain, with haystacks and farm buildings in the background. Flax grows on the flat land. There are hills to the left and in the distance Inscriptions: On separate label, attached below work: title in pencil in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 58 x 242 mm

Date: 1905

Reference: PA1-o-1603

Description: Album of photographs of Kohukohu Farm, Tarurutangi, Taranaki, taken 1905 by an unknown photographer. Includes photographs of the homestead, paddocks, men ploughing and hay making, railway station and street view outside the premises of Newton King (Land stock and financial agent) in New Plymouth. Includes a map of the farm. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13.5 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1954

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-024

Description: Shows a wooden cow shed and farm yard with a fenced paddock on the right and trees behind. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1999

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947-:Twenty-two cartoons published in the Evening Post between 2 and 31 August 1999.

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: J-044-013

Description: A dairy farmer comments to his wife about the demans being made by a cow, standing on her hind legs and reading from a list. Exhibited in 'The Line-Up' exhibition of 36 cartoons by 36 cartoonists curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library auditorium foyer from 5 April 2002 to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Extended Title - You must warm your hands before ttouching our udders. For those extra full days we want bras, and the radio must be tuned to easy listening hits of the 60's and 70's. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A3 size laser print.

Date: 1980

From: Various architects :[Plans for Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-op Assn Ltd, Taita and Kuku Manakau; Hutt Milk Corporation Ltd; New Zealand Pig Development Co Ltd; Farm Products Co-op Ltd (Wgtn). 1967-1986].

By: Montgomerie Chapple (Firm); Chapple, David C, active 1980

Reference: Plans-2002-043-033/038

Description: Includes floor plans and elevations of the administration / merchandise block; and the powder store and vehicle workshop. Also includes a chart of monthly milk production and vendors sales, 1976-1980. Some plans are by David C Chapple only. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings and diazo plans, some with felt pen, sizes varying below 600 x 850 mm. Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt in 2002.

Date: Between 1923 and 1926

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Jones, J A (Mrs), active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-0879-F

Description: Panoramic view of dairy farm "The Bluffs" in an area known as Havelock Suburban in the 1920s, 5 miles from Havelock. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mrs J.A. Jones The Bluffs Havelock; Marginal notes on negative - [in list formation] 6 6 6; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - "The Bluffs" Havelock Surburban [i.e. Suburban] New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.6 x 108.4 cm

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Carroll, Turi (Sir), 1890-1975

Reference: Pan-1433-F

Description: Panoramic view of a dairy farm and farmhouse near Wairoa, Hawke's Bay. Single-storeyed wooden house with lawns & garden inside a surrounding fence, centre left. Herd of dairy cows in a paddock across the image; poplars to the left and behind the house. Two cars parked in the paddock near the house on the right. Portion of another car visible on the far right (Number Plate: 66-879). Dog in the centre of the image, and a man near the cows on the right. Willows around a river below the house on the far left. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Huramua" Wairoa. H.B.; Marginal notes on negative - [Partially on brown adhesive tape] A.T. Carroll "Huramua" Wairoa. H.B. 3 oils. Bright red roof & verandah. Dark red tanks. White, yellow & red flowers in garden. Dark red roses over arch. Dark red outbuildings. First car is dark green. Second car dark blue. Bright red roof on red tanks [... [illegible]] on right. Willows & poplars. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.6 cm

Date: 29 Dec 1999

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Raymond Rodney, 1925-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-05

Description: Raymond Moffatt, known as Ray, was born at home in Otaki in 1925. Mentions great grandfather Moffatt, a missionary, settling in Otaki in 1868, and family living there ever since. Worked with Dr Livingstone. Recalls that family farmed beside the Waitohu Stream from 1925 until ca 1990. Mentions family butcher shop, pig farming, dairy farming, milking, Rahui Dairy Factory, hay press, Otaki Railway Station, local shops, food, school, school boys helping to build a classroom, entertainment. Mentions mother, related to Ngati Raukawa, dying in the flu epidemic after World War I. Talks about father helping restore Rangiatea Church, build wall at Raukawa Marae, and do work for Catholic Church. Mentions his father's concrete making process. Mentions dances, married life, farming. Mentions buying two acres of land for 180 pounds sterling and a cow, and building home. Refers to rectifying purina moth problem, local families, involvement in clubs, including Lions, Citizens Advice Bureau and the Friendship Force. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11061 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3869. Photos include Ray & Joan's 50th wedding anniversary; Moffatt family; Rita and Edwin Moffatt (Ray's parents). Search dates: 1868 - 1974

Date: 2 Feb 1998 - 02 Feb 1998

From: Gore District oral history project

By: Milnes, Dickon J, active 1998; Favel, Annie Keturah, 1909-2005

Reference: OHInt-0428/08

Description: Annie Favel was born in Edendale in 1909. Gives details about the history and location of her family farm and other dairy farms in the area. Mentions dairy factories at Seaward Downs and Edendale. Describes the Ayrshire cows, the milking process, the milking season, milking both by hand and with machinery and making butter. Describes the effect of World War I and the Depression on the farm and community. Describes the house, gardens, farm buildings, farm equipment and windmills on the farm. Talks about primary school at Edendale and attending Southland Girls High School. Discusses being kept back from school permanently to work on the farm. Comments on the absence of a division of labour based on age or gender. Describes a morning on the farm, driving her father's first car and social interaction with other families. Mentions Bible Class, church activitites, dances, going to the pictures, hockey, football and tennis. Talks about her relationship with her brother and the changes he made to the farm. Describes trips to Invercargill and shopping in Edendale. Mentions that she received no wages for her farm work. Interviewer(s) - Dickon Milnes Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2599.

Date: 20 June 2000 - 20 Jun 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Joan Catherine, 1924-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-04

Description: Joan Moffatt, nee Walker, was born in Wellington in 1924. Her parents moved to a soldier's farm in Te Horo in 1923, where she lived until marriage in 1948. Mentions walking three miles to Te Horo Primary School, segregated playgrounds, games, tennis, and boys tending headmaster's garden. Talks about being left handed. Recalls children's chores, ironing, mother's household tasks, living without electricity, and family pets. Talks about Graeme Walker and his poultry farm which was a major employer, his siblings, and farming being in the blood. Mentions family vegetable gardens, birthday parties, Christmas, attending Wellington Centennial Fair, Te Horo dances. Recalls the Trembarths, Grants, Thorntons and Spiers, the blacksmith and shoemaker, Sunday school, her grandfather. Refers to mother having children at St Helen's Maternity Hospital, Wellington. Talks about meeting husband, Ray Moffatt, a dairy farmer, and farming in the Otaki Gorge. Mentions four brothers in Home Guard, her father's response to brother enlisting for World War II, serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions self and mother knitting socks and baking for Merchant Navy, making Hussifs (needle cases), the Patriotic Society's farewell dances for soldiers, hosting English Merchant Navy sailors, and young women writing to servicemen. Mentions her brother serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions her father belonging to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, being badly wounded at Gallipoli and in France, being sent back to Britain, and evacuation orders. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11060 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 49 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photo of Joan in garden; the Walker family; Ray & Joan's wedding photo 1948 Search dates: 1930 - 1950

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Fielding, J, active 1910s-1920s

Reference: Pan-2087-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed farmhouse centre left. Return verandah, iron roof. Road far right, paddock with herd of dairy cows by the road to the right of the house with an unidentified man standing near a cowshed. Trellis fence in front of outbuildings between the house and cowshed. Another shed beside a wooden fence on the far left. Small cottage in the middle distance. Rough lawn in front of the house with garden borders. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J. Feilding [i.e. Fielding]. Te Horo. 2 B&W. Put clouds in this if necessary Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 120.2 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Townley, Alfred J, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1678-F

Description: Panoramic view of a farming scene near Brydone, Southland. Herd of cows in large paddock in foreground. Single-storeyed farmhouse visible in a gap in a long line of willow trees across the centre of the image. Shelter belt of pine trees behind. Low rolling hills in the background on the right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - A.J. Townley, Ota Creek, Brydone. Southland. 1 oils. 2 sepia. White house, red roof. Willows in front yellowish green. Firs at back dark green. All cows, black & white. Paddocks yellowish green. Horses chestnut & bay. Flowers in front, mauve, white, red & blue Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.0 cm

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-587-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters. NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election. A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures. Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated. NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up. Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance. Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated. Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco. Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls. Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...' Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door. Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco. Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help. Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...' New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team. World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last. Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows. Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices. The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor. Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1979

From: Various architects :[Plans for Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-op Assn Ltd, Taita and Kuku Manakau; Hutt Milk Corporation Ltd; New Zealand Pig Development Co Ltd; Farm Products Co-op Ltd (Wgtn). 1967-1986].

By: Group Architects & Engineers (Palmerston North, N.Z.)

Reference: Plans-2002-043-012/032

Description: Includes floor plans of the administration / merchandise block (Plans-2002-043-012 & -013; and Plans-2002-043-030 and -032). Includes two versions of plans dated Feb 1979 (one diazo and one diazo with colour pencil additions); three plans dated March 1979; a set of 8 plans dated April 1979; a factory floor plan dated June 1979; administration block and site plan dated July 1979. Quantity: 21 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo plans, some with felt pen, sizes varying around 600 x 850 mm. Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt in 2002.

Date: 1945 - 1946

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

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/3/1-Acc.38831

Description: Identifies county boundaries and areas of Dairy cows in Collingwood, Takaka and Waimea .. Mr Rose's decision will be regarded as FINAL says RHW. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil tracing on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca. 1:633 600] 28 x 21.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 2007

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-9137-07

Description: The papers consist of: Application form and supporting land deeds submitted by Stan Garrett; record of Garrett family history in England, Saskatchewan, Canada and New Zealand researched by Colin Garrett, 1995; account of life in Canada in the latter part of the 19th century written by Mr C W Garrett who emigrated to Canada with his family in 1887 (the account was printed in The Western Star and Wandsworth Advertiser', 23 Mar 1889). Original owner was Walter Henry Garrett who took up 300 acres of land near Papamoa in 1903 (Otanewainuku Survey District). In 2007 the dairy farm was owned by his grandson Stan Garrett and wife Maureen. In 2007 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs, maps (photocopies) Transfers: A digital version of some or all of these papers is available at MSDL-0405.

Date: 1939 - 1951 - 1955

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

By: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973

Reference: E-029-q-035

Description: Shows a dilapidated wooden building, the haunt of a few birds, with a broken door at the left, a lean-to verandah at the right, and trees behind it. Probably belonged to Alfred Thodsen of Glengarry - see Wise's directories 1920-1948. Probably painted in the early 1950s. It is likely that the work is done from a photograph of 1939, or that the shed was built in 1939. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 2010

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-11226-10

Description: Folder comprises application for the Award, and family and farm history including: photocopies of certificates of title for sections of the farm; maps of the area; genealogical tables, copies of photographs, information on family members; timelines for the dairying industry in Karamea; a booklet on the history of the Karamea Co-operative Dairy Company (produced for the 75th jubilee). A copy of `Karamea: a story of success', written by Dulcie Harmon for the Karamea District and School Centennials (1974 and 1975) was included with the application. As there were no annotations in the book it was not retained. A copy is available in the Alexander Turnbull print collection (Call number 993.15HAR 1975) Original owners were Robert McNabb (1893) and Francis (Frank) McNabb (1896). Current owner is Harley Trevor McNabb, great grandson of Robert, and grandson of Francis. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, printed material - some photocopies, some with mss annotations

Date: 2010

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-11226-13

Description: Folder contains application form, essay on the history of the farm, copies of papers relating to ownership, record of auction held in 1952, and photocopies of black and white and coloured photographs of family members and the farm. Original owner was Williamson Currie, from 1908. Current owners are Raymond John and Kathrin Isabella McNally (great grand-daughter of W Currie). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, printed material (with some mss annotations), photocopies