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Date: 1907

From: Booth, Macdonald & Co Ltd :Farm implements catalogue no. 27. Christchurch, Timaru, Hastings, N.Z. 1st January, 1907.

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1907-01-04

Description: Shows illustrations of both ploughs. Extended Title - From Booth, Macdonald Co Ltd. Farm implements catalogue no 27 (1907), page 4. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress, on page 240 x 155 mm.

Date: 1981

Reference: B-118-019-a/024-a

Description: Contents: Contractor's tip-cart-Double-furrow plough-Gorse hedge trimmer--Hay rake--Traction engine--Two row turnip & artificial manure drill Reproductions of 19th century farm machinery advertisements for Christchurch firm P & D Duncan Same as B-118-019/024 Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs b&w, each on sheet 350 x 470 mm

Date: 1981

Reference: B-118-019/024

Description: Contents: Contractor's tip-cart-Double-furrow plough-Gorse hedge trimmer--Hay rake--Traction engine--Two row turnip & artificial manure drill Reproductions of 19th century farm machinery advertisements for Christchurch firm P & D Duncan Same as B-118-019-a/024-a Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs b&w, each on sheet 350 x 470 mm

Date: 1907

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1907-02

Description: Includes illustrations for farm machinery including harrows, Duncan's travelling whares (workman's caravans), whippletrees, ploughs, drills, rollers, thrashers, turnip cutters, sheep-feeding racks, drays, wool presses, wire strainers, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 88 pages, ill., 238 x 180 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1901

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1900-01

Description: Sales catalogue listing and illustrating ploughs, harrows, cultivators, scufflers, grain and fertiliser drills, mowers, hay-tedders, rakes, reapers, binders, knotters, sheaf carriers, cutters. Centrefold shows the coats of arms of countries and states using Massey-Harris implements in 1900 (includes most states of Australia, South Africa, European countries, New Zealand, Argentina, Algeria, Japan, Newfoundland). The first pages announce the achievement of highest award at the Paris Exposition 1899-1900. The attractive front cover shows that a New Zealand branch or distributor had premises at the corner of Crawford and Bond Streets, Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Volume of 40 pages, each 240 x 165 mm.

Date: 1913

By: Reid & Gray Ltd; Babendorfer, R (Mr), active 1987

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1913-01

Description: Includes engravings illustrating the products available from this machinery manufacturer and supplier: ploughs, harrows, cultivators, rollers, drills, baggers, chaffcutters, turnip cutters, drays and wagons, windmills, pumps, sheep shears, milking machines, separators, binders and mowers, thistle cutters. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 84 pages, red covers, 280 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr R Babendorfer in 1987.

Date: 1902

By: Reid & Gray Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-FARM-MACHINERY-1902-01

Description: Price list for farm machinery and other agricultural supplies. Includes illustrations of products including: harrows, baling presses, barbed wire, seed sowers, pumps, chaffcutters, ploughs, drills, wheels, straw elevators, engines, mills, garden chairs, knife grinders, rabbit traps, steam engines, seed drills, windmill towers, wagons, winnowing machines, yokes, wire netting, etc. Many pages are chewed around the edges. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 78 pages, each 277 x 213 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: 1907

Reference: Eph-A-FARM-MACHINERY-1907-01

Description: Includes illustrations for farm machinery including harrows, ploughs, drills, rollers, thrashers, horse gear, chaff cutter, corn crushers, turnip cutters, sheep-feeding racks, drays and carts, wool presses, baling and sewing cages, baling presses, lawn mowers, dehorner, potato planter, lawn sweeper, garden seat, bone cutter, horse clippers, wire strainers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 v., illus., 240 x 155 mm.

Date: 05, 12 Nov 2007 - 05 Nov 2007 - 12 Nov 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Lill, Gordon Thomas, 1921-2009

Reference: OHInt-0920-10

Description: Interview with Gordon Lill. Born in 1921 in Ashburton. Backgrounds paternal family, parents Wilfred Thomas Lill, mother Edith Francis Caroline Lill (nee Watson), grandfather William Thomas Lill, farmer in Ashburton, and grandmother Clara Lill (nee Taylor), who was involved in temperance union movement. Mentions maternal grandparents Joseph Watson, headmaster of Willowby primary school and Emily Watson (nee Hight) from Brookside. Says he went to Westerfield primary school and Ashburton High School. Refers to taking agricultural course and having John Bell scholarship. Describes growing up on 'Lone Pine' farm, Westerfield, cooking on coal range, pitting root vegetables for winter, milking, using Clydesdale horses. Details growing oats and grass seed, turnips, giant rape, reaping oats, working the chaff cutter. Mentions family had thrashing mill and traction engine. Talks about impact of 1928 slump and 1930s Depression and mortgagee sales. Says father sold Westerfield farm to clear debt and bought small farm at Eiffelton with money from maternal grandfather's estate. Explains crops grown were wheat, ryegrass and barley. Talks about being called up for army training at Burnham, then being manpowered out in 1940 to work at Mesopotamia sheep station and Inverary station. Describes autumn muster, and blade shearing. Mentions manpower shortage during World War two. Recalls marriage to Doris Joan Davison and big snow of 1945. Says bought sheep farm at Montalto with his parents. Describes developing the farm, stone picking, having the house divided into two flats. Purchased farm at Springburn, and another block where he farmed sheep and cattle. Bought property at Carew to farm sheep. Details border dyke irrigation process. Talks about water allocation, changing from government to private ownership as Hinds Mayfield Irrigation Scheme. Refers to building new house at Carew. Explains purchase of 'Whenuapai' farm at Cairnbrae, Methven, in 1962 or 1963 which was a mixed cropping farm with wheat, barley, peas, grass seed and Border Romney or Coopworth sheep. Refers to International Agricultural Exchange Association students on the farm. Discusses soil, wind, rainfall and a typical year. Mentions soil fertility, use of lentils and getting bigger farm machinery. Talks about role of farm advisors. Explains process of changing farm to all cropping farm in 1968, selling stock to grow wheat, peas and ryegrass. Refers to getting bigger plough, tractor and grain silo, building a seed cleaning plant and shed. Explains direct heading wheat and peas with Roundup. Talks about soil testing, inputs of nitrogen, urea, sulphate of ammonia, always using fertilisers and chemicals. Says diesel prices forced direct drilling. Discusses wind erosion, putting in shelter belts subsidised by South Canterbury catchment board. Talks about wife's role on farm, all their sons going farming and Graeme Lill working at Lincoln College. Refers to moisture and soil testing. Reflects on mechanisation making farming easier. Talks about droving and now trucking sheep to sale yards. Mentions Lyndhurst Barrhill scheme pumping water from Rakaia River back to the RDR (Rangitata Diversion race). Refers to getting Dry Creek closed for grazing for nine years. Discusses community activites, nine years on South Canterbury Catchment Board, Mayfield A&P Association President in 1959, being on Monalto School committee, Hinds School committee, Hinds Rugby Football Club, Chairperson of Methven Lions, Chairman of Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association, Chairman of Methven House home committee, and involvment in Federated Farmers and United Wheatgrowers. Details his purchase of maternity hospital and turning it into Methven House aged persons home. Mentions being involved in St Davids Church, Allenton, Ashburton and Methodist Synod Timaru. Says retired to Methven for four to five years, then moved to Ashburton. Refers to son Colin Lill taking over the farm. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016757 - OHC-016759 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6032, OHDL-001827. Search dates: 1921 - 2007

Date: 1930s to 1950

Reference: PA1-q-148

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Rivers and Leach families. Many of the people and scenes are unidentified. They include various houses and a large number of farming scenes with Southdown sheep, hay barns, harvesting linseed, ploughing, and logging in a plantation of pine trees. Some photographs of a rural bungalow house are captioned with dates between 1940 and 1942 and 'Glen Grove'. All the places which are identified are in the South Island, so it seems likely that the two homes that are named are in the Canterbury or Otago areas. One group portrait shows members of the Scargill Voluntary Aid Division A number of scenes show an Austin Sheerline car, a make which was introduced in 1947 and continued to be produced until 1954. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with soft brown cover; 27 x 17 cm Provenance: Donated by Ken McAllister, Christchurch, 1980 Processing information: Name record for 'Glen Grove (House)' was retired in December 2017 as it is unclear if this caption is the name of a house.

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33