Places

Date: 1967

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-51

Description: Photographs relating to the Strongman Mine disaster of 1967, taken by Joseph Quinn Includes photographs of the rescue effort and funerals and graves. The associated negatives include photographs of the commission of inquiry and MBE medal awards Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 2 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints, negative envelopes

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31194

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Index of miners' working places at the time of the accident. List names of those on day shift and night shift. Identifies position of persons killed in the mine on the plan, their names and the injuries they died from. Identifies structural elements of the mine, for example stoppings, air crossings, goaf areas, elevations, falls. Plan shows where at least nineteen people died. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Quantity: 2 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 56.8 x 77.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31199

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Shows scene of explosion, position of persons killed, path and direction of explosion waves, stoppings, air crossings, goaf areas, elevations and falls. Shows index of miners working places. Annotated highlight (from manuscript map) of path of explosion waves. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Quantity: 1 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:792], 57 x 77.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group 0940, Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

Date: 21 Jul 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Currie, John Thomas, 1916-2013

Reference: OHInt-0616/11

Description: John Thomas Currie born at Tinkertown, a mining village near Nightcaps, 1916. Briefly details family background. Talks about the Depression, leaving school aged 14 and first employment at Wairaki mine aged 15 years. Mentions job sharing and explains how it operated. Mentions the gold relief scheme, Central Otago. Refers to closure of Mossbank mine, Moreley Flat after flooding. Recalls explosion at Linton Mine 1939. Also briefly refers to heavy snowfall (1939). Explains that coal mining was an essential industry during World War II and gives details of successful appeal to Manpower Minister, Mr Hunter, joining Scottish Regiment in 1941, training at Forbury Park (Dunedin) and Trentham and sailing for Fiji in 1942. Recalls working for Fairfield Coal Mining Company on return from Fiji and commencing Fernhill mine Abbotsford when Fairfield went out of production. Discusses mine management and how different classes of ticket for managing mines operated. Mentions Mr Barclay and Jim Mair. Describes hazards of gas and refers to `Black damp'. Discusses the amalgamation of Green Island Miners' Union with Kaitangata after 1944. Refers to Bill McDowell, Green Island miners' representative. Other aspects of mining discussed include; health and safety; working relationships underground; the environment and accidents. Talks about importance of 1935 Savage Government. Makes a brief reference to 1951 Watersiders' strike [lockout] and Black Budget 1958. Mentions the Abbotsford slip and popular theories of the causes. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010075-010076 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3361. Photocopies of four b&w photographs: (i, ii & iii) Three views of Green Island Swimming Pool, Opening Day 1960; (iv) Main Rd, Sunnyvale, looking towards Green Island - Old Town Hall on right of road - middle distance ca 1944.

Date: 1882-1892

By: Kaitangata Relief Fund

Reference: MS-1100

Description: Describes financial investments, particularly in Dunedin and disbursements of the fund set up to care for survivors of a coal mining disaster in Kaitangata, 1879 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript (26 cm; ½ brown calf, black boards)

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31198

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Plan drawn from measurements by F.W.J. Munden. Shows floor to roof plan, where shots blown through, shot wires, shot near rib, cavity in face, hole full of stonedust and drill holes. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Second copy at 834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31195 Quantity: 1 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [ca. 1:792], 37.5 x 52 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group no. 0940, Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

Date: [ca 1978]

By: Battye, Susan, active 1978-1990

Reference: MS-Papers-10453

Description: Comprises play about the Brunner Mine disaster of 1896 by Susan Battye and Thelma Eakin with music scores and map Script used in Greymouth High School production Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (duplicated) and music scores (photocopies)

Date: 1927

From: New Zealand. Department of Mines : Mining manuscripts

Reference: MSY-4517

Description: Includes evidence given by witnesses with index Quantity: 1 volume(s) (468 pages). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1926-1927

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/05

Description: Correspondence and papers re unemployment; Paekakariki Quarry; visit of Duke and Duchess of York; epidemic organisation re influenza; tree planting and eucalypts; old Maori canoe in Mr Whiteman's paddock at Whiteman's Valley (see also folder 119/4); Dobson Coal Mine Disaster Relief Fund, 1926; railways; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31197

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Shows wider section of plan; Green's 1 and 2 section, Kinsey's section (the C seam middle and lower sections), and also parts of Scott's section. The Green's No. 2 section, the lower split of C seam, has been highlighted on the legend and in the plan. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Quantity: 1 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:792], 56.8 x 77.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group 0940, Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

Date: 25 Feb 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Andrews, Robert Alexander, 1920-2008

Reference: OHInt-0020/06

Description: Robert Andrews describes biking to work; using the coal cutting machine; night shifts; number of shifts; getting coal from face; the earliest coal cutting machines; pit ponies at Glen Afton; accidents; the Glen Afton disaster; getting a deputies ticket; deputies and underviewers; cavelling for jobs; the Alison number 2 mine; introducing scraper loading into Alison; hydro mining in South Island; attempt to introduce hydro loading into Alison; working at the mine rescue station; ambulance certificate; training required; accidents attended underground; people pretending to be hurt; conditions of mining in World War II; danger of fires. Recalls wartime rations; nationality of miners; Rotowaro in the 1940s; the Rotowaro soccer team, Chatham Cup finalists; the church; school; entertainment; the undermanager's job; the 1951 strike; strikes during World War II; job as mine inspector in 1970s; changes in mining; coping with mining underground; using the glenie lamp; miners' diseases; Huntly coal compared to West Coast coal; uses of different types of coal; disposal of slack; establishment of carbonisation works; managers' accomodation; hydraulic mining at Bennydale. Venue - Ngaruawahia Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - Robert Andrews' home at 55 Old Taupiri Road, Ngaruawahia Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 726 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts. Search dates: 1992

Date: 23 Mar 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Bullock, Cora Maude, 1923-; Bullock, Charles, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0020/13

Description: Charles Bullock recalls earliest memory, replacing kerosene lights with electricity; travelling around the district in the Rotowaro Band; working in the mine on the bends of the rope-roads, pit top, clipping, trucking and on face; effect on health; arguments with management; disputes over wet time; making up weight illegally in skips; management avoiding dust time; comparison of Rotowaro and Pukemiro mines; more on deputies; compares pay between mines; travelling to the mine; hours worked; compares work in mines then and now. Cora Bullock describes Rotowaro School; Pukemiro Junction; going to the technical institute in Ngaruawahia; walking long distances; hours worked at home; working at the Rotowaro Post Office; facilities at Rotowaro; scavaging bottles as a child in the Depression (1930s); going to movies in Huntly as teenager; dances; billiard room in old Rotowaro Hall and alcohol. Charles Bullock talks about sneaking alcohol into dances; the Glen Afton disaster and accidents and deaths at Rotowaro; falls in the mine; removing pillars; exemption from war service; Welsh miners singing; working in the Huntly East Mine; putting up power poles at Rotowaro and the carbonisation works. Cora Bullock discusses the flax mill at Rotowaro; raising children; the Country Women's Institute; the medical service at Rotowaro; the 1951 strike; shifting house, local Maori families. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 200 Hakanoa Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004402 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.28 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 733 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 27 Jan 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: McGilp, Donald James, 1912-2004

Reference: OHInt-0020/01

Description: Don McGilp gives biographical details; childhood; time in Athenree, early 1920s; first job in the new Macdonald mine; system of allocating jobs; pay systems; shot holes; relationships with deputies; accidents in mines; the Renown pit in 1932; description of FTC raid in Huntly; conditions during the Depression. Describes buying own equipment; the pillar workings; underviewers; union agreements; wastage; more about accidents; reference to Alan Baxter; reference to Alison mine, Pukemiro mine; work of union 'check inspector'; disputes for wet time; using horses at Glen Afton mine; special shiftmen at Rotowaro and Macdonald mines; reasons for move to Rotowaro mine; job in sugar factory; demand for miners during World War II; strike of 1942. Discusses the 1951 strike; emergency regulations; opencasters scabbing; police; support from railway workers; poaching of sheep; description of British mining; theory about Russian situation; good points about mining as job; formation and demise of Labour Party; social life in Huntly; Pukemiro miners and their medical system; the closure of Rotowaro; being unable to buy a house at Rotowaro; the effects of coal dust on miners; advantages of coal range over electric stove; eleven killed at Glen Afton mine in 1939. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - Donald McGilp's home at 21 Harlick Place, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004386 - OHC-004387 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 721 - contains excerpts of transcripts of tapes.

Date: 11 Mar 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Scurr, David Leslie, 1907-1993

Reference: OHInt-0020/10

Description: David Scurr recalls father who worked as miner in England, South Africa and Australia before New Zealand; father in the 1913 Denniston strike; Golden Queen Gold Mine; flooding in Rotowaro; local Maori; going to school at Huntly; mail; bread and meat deliveries; first car on road from Pukemiro (ca 1920); dances and movies at Pukemiro; reference Mr Munro and establishment of Rotowaro store; delivering goods with horse and cart; first butcher's shop in Rotowaro; brother killed in mine accident; reference mine manager, Mr Ralph Cohen. Talks about various members of family; mining on the West Coast; Ralphs Mine; mothers work as midwife; houses in Rotowaro; Mrs Scurr talks about teaching at Rotowaro School; Maori farming; football; entertainment at Rotowaro; reference Cooper Awa; alcohol restrictions restrictions for Maori; policing the pa. Describes how Pukemiro and other mines were found and established; the Ralph family; Munroe's Store; connection with Pukemiro store; doing deliveries; general store at Seddonville; church and community at Seddonville; working winch at top of mine; spragging wheels; a fire at Rotowaro ca 1923; haircuts; more on West Coast mining; the Huntly Extended Mine; different levels of management jobs and qualifications; mining a 20 foot seam. Discusses old mining techniques; dangers of firing shot improperly; story about manager who became inspector and condemned his own mine; Canadian mining techniques and machinery; future of coalmining; cleaning the boilers at Rotowaro; haulage and installation of transformers to change from direct current to alternating current; farming during the Depression (1930s); clearing the land; learning to farm; problems of mines under farm; problem getting compensation; importance of good rope in mine; working the backshift; problems selling farm. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 36b Bailey Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004398 - OHC-004399 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 730 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 06 Apr 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: Bourke, Thomas Owen, 1922-1998; Jones, Rhys Owen, 1917-; Pitkin, Jack, 1903-

Reference: OHInt-0020/18

Description: Jack Pitkin, Rhys Jones and Tom Bourke recall the train at Huntly West during blackout; working the Extended Mine; hats and carbide lamps; the Ralph's Mine disaster; pumping water from Extended Mine; pay rates; buying equipment; the blacksmith in mine; shops in Huntly in 1920s and early days in Huntly; Jack Pitkin's accident; mining high seams at Extended; speed of skips; Jack Pitkin's first impression of mining. Describe relations with deputies; the closing of Extended Mine; the strikes of 1913; other strikes; reference to Alan Baxter and wet time; extracting pillars; not being allowed to go to war; Rhys Jones caught in fall; wearing binders; skip filling records; advantage of left and right hand combination of miners; taking on new miners; controlling cavels; working on old horse road at Rotowaro; working Saturdays; the miners' train from Huntly to Rotowaro; restrictions and rations in World War II; fire fighting and Hill 60 explosion; two miners who got killed at Rotowaro; early head gear. Discuss a Maori artist in mine; more on Extended; contact with Rotowaro; Rotowaro playing in Chatham Cup (soccer); stealing gear from mines; power supply at Rotowaro; the winch house; the 1951 strike, blowing up of bridge, getting supplies, quality of union leadership, length of strike, use of vegetable garden for survival; the depression (1930s); an alcoholic doctor in Huntly; sports injuries and claiming compensation from mine; pay; more on doctors; toilets and rats in mine; using carbide lamps; Davies safety lights; Rotowaro and Alison mines cavelling together. Talks about using horses at Rotowaro; big shovels; a horse that worked Roose's Mine; small co-operated mines; bathhouse stories; the train to and from Huntly; working a skip tumbler; tricks and characters; a relief fund meeting; reference to Bessie Watson (worked in office); getting manpowered; dangers of being in mine at night; changing shifts. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - 6b Alexandra Street, Huntly Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004407 - OHC-004408 Quantity: 2 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 738 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 2010

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016473

Description: The cartoon shows the entrances to two coal mines; the first is named 'Coal Mine victims' and the second 'child abuse victims'. Context - Comment on discrepancy in media coverage and numbers. The coal mine victims were the 29 miners who died in the Pike River Mine disaster of 19 November 2010. The child abuse victims are those reported in the following 'Between June 2009 and June 2010 Child, Youth and Family received 124,921 reports of concern about children, of which 55,494 required further action'. 'Child, Youth and Family and child protection trainers 'Child Matters' are jointly delivering the series of free workshops to professionals who work with children'. The workshops will run from 17 November 2010 until March next year, reaching more than 20 towns around the country and training 800 people. Colour and black and white versions available. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016206

Description: A man sits watching a report of the royal wedding as his wife reads about the 'Pike River tragedy' in the newspaper. She is so engrossed in the mine tragedy that she is oblivious to the royal wedding. Context; an explosion at the Pike River Mine on 19 November 2010 trapped 29 miners - they did not survive. The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is to take place on April 29 2011 at the 1000-year-old Westminster Abbey. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

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

Reference: DCDL-0016227

Description: The cartoon shows a knotted yellow ribbon above the text 'Symbol of hope now shared sorrow'. Context; after the second huge explosion from the Pike River Mine people realized that the 29 trapped miners could not have survived. The first Pike River Mine explosion was on 19 November 2010. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017166

Description: The cartoon shows the hands of two people joined in mutual despair and kindness. One represents 'Christchurch' and the other the 'Pike River Mine'. Context - the 7.1 earthquake on 4 September 2010 in Christchurch in which there was a lot of damage but no deaths, the Pike River Mine disaster which occurred on the West Coast on 19 November 2010 and caused the deaths of 29 coal miners and now on 22 February 2011 a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch which has probably killed more than 200 people (at this point the number is still not known) and caused much more severe damage. The reason the apparently lesser magnitude quake caused more destruction is because it was very shallow, was in the middle of the day and struck very close to the centre of the city. Colour and black and white versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1955 - 1968

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1960/Acc.31193

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Detailed view of 'C' seam showing barrier supports, Kiwi Creek and large section of the mine. Coloured annotations in red and blue pencil highlighting main return path (red) and main intake path (blue) as well as heating (red). Legend includes board and brattice stopping, fire dams, doors, air crossings, telephones, underground ambulance station, direction air current and airways. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Traced by RS Bennett, 7/7/1960. An article from the Colliery Guardian February 1 1968 and reprinted in the 2 February 1968 issue had been pasted to the bottom of the map. Quantity: 1 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, hand coloured, 77 x 119 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group 0940, Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.