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Date: 1878-1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: 81-295

Description: Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.

Date: [Between 1955 and 1963]

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PA1-q-098

Description: Aerial views, exterior views and interior views of the Gear Meat Company at Petone, between 1955 and 1963. Includes sheep in holding pens, various areas of the meat works showing activities such as skinning, whole carcasses, various stages of preparation for packaging meat for the local market and for transport overseas; further products including canned meat; tallow; hides; wool; and fertilizer. Vehicles for the transportation of meat include ships at London Docks unloading frozen carcasses, and a fleet of delivery vans for the local wholesale trade. One photograph shows Prince Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh) visiting the meat works in 1956, coincidentally at the time of celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Gear Meat company. Different Gear Meat Company shops are shown, in Jackson Street, Petone; in Upper Hutt; and at 94/98 Lambton Quay. The first `Primary Fresh Foods' shop opened by the company at 12 Bunny Street, Lower Hutt, is seen on opening day with a delicatessen section as well as meat department. There are exterior and interior views of the different shops. A number of views show hostel accomodation for meat workers, showing exterior views, a bedroom, a kitchen for communal use, and a social hall. The final section shows the Gear Meat stall at Hutt Valley Industries Fair, 19-27 August, 1960; and their stall at the Manawatu & West Coast Agricultural & Pastoral Association Show in November 1962. An envelope inserted at the back of the album contains views of sheep holding pens, further scenes of the interior of an abatoir, and one view of the Gear Homestead. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Gear Meat Company album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cloth album, entitled `Photographs'; 29 x 38 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available. Possibly part of a larger collection.

Date: [Chiefly between 1912 and 1914]

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

Reference: PA1-o-198

Description: Album of photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1912 and 1914. Images include Godber's family, a few of identified people (names listed in the name file), and many with no identification. One image of a group of fitters and turners apprentices at the Petone Railway Workshops, taken in 1913, has all the apprentices named (listed in the full record for Godber negative, APG-0457-1/2) Views of the old Central Fire Station at Petone, and the new Petone Fire Brigade Station; the aftermath of a huge fire at Cooks' Cooperage (on January 14, 1914); and a locomotive which had rolled. Local Petone scenes include the Petone Council Chambers and town clock, and a number of houses in the area, including the home of Godber's friend Tom Mather; Korokoro bush, and the Korokoro Reservoir. Away from the Wellington area, Godber photographed a number of houses in Clonbern Road area; the Makatote Viaduct and the Manganui-o-te-Ao Viaduct. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 107 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 6 April 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Avery, Peter, active 1982

Reference: EP/1981/1406-F

Description: Stiking Gear Meat workers, Petone. They are (from left) - Thomas Meihana with Selina (7 months). Glen Rainford and Hemi (12 months). Malcolm McAllister with Kimiora (5 months). Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Peter Avery 6 April 1981. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope At the time of the photograph being taken the men had been on strike for six weeks. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-367

Description: Photographs taken for the N Z International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7, by various photographers Interior and exterior photographs of various factories and businesses, showing employees at different activities. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Wellington. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: 4 October 1973

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1973/4352-F

Description: The 200,000th vehicle leaving the assembly lines at Todd Motors Petone plant. Driving the car off the line is Norman Thompson who has been with the firm for 46 years. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 4th of October 1973. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1908-1935

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: MS-Group-1753

Description: Collection comprises one wages ledger and a stock book. Source of title - Supplied by Library Gear Meat Company Ltd was a meat processing plant based in Petone, Wellington Quantity: 2 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr P Everton, Levin, Feb 2009 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Fire alarm drawing and plan of Gear Meat Company Ltd's plant in Petone, Wellington.

Date: 13 April 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1981/1473-F

Description: Stiking Gear Meat workers, Petone, after having heard that a provisional agreement had been reached between the management and union. They had been on strike for almost seven weeks. From left - Des Tarau. Warren Weston. Joe Crew. Tony Wither. Dave Kimura. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 13 April 1981. Source of descriptive information - notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1 Oct 1970

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1970/4183-F

Description: Right Reverend Manu Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, Lower Hutt, Wellington, with Maori butchers. Photographs taken 1 October 1970 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: [1908-1912]

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

Reference: PA1-q-103

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, including family portraits, areas where he lived, Petone and the Petone Fire Brigade, railways, the Hutt Valley, Wellington, and areas in the upper North Island. The family photographs show his immediate family (his wife Laura (nee Zinckgraf), and children William Albert and Phyllis Mary); groups including his father and mother Charles and Mary Ann Godber, his brother Harry Leonard and wife Annie and their daughter Constance Alice, and Laura's brother Charles Albert Zinckgraf. Godber was a fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade, and there are photographs of groups of firemen and fire fighting equipment, and displays of methods of fire fighting. Associated with Godber's work with New Zealand Railways, and particularly at the Petone Railway Workshops, there are views of various workshop buildings, groups of railway workers; one of M J Mack (General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand); images of damage to rolling stock after railway accidents; trains; the Raurimu Spiral; railway viaducts; logging railways; and railway stations. Photographs taken in the northern part of the North Island include coal mines, rock formations, hot springs at Te Aroha and Kamo; Whangarei and the Wairua Falls; suburbs of Auckland including Newmarket, Remuera, Parnell, Onehunga, and Ellerslie Race Course. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber Album 110 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram covers; 30.0 x 23.5 cm

Date: ca 1900

From: Howard, B J : Chiefly photographs of Somes Island during World War I

Reference: 1/2-090508-F

Description: Workers at the Gear Meat Company, Petone, photographed circa 1900. Shows 18 men, many wearing sacking tunics and bound sacking footwear, standing outside a door to the works. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1900 - 1912

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Edith Beck and family. 1906-1915]

By: Anderson, Martin, 1854-1932; Beck, D W (Mr), active 1993

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-14-004-1

Description: Shows slow train led by a donkey and pushed by railway workers, with a scene of railwaymen playing cricket in the foreground. Printed in England for generalised use, and no doubt used in various parts of the world with the wording adapted for local use. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - "Cynicus" Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 140 x 90 mm.

Date: Between 1900 and 1910

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

Reference: APG-0126-1/2-G

Description: Albert Percy Godber at his brass finishing lathe in the Petone railway workshops. A sign before him reads: `This is my busy day'. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber album PA1-o-194, page 75 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 28 May 1915

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

Reference: APG-0518-1/2-G

Description: Group of men, probably railway employees, watching a fight outside the Petone Railway workshops. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, 28 May 1915. Original print in Godber album Vol 109, p 1 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - 28.5.15 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1916

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

Reference: APG-0600-1/2-G

Description: View of the Thomas transmission rail motor car (R.M.2, i.e. Rail motor no 2), photographed with a group of men on and beside it, by Albert Percy Godber in 1916. Two of the men are identified in Godber Album Vol 109, p 51: C Green (2nd from left) and H Head (second from right, standing in front of the car). Thomas transmission car identified from other images on page 49 of the Godber Album. Original print at Pa1-q-102 (Godber Album Vol 109, p 51) Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - C Green, H Head. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.4 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1920]

Reference: 1/2-025602-F

Description: Outside the retail store of `Sibun Limited', Petone, circa 1920. Probably taken at 255-7 Jackson Street. Shows employees, shopfront, advertising sign, and the three wheeled shop vehicle. Wise's Post Office Directory 1920, page 1878, lists Sibun Ltd as being at 255-7 Jackson Street. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1917

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

Reference: APG-0160-1/2-G

Description: The photographer (A P Godber) standing by the Wab class locomotive (NZR no. 686), photographed at the Petone Railway Workshops in 1917. Note on back of file print reads: "A P Godber with Wab class loco 686, 1917. Formerly Ws type, different bogie". Original print in Pa1-q-102 (Godber album, Vol 109, p 21). Inscription in album reads: "Ws" type - later reclassified "Wab" with altered bogie. Wab 686. 1917. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 25 April 1903

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

Reference: APG-0071-1/2-G

Description: Officials at the laying of the Foundation Stone at the Petone Waterworks, 25th April 1903. Copy negative from an original print photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Original print at Pa1-q-100 (Godber VII), Godber album, vol 106, p 17. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 10 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: 1/2-127291-F

Description: Railways staff responsible for fitting the Westinghouse brakes at the Petone workshops, circa 1900. Men unidentified. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: Between 1905 and 1910?

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

Reference: APG-0143-1/2-G

Description: Wf class steam locomotive (NZR no. 386) and railway workers, photographed at the Petone Railway Workshops by Albert Percy Godber. Note on back of file print reads "Builder = NZR Addington (maker no 66/05). Date in service - 22/9/1905. Written off 10/1958 - preserved. Note on back of file print reads "WF 386 - the longest surviving engine (Parliamentary Special) from the section between Taihape & Mangaweka Viaduct. Now is at Steam Incorporated, Paekakariki awaiting overhaul (Dec 1999). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches