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Date: 1942-1954

From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records

Reference: 80-307-34/01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950s

From: Holland, Sidney George (Sir), 1893-1961 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7587-1

Description: Holland visiting Pinewood Film Studios while in England in 1955. The publicity shots show him in conversation with the stars, producers and directors of "Value for Money", "Doctor at Sea", and "A Woman for Joe". During his visit to Malaysia in 1955 Holland is shown inspecting class rooms of students and being shown the process of tapping the rubber tree. There are a group of unidentified images which may be of Holland with members of his family. Two groups of images show him at leasure. The first, at the edge of a pond or stream with Sir Anthony Eden and a group of unidentified men and boys all in swimming togs. The second, fly fishing with a couple of other people and armed for the hunt. Two images record a visit to India with his wife and daughter. Quantity: 66 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1949

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginning with T. 1900s onwards ]

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Tokaanu-1949-01-back

Description: Shows two drunk fishermen returning home across a field in which a scarecrow stands with outstretched arms. One fisherman accuses the scarecrow of being a liar, thinking that the arms are a measure of the size of his catch. Extended Title - on Tokaanu Hotel menu, November 1949, back cover. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on menu. Physical Description: Photolithograph 127 x 205 mm, on back cover of menu. Provenance: Donated by Jonathan Dennis in 1997.

Date: ca1945-ca1955

By: Pinnell, Karen, active 2002

Reference: PA1-f-240

Description: Album of scenic photographs taken on motoring tours through the North Island during the 1940s and 1950s. It includes a series of images showing United States Servicemen touring in New Zealand, probably during World War 2. Places visited include the Chateau Tongariro, Ohinemutu, Rotorua and Huka Lodge. Mount Ruapehu is shown in eruption. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: From the collection of the Draper and Brenton families.

Date: 1963-1966

From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records

Reference: 80-307-67/06

Description: Includes correspondence, minutes re Napier fishing dispute, 1966; papers re manning; conference reports, 1963; questionnaire for consideration by members of the New Zealand Wholesale Fish Merchants' Association and New Zealand Federation of Commercial Fishermen Inc dealing with proposals for survey and manning of fishing vessels; list of fish prices at various ports, 1963 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1898 - 1974

By: Hutton, David Edward, 1866-1946

Reference: C-083-008-b

Description: Shows a group of fisherman on a wharf where some small boats are tied up. One man sits with a black and white dog at his feet, and talks to a man standing beside two barrels full of fish. One of the barrels has the initials JM in large letters on the side. Some shallow baskets of fish with one or two fish in them, lie in the foreground. Further away on the right, a man hoses down the wharf, in front of a flagstaff with a blue and red flag flying. A red buoy floats in the left foreground, and there are some abandoned fishing rods on the wharf at the left. Some buildings at Port Chalmers are visible in the left background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated on original]. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on sheet 380 x 510 mm.

Date: 19 October 1985

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

Reference: EP/1985/4647-F

Description: Tony and Ferdinando Cater holding up crayfish just after mooring at Island Bay, Wellington. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid on the 19th of October 1985. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1950s

By: Skilton, Ken E, active 2002; Skilton, E (Mrs), active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7622

Description: Commercial slides promoting big-game fishing in New Zealand. There are images and narrative text, and the target markets are Australia and the West Coast of the United States. Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-2415 to PA12-2417 Quantity: 35 b&w original transparency/ies (35mm slides).

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-3

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are pictures of cars and one of a motorcycle with side car. There are prints of two fly fishermen displaying their catch in a net and of a man holding up a large eel. Others show yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts; adult fun sports at a group outing identified in PAColl-6712-2 as being the "optic championships". Another group are shown playing cricket in the grounds of Days Bay House. There is also a single print of a hunter showing his bag of wild game birds. Animals are represented by cattle and horses, one of the latter associated with two men and a wagon-full of freshly harvested hay, another is harnessed to a coach parked beside a stationary train. A sequence of prints records the dams and lakes of the newly completed Mangahao Hydro in the hills inland from Shannon. Three prints show a ship grounded in coastal shallows. There are portrait and group photographs of people, including children, and one print of a children's party. Several show picnic groups.

Date: 1961-1965

From: New Zealand Seamen's Union : Records

Reference: 80-307-67/02

Description: Includes minutes of Wellington Fishermen's Union; list of officers and members of Wellington Fishermen's Industrial Union of Workers, 1964; delegate's report of NZ Federation of Commercial Fishermen Annual Conference 1965; report on proposed Boat Owners' Association; ITF Press report, 1964; Fishermen's Association Auckland Inc schedule of claims; suggested bye-laws for Wellington Fishermen's Union; correspondence re disputes and other matters; correspondence re Italain fishing fleet and slipway at Island Bay, Wellington, 1961; and other papers re commercial fishing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1907-1909

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-q-915

Description: Most of the images relate to a survey team (or teams) operating in the hill country west of the main road between Raetihi and National Park, centred in the area around Ruatiti. The two names in the album for the area are the Ruatiti Block which includes the Ruatiti Stream and the Manganuioteao River, and the Riariaki Block and trig immediatly to the north. There are images of team members, camp life (ie storing food, cutting hair, living quarters, rod fishing, and swimming), groups out on the job (ie cutting trees, making survey pegs, moving through the bush with packs and equipment, on horse back, returning from the hunt, packing in supplies, making observations, and constructing the Maungaroa trig station), and views of the native forest, and rivers. Interspersed among these photographs are others which include social occasions such as farewelling a survey team member, a motoring trip associated with a large house called "Pihautea," an amateur instrumental group, a cricket game in Nelson, and a group in Albert park Auckland. There is a farmyard with woman, hens and horses, a buggie fording the Mangaturuturu Stream, views of Island Bay, Mount and Lake Tarawera, the Makatote bridge, and the Ohakune Railway Station Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920-1929

From: Cox, Thomas George, 1887-1973 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6712-2

Description: Photographs of trips taken in the countryside, of bridges, rivers, streams, waterfalls, native forest, mountains, coastal scenery and other scenic views. There are a number of prints showing camp sites and tents some of which are identified as being at Otaki Forks and Lake Wairarapa. Fishermen with their nets on shore, yachts in sail, and men and boys in yachts. A series of prints records an a fun athletic sports day described as the "optical championships" which may relate to Cox's son George who was an optician in Wellington. There are two prints of early radio apperatus which also show station codes pinned to the wall, and there are several prints and negatives of George E Cox's opticians shop at 38 Willis Street, Wellington. Animals are represented by sheep, cows, dogs and birds. There are some prints of green house plants in pots and vases of flowers, people bathing, two war memorials, and picnic groups. There are also a number of portrait and group photographs. One of the groups is a cricket team.

Date: 1972

From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: A-325-027

Description: Three-part images, with a chalice and grapes at the left, Christ and His disciples fishing from a boat in the centre, and a basket of loaves with fish, at the right. Title "Christ and fishers" from artist's list, which gives date as 1971. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beverley Shore Bennett / Miller Studios Ltd / 1972; Verso - centre - [Title] / Roy Miller Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 292 x 360 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.

Date: between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2413-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island, sea on the left. Seven men in two groups are hauling two large swordfish and a shark up the beach towards a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam. Small fishing hut centre left in front of a line of pohutukawa trees which edge the beach right across the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 829; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1975-F

Description: Panoramic view of Lake Taupo showing a line of eleven men in waders fishing for trout at the mouth of the Waitahanui River a sight known as the `picket fence' of anglers. Some of the men are waist-deep in the water. Groups of people sitting on the beach, one with an umbrella, and one man standing on the beach holding up a trout by the gills. Hills in the background across the lake. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Trout fishing" Lake Taupo. New Zealand. No. 844; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Trout fishing. Lake Taupo. N.Z. No. 715 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.7 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1976-F

Description: Panoramic view of the Tongariro River showing a wide grassy bank on the left with a large clump of toetoe. A man wearing a hat and waders is thigh-deep in the water, fishing with a rod. The far side of the river is lined with tall trees and there is a peep of a hill in the distance on the far left. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Trout fishing. Tongariro River. New Zealand. No. 841; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Title: A charming reach on Tongariro River Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 105.4 cm

Date: 20 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Imlach, James, 1914-1995; Saffioti, Paolo, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0444-05

Description: James Imlach born in the North of Scotland and came from a family of fishermen for many generations. Recalls that his father, Jimmy Imlach senior, came to New Zealand with his family at the end of World War I, initially working on a cargo ship employed on the cheese run between Patea and Wellington before taking up fishing. Recalls that in 1930, at the age of 16, left school and joined father and Shetland Islander, Tommy Isbister, on the `Southern Cross' which father owned. Paolo Saffioti born in New Zealand. Recalls that father was from Italy and had jumped ship in Auckland, travelling to Wellington where he heard there was an Italian community. Father worked on a coastal cargo ship, the `Canopus' carrying coal, before taking up fishing on one of the Italian boats in Eastbourne, later shifting to Island Bay where he continued fishing, eventually buying his own boat, the `All Black'. Recalls that it was in this vessel that self started fishing career at the age of 14 years during the early 1930s. Jimmy and Paolo worked on the `Southern Cross' and were to work together most of their fishing careers and were neighbours in Island Bay. They recall the types of fishing they were involved in, such as groper and crayfishing, the areas where they fished, type of gear used and the early winches and some of the dangers and accidents using them. They talk about some of the early fish wholesalers and the difficulties in selling their catch, particularly during the Depression. They discuss the Wellington Fishermen's Co-op in which Paolo's father, Santo Saffioti, was a founding member. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the Co-op and its demise. Crayfishing from Island Bay during the early 1950s is also discussed. They recall boats that were built at Island Bay and their builders; making of wet weather gear and floats by the women of the fishing community and the slipway near the western entrance to Island Bay which was built and owned by a Mr Cunningham. Jimmy Imlach retired from fishing in 1965 though his sons are still involved in commercial fishing, owning a trawler, `The Rowallen' which works from Wellington. Paolo retired in 1983. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 200 The Esplanade, Island Bay, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010224-010225 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3414.

Date: 1928

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-120

Description: Shows a north-facing view of a man surf fishing at the mouth of the Mohaka river, where it feeds into the sea. A woman stands nearby, looking on Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 155 x 240 mm

Date: 1928 - 1932

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-116

Description: Shows a view looking north of three men fishing at the mouth of the Mohaka river, where it feeds into the sea Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 105 x 132 mm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-021128-G

Description: Fishing industry, Island Bay, Wellington. Photograph taken circa 1930s, by Sydney Charles Smith. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches