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Date: 1971 - 1833

By: Noel, Alexis Nicholas, 1792-1848; Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: B-118-017

Description: Shows Tolaga Bay with a French observatory, Maori on shore, canoes Off-print from calendar, no. 698 of edition of 1000 Other Titles - Observatory of the ship Astrolabe in one of the bays at Houa Houa (Tolaga Bay) Extended Title - Reproduced from: Dumont d'Urville, J S C Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, (Paris, 1833. Atlas [historique] Pl. 46 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 239 x 355 mm

Date: 5 May 1995 - 22 Nov 1996 - 05 May 1995

From: Hawkes Bay oral history project

By: Shaw, Alasdair Archibald, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0438-12

Description: Alasdair Shaw was born near Hastings in 1944. Mentions he is third in the family and his parents had a small orchard. Recalls going to Twyford School, Scots College and Hastings Boys High School. Mentions injuries from playing rugby and shepherding. Describes jobs on a station near Gisborne, at Tomoana Works and Maraetotara. Describes a sheep diploma course at Massey University in 1965 and three months in the army at Waiouru in 1966. Comments on enjoying the discipline in the Army. Mentions his love of rugby and returning to work at his father's orchard. Describes high insurance premiums and hailstorm damage to fruit. Talks about the irrigation system, moisture testing of soil, packing, developing new apples, apple varieties and market changes. Talks about his daughters and ski-ing holidays. Discusses electoral changes and MMP. Comments on labour shortage on orchards and orcharding costs including costs of bringing in new varieties. Discusses a hearing on submissions about a proposed bridge over the Ngaruroro River and culverts under the motorway by his house. Mentions the role of the Regional Council and Transit New Zealand. Talks about Apple Fields (company), the Apple and Pear Board and overseas markets. Comments on the necessity of such a board. Interviewer(s) - Pam Lockhart Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2143. Search dates: 1944 - 1996

Date: 16, 30 Sep 1996 - 16 Sep 1996 - 30 Sep 1996

From: A taste of gold oral history project

By: Weaver, Earnscy, 1950-

Reference: OHInt-0446-13

Description: Earnscy Weaver was born in Clyde in 1950. His parents were Charles Earnscy (Earnc) Weaver and Doreen Craig. Describes how his grandfather dredged and sluiced gold and then in the early 1900s began growing cherries, pears, apricots, apples, plums, greengages, walnuts and almonds. Talks about how his grandfather built the original home out of schist. Recalls how his father and his brothers were all involved in fruit growing. Mentions how his father sold half his property in the 1960s because of poor health. Describes going into a partnership with Fay Richwhite and Co which took over his orchard and included it in a development of another one hundred acres of orchard known as Summerfruit Orchards Ltd. Describes how the water rights were taken from mining rights. Comments on the huge importance of water and disputes caused by it. Comments on changes in planting and pruning technique, frost protection and spraying. Mentions hydraulic ladders. Discusses a new style of spraying known as Integrated Fruit Protection (IFP) which involves the use of softer chemicals and targeted rather than blanket spraying. Discusses the use of air freight for transporting fruit. Mentions that his father was a progressive grower. Discusses the role of women in the orchard business. Describes how his grandmother had home help and his mother worked very hard at feeding staff and family several times a day but was not involved in decision-making. Discusses the work of his wife, Irene Weaver, in orchard office administration. Mentions her involvement in decision-making until they both became employees of the company. Describes working on the orchard as a child and the work of some of his own family on the orchard. Comments on his discouraging their orchard work as it is a hard life. Recalls doing a Diploma in Horticulture at Lincoln and working in Hawkes Bay orchards for a year before returning to the family property. Describes working closely with Hort Research. Talks about the Earnscleugh community since World War II and changes in it as orcharding becomes more business minded and competitive. Comments that the planned mining venture will provide an exit from orcharding for those who want to get out. Mentions that mining at Island Block has shown that land impact can be minimal. Discusses in detail varieties of fruit currently grown particularly cherries, apricots and apples. Mentions the limited flexibility in selecting apple varieties because of the control of the Apple and Pear Board. Comments that growers can respond to market demand within four years. Describes networking with growers about varieties they can offer. Discusses the use of brokers who market fruit internationally. Mentions new and developing markets in Asia particularly Bangkok and Taiwan. Talks about the Clutha Valley Export Company (CVE) which markets stone fruit and the Clutha Valley Marketing Group (CVM) marketing pip fruit. Discusses the use of eight permanent staff and two hundred casual workers during the picking season. Mentions payment by piece rates. Talks about diversification into nuts, peonies and other produce. Comments on the importance of the weather. Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008572 - OHC-008574 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2672.

Date: 19 Feb 1997

From: A taste of gold oral history project

By: Iversen, Gary Beaufort, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0446-06

Description: Gary Iversen was born in Cromwell in 1934. His parents were Eleanor and Andreas Iversen. Describes how his Danish great grandfather Andreas Iversen arrived in Conroy's Gully with Richard Dawson as a result of the goldrush and began working at Bringan's nursery. Describes his move from Conroy's gully to a six hundred acre block of land in Earnscleugh probably in the 1880s. Notes the property was called Vard after his homeland. Describes how he grew oats for the horses, raised sheep and cattle, developed the Roxburgh Red apricot and also grew peaches, cherries and plums. Mentions that his legacy was irrigation and the little owl as a predator for birds. Describes how the family land was divided into three on the death of Andreas Iversen and was further broken up after the war. Recalls leaving school and working for his father, taking over the orchard in 1964 and looking after it until 1983. Discusses cultivation, tree spacing, spraying, frost fighting, packaging and marketing. Discusses improvements in the appearance and size of fruit which are not matched by taste. Comments that the market drives orchardists. Notes that small markets can be quickly oversupplied and most of his fruit went to the North Island. Discusses the physical nature of work on an orchard and problems such as transport, brown rot and the weather. Describes returning to visit a shed and being surprised by the volume of fruit, size of the shed, use of technology and a new grader. Briefly tells stories about great grandfather Andreas Iversen, his grandfather and Alec Taylor, Duke Iversen and the making of home brew and whisky. Comments on the family's interest in education. Interviewer(s) - Janis Morgan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008560 - OHC-008561 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2665.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-847

Description: Two sleuths wearing dark glasses check out their assignment with a director of the Apple and Pear Marketing Board. They believe they are to track down an 'old dame in South Africa who's known as Granny Smith' who is in 'Germany passing out counterfeit apples'. A scrap of newsprint glued to the cartoon reads 'The Apple and Pear Marketing Board is planning to hire private investigators, and is prepared to pay them almost anything, to find out who is behind the "New Zealand" labelling in West Germany of apples believed to come from South Africa'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on paper, 325 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1923

From: Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios)

Reference: 1/1-021468-F

Description: The store front window of Allport & Scott of Wanganui. On display are piles of different sorts of apples. Taken in 1923 by Mark Luder Lampe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 13595 Allport & Scott [Writing is back to front] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1948

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/4-017252-F

Description: Trucks, laden with boxes of apples, arriving at the Internal Marketing Division Stores, Havelock North, Hawke's Bay. Taken by an unknown photographer working for National Publiciaty Studios. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.