Places

Date: [circa 1905 to 1912]

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: PA1-o-498

Description: Photographs of a range of industries in New Zealand, possibly related to the Christchurch International Exhibition in 1906-1907. Industries include animal related products including wool, from fellmongery to transportation and finally weaving; meat works, including the slaughter house, the mutton cooling room, shipping fozen mutton, the beef cooling room; butter, at the Hautapu Butter Factory, showing butter in the factory, and delivering butter at Ngaruawahia Railway Station; the Waikato Bacon Factory, and pig carcases. Other industries include flax, with scenes showing a flax mill, carting flax to the mill, stripping, washing and drying flax, and also grading hemp and loading bales of it at Auckland wharves; kauri timber industry, from felling the trees, hauling logs by bullock, floating logs over the Wairoa Falls, sorting timber at the mill booms, timber mill on the Wairoa River, and a million feet of sawn timber at the mill. The latter part of the album shows scenes of gold dredging on the Buller Gorge, hydraulic gold-mining at Ross, Westland; coal mining at Brunner; kauri gum diggers and a warehouse storing kauri gum; and finally views of the Sugar Refinery in Auckland, and a warehouse filled with sacks of sugar. Other Titles - New Zealand scenery Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand scenery" in gold lettering; 26.0 x 34.5 cm

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/2-004434-F

Description: A ship moored at the wharves in Auckland with piles of timber ready for transportation in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1906-1907

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

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: [Circa 1900s-1910s]

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: PA1-o-365

Description: Album showing various aspects of New Zealand life in cities, on farms, and in industries such as gold and coal mining, the timber industry, dairy industry, and flax industry. Other images focus on New Zealand scenery ranging throughout the North Island and the South Island. Photographers are mostly unidentified, but groups who are named are A. Northwood, and the New Zealand Tourist Department. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Album identical in content to that at PA1-o-364. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon covers, entitled `New Zealand'; 24 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1916]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: MNZ-1753-1/2-F

Description: 'Tripping' the Anawata dam, Piha district, to allow logs through. Photograph taken circa 1916 by Albert Percy Godber. Caption from Making New Zealand reads: " 'Tripping' a dam in the Piha district, Auckland Province. Notice that the release of the central door frees the waters impounded in the dam, which then wash the logs through the opening, whence they are swept down to the mill. " Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1915]

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

Reference: APG-0827-1/2-G

Description: The logging locomotive "Sandfly" taking on water at Karekare with a load of sawn timber. The driver is George Snowden (see back of File Print), and Mr H P Knutzen is seated on the timber on the first wagon. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1916. Original print from this negative is in Godber album Vol 109, p 5 (PA1-q-102) This image is reproduced in "The Piha Tramway" by David Lowe (new enl. ed). Inscriptions: Album page - Taking water. Kare-Kare. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to building material and supplies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-BUILDING-SUPPLIES-ca-1906-01-front

Description: Shows a bird's-eye view of the company's premises at Custom Street West, Auckland, with the Joinery and Box Departments at the left, and the head office at the right. The two sections are joined by an overhead walkway. The far left shows sailing ships tied up at the wharves. In the foreground are neat piles of sawn timber, and in the wide corridor between the buildings, horses and carts move with their loads of timber. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of catalogue.. Physical Description: Offset print, on cover 284 x 186 mm.

Date: [ca 1915-1916]

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

Reference: APG-1541-1/2-F

Description: Team of horses hauling a wagon laden with sawn timber on the beach near Karekare. There are piles of timber stacked on long wooden framework. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, circa 1915-1916. This image is a film copy negative taken by Godber from a print in his album Vol 101, p 19 (PA1-o-195), including the inscription in the album which reads "Carting timber on the beach". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Carting timber on the beach Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 12.5 x 10.0 cm

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

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

Reference: APG-0662-1/2-G

Description: Horse-drawn rail wagon laden with sawn timber, and a smaller horse-drawn wagon on the road alongside the railway line. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1916. An original print from this negative is at Pa1-o-195 (Godber album vol 101, p 6) Inscriptions: Album page - Near Kare-Kare. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1909

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

Reference: 1/2-071289

Description: Wharf and surrounding area at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, showing the steamship `Beulah' loading its first load of kauri timber from K T Co Mill [probably Kauri Timber Co's Mill]. More logs lie in the middle ground. Photograph taken 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [ca 1860s]

From: Foster, L W : Photographs of Cornwallis

By: Foy, Joseph Michael, 1847-1923

Reference: 1/2-046672-F

Description: Scene outside Kakamatua sawmill in Cornwallis, with a group of men (mill workers?), and loads of timber. Photograph taken by Joseph Michael Foy, circa 1860s. Inscriptions: beneath image - J M Foy, Photo.] Cornwallis Saw Mills, Manukau Harbour, NZ. [Onehunga Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Between 1915 and 1916

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

Reference: APG-0666-1/2-G

Description: Section of the beach tramway between Karekare and Whatipu, showing a wagon of sawn timber drawn by a large team of horses, being carted across the beach. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1916. An original print from this negative is at Pa1-o-195 (Godber album vol 101, p 19.) This image is reproduced in "The Piha Tramway" by David Lowe, where he says "a large horse team prepares to struggle across the Karekare beach in the days before tramway had been built". However, Godber was in this area between 1915 and 1916, and shows numbers of pictures of the completed beach tramway. Inscriptions: Album page - Carting timber on the beach. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Circa 1917

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

Reference: APG-1217-1/2-G

Description: Tramway down the Anawhata incline. Taken by Albert Percy Godber. An original print is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 71 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Anawhata Incline. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1916]

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

Reference: APG-1218-1/2-G

Description: Two men 'tripping' the Anawhata dam, Piha district, to allow logs to flow through. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Other - Print from this negative in Godber Album Vol 109, p 71 (PA1-q-102) Caption - Caption from album PA1-q-102 reads "Tripping the Anawhata Dam" Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand: : pictorial surveys of a century (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 1, No 9, p 12 Caption - Caption in Making New Zealand reads: " 'Tripping' a dam in the Piha district, Auckland Province. Notice that the release of the central door frees the waters impounded in the dam, which then wash the logs through l the opening, whence they are swept down to the mill. " Inscriptions: Album page - Tripping the Anawhata Dam. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

By: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948

Reference: PAColl-5521-08

Description: Sailing ship Rangi at Whangaparapara Harbour, Great Barrier Island, unloading logs for the Whangaparapara mill. Photograph taken by William Archer Price, circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 206 x 158 mm

Date: [ca 1860s]

From: Foster, L W : Photographs of Cornwallis

By: Foy, Joseph Michael, 1847-1923

Reference: 1/2-046667-F

Description: Scene at Kakamatua sawmill at Cornwallis, with loads of logs and sawn timber. Photograph taken by Joseph Michael Foy, circa 1860s. Inscriptions: beneath image - J M Foy, Photo.] Cornwallis Saw Mills, Manukau Harbour, NZ. [Onehunga Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1915]

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

Reference: APG-0825-1/2-G

Description: Kauri boom at Piha, circa 1915. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1915. Dated using other Godber photographs taken of timber etc at Piha Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 9 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - A drive of kauri logs. Piha. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Circa 1917

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

Reference: APG-1224-1/2-G

Description: Logging train owned by the Tamaki Sawmill Co., Raurimu (B Len Knight, manager). Photographed by Albert Percy Godber circa 1917. For another view of this locomotive see APG-1208-1/2 "A bush locomotive. Raurimu". Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 73 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Knight's tram. Raurimu. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [192-?]

Reference: PAColl-8894

Description: Photograph of Kauri logs felled by the Kauri Timber Company. Shows them being loaded on to railway wagons at Waitakere, Auckland. Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer in the 1920s. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on backing board of print Inscriptions: Backing board verso - Kauri Timber Co, Waitakere 1920's Transferring logs to NZR wagons at railway siding Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16 x 20.4 cm, mounted on card

Date: ca 1915-1916

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

Reference: APG-0821-1/2

Description: A bullock team hauling kauri logs at Piha. Taken by Albert Percy Godber circa 1915-1916. Original print in Godber album Vol 109, p 7 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Bullock team. Piha. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches