Places

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 2 Aug 1994 - 02 Aug 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Corcoran, Rachel, 1897-1996

Reference: OHInt-0430/03

Description: Rachel Corcoran was born in 1897. Describes the arrival in New Zealand of her great grandfather Isaac Merrick and his residence on Waiheke Island. Talks about her father leaving the island, going to Auckland and meeting her mother Ann Burns. Mentions she was the youngest of thirteen children. Recalls their first home which was a nikau thatch and their move to Peak Hills near Kaukapakapa. Describes how her father was a bushman who acquired a land lease in the Ararimu Valley. Mentions the death of a baby in the family. Details the purchase of stores from Kaukapakapa. Mentions access via a wire bridge over the creek, no electricity, candles or kerosene lamps. Recalls an open fire, camp oven, iron kettle and washing in kerosene tins. Describes walking barefoot to school, the school building, school teachers and the proficiency exam. Mentions gumdigging and the landscape which was largely fern and ti-tree. Describes how the family were Mormons. Talks about turning sixteen and going to work for the family of Dr Meinhold in Helensville. Mentions he had previously operated on her on the kitchen table. Describes how the doctor travelled by horse and gig. Recalls moving to Auckland and working at the hospital for returned soldiers in Domett Avenue and then for the Upton family of Remuera. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3325.

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: A-434-020

Description: Shows a group of seven huts for timber workers on a flat cleared area amongst hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing, 192 x 280 mm.

Date: 1980

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: New Zealand Federation of Labour (1937-1988)

Reference: Eph-C-ROTH-Labour-1980-01

Description: Front shows a photograph of a family (man and wife with three children) sitting in a living room, some at the table. The verso identifies them as the Scadden family, Bruce and Lorraine and three daughters. Bruce is one of the workers on strike at Kinleith Timber Mills. Their circumstances are discussed, as is the general situation with Forest Products and the interference by Prime Minister Rob Muldoon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of newsprint sheet, 280 x 420 mm.

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Hardy, Anthony John, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0159/03

Description: Tony Hardy was born in Gisborne in 1945. His early childhood was spent in the Ureweras and the State Hydro Department (New Zealand Electricity Department) Tuai Power Village. Describes the family's move to Lower Hutt in 1956 where Tony Hardy's father worked as an attendant at the Haywards substation (NZ Electricity Department). Describes qualifying as a motor mechanic and spending three years on the West Coast hunting and employed in bush work, mainly for the Kopara Sawmilling Company. Explains the relationship between this privately owned company and the Forest Service. Comments on exploitation of beech forest and gives opinion on conservationists and forest management. Talks about selective logging and sustainable yields. Talks about some time spent in Sydney, getting married and becoming a logging contractor in a partnership with Lou Weinberg in Mapua in 1973. Describes work with Nelson Pine Forest Company, operation of the gangs, their output compared with the Forest Service output, wages, safety aspects of the work and the need for something to be done with the Forest Service by the time it was corporatised. Talks about chipping, working in the Golden Downs Forest and for H.H. Baigent and Son. Discusses the privatisation of the Forestry Corporation and effects on local Nelson timber companies. Talks about Timberlands and Tai Swiss. Compares log hauling with log skidding. Comments on the capital investement involved in machinery. Venue - Nelson : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr Hardy's home at Nelson Accompanying material - Bound in with abstract and describes in abstract record Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001885; OHC-001886; OHC-001887 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 294. Search dates: 1943 - 1988

Date: 1930

By: Andrews, C (Mr), active 1975

Reference: 1/2-059940-F

Description: William Miller Kinvig driving a converted tractor on a logging railway in 1930, probably at Otaki Forks, Waitatapia Stream. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1910-1923

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/2-029844-F

Description: Logs being transported by water at the Union Box and Packing Case Company, Rawene. The company was based at the Rawene timber mill. There are men standing on the logs that are in the water, holding large punts to move the logs. Taken by Arthur James Northwood between 1910-1923. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0096-F

Description: Maori men working in the Kaingaroa State Forest, photographed in 1961 by Ans Westra. Includes 9 images of men chopping logs; 3 images of a man driving a bull-dozer. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives were digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: [ca 1930s]

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

Reference: MNZ-1631-1/4-F

Description: A team of sixteen bullocks hauling a kauri log from bush in Herekino. Two timber workers stand nearby. Photograph taken circa 1930s. Image published in Making New Zealand, Vol 1, No 15, p 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1903

Reference: 1/4-002695-G

Description: Timber workers, East Coast district, 1903. Taken by an unidentified photographer. 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-0822-1/2-G

Description: Timber men pitsawing near Anawhata. Taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1916. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 6 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Pitsawing. Anawhata. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: Apr 1949

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Downie, T M, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-032684-F

Description: At a timber mill at Mangakino, Waikato, April 1949. Shows men using a cross-cut saw. Photograph taken by T M Downie. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1915-1916

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

Reference: APG-0419-1/2

Description: Two men crosscutting a kauri log near Piha. Taken by Albert Percy Godber, 1915-1916. Original print at PA1-o-195 (Godber album, Vol 101, p 29) Inscriptions: Album page - Crosscutting a kauri tree. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: between 1904-1905

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

Reference: PAColl-5521-02

Description: Taupo Totara Timber Company's vertical boiler, lidgerwood log hauler, with three workmen alongside. Taken by an unidentified photographer, at Mokai between 1904 and 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1905

From: Whitehead, Henry Norford, 1870-1965 :Negatives of Napier, Hastings and district

Reference: 1/1-004627-G

Description: Timber workers sawing logs, using a mechanical saw, at a timber mill in the Hastings region. The men are surrounded with newly cut logs, along with piles of bark and other offcuts. Photograph taken by Henry Norford Whitehead ca 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [191-?]

From: West Coast Historical Society :Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-058161-F

Description: Workers at Nyberg Sawmill, Te Kinga, West Coast, circa 1910s. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Location of sawmill from 1/2-005814. Date estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1915-1926

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

Reference: APG-0850-1/2-G

Description: Climax locomotive hauling logs at Mangapehi. There are three workers on the locomotive, which is stationary. Taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1915 and 1926. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 158 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - At the end of a perfect day. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1920

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

Reference: APG-0858-1/2-G

Description: Logs being hauled out of the bush on railway wagons, on the way to Ellis & Burnand's sawmill at Mangapehi in 1920. A timber worker stands beside the tramway. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 157 (PA1-q-102) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [191-?]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-006268-G

Description: Timber camp, Kaeo district, Northland. Timber workers and dogs are posed in front. Photograph taken circa 1910s by Northwood brothers. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches