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Date: 25 January - 5 February 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-3738

Description: Northland post offices closed in 1988 Arrangement: Negatives housed at 10x8-1859 to 1885 Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives 8 x 10 inches

Date: January 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-1298

Description: Photographs of post offices and post office agencies, scheduled to be closed in the 1988 Post office restructuring, photographed in January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Source of title - Title supplied by Library In 1988 the Alexander Turnbull Library commissioned eight New Zealand professional photographers to make a documentary record of some of the Post Offices that closed that year. Laurence Aberhart was one of these photographers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1985

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1985-3

Description: Includes calendars: 1985 Stamp Calendar. Single sheet calendar advertising subjects planned for future issues of stamps, and products of interest to stamp collectors. BP Oil New Zealand Limited. Six colour prints from photographs of scenic views of New Zealand by Brian Enting. Calendar published by The North Auckland Times Co (1985) Ltd, publisher of The Northland Times. Single sheet calendar featuring a colour print of Dargaville Post Office photographed by Parkview Photography, Dargaville. Camp and Cabin Association of New Zealand, 1985-1986. Single sheet calendar featuring coloured drawings representing Scenic views of New Zealand and holiday destinations and activities. Peugeot Club Calendar. Published by the Peugeot Car Club Auckland (INC). Single sheet calendar which includes coming club events. PhotoForum 1985 Calendar. Designed by Alan Loney, printed by Lowes Secretarial and Printing Bureau Lower Hutt, and published by PhotoForum. Includes a photograph by Peter Peryer. The Renovators, 1985. Single sheet Calendar sponsored by Television New Zealand and Odlins Limited, and printed by Budget Print Ltd. It features a colour print of a photograph showing the wall of a building carrying the marks of demolished interior structures. Quantity: 7 calendars. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

By: De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925; Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0603

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes mostly in Waikato and Northland, including the new Awanui Wireless Station at Kaitaia; a steam locomotive on the railway bridge next to Victoria Battery; the interior of Union Battery; view of Whakatane with Regan's Commercial Hotel on the left and a billiards hall at the end of the street; a view over Port Chalmers; Mount Ruapehu covered in snow; a steam ship docking at the wharf at Tauranga; a steam ship pulling away from the wharves at Whangarei; view over Dargaville from Mount Wesley; view down Victoria Street, Dargaville looking towards the railway station; view over Kaitaia from the hotel; sheep mustered next to the Kaeo River; the road and rail bridges over the Waikato River in Hamilton; the Hauraki Pumping Plant in Thames; the extension works at Waihi Grand Junction Battery; the steam ship Clansman at the wharf at Mangonui; the Mokau Coal Mines on the Mokau River with boats moored at the jetty; the school and church at Mangonui; the Topeheihei Falls near Morrinsville; a crowd of people outside the mountain house with Mount Taranaki in the background; Marine Parade, Napier looking north; view over Petone towards Somes Island showing the carriage works and the mill next to the jetty; Glaxo factory at Matamata; a viaduct near Te Kuiti; a train on the Rimutaka Incline; and three views from the Northern Steam Ship Company's annual summer cruise of Port Fitzroy, Whangaroa, and Doubtless Bay. Quantity: 50 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: [1855-1951]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Miscellaneous items transferred from Printed Collections

Reference: MS-Papers-6058

Description: Comprises papers removed from `NZ Trades and Labour Conference Reports' (1895-1911) including notes by A G Bagnall, notes on 1904 conference, clippings, copy of letter sent to MPs after Auckland conference by W S Moxsom (1909), memorandum for W B Sutch re merging of Social Democratic Party with NZ Labour Party (1940), and circular letter for St Mary's Church, Karori (1951); words for song to the tune of the `Volga boatmen' of the NZASC (1942); correspondence between Turnbull and Robert McNab removed from McNab's `Murihiku' (1904, 1908); bill of exchange, Navy & Foreign, William Noble, paymaster (1873) removed from `Journal' of Commodore Goodenough (1876); errata to J G Wilson's `A History of Hawke's Bay' and clipping (removed from same); transcription of plate in Russell church for Augustus Hamilton in English and Maori; list of subscribers for Gudgeon's `Defenders of NZ' (1886); clipping removed from Elder's `Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden' (1934); typescripts of letter, Joseph Churches to his family, from `Letters from settlers and labouring immigrants...NZ Co's settlements...' (1843); note probably by Alexander MacKay from New Zealand Land Court `Important judgements...' (1879); notes re notes in T Musgrave's `Castaway on the Auckland Isles' (1865); letter H R H Balneavis to John Houston (1930) Also photocopies of notes by John Houston on sheets from the `The lore of the whare wananga' by Elsdon Best from Reserve Coll; notes from copy of Hooker's `Handbook of NZ flora' signed by Walter Mantell, copy going to reserve collection; notes from Reeves' `The Long white cloud' (copy owned by John Houston); notes on Napier Post Office (1969) Other Titles - History of Hawke's Bay by J G Wilson Other Titles - Murihiku by Robert McNab Other Titles - Defenders of New Zealand by T W Gudgeon Other Titles - Letters and journals of Samuel Marsden, ed by J R Elder Other Titles - Castaway on the Auckland Isles...Capt Thos Musgrave Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: From Book Collections - - From Serials Collection -.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1919]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-7219

Description: Postcards of a Maori chief from Whangape in a feathered cloak with moko and carrying a taiaha; mail coaches leaving Ohaeawai; sheep mustering on McKenzie's Estate, Herekino where the sheep are being herded into a field next to a beach; two of the second oldest church in New Zealand at Waimate North; Bedgood's Mill at Waimate North; Bedgood's mill waterwheel; a horse and cart heading to the Waimate Show in the distance; Te Paki Cattle Station; Houhora Hotel and harbour; Mount Camel and heads, Houhora harbour; moonlight on Houhora harbour; Herekino settlement; Herekino harbour overlooking Keay's with Manukau in the distance; Kerikeri Falls; Kohukohu showing the hotel and other buildings on the waterfront; two boats on the Waihopo River; a girl talking to a boy on a horse with the staff quarters of the Kaitaia Wireless Station behind them; three views of the Kaitai Radio Station (in operation 1912-1929); two men on rope slings gathering gum from a kauri tree; view of Kaikohe; Government Buildings, Kaikohe; Kaikohe Hotel with two men on ponies outside; two men on bicycles with the Kaitaia Post Office behind them; view of Mangonui; a man boating in Mangamuka Gorge; the Mangamuka River; sheep being driven along a road in Marangai, looking west; two views of Marangai looking east; a view of Kerikeri from the river showing the Stone Store and Kemp House; the bathing pool at Ngawha Springs; the Black Lake, Ngawha Springs; Ngataki Lake, Waihopo; boys from Te Kao North Cape Native School doing a haka; Ohaeawai Hotel; the Church of England, Ohaeawai (with additional photography by Radcliffe); the pier in Parengarenga Harbour; sheep on the road at Ohaeawai; a loaded horse-drawn cart on the main street in Ohaeawai, looking west; a steam locomotive pulling kauri logs at Puketi; and a kauri tree in a forest with a hut behind it. Photographer was Northwood Brothers. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002254, 002392, 002395, 002741, 002742, 002744 to 002746, 002748 to 002750, 002788 to 002795, 002809 to 002811, 002825, 002826, 002828, 002881, 002882, 002889, 002909 to 002911, 003123, 003156 to 003159, 003187, 003260 (additional copy at 1/2-021628), 003499 to 003503, 003543, 026804, 002998 to 003000, 032360 Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 25 January 1988

From: Aberhart, Laurence :Photographs of Northland post offices

Reference: 10x8-1864-F

Description: Mangamuka Bridge Post Office, photographed 25 January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: [1870s-1880s]

By: F Bradley & Company; Walton, Grahame M, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1605

Description: Photograph album of Views and landscapes of New Zealand, Second Series, published by F Bradley & Company. Includes photographs - No. 1 Meeeting of the waters, Oripi; No. 2 Maori group; No. 3 Lake Hope, White Island; No. 4 Timaru; No. 5 The Bealey, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 6 Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula; No. 7 The River Avon; No. 8 Shag Rock, Sumner Road, looking towards Christchurch; No. 9 Princes Street, Dunedin; No. 10 Christchurch; No. 11 Bullock team and wool waggon, Cheviot; No. 12 Oamaru; No. 13 Cheviot Station, Nelson Province; No. 14 Normal School, Christchurch; No. 15 German Bay, Akaroa; No. 16 Port Lyttelton; No. 17 Kawau, Sir George Grey's residence; No. 18 Pink Terrace, Rotomahana; No. 19 Akaroa; No. 20 Rangatata Traffic Bridge; No. 21 Armagh St bridge & watering place, Christchurch; No. 22 River Bealey Crossing, Hokitika Coach Road; No. 23 Post Office, Christchurch; No. 24 View on the Heathcote; No. 25 Russell's Gold Battery, Tararua Creek, Thames Gold Fields; No. 26 Glacier Hotel & Cobb's Coach, West Coast Road; No. 27 Crossing the Teremakau; No. 28 Greymouth, West Coast; No. 29 Kaiapoi, Canterbury; No. 30 Chalky or Dark Inlet; No. 31 Waimakariri Gorge Bridge; No. 32 Nelson; No. 33 Christchurch; No. 34 Group of Maoris, Lake Taupo; No. 35 Alfred Falls, North Island; No. 36 Christchurch; No. 37 Governor's Bay; No. 38 Oamaru; No. 39 Timaru breakwater; No. 40 Dunedin; No. 41 Christchurch; No. 42 Christchurch hospital; No. 43 House of Representatives, Wellington; No. 44 Arthurs Pass; No. 45 The Cave Rock, Sumner; No. 46 Government buildings, Christchurch; No. 47 Otira Gorge; No. 48 The River Avon; No. 49 Group of Maoris, Bay of Islands; No. 50 Sheep mustering, South Canterbury; No. 51 The Christchurch Cathedral, C.E.; No. 52 Nelson Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Transfers - From Published Collections.

Date: [ca 1875-1916]

Reference: PAColl-4516

Description: Postcard of Victoria Arcade on Queen Street with carriages in the street and a telegraph pole with a large number of wires and cables; St Patrick's Cathedral, Monroe Street, Napier; Municipal Opera House, Napier; three men of a bush felling party having lunch probably near Dargaville; newspaper clipping of an old photograph of a crowd in Victoria Square with the old Post Office behind it ca 1875. Quantity: 4 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-4223.

Date: 25 January 1988

From: Aberhart, Laurence :Photographs of Northland post offices

Reference: 10x8-1863-F

Description: Mangamuka Bridge Post Office, photographed 25 January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: ca 1974

By: McLean, A N (Mrs), active 1976

Reference: PAColl-0596

Description: Photographs of old buildings in and around Mangonui annotated with what happened to them in the years after the photograph was taken. The buildings include private residences (with the owners' names given where known), St Andrew's Church, the post office, the store at Totara North, the old bake house, the newspaper office, the old school and council chambers, the Old Oak (possibly a hotel), the Mangonui store, the hotel, and the old court house. The residents' names given are: Mrs Mabel Thorburn, Mrs Calvert, Miss Leaning, Joker Harris, Wrathall, Mrs Gallie, Nick Randall, Mrs M Howthorne, Miss M Martin, Dr Trimnell, Miss Blythe, Dr Alexander, N Moffet, Chappie Mackay, and R & N Sainsbury. The photographer was A N McLean. Quantity: 69 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 container(s).

Date: 30 Nov, 7 & 8 Dec 1984; 24 Jan, 1 Feb 1985 - 30 Nov 1984 - 01 Feb 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Mather, Samuel, 1903-1986

Reference: OHInt-0070/10

Description: Sam Mather recalls family background and religion in family. Discusses female employees in the Post Office, Maori employees, post-retirement work at Education Board, playing the cornet in the Waihi Federal Band, major illness in 1958 and earlier illnesses. Describes work as message boy at Otane Post Office in 1916, duties, hours, postmaster and other staff. Briefly discusses later involvement in Labour party in Onslow Electorate and mentions union newspaper Katipo. Talks about childhood, education, arrival in New Zealand in 1913, salary in first job (as message boy) in the Post Office, interest in photography, work as exchange clerk at Waipawa Post Office in 1918, shift work, effect of World War I on staffing, toll board, subscriber board, rotation and duty hours, pay rates, pressure, interest in morse, gifts from subscribers, effect of influenza epidemic in 1918, going to Telegraph School at Ponsonby, Auckland in 1920, life and expenses, Auckland picture theatres, speed of sending, quality of hand writing, working hours, personalities. Describes transfer to Engineers' Clerical Branch in 1924, procedure for obtaining a radio licence, murder of Ponsonby Postmaster - Brathwaite (?) in early 1920s, the 1920 railway strike, being a cadet at Opotiki Post Office in 1920, the postmaster - George Stephenson, playing in brass bands, an orchestra and a dance band, transfer to relief staff in Waihi in 1922, the postmaster - Hugh Dawson, Waihi as a place, the Waihi Brass Band, prohibition of alcohol in Waihi, anecdotes about gold. Talks about his transfer to Kaikohe in 1923, the Ngapuhi people, postmaster P J Eccleton, mail days, mail sorting, volume of mail, telegraph work, banking work. Discusses promotion, salaries and examinations while at the Engineers' Office, the usefulness of the experience for clerical work, radio inspection work. Talks about Post and Telegraph Association and election as chairman of the Auckland Section in 1930, salary cuts. Recalls and gives details of the Queen Street riot (Auckland) of 1932. Details the Post and Telegraph Association procession and public meeting, the role of John A Lee, J H McKenzie, Jim Edwards, unemployed group, atmosphere, looting, comparison with Auckland riot on December 1984. Discusses the de-recognition of the Post and Telegraph Association following the riot. Mentions the formation of the Post and Telegraph Officers Guild in the 1930s. Outlines the main issues fought for by the association. Describes attitudes of directors-general to the association, absence of strikes, the death benefit, leaving Post Office to become a full time secretary of the association in 1939, service in Wellington during World War II. Discusses influence of the association on senior appointments. Mentions Charles McFarlane, Dawson Donaldson, Walter Nash, Gabriel Wilkes, Outlines work as General Secretary from 1946-1958, wage reviews and superannuation fund in 1946, the Public Service Investment Society, contact with members of the association. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - At Sam Mather's home at Ngaio, Wellington and Ward 25, Wellington Hospital Accompanying material - Copies of newspaper articles: 'Lifetime service to Post Office and its staff: fine record of Mr Mather' from The Standard, 16 April 1958; 'Past General Secretary honoured' from The Katipo, February 1976, p. 19; 'P S Employees farewell two', from unknown source. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000743-OHC-000745; OHC-000758; OHC-000760; OHC-000768-OHC-000769 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 120. Search dates: 1903 - 1984

Date: 23 Nov 1984

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: Berrett, Robert Angus, 1900-1996

Reference: OHInt-0070/03

Description: Bob Berrett recalls his family background and childhood. Details family farmhouse at Kai Iwi. Describes education, working as message boy at Kai Iwi Post Office in 1914 and also assisting Railway Station Master, duties, layout of office, salary, delivery of telegrams, work at Taihape Telephone Exchange 1915, shifts, female employees, the postmaster B T Missen, discipline, clothing, the telegraph branch, Post Office staff, training at Telegraph School, Auckland in 1916, Jimmy Allen, techniques of sending morse, details of duties as telegraphist at Mercer, Kawakawa and Matiere. Describes postal delivery, telephone receiver sets, social life, influenza epidemic in 1918, work as a telegraphist at Takapuna, Auckland in 1918, the telegraph office at Wellington, layout of telegraph room, sorting telegrams, work as a telegrapher at Tolaga Bay in 1920, describes district, local personalities, work as a telegrapher at Woodville in 1922, the district, the personalities, salary and promotion, work at Stratford and Westport, the depression in 1930s, first transmission of shortwave radio, work as postmaster at Norsewood Post Office, problems with water supply, hours of work, work as postmaster at Rawene Post Office, staff problems, social life, the Waimamaku Post Office, head office inspectors, social status, customs excise work, life at Pahiatua Post Office in 1950s, retirement. Mentions daughter Valerie married singer Noel Mangin. Venue - Blenheim Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Bob Berrett's home in Blenheim Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000771 - OHC-000774 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 111. Search dates: 1900 - 1984

Date: 1950

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-039593-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1974

From: Radcliffe, Graham Tuaraki, b 1943 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-022451-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [191-?]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-010593-G

Description: Kaitaia Post Office, with horse-drawn cart in road. Photograph taken 1910s by Northwood brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: [ca 1912]

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Kawakawa and Moerewa

Reference: 1/2-002816-F

Description: Post and telegraph office, and Junction Hotel, at Kawakawa, circa 1912. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [191-]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood, Arthur James, 1880-1949

Reference: 1/2-024663-G

Description: The Post and Telegraph Office, Dargaville, ca. 1914-1919. Photograph taken by Arthur Northwood. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Post and Telegraph Office Dargaville A. Northwood. 315. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches