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Date: ca 1935

By: Maidment, J (Mrs), active 2002

Reference: PAColl-4358

Description: Photographs of George Chaffey & Co trucks laden with wool bales, at Huiarua Station, East Coast. Photograph taken ca 1935 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1910s-1950s]

By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6866

Description: 152 views and portraits. They include: at least 22 of Picton and and the surrounding area showing boating in the harbour, people pic-nicking on the waterfront, people watching a rowing race, a speedboat called Pelorus Jack racing in the Sounds, and ferries coming in to the terminus; 10 images of the geothermal area around Wairakei inlcuding mud pools and geysers; nine images of a Studebaker Commander 6 either parked at scenic views or driving along country roads; eight images of men talking possibly at race meetings; six of the timber industry particularly the building of a timber boom; four aerial views of a liner coming into Auckland harbour; three views of groups of well-dressed men and women wearing what are possibly conference badges in an area decorated with bunting; three similar images of a large group of women photographed at Te Aro School near the Carillon also with conference badges; three general views of Wellington harbour; three images of the Spa Hotel, Taupo; two images of two women in bathing suits; two views of the railway station from The Terrace, Wellington; two views of a girl in Wellington Botanic Gardens; a scene on board the RMS Mononwai with a woman being photographed framed by the life belt; two of Aorangi; one of the ferry Cobar in Wellington Harbour; two of children riding on donkeys; two of the same elderly couple outside their house; two of young men on the boat Starlight; a group of what are probably sheep shearers outside their shed; Aotea Quay, Wellington; the yacht Ilex in Wellington harbour; children playing on swings; a large wooden gothic style house (location unknown); sheep droving; two women on a Bell Bus Company tour; various scenes on board ship including passengers watching an entertainer, a boxing match and a crossing the equator ceremony; a ship's officer climing down a rope ladder on the side of a ship; two of kauri trunks being transported on the Roxen, 1932; and a small child looking at an overturned carved wooden statue. The majority of the remaining images are of unidentified landscapes. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-030982, 030983, 030985, 030992 to 030996, 030998, 031005, 031007 to 031010, 031012, 031013, 031016 to 031045, 031049, 031051 to 031059, 031154 to 031192, 031198 to 031203, 031205 to 031217, 031227 to 031248, 031737, 031739, 031740, 092294 to 092305 Quantity: 114 b&w original negative(s) film. 38 b&w original negative(s) glass. Physical Description: Film and glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-226

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1949-1950. Sculptures exhibited at Royal Society of British Artists Winter Exhibition; block of flats in Finchley Road, London used as secret headquarters of the Rear-Admiral of the Coastal Forces; Peter Scott, painter of wild birds and director of Severn Wild Fowl Trust, England; Faberge ornaments made for Russian royal family on display in London; Anderson family shearing-gang, Rangitoto district near Te Kuiti; goat herd belonging to A Miller of Riccarton (reputed to be only goats in NZ milked by machine). Rev B O Plumb of St Mark's, Opawa, Christchurch; Mr & Mrs E V Gaw who built their own house at Spencer Park; Ted Scott (journalist & boxer) with his mother and sister Mrs A Francis; L M S Bruce (formerly headmaster of the Cathedral and John Connon School for Boys, Bombay) on arrival in NZ with his wife; John Barnicoat of Wellington on return from trip to Tibet; Lyndhurst School; aftermath of fire which destroyed the Lake Hotel, Taupo on 29 Dec 1949; Waitotara Valley where Oswald Palmer crashed his Tiger Moth. Official function for Hon E B Corbett, Minister of Native Affairs, at Puniho Pa; Gower Wingfield of Kaeo, Northland and wife and daughter Myra on his return from Cook Islands where he was formerly the official dentist; Royal Artilleryman Major N W Routledge with his wife (formerly Miss P Grigg) and two children on arrival in Wellington to take up an appointment with NZ Army; Rev A P Stanley at St Columba's Church, Point Howard; old kerosene lamp post in garden of E J Thompson, Arrowtown. Mr & Mrs John Ellis and family on arrival in NZ; wedding group (Mr & Mrs Claude Flemming); Judge J S Blake-Reed; Sam & Ron Sinclair (Sanders Cup veterans); Peter Wilkinson of City of Christchurch Pipe Band; 1887 Te Aute scholars (T W Wills, Toito Poata, P H McDonald); William Williams; Samuel Williams; Harry G Wright of Central Otago (aged 90); girls who attended the Junior Red Cross camp held at Wellington; custom made car built by W Hulme Kerr; RNZAF training centre at Tairei air station near Dunedin; group photo of officers of No 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Taieri aerodrome, Mosgiel. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1898-1971

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Peter Pan Studio; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Anton, W J, active 1952; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Davis & Company (Wellington, N.Z.); Robson and Boyer (Firm); Campbell, Colin, active 1914

Reference: PAColl-0580

Description: Family photographs of the Barnes family featuring the homestead Terewhiti and the following family members: Henry, Walter Ernest (Ernie - at various ages), Mary, Julia (Ernie's wife), Ernie's son Thomas, Lorraine, and Leslie. Also included are scenic views; scenes of mustering and shearing on the farm; Ernie and others in First World War uniforms; a burned down house; soldiers at Trentham camp eating a meal outside their tent (as a postcard signed by George McDermott to his brother and sister Alice and Bill); Lorraine Barnes taking part in a recording of the radio show The Quiz Kids as a member of the Hutt Valley team (The Quiz Kids was introduced by Selwyn Toogood in the 1950s); results of a national election being monitored on a wall chart ca 1930s; Ernie Barnes as captain of the Wellington Telephone Exchange Cricket Club; and two of officers and soldiers from the Second World War. The collection also includes a letter from the depositor with a small family tree. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1 Mar 1997]

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

By: Simcox, Craig, active 1983

Reference: EP/1997/0587-F

Description: Ivan Bowen at the Golden Shears shearing competiton in Masterton, Wairarapa. Photographs taken circa 1 March 1997 by Evening Post staff photographer Craig Simcox. Bowen won the Golden Shears in 1961. Quantity: 2 colour original negative(s) strips with 6 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negatives, 35mm

Date: ca 1920-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3740-02

Description: Scenic photographs of Wellington City and Harbour, as well as images of sheep farming and shearing, orchard and vineyard workers harvesting fruit, unidentified viaduct, crematorium at Karori Cemetery and Wellington Fire Station, etc Arrangement: Large number of file prints from Free Lance Collection already in public files. Prints in this box cover negative range of 1/2-100349 to 1/2-100552, arranged in numerical order. Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s) in one box.

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies

Date: ca 25 Feb 1984

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

Reference: EP/1984/0918-F

Description: The Australian shearing team which was to compete against the New Zealand team at the Golden Shears in Masterton in 1984. From left: Bob Websdale (captain) from Victoria; Gene Mills from New South Wales; David Ryan and Neil Lett, both from Victoria. Photographs taken in the Wairarapa by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer circa 25 February 1984. Original caption reads: "The Australian shearing team...was in the Wairarapa this week putting in some practice time on farms..." ...." (Evening Post, 25 February 1984) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000882-F

Description: Men sharpening shearers' blades on a grindstone at Grasmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury Region, photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in 1944. Alan Rose stands on the right. Caption - written by John Pascoe: "In the back country, that is in the mountainous or inaccessible parts of New Zealand shearing is still done by hand with 'the blade', though most North Island or low country stations use machines. Blades are sharpened by grindstone, later a fine oilstone." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1935

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-915-q-029

Description: Shows six figures seated at a long table. Rod Cook's notes suggest that the location is possibly Te Ore Ore. Loose in pages of scrapbook. Photographed in E-918-q, 112/165. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on linen, 234 x 320 mm.

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands

Reference: PAColl-4872-1-02

Description: R T Paynter shearing sheep on Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, circa 1910. Photograph taken either by E M C Guest or J J Guest. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Views of Waiorau Sheep Station

Reference: 1/4-023102-F

Description: Shearers sharpening hand shears on grindstones. Photographer unidentified (possibly George Leslie Adkin). On the reverse of the file print is the following information: The shearers engaged in grinding. The grindstone is made from very fine sand. The pressure of the shear blade and a certain amount of water form a grinding liqiud on the surface of the stone which soon brings the blade down to the required thickness. The later stages are quite critical and a pair of shears can easily be spoiled. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1900-1920?]

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

Reference: 1/1-022841-G

Description: Photograph of a group of Maori and Pakeha men, probably farm workers, and two girls, in front of a shed at Pihautea Station, Featherston. Wool bales, stamped with J.O.B Pihautea, can be seen in the shed. Photograph taken by Sydney Charles Smith circa 1900-1920. Note on neg box `I & W E Bidwells, Featherston' Pihautea was a large station in the Featherston area, and employed many men in shearing season. It has associations with the Bidwell family. The initials J O B stand for John Orbell Bidwell. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1900-1920]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 1

Reference: PAColl-5471-034

Description: Photograph of a shearing gang at Blairlogie Station, including some unidentified Maori. Mr Hugh Morrison is on the right with the panama hat. Blairlogie Station was a large farm near Masterton Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Originally part of PAColl-7329 (Masterton Historical Society: Photographs of early Masterton)

Date: [ca 1904-1905]

From: Moore, George, 1881-1965 :Photographs of Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay and Lower Hutt

Reference: 1/2-065348-G

Description: Photograph of a hapu group of Maori shearers at Eparaima homestead, near Castlepoint, Masterton. From left to right: Manaena Waaka (extreme left, partially obscured), Simian (Himiona, with sheep), Mrs Jack Pine (sister to Waipuka, probably the woman on the far right) and Waipuka (with plate on head). Looking through the window is a man called Carey (grandfather of Alfie and Hugh). Also listed as being present are Te Whitu Piripi (the 7th Philip, tohunga, holding blades), Jack Pine (ploughman), Mrs Himo, Aunt Sally, Milly and Mrs Hipa Morris. Photograph taken by George Moore circa 1904-5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: [ca 1904-1905]

From: Moore, George, 1881-1965 :Photographs of Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay and Lower Hutt

Reference: 1/2-065449-F

Description: Photograph of a hapu group of Maori shearers at Eparaima homestead, near Castlepoint, Masterton. Present are: Manaena Waaka (extreme left), Simian (aka Himiona, with sheep), Mrs Jack Pine (sister to Waipuka, probably the woman on the far right) and Waipuka (man behind Mrs Pine). Looking through the window is a man called Carey (grandfather of Alfie and Hugh). Also listed as being present are Te Whitu Piripi (the 7th Philip, tohunga, holding blades), Jack Pine (ploughman), Aunt Sally, Milly and Mrs Hipa Morris. Photograph taken by George Moore circa 1904-5. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative

Date: 1909

From: New Zealand Workers' Union : Records

Reference: PAColl-8158

Description: Photographs of shearers and other workers in the wool industry at Otemetata, taken 1909 by an unknown photographer. All individuals are identified. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-80412 and 35mm-80413. Quantity: 4 b&w copy photographic print(s). Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-01004, 19 September 2024.

Date: [1913-1918]

From: Elder, Norman Lascelles, 1896-1974 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0699-34

Description: Includes personal and business correspondence and papers, particularly relating to property and land transactions; letter from Major Wolstenholme thanking H R Elder for hosting his men (1915); pleas for financial help for medical care from the Tamati family of Bell Block; also includes shearing, docking and other sheep statistics, and invoices Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.