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: 1883

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Coromandel sketchbook] 1882-1897.

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-360-q-004

Description: A building at the foot of Castle Rock, Coromandel, possibly a goldmining building, or a timber mill. It has a waterwheel at the front, close to a stream Other Titles - Waterwheel. Goldmine Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 250 x 180 mm

Date: [Circa 1932]

By: Searle, Roland James, 1904-1984

Reference: PA1-f-131

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Roland James Searle, circa 1930s. The first subject is the opening of the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial (Cenotaph), and includes a programme of the dedication and handing over on Sunday 17th April, 1932 (p 001-012). That is followed by the consecration ceremony for the National War Memorial and War Memorial Carillon (again with a copy of the programme), held on Anzac Day, April 25th, 1932 (p 015-023). Pages 029-033 show the arrival of the Wellington Jubilee Dock in 1931, the floating dock which was towed from England by two Dutch tugboats. The next sequence is entitled "The Express pulls out - Thorndon", and follows the Express to Wanganui where views show a river-boat trip up the Whanganui River (p 037-056), and include a map of historical areas on the river compiled by Annabell & Marchant, surveyors of Wanganui (p 055). The train trip is continued in the next section, and includes an illustrated diagram of the Raurimu Spiral, then arrival at the new Beach Road Auckland Railway Station. Photographs of Auckland include the Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland University, Grafton Bridge, a sailing ship at the wharves, and the Auckland Zoo. Further North there are scenes of ploughing, a mine entrance, rock formations at Waro, and the Taheke Falls; before travelling to Rotorua and the surrounding thermal regions. A number of images were taken at Whakarewarewa, including photos of Paul Thomas and his wife, along with scenes showing women washing clothes in hot pools, a woman with a baby on her back holding a rope with a food basket cooking in the pool, children in a hot pool, and men at work carving. Paul Thomas wrote to thank Searle for sending him copies of photographs (p 101, written on May 1st 1932). Later photographs again with the train often in view show timber felling and milling, and views of the Arapuni hydroelectic power station. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured grey cloth cover, entitled "Snapshots"; 28.5 x 39.0 cm

Date: 1956

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to forests, forest parks and forestry]

By: New Zealand Forest Service; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-FOREST-1956-01

Description: Brochure shows a photograph of logs at the Waipa Mill. Inside is an illustrated flowchart of the various processes the wood goes through to be turned into timber products: log cut-off, log wash, log frame saw, log band saw, docking saw, sapstain bath, grading and sorting table, straddle truck, kiln drying, air drying, end trimmer, loading for shipment, creosoting poles, steam from wood waste. Back cover shows a site plan of the factory site, between Waipa Village and the Whaka Forest. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet, 215 x 293 mm (folded)

Date: Between 1915 and 1926

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

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931

Reference: PA1-q-102

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)

Date: 1957 - 1958

By: NZ Forest Products Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-CALENDAR-1958-01

Description: Calendar of four pages, each showing a scenic photograph: January/March 1958: A lake-side scene several miles from the Kinleith Mills April/June 1958: The KinLeith Pulp Mill with the Paper Mill in the background July/September 1958: A view of the dam of the Maraetai Hydro Electric Power Station October/December 1958: The Settling Pond and Pumping Station which supplies the water for the Kinleith Pulp Mill, 5 1/2 miles away Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of four pages, with patterned tissue overlay on front, 440 x 532 mm., bound with metal rod across top

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: 1885

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Coromandel sketchbook] 1882-1897.

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-360-q-020

Description: A sawmill with logs floating in a river in the foreground, other buildings beyond to the right, a hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 250 mm

Date: Early 1900s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

Reference: PA1-f-125

Description: Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, black and white photographs, and prints of colour illustrations. Mostly connected with New Zealand native trees, and the timber industry. There are pages dealing with different native trees, and then with the various processes involved in felling the trees; transportation, including horse-drawn, logging railways, and water-born timber using dams; and timber mills. On page [7] of this album there are three personal photographs taken by John Logan Campbell from his home in Parnell, used as Christmas cards in 1900 and 1901; on page [27] is a print of a photograph originally taken by Albert Percy Godber, showing a poster in Maori warning against carelessness in lighting fires in the bush (see full information about the original, in the record at APG-1454-1/4-G).

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-3

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of trip to United Kingdom in 1980, and railways in New South Wales. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 9-10 Aug 1985

From: NZOHA Sunlight Centenarians Oral History Project

By: Cameron, William, 1896-; King, William Henry, 1884-1986

Reference: OHInt-0004/11

Description: Talks about moving from Auckland to Mangawahai at the age of four and helping his father gumdigging from this age. Mentions schooling and the mud floor in their house. Describes how his mother nursed for the locals. William King is joined in the interview by William Cameron and together they describe logging and bushfelling in the Mangawahai and Taumaranui areas in detail. Mentions his marriage to Elizabeth Ellen Harrison about 1912. Notes that they were married 62 years and had 10 children. Venue - Auckland : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Henderson, Auckland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 174. Search dates: 1985

Date: 6 Apr 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37656-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation of Manunui township, Ruapehu District, Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Whanganui River is visible on left of frame, North Island main trunk railway line and road runs up past large sawmill on right of frame. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

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: 1866 - 1877

By: Reid, Thomas, active 1866-1877

Reference: B-038-011

Description: A plain, with hills in the background and in the middle ground, a river winding past a settlement with a sawmill and other buildings. There are various human activities, including a man moving logs in the stream, a man leading a horse, men working around the sawmill, a yacht on the river, and logs floating along it. In the foreground, amongst tree ferns, toitoi, ferns and flax, is a barrel marked (in monogram) TR and In memoriam RD 1864-66. On verso: B-034/005 Inscriptions: Signed: T R (monogram) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 10.1 x 15.5 in Provenance: Bequeathed by Dr James Churchill Dunn, Glasgow, 18.1.1956

Date: 1920

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

Reference: APG-0857-1/2-G

Description: Mill yard at Ellis & Burnand's sawmill at Mangapehi in 1920. Shows the mill in the background, huge logs in the foreground and two unidentified timber workers. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 157 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Mill yard. Mangapeehi. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [188-?]

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

Reference: PAColl-5521-22

Description: Sawmill, Tairua, Thames-Coromandel District, taken ca 1880s by A Walker Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.7 x 21.1 cm

Date: Ca 1920s

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000810-G

Description: The Old Mill, beside a river (possibly the Karapiro Stream, or the Waikato River). Willow trees line the bank beneath the mill. Photographed by William Archer Price, circa 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Old Mill. Cambridge. 1141 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1911]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000677-G

Description: Whitianga township, Mercury Bay, showing wharves and Whitianga District Timber Company with boom area. A ship is heading out to sea. Taken by William A Price ca 1911 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Mercury Bay. 2585D Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1920

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

Reference: APG-0784-1/2-G

Description: Horse and timber cart at Ellis & Burnand's sawmill at Mangapehi, in 1920. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Original print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 123 PA1-q-102) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches