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Views of Waihi and overseas trip

Date: [ca 1930-1933]

From: Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967: Photographs of New Zealand gold mining

Reference: PAColl-9540-3

Description: Views of Waihi, the open cast gold mines, and the mine buildings. Otira Railway station. Photographs of nurses. Portraits of women. Gardens. Joseph Divis on his trip overseas includes - Czechoslavakia. Japan. New York. Panama Canal. Joseph Divis and other people on board ships. In some cases there are prints on both sides of the mount. Quantity: 61 b&w original photographic print(s) stereographs.

Manuscript

Waihi Gold Mining Company Ltd : Miscellaneous records

Date: 1895-1906

By: Waihi Gold Mining Company

Reference: MS-Papers-0632

Description: Diary describing diggings at the mine, Nov 1895-Jan 1897, entries made usually every 5-7 days. Three memos from and concerning the company, 1899-1900. A flow sheet of the Union Mill, Waihi, 1906 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

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Main Street, Waihi, showing Martha Hill. W Beattie & Co.

Date: 5 June [19]05

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PA5-0059

Description: View of Main Street, Waihi, showing Martha Hill in the distance and two horse-drawn carriages on the street, taken by W Beattie & Co. Verso contains letter addressed to Mrs? M White, Cambridge from A White. Note on back: no neg Date taken from postmark on card Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 139 mm

Manuscript

Sub-centres - Correspondence

Date: 1941-1942

From: New Zealand Red Cross Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0258-03C

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Chappell, George A, fl 1900-1928 :Negatives, chiefly of gold mining at Waihi

Date: 1900 - 1928

By: Chappell, George A, active 1900-1928?

Reference: PAColl-3076

Description: Includes stereographs Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-023589 to 023684 and 120000 to 120223. Prints at PAColl-3076-1. Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Walker, A (Mr), fl 1968 :Postcards of New Zealand towns

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

By: Walker, A (Mr), active 1968; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; C M (Photographer), active 1905; Muir & Moodie (Firm); Pratt, A A, active 1900s

Reference: PAColl-6639

Description: Postcards of ferries at wharves in Auckland, interior and exterior of St John's Cathedral in Napier, Waihi from Martha Hill, bowling green on the Domain at Te Aroha, Lyttelton at regatta time, Lyttelton harbour, Opera House, St Luke's Danish Church and All Saints Church and the Municipal Buildings, Palmerston North; the Triangle, Dunedin; Auckland Hospital, Grafton Road; Palmerston North Post Office; a view over Auckland from Mount Eden; the bridge over to the Cafe Continental; Hastings Street, Napier; Perry Street, Masterton with a hall on the right; tea kiosk in the park, Masterton; two carts on the road to Lansdowne, Masterton; the tramline to Onehunga, Auckland; Queen Street, Auckland; and Auckland harbour and wharves. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negative at 151877 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 16 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

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The Waihi stike of 1912 and records of the life of William Sutch

Date: 1912-ca1959

From: Sutch, William Ball, 1907-1975 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7591-1

Description: Photographs of the Waihi strike of 1912; secondary school students on a tramping trip; school groups, and images of unidentified individuals and groups of people. William Sutch on board ship in the 1930s, portraits of William Sutch, passenger aircraft of the 1930s, Second World War American soldiers in the Pacific, William Sutch and Shirley Smith during his time at the United Nations (1947-1949)l. This includes images of Sutch in Paris and Amsterdam (1948-1949). One group of photographs relate to William Sutch and Shirley Smith's daughter Helen as a very young child in the late 1940s, early 1950s. There are also two photographs of her as a teenager. Quantity: 150 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s).

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Johnston, Thomas Henry, b 1880 : Account of the Waihi Strike

Date: 1912-1913

By: Johnston, Thomas Henry, 1880-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-2516

Description: Account of events during the Waihi Strike, 1912, and the subsequent committal of the writer to the Avondale asylum. Covers the period October 1912-March 1913. Section by his wife Elizabeth, pp 220-227. The manuscript is incomplete, pp 1-171 are missing. The item held is numbered pp 172-251. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also unpublished novel by Johnston about the strike, `The Cost of repentance', at MSX-4913 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (82 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J Robertson, Palmerston North, 1983

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Sunde, Rudy, 1927-2015: Graffiti as folklore, with special reference to the graffiti fo...

Date: 1912, 1973 (1973)

By: Sunde, Rudy, 1927-2015

Reference: MS-Papers-1027

Description: Unpublished article. One section deals with the 1912 Waihi miners' strike. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) 24 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Manuscript

The Revolt of the militant unions / by F M J Irvine

Date: 1906-1913, 1936

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

Reference: 94-106-79/04

Description: Thesis surveys the trade union revolt against the arbitration system in New Zealand 1906-1913, with particular reference to the part played by the Federation of Labour. Thesis written by F M J Irvine, Auckland University College, 1936. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Angus album 2

Date: 1928

From: Angus, Robert K, fl 1964 :New Zealand photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-010

Description: Album containing 1928 souvenir booklet celebrating New Zealand's first Commerce Train, which travelled through Auckland Province between 26th October 1928 and 4th November 1928. Souvenir number of the Commerce Train News, published by New Zealand Railways. Bound in with the book are photographs taken by an unidentified passenger on the trip. There are photographs in the booklet, which include several portraits of men on the trip, photographs of farmland, dairy factories, cement works, Arapuni Hydroelectric works showing the dam and the spillway, kauri forests, trains and cars, and group photographs of the personnel. Full lists of personnel are included in the book. Other - Photographs possibly taken by Robert Angus, manager of Cook & Son, Shortland St., Auckland, who was a member of the tour. Father of the donor Robert K Angus? Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 260 mm dark blue suede cover, spine embossed with decoration

Manuscript

Waihi Trades Union of Workers : Clearance certificate

Date: 30 Dec 1912

By: Waihi Trades Union of Workers

Reference: MS-Papers-2554

Description: Certificate given to David Boswell certifying that he was a financial member of the Union, and was involved in the Waihi Strike of 1912; signed by Thomas Franklin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript, printed matter

Manuscript

Federation of Labour - Records and notes

Date: 1908-1913

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

Reference: 94-106-30/01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Ziman family : Papers

Date: 1891-1933

By: Ziman family

Reference: MS-Papers-1648

Description: Comprises letter book of Jacob Ziman, founder of Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand; correspondence, accounts, statements, contracts relating to it and West Coast goldmines and others, including Waihi Syndicate Ltd and to Humphries Scaffold Bracket Co Ltd. Report in German of Kotuku oil field, 1910. Also includes private letters describing situation of Jews in New Zealand, women's suffrage; miscellaneous family and business papers. Language - Report in German of Kotuku oilfield, 1910 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

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Waihi Strike

Date: 1912

From: Holland, Roy, 1894-1975:Portraits of Labour politicians, and lantern slides compiled by Harry Holland; also WW2 veterans on parade, including Sir Stephen Weir

Reference: PA11-017

Description: Lantern slides taken by various photographers showing the 1912 Waihi miners' strike, compiled by Harry Holland to supplement lectures. Quantity: 79 b&w copy transparency/ies b&W copy transparency/ies.

Manuscript

The cost of repentance / by T J Snowball

Date: [ca 1939?]

From: Johnston, Thomas Henry, 1880-1972 : Two works

Reference: MSX-4913

Description: Subtitled `New Zealand's most highhanded deal', the draft novel is set during the time of the Waihi strike Relationship complexity - See also part of account by Johnston of the strike at MS-Papers-2516 Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) with holograph corrections

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Nicholl, William S C d 1937 : Reminiscences - In two parts

Date: [1937]

By: Nicholl, William Sharman Crawford, 1851?-1937

Reference: MS-1713-1714

Description: The first part describes gold prospecting at the Thames & Coromandel, in Fiji, & at the Klondyke; the second part the start of mining at Waihi Arrangement: MS-1713-1714 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s) (94, 26 pages). Physical Description: Mss (26 cm; dark brown imitation leather folder) Provenance: The manuscript was received through Mr J P Wilson of the Waihi High School, who notes that the 2nd part was received in 1937. The writer died a few weeks later.

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Gilbert, Gwenyth Mary, 1916- : Waihi gold

Date: 1938

By: Gilbert, Gwenyth Mary, 1916-1987

Reference: MS-0831

Description: Material collected for MA Hons Economics thesis, 1938, but not presented; includes a bibliography. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (109 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ maroon buckram, green boards) Illustrations and maps

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O'Grady, Charles, fl 1964 :Photographs and postcards

Date: [ca 1900-1920]

By: Walker, George Allen, -1915; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945

Reference: PAColl-0524

Description: Collection comprises: Postcards of scenic attractions in the Rotorua and Waitomo area and others of Auckland and Christchurch including one of a young boy, F Shadbolt, on a pony and trap and a soldier in uniform named Howard Photographs of of an elderly woman called Mrs Stevenson and Miss O'Grady Photographs of soldiers at camp during World War I Photographs of children in hot pools, possibly at Whakarewarewa, and of the Blue and Green Lakes at Rotorua, taken by Blencowe Photograph of F O'Grady in a car belonging to Mr Pountney of Carr, Pountney & Co Photograph of a house in Waihi built 1900-1902 with a mother and two children standing outside Photograph of taxis outside a hotel in Onehunga, taken ca 1911 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 30 b&w original photographic print(s) postcards. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Charles O'Grady, Wellington, 1964

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[Ephemera on tourism and tourist attractions and facilities in the Waikato Region. 1980...

Date: 1980 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Waikato-1980s

Description: Includes pamphlets promoting tourism to Waikato including Hamilton, the MV 'Waipa Delta', Waingaro hot springs, Waihi, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Morrinsville and Tokoroa. Ephemera on hotels in the area may be housed at Eph-A-HOTELS-Waikato. For other Waikato material see under Eph-A-TOURISM-Waitomo, Eph-A-TOURISM-Coromandel Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs and offset printing on pamphlets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

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