Places

Date: 1947-1955

By: Shaw, Geoffrey Conrad, active 1947-1966

Reference: PAColl-6596

Description: 14 photographs of tramping huts and general views: Waerenga hut and Baines hut in the Orongorongo valley; Flora hut on Mt Arthur; ATC huts on Mt Ruapehu and Moumoukai valley; Ketetahi hut on Mt Tongariro; Black Horse Hotel in Nelson; Upper Takaka Hotel, Takaka; a view of Collingwood; two views of the Hutt Valley from the Wainuiomata Hill; band playing in the sound shell at Wellington Botanic Gardens; a street in Kawhia; a hotel in Upper Takaka; and a view of Wellington from Brooklyn. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018137 to 018150 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1889 - 1982 - 1891

From: Tyree Brothers :Tyree. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1982. (Imagers of a new land, series 1).

By: Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-106-002-a

Description: Shows Frederick Tyree on hillside at left centre, with small township of Collingwood, and the bay water behind. Hills in the distance. One of the buildings at centre right has a sign with the name TYREE on it. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in box]; Recto - centre right - COLLINGWOOD 1021 / TYREE NELSON. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 254 x 345 mm, on sheet 400 x 450 mm.

Date: 1889 - 1982 - 1891

From: Tyree Brothers :Tyree. [Wellington] Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, 1982. (Imagers of a new land, series 1).

By: Tyree, William, 1855-1924; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-106-002

Description: Shows Frederick Tyree on hillside at left centre, with small township of Collingwood, and the bay water behind. Hills in the distance. One of the buildings at centre right has a sign with the name TYREE on it. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title in box]; Recto - centre right - COLLINGWOOD 1021 / TYREE NELSON. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 254 x 345 mm, on sheet 400 x 450 mm.

Date: ca 1880-1910

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: PAColl-3064-1

Description: Rocks Road, Nelson looking south; a waterfall falling down large boulders; a carriage and pair of horses passing Windy Point in Buller Gorge; Garraty's Point, Cape Foulwind; Matai Bank, Nelson showing willow trees; school children, some bare foot, with their teacher outside their school; school girls with their teachers outside their school; Wakefield Cricket Club, part of Nelson Cricket Association, in their team uniform ca 1894; studio group portrait of a rugby team; two of the six members of the Nelson Water Polo Club (the seventh is shown in photograph); six girls in theatrical costume holding ribbons; men transporting wood across the Aorere River by punt for Collingwood Gold Fields Ltd; the sixteen members of the Takaka Races Committee; the staff of Nelson College in April 1901 - G T Palmer, F Milner, E J Parr, J Drummond, T A H Wing, W S Littlejohn; an unidentified man; two of unidentified groups of men; a clergyman and four other men under a tree; and an unidentified family group. Quantity: 20 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1890-1902

By: Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-2152

Description: Mokihinui River; Friendly Societies' sports, Collingwood; Diamond Jubilee procession, Nelson, 1902; view of wharf and sailing vessels. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1959

Reference: Eph-D-DANCE-NZB-1959-02

Description: Shows an arrangement of text, white and yellow, on a red background. The lower part of the sheet is handwritten in felt pen, showing the location and dates of two performances. Other Titles - April Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Screen print and felt pen on sheet 660 x 330 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2004; previously collected by Gloria Pickering.

Date: [1960s], 1992-1994, 1996

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11650

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. One slide is annotated with "1960s". Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Concrete 1 - 5 | Stone Arch 6 - 7 | Steel Arch 8 also Brick | Stone Arch Concrete Arch 2 - pt 5 | Concrete Girder pt 5-6". Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1952

By: Munro, William Alexander, 1903-

Reference: qMS-1401

Description: Source of title - Caption title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (18 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: [1895-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-131

Description: Album of photographs, mainly of the Wellington Region, Marlborough and Horowhenua Regions, interspersed with copies of photographs by unidentified photographers, unidentified lithographs and illustrations. A number of the photographic copies are portraits of Maori. The last images in the album, taken by unidentified photographers, relate to Darjeeling (Bengal, India). Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank J. Denton, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover with gold patterns on corners and spine, 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1945 - 1946

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/3/1-Acc.38831

Description: Identifies county boundaries and areas of Dairy cows in Collingwood, Takaka and Waimea .. Mr Rose's decision will be regarded as FINAL says RHW. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil tracing on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca. 1:633 600] 28 x 21.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1971-1975

From: Reed Publishing :Photographs relating to New Zealand mostly 1950s-1970s

By: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd; Johnstone, John, active 1970s

Reference: PAColl-4871-02

Description: Coal and gold mining, the Riverside Community Nelson, cheese making at Collingwood, people and places Quantity: 103 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950 - 2020

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Nelson

Description: Includes ephemera for accommodation in Nelson, Motueka, Collingwood and other centres in the Nelson and Tasman Regions. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying up to 250 mm.

Date: 5-9 Oct 1985 - 05 Oct 1985 - 09 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Allan, Hector Frank, 1903-1997

Reference: OHInt-0053/03

Description: Frank Allan was born in Collingwood in 1903. The interview covers the period up to the late 1920s. Describes the family's background and arrival in Nelson on the `Lady Nugent'. Talks about his father's employment with the `Colonist', `Westport News', 'Miners' Advocate' and `Golden Bay Argus'. Notes that earlier he had worked for the Lighthouse Service. Gives details of the printing of the `Golden Bay Argus'. Talks about the family's settlement in Collingwood. Describes Collingwood life in depth including picnics, racing, wood-chopping, gala days which were fundraisers for World War I, clothes, hotels, local businesses and characters. Talks about family entertainment including singing around the piano. Recalls sitting the Junior National Scholarship and describes the family home at Beach Road, Collingwood. Talks about the Onekaka iron works, the Puponga coal mine, the flax mills at Mangarakau and gold mining. Recalls the town of Takaka, coastal shipping and the early days of his employment as a teacher. Venue - Nelson : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr Allan's home in Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002922; OHC-002923; OHC-002924; OHC-002925; OHC-002926 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 565.

Date: 23 - 27 Sep 1985 - 23 Sep 1985 - 27 Sep 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: King, Pamela Maureen Livinia, 1933 -

Reference: OHInt-0053/12

Description: Pamela King was born in Gloucestershire on 22 May 1933. Describes her early childhood in Britain, death of her father and remarriage of her mother to a soldier in the New Zealand Forestry Division in Britain. Recalls their emigration to New Zealand, settling in Maungarakau and her social acceptance as a `Pom' at school. Describes in detail the school and the Maungarakau community, social events, domestic details, food supplies and preservation and language differences. Talks about the Maungarakau timber mill where her stepfather worked, loading timber onto coastal ships on the Maungarakau River and bushmen. Recalls dances, her own employment and attitude to women in paid work during the 1940s and 1950s, tobacco picking, her move to Collingwood after her marriage and changes in Collingwood over the years. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Tasman Street, Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002972; OHC-002973; OHC-002974; OHC-002975 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 576.

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: February 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Brown, Rowe Alec, 1923-1991

Reference: OHInt-0053/02

Description: Alec Brown was born in the Tasman area in 1923. Recalls his childhood in Collingwood where his father ran a dairy farm for the town's milk supply. Talks about milk supply during the Depression. Describes in detail the residents of the Beach Road area of Collingwood. Talks about family relationships, child rearing, subsistence living and the way in which women often brought up the children while men were away working. Comments on education and the employment of women. Describes the family's religious belief and ideas, particularly those of his mother, about social class. Talks about bovine tuberculosis, from which his wife suffered. Talks about an extensive fire in Collingwood in about 1928 or 1929, the Collingwood hotel, the Depression and its effects, the 1935 election, politics and World War II. Describes coal mines and gold mining camps including the Puponga mine, Mount Burnett mines and Onekaka iron works. Talks about changes in Golden Bay including the growth of tourism. Briefly describes his work in the Post Office and the Navy during World War II. Venue - Collingwood : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Rosie Little's home at Collingwood, and on Beach Road frontage (outside) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002935; OHC-002936; OHC-002937; OHC-002938; OHC-002939; OHC-002940; OHC-002941 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 567. Search dates: 1986

Date: 10 Nov 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Gillooly, Dennis Michael, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0053/05

Description: Denis Gillooly was born in Collingwood on 21 January 1938. He describes his family's background including connections with the James family of Jamestown and the Wigzil and Roil families. Describes his father's work on gold dredges and at Mount Burnett coalmine. Talks about the Collingwood wharves, the formation of the Collingwood Shipping Company and work on the coastal ships `Paroto' and `Pearl Kaspar'. Talks about work conditions and wages. Recalls Golden Bay Distributors Ltd and production of dolomite and its processing at Onekaka. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr Gillooly's home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002956; OHC-002957 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 571.

Date: 24 Apr 1987

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Climo, Mary Matilda, 1895-1988

Reference: OHInt-0053/01

Description: Mary Climo was born in Upper Moutere in 1895. This interview was uncompleted at the time of her death. Recalls her early childhood in the Upper Moutere, Nelson, Takaka and Ferntown areas. Describes the Brunning family, their emigration from Germany and her mother's family to a lesser extent. Recalls her father's work in flax mills at Westhaven and Pakawau wharves and coal mine. Decribes life in Nelson in the 1900s including details of some shops and prices. Venue - Collingwood : 1987 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Joan Whiting Memorial Hospital, Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002942; OHC-002943 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 568.

Date: 15-25 Sep 1985 - 15 Sep 1985 - 25 Sep 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Page, Alva George Edward, 1910-1989; Page, Jean Sarah, 1916-1991

Reference: OHInt-0053/20

Description: Alva George Page was born at Kawakawa on 13 May 1910. Mr Page's father was a lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit, Cape Brett, Nelson Boulder Bank, Cape Palliser and Kahurangi Point. Gives details of his childhood and family background. Talks about his schooling, the town of Collingwood in the 1920s, travelling shows and cinematograph (moving pictures) in the Collingwood Hall. Talks about his life at Kahurangi Point as assistant lighthouse keeper and working on his farmlet and later as sole lighthouse keeper. Describes the family's way of life at this remote location and gives details of snaring crayfish and the preservation of fish and eels. Talks about gold prospecting at Lake Otuhie in 1935, gold stampers at Slaty Creek and the Rhodes family of Sandhills Creek in the 1930s. Discusses moving to Collingwood with his family in 1960 and being the caretaker of the Collingwood Motor Camp until 1985. Jean Page was born at Takaka on 25 May 1916. Talks about the jobs she had a a child and thrift in terms of clothing and furnishings. Gives an example of sacks on the floor of the house. Recalls the breaking in of her family's farm on the steep hillsides south of the Anatoki River. Describes Correspondence School, attending a household school, helping her mother with the family, milking cows and working in tobacco and hops. Recalls her courtship and honeymoon at the 1940 exhibition in Wellington. Describes in detail life at Kahurangi including the vegetable garden which increased their self-sufficiency, their expenditure and minimal household amenities. Talks about gathering wild food such as seaweed, dying wool and spinning. Describes both tramping and sheep grazing in the Mt Arthur tablelands and transporting wool by punt from Westhaven Inlet. Describes the isolation of their home and the importance of community interdependence particularly in the event of serious childhood illnesses, births and accidents. Discusses her children's Correspondence School education and the Massey Residential School which they attended. Talks about their children, their jobs and who they married. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Page's home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003032; OHC-003033; OHC-003034; OHC-003035; OHC-003036; OHc-003037; OHc-003038; OHc-003039; OHC-003040; OHC-003041 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 10 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 584.