Rabbits - Control

Date: 1997

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-418-044/064

Description: Political cartoons. The Todd Panel on superannuation threaten to silence Winston Peters with a 'no vote'. News - Bogus psychiatrist practised in the Hutt. Jim Bolger's leadership of the National Party is under threat. New Zealand Police face a major retention of recruits problem. Jim Bolger and Winston Peters present a united front in an effort to attain harmony between arguing MP's Bill English and Neil Kirton. Winston Peters axes Neil Kirton without any decent excuse - it seemed for being a competent MP. All Blacks victory in a game that saw a lot of blood spilt. Ethical dileamas doctors face over sex with patients. The conditions on which Neil Kirton is allowed to stay in the NZ First caucus. Mental Health services abdicate responsibility and release suicidal people back into the care of their distressed families. Winston Peters considers apologising to officials he smeared in the Winebox Inquiry but thinks better of it. Super 12 win at what price to the bodies of the players. Words the public would like to hear the Minister of Health, Bill English, to say. Loss-making mental health services to become standalone business centres. A pictorial explanation of the Winebox Inquiry saga. Neil Kirton irritates Winston Peters again by making comments on the vehicle speedo scam. With the country in an increasing economic crisis Jim Bolger's political leadership fails. Chemists seek a consultancy fee for providing their expertise to the public. Perhaps petrol station attendants will try it next. The Police form a road block in an attempt to halt the RCD virus. Lotto makes their priorities known - wheelchairs for elite athletes but not for children with muscular dystrophy. Farmers take a laid-back some would say irresponsible attitude to the illegal introduction of the rabbit RCD virus into New Zealand and its possible consequences. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: [1915-1970]

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-03

Description: Personal and business correspondence and papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1926

From: [Ephemera relating to plumbers, plumbing supplies, drainage, plumbing companies. 1910-1949]

By: G Methven & Company

Reference: Eph-A-PLUMBING-1926-01

Description: Sales catalogue for a Dunedin manufacturer of plumbing and bathroom accessories. Shows (Page 3c) a photograph of Methven's stand at the NZ & South Seas Exhibition. An illustrated list of merchandise including: taps, stop cocks, sewerage fittings, ball cocks, grease cups, plugs and washers, bunsen burners, gas cookers, gas fires and radiators, califonts, gas water heaters, enamel baths, bathroom and toilet requisites, glass shelves, wash basins, showers, mirrors, towel rails, soap dishes, toilets, toilet rolls, urinals, primus stoves, boilers and coppers, furnaces, copper circulators, electric circulators (circulating hot water from the hot water cistern to towel rails, etc), tools, die stocks, sewerage fittings, rabbit exterminators (which pump bisulphide into rabbit holes) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 100 pages, 225 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by C W Martin, 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1939.

Date: 1918-1924

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: qMS-1644

Description: Mainly typescript, with many ms corrections and additions, of letters and articles on a wide variety of topics submitted to newspapers Source of title - Transcribed Phillips founded the Auckland and Fiji Banking Company 1874 and was prominent in local affairs in the Wairarapa Quantity: 1 volume(s) (81 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescript (34 cm; blue linen)

Date: 1963

From: Henderson, George Duncan, 1911?-1985:[Collection of cartoons by George Henderson (Hen). 1961-1984]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-445-013

Description: Shows a battalion of soldiers carrying guns marching along the road from Hawera to New Plymouth. A couple of rabbits look on anxiously. Refers to an increase in the rabbit bounty by Hawera County Council. Caption in pencil on verso reads 'It looks like open war, chaps!' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 150 x 200 mm

Date: 19 Oct 1998

From: Shear History Trust life in the sheds oral history project

By: McSkimming, Murray, 1931-2017; Keats, Ian Laurie, active 1948-2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-17

Description: Interview with Murray McSkimming, born in Ranfurly in 1931. Talks about growing up on a farm at Blackstone Hill in Central Otago where they survived by selling rabbit skins. Discusses shearing after World War II, initially with blade shears, shearers he worked with, and off-season work. Refers to compulsory military training in 1950 and then returning to shearing. Mentions an influx of Australian shearers and the contract system. Comments on the changes in sheep farming once rabbit control and aerial topdressing were introduced. Talks about problems with drugs in shearing gangs from the mid 1970s. Refers to shearing in Australia. Discusses shearing competitions in New Zealand and Australia including the Golden Shears, which set the standard for quality of work. Refers to Godfrey Bowen touring to demonstrate his technique. Talks about living conditions for shearers including accommodation, food, the long hours, and the strain on relationships. Refers to retiring in 1984, and talks about notable shearers including Snow Quinn, Ian Rutherford, Ken Pike, David Fagan and Alan Donaldson. Mentions the McSkimming Trophy named after his father Frederick. Reflects on recent changes in sheep farming and shearing. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012554 - OHC-012555 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1.22 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4330, OHDL-000724. Search dates: 1931 - 1998

Date: 8 Jun 2000 - 08 Jun 2000

From: Quaker Oral History Project

By: Hughes, Helen Hannah, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0427-28

Description: Helen Hannah Hughes born Nelson (a home birth). Describes childhood in Tahunanui; move to Nelson; schooling; Quaker household; Presbyterian Sunday School; University College, Canterbury and study at Vasser (USA). Recalls meeting David Crowther Hughes and describes wedding in drawing room at home; honeymoon at Kina, in ancient Austin 7; setting up home in Christchurch and having three children in three years and three months. Mentions return to teaching, relieving at Te Wai Pounamu and later at Onslow College. Describes move to Suva and work with Fiji Department of Agriculture. Gives details of work with weeds on Rewa river. Recalls return to New Zealand and describes Ian Baumgart, Commissioner for Environment and move to DSIR as Environmental Co-ordinator with reference to New Zealand Conservation Strategy. Discusses influence of Strategy and refers to Sir Frank Holmes and Ken Piddington. Continues to outline career, government restructuring following 1984 Election and appointment as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Discusses rabbit control, subsidies on pest control and refers to `1080 poison dropped on McKenzie Basin and import of Spanish Flu - Rabbit Caliceo Virus Disease. Discusses threads through career: Toxic Chemicals, ICI Fire in Auckland; system to deal with hazardous chemicals; Mapua waste; Resource Management Act 1991; Hazardous substance and new organisms legislation. Lists committements since retirement in 1996; On Cawthorne Institute Trust Board; Worldwide Fund for Nature Board; UNESCO Science Commission; Council of Wellington Branch of Royal Society and served on New Zealand Academic Board Unit. Discusses involvement as Quaker: Wellington Meeting Children's Committee. Accompanying material - Photocopy of Reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment January 1987-May 1997 Interviewer(s) - Penelope Dunkley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007462-007464 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.25 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 Interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1886, OHDL-000612.

Date: 1929-1969

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-0614-2-26

Description: Photographs relating to events in New Zealand, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken by a range of photographers, generally between 1929 and 1969. Images include the Woodville Gasmometer, 1935; ventifacts found at Rongotai, 1959; coal stockpiled at Blackball, 1961; former members of the 28 Maori Battalion performing a haka, Palmerston North, 24 Jun 1964; Maori scholars meeting to consider a revision of the Bible, 6 Mar 1946; portraits of J O Batchelor, Hugh Gillies, I H Driver, and T M Small; a rabbit-proof gate on Mohaka Bridge, 1961; and the Onekaka Iron Works. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-08

Description: An account of the life of the Doole family at Pukeokahu, a farming area 21 km from Taihape; mainly based on reminiscences of Jack Doole. Includes list of references and bibliography Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Includes original photographs; sketch map of Pukeokahu with location of farms, etc

Date: 1867-1885

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-096

Description: Includes: Notes on grasses and pasture (1867) Sir James G Wilson, Bulls (9 Dec 1885) re grasses C Elgar, Featherston (1885-1886) - grasses and views on value of Otaraia, Wairarapa, with appended notes by J C Crawford J B Cholmers, Masterton re lease of land ? Kaikoura (21 Apr 1872) re rabbit destruction in Wellington A G Elmslie (1885) re farming in French Pass from 1840 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1884-1890

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 73-150-05

Description: Volume of annotated reports on rabbits, from the AJHR (1888); a copy of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into schemes for extermination of rabbits in Australasia and final report (1890); and report, minutes of proceedings, resolutions etc of the Australasian Stock Conference, Wellingtn (1892). Also includes copy of minutes of settlers meeting, Martinborough, re forming a rabbit board (1884). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: [1950s-1960s?]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/20

Description: Stories relating to New Zealand pioneers including "Tales of a pioneer housewife" and a story about Bully Hayes. Also includes a story "A matter of Title" about a Mr Lourie who was given the name of Lau'uli in Samoa, a story about Maori settlement in Poverty Bay, and further stories "Mainly about rabbits" and "Counting sheep". Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1867-1963]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-029

Description: Comprises correspondence re RNZAF ground station at Te Awaite (1945); papers re Riddiford's application for road improvements to Te Awaiti (1934); notes re fertiliser; letter, W Barton to E J Riddiford re sheep (1894); clipping re rabbits in Wairarapa (1963); firewood contract (1893); letter, William McLaren to O Bunny re boundary matters (1903); letter, John Barton, re fencing (1881); agreement re tile draining of Ruamahanga property (1940); re E J Riddiford's estate payments re Orongorongo (1909); note re water matters from McLeod; letter, Martin Chapman to R Riddiford re boundary problems (1883); A-Js (1890) re inspection of stock, rabbits, and sheep returns; sheep return (1867); tree cutting agremeents, (1892, 1894); correspondence re electricity plant (1913-1914); valuation re Star Oil property at Kaiwharawhara (1924); correspondence, Dalgety and J S Riddiford re Mokepeka Station (1964); papers re sale of property of C B Pharazyn (1911); and specifications of a cottage for Longwood, W Benton [? last part of name indecipherable] Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1911-1964]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-015

Description: Comprises letters from friends and acquaintances; includes letter from Fred (Col Bunny?) of London (1926); from Dr A A Martin re his father's health; and cards from Neville and Poppy, Mic and Phyll Shand and the secretary of the Grenadier Guards Assn. Also includes letter to `Dear Dan' from [?] L E, writing from Queen's Gate [sic], London (1923). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Between 1926 and 1954]

From: Marsden, Lady Joyce : Assorted photographs and negatives from the papers of Sir Ernest Marsden

Reference: PA1-o-135

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Reasearch presented to Dr Ernest Marsden in 1954. Includes detailed photographs of various laboratory procedures and apparatus, including meat dehydration plant in the Meat Research Laboratory; mass spectrometer; electron microscope; Borthwick Beta-Ray apparatus; soil consolidation machines; geothermal bores; knock resistance tests, with a CFR engine; separating constituents of butter fat, the Fats Research Balance Room; members of the Soil Survey Conference in Napier, 1950, and members of the Geological Survey Conference in 1952; Rongotai Aerodrome under construction; the Magnetic Observatory building in Christchurch; the Dominion Observatory, and the Seismological Observatory; Crop Research Division buildings; Hop Research Station; members attending the Grasslands Conference in 1933; and members attending the Seventh Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Inscriptions: Album page - Presented to Dr. E. Marsden with the good wishes of the senior staff of the D.S.I.R. and in appreciation of the help & encouragement he has given them throughout the years of his association with the Department, 1926-1954 (With 30 signatures) Dr Ernest Marsden was Director of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1926-1947 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, 26.5 x 32 cm

Date: [1875-1969]

By: Williams family

Reference: 77-265

Description: Primarily the papers of C Athol Williams. Comprises papers re Waipawa-Ngaruroro Rabbit Boards, Rabbit Destruction Council and North Island Rabbit Boards Association; inward and outward station correspondence re Alfred Wartmann and Ludwig Krieg; estate of W J Boyle; Campaign for Christian Order; wages, taxes, receipts, accounts, cheque and deposit butts; inward and outward personal correspondence; Te Aute and Netherton financial records; letter books, rent books, ledgers and receipt books for Te Aute and Netherton stations Also includes papers re estates, Victorian Hardwood Co, Whakamaru Timber Co, Waipukurau Transport Co and papers of W T Williams Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further records relating to the Williams family Quantity: 18 box(es) (wax and hollinger). 4 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 25 July 1991

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

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1991/2124-F

Description: Wellington Regional Council pest management officers, Steve Playle (left), and Ken Wright with rabbits poisoned at Otaitanga. Photographed by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney on the 25th of July 1991. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 5 Oct 1988 - 05 Oct 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Dwyer, Joseph, 1897-1994

Reference: OHInt-0006/24

Description: Describes family background, education, enlistment as underage, Trentham Camp, training, transport on 'Kia Ora', meningitis epidemic, poor conditions on board, Sling Camp, food, formation of Rifle Brigade, carrying party on the Somme, Fleurbaix, Messines, Lewis gun, going over the top, the Second Somme, flight of British troops, being wounded, Hornchurch, treatment of returned soldiers, as musket instructor at Brocton Camp, firing squads at military funerals, trench feet, saluting, futility of trench raids, drinking, looting, songs, gambling, 1919 riots, return to New Zealand. Describes work as a rabbiter until bottom fell out of rabbit skin market, the RSA, Anzac Day, reunions. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Dwyer's home at 13 Merchant Ave, Te Atatu South, Auckland Accompanying material - Letter from Joseph Dwyer's daughter giving details of father's service. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002614, OHC-002615, OHLC-002309, OHLC-002310 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0466, OHDL-000317. Black and white photograph of Joseph Dwyer, 1988

Date: 6 December 1990 - 06 Dec 1990

From: Womens Division Federated Farmers Oral History Project, Southland

By: Turner, Ann, 1890-1991

Reference: OHInt-0116/7

Description: Mrs Turner describes family background; employment of her father and mother; circumstances of their marriage, their emigration to New Zealand on the sailing ship `Scimitar' and their settlement in Central Otago, near Cromwell. Recalls parents' memories of the great Molyneux (Clutha) flood of 1878; storing mushroom ketchup in the river bank; her education, boarding at Invercargill and working as housemaid on the Mount Pisa homestead. Describes Mount Pisa homestead, servants and farmworkers etc,; marriage to Alfred Turner and his occupation as a rabbiter and packing rabbit skins. Describes children and grandchildren. Mentions her brother, Charles Clark, a member of the Grenadier Guards, who was awarded a medal for bravery in New Zealand for a rescue of a man in shark infested waters. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Lowburn Interviewer(s) - Edith Ruddenklau Venue - Ripponburn Hospital and Home, Lowburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003568-003569; OHLC-001869-001870 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0608. 2 photographs: (i) Mrs Ann Turner at age 17 and (ii) Mrs Ann Turner at age 100 years.

Date: 01 Feb 1970

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/295

Description: Atholea Ramsay of Oamaru recalls the days when rabbits and ferrets were the mainstay of her secondary schooling - long before Rabbit Boards and Pest Destruction Councils. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 89 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0303 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s).