Wheat - Harvesting
Jansen, Nancy, fl 1940-1999 :Photographs relating to Nancy Jansen's family
Date: ca1910-ca1929
By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s
Reference: PAColl-6174
Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. Military personnel assist farmers
Date: 1939-1945
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-023
Description: War effort on the home front. Soldiers helping with harvesting linen flax, tobacco, oats, wheat and managing pigs Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). Some have negatives which can be found at G 176061 1/2 - G 176075 1/2. (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).
Album relating to Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln
Date: [1896-1913]
From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-o-1601
Description: Photograph album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of the Lincoln Agricultural College at Lincoln, Canterbury. Shows photographs of livestock, harvesting machinery, draught houses, crops, animal housing and husbandry and agricultural students. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 22 cm
New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :[North and S...
From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas
Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/1/5-Acc.38704
Description: Identifies wheat area, oats for threshing and oats for green feed (each dot represents 250 acres) Quantity: 3 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 45 x 63.4 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.
New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :[Land use, s...
From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas
Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/7-Acc.38777
Description: Identifies by colour and symbols butter fat production, fat lamb production, dry sheep, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, lucerne, turnips, orchards and arable forage crop in the southern part of the South Islands Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on dressed linen. Scale indeterminable. 38 x 35.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880 :[Christmas card]. Summer. National Library of Australia...
Date: 1847 - 1970
By: Gill, Samuel Thomas, 1818-1880; National Library of Australia
Reference: E-279-q-196
Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Samuel Thomas Gill depicting farm workers harvesting wheat in South Australia. Painted ca 1847. A jug, melons, knives and scythes are lying on the grass Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph 224 x 158 mm on folded card
Interview with George Kelly
Date: 14, 19 May 2007 - 14 May 2007 - 19 May 2007
From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project
By: Kelly, George David, 1916-2009
Reference: OHInt-0920-08
Description: Interview with George Kelly, born in Ashburton in 1916. Refers to growing up on a North Canterbury farm until his father sold it. Talks about his primary schooling, and boarding with his grandfather to attend Christchurch Boys High School. Mentions playing rugby and running. Discusses working for his father as a team driver with a four horse team ploughing for wheat crops. Talks about stacking sheaves to make stooks and stacking the dray. Recalls an electric tractor and traction engines. Refers to going shearing aroung Methven and Highbank for a time and buying a car. Talks about being a member of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry in the 1930s, training camps, and providing his own horse. Comments on working for several years as an attendant at Sunnyside Hospital and learning "a thing or two about people". Mentions marrying his wife Hilary in 1939, and joining the Police force. Comments that he could not serve overseas in the army during the War because he was a policeman. Refers to resigning from the police when his father had a heart attack [ca. 1948/49] and running the farm for a year. Discusses the difficulty he had buying his own farm Spring Lynne and having help to pay off the mortgage. Talks about arable farming, growing tama grass, peas and clover for seed, wheat and barley, and selling wool during the Korean War. Comments on his Romney flock, number of ewes, and drafting lambs. Discusses the arrival of the Lyndhurst irrigation scheme. Comments on the Springfield water supply and water rates. Mentions giving up irrigating and getting a well drilled for water. Refers to the Winchmore Research Station and fertilizer trials. Recalls his farm staff over the years. Refers to the Lauriston Farm Club and farm advisors. Mentions the vet club. Talks about the Methvyn Trotting Club and horses that he and his father bred. Outlines his involvement with the Canterbury A & P Association over three decades including being Association president. Mentions judging horses and ponies at shows and presenting trophies. Discusses the Springfield Pony Club and other pony clubs in Canterbury. Reflects on farming in the Methven district and welcomes the arrival of dairying in the area. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016752 - OHC-016754 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 2.57 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe pdf Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6030, OHDL-001825. Search dates: 1916 - 2007
Interview with Ted Coppard
Date: 17 Feb 2008
From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project
By: Coppard, Edward John, 1930-
Reference: OHInt-0920-01
Description: Interview with Ted Coppard, born in 1930 in Leeston, one of six children to Ernest Coppard and Bessie Dorothy Coppard (nee Taylor). Educated at Yaldhurst primary school and Christchurch Boys High School. Talks about his childhood, his toys, rabbit shooting at Aylesbury, trips to New Brighton and Sumner beaches, West Coast and Lake Ida. Describes house lived in from 1936, using a meat safe and coal range. Talks about growing vegetables, baking bread, and home kill of pigs. Mentions they had no telephone at Yaldhurst until 1940s. Talks about his home- made wireless crystal set, and listening to radio serials. Refers to working on Yaldhurst farm from 15 years old to 1996. Describes using Clydesdale horses to work the machines, the reaper binder, stooking machine, thrashing mill, and traction engine. Talks about socialising at Yaldhurst and Kirwee dances, and the Young Farmers Club activities in Methven. Talks about annual Methodist Church bible camps at Amberley, bible studies and bible class dances in the Methven St Johns Presbyterian Church, and playing organ at Yaldhurst and Methven Methodist churches. Talks about converting implements for the Fordson tractor. Talks about working for his father who bought Methven farm in 1951, and contracting. Describes taking over his father's farm in 1958 with his brother Bruce Robert Coppard. Mentions he raised a mortgage with Pyne Gould Guinness in Ashburton. Details farming wheat, barley, potatoes, rye grass, and ewe flock and Romney sheep. Describes harvesting using 'pull behind engine function header' method, the wheat silos and bulk heading of wheat and grass seed. Mentions danger of fire when using Massey headers. Describes changes in his farming practices, silo storage and transport of grain. Mentions closure of Rakaia to Methven railway line in 1976, the mill and the Sanitarium cornflake factory in Papanui, Christchurch. Details methods of drying grass seed, short rotation (moata ryegrass) and perennial rye grass and effects of weather. Talks about the Methven seed dresser (owned by Cavils, then McCaw Seeds), and how son Trevor Coppard built his own seed dresser. Says his brother Bruce Coppard bought a farm in Hororata in 1966. Talks about later years of farming, growing white clover, selling the ewe flock, farming lambs and growing radishes for the Japanese market and farming pigs. Says Trevor Coppard took over farm in 1996, which he still visits once a week. Talks about his faith and family, mentioning his granddaughters, and feeling he has achieved what he wanted to achieve. Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016728 - OHC-016729 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (Abstract). 1 interview(s). 1.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6023, OHDL-001818. Search dates: 1930 - 2008
Interview with Gordon Lill
Date: 05, 12 Nov 2007 - 05 Nov 2007 - 12 Nov 2007
From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project
By: Lill, Gordon Thomas, 1921-2009
Reference: OHInt-0920-10
Description: Interview with Gordon Lill. Born in 1921 in Ashburton. Backgrounds paternal family, parents Wilfred Thomas Lill, mother Edith Francis Caroline Lill (nee Watson), grandfather William Thomas Lill, farmer in Ashburton, and grandmother Clara Lill (nee Taylor), who was involved in temperance union movement. Mentions maternal grandparents Joseph Watson, headmaster of Willowby primary school and Emily Watson (nee Hight) from Brookside. Says he went to Westerfield primary school and Ashburton High School. Refers to taking agricultural course and having John Bell scholarship. Describes growing up on 'Lone Pine' farm, Westerfield, cooking on coal range, pitting root vegetables for winter, milking, using Clydesdale horses. Details growing oats and grass seed, turnips, giant rape, reaping oats, working the chaff cutter. Mentions family had thrashing mill and traction engine. Talks about impact of 1928 slump and 1930s Depression and mortgagee sales. Says father sold Westerfield farm to clear debt and bought small farm at Eiffelton with money from maternal grandfather's estate. Explains crops grown were wheat, ryegrass and barley. Talks about being called up for army training at Burnham, then being manpowered out in 1940 to work at Mesopotamia sheep station and Inverary station. Describes autumn muster, and blade shearing. Mentions manpower shortage during World War two. Recalls marriage to Doris Joan Davison and big snow of 1945. Says bought sheep farm at Montalto with his parents. Describes developing the farm, stone picking, having the house divided into two flats. Purchased farm at Springburn, and another block where he farmed sheep and cattle. Bought property at Carew to farm sheep. Details border dyke irrigation process. Talks about water allocation, changing from government to private ownership as Hinds Mayfield Irrigation Scheme. Refers to building new house at Carew. Explains purchase of 'Whenuapai' farm at Cairnbrae, Methven, in 1962 or 1963 which was a mixed cropping farm with wheat, barley, peas, grass seed and Border Romney or Coopworth sheep. Refers to International Agricultural Exchange Association students on the farm. Discusses soil, wind, rainfall and a typical year. Mentions soil fertility, use of lentils and getting bigger farm machinery. Talks about role of farm advisors. Explains process of changing farm to all cropping farm in 1968, selling stock to grow wheat, peas and ryegrass. Refers to getting bigger plough, tractor and grain silo, building a seed cleaning plant and shed. Explains direct heading wheat and peas with Roundup. Talks about soil testing, inputs of nitrogen, urea, sulphate of ammonia, always using fertilisers and chemicals. Says diesel prices forced direct drilling. Discusses wind erosion, putting in shelter belts subsidised by South Canterbury catchment board. Talks about wife's role on farm, all their sons going farming and Graeme Lill working at Lincoln College. Refers to moisture and soil testing. Reflects on mechanisation making farming easier. Talks about droving and now trucking sheep to sale yards. Mentions Lyndhurst Barrhill scheme pumping water from Rakaia River back to the RDR (Rangitata Diversion race). Refers to getting Dry Creek closed for grazing for nine years. Discusses community activites, nine years on South Canterbury Catchment Board, Mayfield A&P Association President in 1959, being on Monalto School committee, Hinds School committee, Hinds Rugby Football Club, Chairperson of Methven Lions, Chairman of Methven Aged Persons Welfare Association, Chairman of Methven House home committee, and involvment in Federated Farmers and United Wheatgrowers. Details his purchase of maternity hospital and turning it into Methven House aged persons home. Mentions being involved in St Davids Church, Allenton, Ashburton and Methodist Synod Timaru. Says retired to Methven for four to five years, then moved to Ashburton. Refers to son Colin Lill taking over the farm. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016757 - OHC-016759 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textural files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6032, OHDL-001827. Search dates: 1921 - 2007
Covered thresher and traction engine in a wheat field, Mangapouri
Date: ca 1900
Reference: 1/2-002391-F
Description: Covered thresher and a traction engine in a field of harvested wheat in Mangapouri. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Boyce, Raymond Stanley, 1928-2019 :Album of New Zealand views
Date: [ca 1900-ca 1912]
By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019
Reference: PA1-o-731
Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
New Zealand. Department of Lands & Survey :Map of main phases of land utilization in So...
Date: 1930 - 1949
By: Connell, Richard Patrick, 1892-1949; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Hunt, John, active 2002; Hunt, Jenny, active 2002
Reference: MapColl-830gbb/[n.d.]/Acc.39386
Description: Map idenifying major horticultural and agricultural land utilisation of the South Island, including butter fat production, sheep, breeding ewes, orchards, crops such as wheat, oats, barley, maize, potates, lucerne, turnips, as well as land not used for farming, denoted by colour and symbols, as per legend. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured ink on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 73.8 x 57.2 cm Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt, August, 2002 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2002-320.
Interview with Fred Early
Date: 13, 19 Nov 2007 - 13 Nov 2007 - 19 Nov 2007
From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project
By: Early, Frederic Wells, 1926-2009
Reference: OHInt-0920-03
Description: Interview with Fred Early. Born in 1926, Ashburton. Talks about paternal great grandfather Samuel Early emigrating in 1860 and his grandfather Charles Early who bought Greendale farm in 1876. Discusses his father Leslie John (Les) Early, mother Rosetta Mildred (Rose) Early (nee Wells), and his siblings Athene, Eric, Lawrie, Phyllis, Annie and Ivan. Educated at Greendale primary school and Christchurch Boys High School. Recalls going to school in governess cart and railways bus, and using slate boards. Talks about living on Greendale farm, and Waterford farm as child. Discusses changes in Selwyn and Hororata rivers and why the rivers are more frequently dry now. Details arable farming as growing wheat, barley, lucerne crops, plus using Clydesdale horses, traction engine, wooden mill, chaff cutter, and cross engine chase tractor. Refers to his father being in cavalry in World War One, surviving Gallipoli, and buying Alford Forest farm in 1919 when rehabiliatated after WW1. Mentions not selling wool during the Depression. Talks about father and his brothers owning Te Pirita 3000 farm block, south of Hororata river. Mentions Americans funding secret building of Te Pirita airfield in 1942 by local contractors to cater for American bombers when Japanese invasion looked imminent. Says left school at 16. Refers to being part of food production effort to support England during World War Two, such as exporting lambs. Describes wheat harvest using Massey Harris header and sewing sacks. Compares rail and truck transport. Talks about shearing, cultivation work, stock work, fencing and the merino run block 'The Plains'. Mentions shortage of petrol and tyres. Refers to purchasing Alford Forest farm from his father after his marriage in 1953 to Miriel (Joan) Ridgen, running it for 12 years. Describes developing more intensive farming methods, breeding Romney sheep, running beef cattle, dabbling in small seeds and new grasses. Refers to Pyne Gould Guinness as his banker. Discusses shifting to new farm Lyndhurst in 1966 where he ran Corriedale, then Borderdale and Border sheep. Refers to sticking with wheat, barley, then growing triticali, oats, peas, white clover and grass seed. Comments on lack of irrigation, impact of dry nor'west wind, stoney soil, and importance of tree shelter belts. Mentions heavy snows in Methven area. Details methods of improving soil fertility, using nitrogen, superphosphate, lime, and growing lupins. Talks about start of bulk harvesting in early 1970s meant changing to storing grain in silos. Refers to agricultural spraying, using Roundup to deal with Twitch. Explains impact of 1972-1973 purchase allowance and the removal of farm subsidies in late 1980s. Mentions hardship during 1980s South Island East Coast drought. Talks about roles his wife and children played on the farm. Refers to participating in school committees and Methodist church. Says he shifted to Ashburton with wife in 1997. Reflects on technology changes and hopes that small farmer is not being squeezed out by corporate farms. Interviewer(s) - Nicola Robertson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016735 - OHC-016738 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6025; OHDL-001820. Search dates: 1926 - 2007
Lewers, Neville :Photographs of skaters, Wellington City, harvesting machines etc.
Date: ca1949-ca1955
From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints
Reference: PAColl-6180-01
Description: Skating on the Manorburn Reservoir in the early 1950s; two panoramas of Wellington City ca 1949; harvesting wheat, hay and potatoes; seabirds; maps of New Zealand, and a Goldie portrait of a Maori Woman; Hick's Bay, White Island, and an aerial view of the Southern Alps. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s).
Jansen, Nancy (Mrs) :Photographs of wheat crops on Jansen's farm, East Taratahi, Wairar...
Date: ca1910
By: Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s
Reference: PAColl-6144
Description: Fields of wheat crops, harvest workers, draft horses pulling reapers, wheat stooks among the stubble, and the occasional gum and radiata pine shelter belt.....New Zealand! Oh how beautiful. East Taratahi, south east of Masterton, Wairarapa. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).
New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Map of Main ...
From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas
By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey
Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/2/6-Acc.38776
Description: Identifies by colour and symbols butter fat production; breeding ewes for production of fat lambs and for replacement of flocks; dry sheep; wheat, oats, barley and maize for threshing; potatoes; lucerne; turnips; orchards and land not being used for farming. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 71 x 57 cm Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908 :[Wheat harvesting. Stacks in the foreground. ca 1880]
Date: 1870 - 1890
From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
Reference: E-052-q-004
Description: Shows men harvesting wheat Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 135 x 196 mm mounted into sketchbook
New Zealand. Department of Lands & Survey :Map of main phases of land utilization in No...
Date: 1930 - 1949
By: Connell, Richard Patrick, 1892-1949; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Hunt, John, active 2002; Hunt, Jenny, active 2002
Reference: MapColl-830gbb/[n.d.]/Acc.39385
Description: Map idenifying major horticultural and agricultural land utilisation of the North Island, including butter fat production, sheep, breeding ewes, orchards, crops such as wheat, oats, barley, maize, potates, lucerne, turnips, as well as land not used for farming, denoted by colour and symbols, as per legend. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured ink on diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 71 x 57.2 cm Provenance: Donated by John and Jenny Hunt, August, 2002 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2002-320.
Lion Breweries Ltd: Brown o'clock; 1860 Victualling Co. [Coaster. 1970s/1982?]
Date: 1970 - 1982
From: [Five coasters advertising alcohol. 1970s]
Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Coasters-1970s-04
Description: Circular cardboard coaster shows on one side the heraldic logo of a lion rampant; and on the other the wheat sacks, barrel and wheat sheaf logo for the 1860 Victualling Company. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on circular label, diameter 89 mm.
World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand, "War Effort" series - Food production
Date: 1939-1946
From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency
Reference: PAColl-4161-01-022-06
Description: War effort on the home front. Production of food, including some images of post-war food production sent as aid to Britain Arrangement: This collection is made up of photographic prints, some with captions. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection has been called the "War Effort" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). They do not seem to be associated with any negatives. (Feb 1995) Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).