French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-04

Description: Waiuta township looking south. The building on the skyline (top right) is the hospital. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. The hospital building was still standing in 1968 according to Dereck French. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-09

Description: Waiuta township looking south west. Post office is lower centre left. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-16

Description: Waiuta township looking south east. Beyond is the poppet head over the Blackwater Mine's south shaft, with the bowling green (built upon waste rock from the mine's workings). The man standing on the left is Joseph Divis. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Notes about bowling green, the south shaft and the dates it operated - from Library client. Of the south shaft, the four large buildings below the chimney are (from left) blacksmith's shop. Compressor shop. Boiler shop. Winding room. (Information supplied by Derek French in 1968.) South shaft was 563m vertical, to a point about 100m below sea level. Mining was carried out there from 1906 to 1936 when operations became centered upon the deeper Prohibition shaft a short distance north. (Information from Library client) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-23

Description: View of Waiuta township looking south. Middle distance centre is the Anglican church. To the left of the church on the rise is the hospital. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-20

Description: A set of quartz crushing stampers situated south of Waiuta, West Coast. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.9 x 21.6 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-17

Description: Trolley track called "the skip", built down a steep hillside from the back of Waiuta to the Snowy River Battery. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Historical notes from Library client. 'The skip' formerly identified as 'the ship' but corrected by same Library client. The high front of the wagon was to retain loads during the steep descent from the town to the battery. A loaded skip descended, pulling an empty one up. A load could also be carried uphill by putting a drum on the top skip, filling it with water until it outweighed the skip at the bottom and hauled up. The drum would then be emptied so the next descending load would pull it up again. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: 1906

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-26

Description: View of Waiuta Township. Dirt road with people on it and on bank below it. Group of people in distance on the right standing in front of a two gabled building. Photographed by Joseph Divis in 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-05

Description: View of a boarding house, Waiuta, West Coast, New Zealand. Single storied, unpainted wooden building with a corrugated iron and tin chimneys. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Source of descriptive information - Historical note from Library client. Single miners lived in huts and had meals at the boarding house. Little tramway in left foreground was used to deliver firewood for the range where the meals were cooked. Buildings in the background include the cottage hospital (long dark building, left of centre), the Anglican church, and the three-teacher school at the extreme right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-21

Description: View of Waiuta township looking west. In the centre middle distance are the buildings associated with the Blackwater Mine's south shaft (also called "Poppit Head"). In front of this can be seen the pile of quartz waste before the bowling green and club house were built on it. Photographed by Joseph Divis some time in the 1930s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm

Date: [ca late 1930s]

From: French, Derek : Photographs of Waiuta, West Coast taken by Joseph Divis

Reference: PAColl-4796-13

Description: Buildings associated with the north shaft of the Blackwater Mine, Waiuta, looking north, West Coast, New Zealand. The winding room is on the right. Photographed by Joseph Divis circa late 1930s. According to Derek French north shaft was also called \"Pro\" which was short for \"Prohibition.\" This was an electrically driven plant which was commissioned in April 1936 and operated until July 1951. Shaft below headframe at left was reputedly New Zealand's deepest, plumbed 879 metres to a point approximately 300m below sea level. Source of descriptive information - Date and historical note (relating to the electrically driven plant, dates, and plumbing level) from Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16 x 20.4 cm