Wool - Marketing

Date: [ca 1860-1900], 1910-1936, 1962-1973

By: Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990

Reference: 84-225

Description: Comprise for the main part financial records of Netherton Station, together with brochures from the various companies in which Mr Williams held shares, minor accounts, and correspondence and accounts from wool brokers, and from the Whakatu Freezing Works. Also includes some reminiscences of Archibald Puckey concerning William Puckey's experiences as a missionary in Northland, and a small group of letters from Jane Williams. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es). 2 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1927-1936

From: New Zealand Labour Party : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0270-037

Description: Includes: Boy conscription and camp morality: The menace of Sir James Allen's policy / H E Holland; Samoa: The story that teems with tragedy / H E Holland; Indentured labour: Is it slavery? / H E Holland; Workers' compensation / H E Holland; The Revolt of the Samoans / H E Holland; History in the making: A summary of the Legislative and administrative actions of NZ's first Labour government / compiled by D Wilson; New Zealand's Labour Government: Its first year of office - A record of its legislative and administrative achievement / James Thorn; Efficient wool marketing; Practical possibilities for better presentation and lower costs / L Whittingham Bagley; New Zealand trades and the tariff; Child welfare in the United States of America and Canada (Special report on educational subjects) / Education Dept, NZ. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 25 Apr 2002

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

By: McPherson, Bert David, active 1940-2002; Keats, Ian Laurie, active 1948-2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-16

Description: Interview with David McPherson, born in Auckland. Talks about working in the wool industry, beginning as a labourer and training as a wool classer at Petone Technical College and Massey Agricultural College. Discusses his career with wool brokers Dalgetys, beginning as a wool classer and later becoming head classer and valuer. Refers to working in Australia for a period, changing methods of buying and selling wool, and the Wool Board. Comments on competitions for wool classers and wool handlers at the Golden Shears competitions. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012553 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 52 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4329, OHDL-000723. Search dates: 1940 - 2002

Date: 8, 10 May 2006 - 08 May 2003 - 10 May 2003

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

By: Mullins, Mavis, 1956-; Cundy, Judy, active 2000

Reference: OHInt-0943-19

Description: Interview with Mavis Mullins (nee Paewai), born in Dannevirke in 1956, the eldest of seven children. Talks about her whakapapa, childhood, and family involvement with shearing. Refers to attending the Mormon Church College at Hamilton and then studying at Victoria University for a year. Talks about helping in the family shearing gang from form one, learning wool handling and developing pride in her work. Comments on marring her husband Koro, a shearer also working for her father. Describes the work of a wool handler, the introduction of training courses in the 1970s, and health and safety issues. Discusses the life of shearing gangs, accommodation, food and lesiure. Refers to changes in the sheds over the years with more frequent shearing. Mentions training as a wool classer. Recalls the importance of shearing and wool handling competitions including the Golden Shears, learning competitive skills, and later becoming a judge. Explains the judging system for the competitions. Talks about getting a rotary scholarship in 1987 to spend six weeks in Britain looking at sheep farming, wool marketing and processing. Recalls the farming downturn of the late 1980s, moving into marketing, and completing an MBA at Massey University. Refers to being made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the wool industry. Interviewer(s) - Judy Cundy Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012559 - OHC-012562 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 4 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4332, OHDL-000726. Search dates: 1956 - 2003

Date: 1961-1982

From: New Zealand Wool Board :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7579-1

Description: Group photographs of the Wool Board, the International Wool Secretariat, the first four chairmen of the Wool Board, people at a function to farewell Mr R G Lund, and the signing ceremony establishing a revolving credit facility in 1982 Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945

From: New Zealand Wool Board :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1024

Description: Group photograph of the members of the New Zealand Wool Board and Benjamin Roberts, the Minister of Agriculture. Photographed for the Evening Post newspaper on 11 January 1946 by an unknown photographer. All names inedexed in Name Field Inscriptions: Mount recto - Title and names Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 295 x 375 mm on mount 455 x 555 mm

Date: 1954-1962

From: New Zealand Wool Board :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-7579-2

Description: Meeting of the International Wool Secretariat at Melbourne, Australia, in 1961 and 1962, and a group attending a conference of the Australian Wool Bureau and the wool boards of New Zealand and South Africa at Pretoria in June 1954 Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1931-1936]

From: New Zealand Stock and Station Agents' Association : Records

Reference: 96-223-07

Description: Comprises circulars re Wool Scourers' conference and compulsory scouring of wool (1936); Wellington Woolbrokers' Association's circular and memo re selling of wool (1933); minutes of NZ Woolbrokers' Association's AGM, half-yearly and special general meetings (1932, 1933); reprints from the `Dominion' re marketing of wool (1931), from `Meat and wool' re NZ wool sales and prices obtained (1932) and circular re Dominion wool sales (n d)) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1993 - 1997

By: Cochrane, Steve, active 1997

Reference: Eph-E-COSTUME-1995-01

Description: Shows half-length portrait of a young man and woman beside rocks beneath a waterfall. The woman is undressed, while the man is removing his shirt. Shows 100% merino wool symbol beneath the main image. Dated by date of accession. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 697 x 1000 mm.

Date: 2014

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: New Zealand farmer weekly (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0029651

Description: Shows a farmer photographing a sheep. Two women in the foreground comment "We have to do our own marketing now". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca 1973, 1993 - 11 October 2000 - 4 April 2003

By: New Zealand Wool Board; Carter, William Ernest, 1932-; MacGibbon, John, 1945-

Reference: OHColl-1268

Description: Oral history interviews mostly carried out by, and collected by, interviewer Bill Carter as background research for the book 'Wool : a history of New Zealand's wool industry'. Interviewees include: Norman Roberts of Christchurch, Joan Young or Hewett of Cambridge, John Harold Grainger of Wools of New Zealand, Rex Stewart of Christchurch, Bill Carter of Martinborough and Wellington (interviewed by John MacGibbon), Charles Hall, Helen Algar, Mac Husband, Stephen Field, John Clarke, Haddon Donald, Edwyn Knight of Akito, Roger Buchanan, Koro Mullins of Dannevirke, and John Pryde of Khandallah. Also includes interviews with: Rex Stewart, Noel Thomas, Bob Boyne, Tony Arthur, Don Quested, Mark O'Grady, Patrick Desbonnets, John Falloon, Alan Edmunds, Michael Moss, Brian Hill, Stephen Fookes, Grant Sinclair, Michael Harkness, Jack McFaull, P G Morrison, David Grace, Laurie Keats, Richard Janes, Tony Lawrence, Bruce Munro, Robin Kid, Ken Armstrong, Alistair Polson, Ivan Bowen, Tony Timpson, Douglas Fraser, Gordon Riach, Rob Davison, Graeme Swale, John Acland, John McKinnon, Garth Carnaby, Peter Barry, Timothy Plummer, Maurice Agar, Tom Atchison, Mike Welham, Kevin Collins, Lachie McGillivray, and Alan Chapman. Includes printed material relating to an interview with F. Stanley (Bunny) Arthur made in 1973 by David Grace; and an interview with Mary Annette Hay, nee Burgess, by Norma Ashworth made in 1993. Also includes copies of commerically sold volumes related to the wool industry trade. Interviews were used in the book 'Wool: a history of New Zealand's wool industry' by Bill Carter & John MacGibbon, Ngaio Press, 2003. See published book in National Library collection at call number NEW ZEALAND 338.17631 CAR 2003. Title supplied by Library. Interviewer(s) - Bill Carter and John MacGibbon. William Ernest Carter (known as Bill) trained as a journalist but spent most of his career as a senior figure in the New Zealand wool industry, including as head of the Woolbuyers Association (later the NZ Council of Wool Exporters). Public relations expert and Ngaio Press publisher John MacGibbon had a role as Corporate Communications Manager for the New Zealand Wool Board between 1987 and 1991. Quantity: 57 Interview(s). 112 audiocassette(s). 56 printed abstract(s) many include recording agreements. 3 folder(s) supporting documents, recording agreements, and biographical information forms. 3 volume(s). Provenance: The original owner of the commercially sold volumes is not identified, but is likely to be one of the interviewers or interviewees. Search dates: 1973 - 1993 - 2000-10-11 - 2003-04-04 Processing information: Not all names are indexed. Spelling of interviewee names is taken from the wording on the materials.