Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991

Date: 1943

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2220/2222

Description: Includes perspective drawing of the exterior of a four-storey office building with rounded arches above the ground floor windows. Also includes elevations, sections and roof plan. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings and ink drawing, sizes varying up to 540 x 730 mm.

Date: 1908

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-2014

Description: Shows detail of front elevation, entrance door and section AA. The doorway has a verandah over the street frontage. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 590 x 942 mm.

Date: 1948

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2218

Description: Includes floor plan, and section details, and details of new reinforced concrete slab. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on dressed linen, 393 x 480 mm. Provenance: Bulleyment Fortune Architects, donation, 1989

Date: 1939-1940

By: Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991; Boyack, Nicholas John, 1961-

Reference: PAColl-1240

Description: Photographs of fishing in the Bay of Islands, family portraits, and other photographs Quantity: 11 photocopy/ies in one envelope.

Date: 1964

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-2223

Description: Shows site plan (floor coverage), elevation to Aurora Terrace, and written dimensions at lower right. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 535 x 810 mm.

Date: 1965

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-2216

Description: Block plan showing position of sewer. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on tracing paper, 505 x 375 mm.

Date: 1953

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

Reference: Plans-91-2224

Description: Shows plan of third floor, rear elevation, and section through ground, first and second floors. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on tracing paper, 420 x 570 mm.

Date: 1927

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2230/2235

Description: Includes plan and elevation of passenger lift; basement, ground floor and first floor plans of warehouse with office. Quantity: 6 plan(s). Physical Description: Blueprint, diazo print, pencil and ink drawings, sizes varying

Date: 1950

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Haughton & McKeon (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2229

Description: Shows plan of existing third floor, plan of the new floor on top, and a cross-section of the new roof. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 365 x 620 mm.

Date: 1944

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2214

Description: Shows roof plan, part elevations of walls, detail at junction of diagonal braces. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 490 x 587 mm.

Date: 1910

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton & McKay (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-2215

Description: Shows ground floor, first floor and second floor plans for an office building, two sections, and an elevation of the new front entrance door. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 405 x 747 mm.

Date: 12 Sept 1988 - 12 Sep 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Wiggins, William Robert, 1899-1991

Reference: OHInt-0006/83

Description: Describes in detail family background (father at Chelsea Sugar Refinery), education, employment, and life in Auckland pre war (selling 'Truth' newspapers, warehouse work), apprenticeship as a blacksmith and details of work. Recalls enlistment, guarding ammunition factory in Normanby Road, ceremonial duties, military funerals, the Mount Eden Guards. Transfer to being a guard at Motuihe Island, details of guard duty, relations with German internees, anti German feeling in Auckland, living conditions of internees, various anecdotes, Count von Luckner Kircheiss, his escape from Motuihe in detail, Dr Schultz. Transport overseas with the 41st Reinforcements, morale among conscripts, death of "Taffy" Herbert Lloyd Dash. Describes ports of call, especially Capetown, submarine attacks. Recalls arrival at Sling Camp, training and discipline, military burials at Tidworth Cemetery in detail, and being accidentally gassed, describes sensation, Tidworth Hospital, being transported back to New Zealand as an invalid. Describes first marriage, children, Moerewa freezing works, then a slaughterman, his career with various freezing works in detail, involvement with RSA at Kawakawa and other places, Anzac Day parades, effect of gassing on his life, being a freezing worker during the 1930 Depression, the bobby calf scheme and calf pools. Recalls venereal disease prevention, relations with British, hobbies, deep sea fishing, views on present RSA, and government. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Ranfurly War Veterans' Home, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002790 - OHC-002792 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) in two parts. 3 Electronic document(s) - transcript, summary. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB 525/1 - 2, OHDL-000362. Black and white photographs:-. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins, 1988. Bill Wiggins and striped marlin, ca 1960s. Bill Wiggins and second wife, Dorothy, 1948. Bill Wiggins, his daughters, and brother, during World War Two. Bill Wiggins, fishing trip, 1921. Bill Wiggins and daughters, 1941. Bill Wiggins and Dave Whitehead, undated. Bill Wiggins, 1915