Lumbermen

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).

Date: 1870 - 1898

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

By: Wildbore, Charles Edward, 1862-1937

Reference: E-208-q-018-1

Description: Newspaper cutting of a photograph showing men felling two white pines (kahikatea) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 155 x 110 mm

Date: 1976 - 1979

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-337-001/026

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international social and political issues. Quantity: 26 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, approximately A4, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 26 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Murphy, Francis Richard, 1948-; Murphy, Bronwyn Gay, 1948-

Reference: OHInt-0569/06

Description: Frank Murphy was born in Palmerston, Otago in 1948. Describes his father's work on Bluecliffs Station and his mother's as station cook. Talks about the Bluecliffs area, the ownership of Bluecliffs Station by the Rhodes Estate and its management by Dr Woodhouse. Explains father's work on the farm and going away to boarding school. Discusses his relationship with his parents, attitudes to table manners, discipline, alcohol and smoking. Describes riding a horse to school, mustering on the station and his interest in rugby, cricket and race meetings. Lists a variety of jobs before going to work at Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Mentions getting used to office work and doing extra mural study at Otago University. Explains reasons for not completing study, for leaving his job and the receivership of Mosgiel Woollen Mills. Backgrounds a venture in woolscouring. Bronwyn Murphy was born in Mosgiel in 1948. Mentions the Bisset family farm was at Momona and part of it is where the Dunedin airport is now located. Describes the fanily home, helping with cooking and chores, the childhood family routine and going to Sunday School. Comments on enjoying the open spaces as a child. Describes her schooling followed by working in a lawyer's office. Explains how she met Frank, dates, their decision to marry and their wedding day in 1970. Describes living in Dunedin and on the Taieri before buying the Beaumont Hotel in 1982. Refers to its run down appearance, its physical layout, guest accommodation, clientele, hours of work, the area covered by the hotel, the financial help of the previous owners and their first winter there. Describes customers including forestry workers. Refers to farming and orchards. Describes the Beaumont community and local characters. Talks about music at the hotel. Discusses the attitude ot the locals to outsiders. Details their aims and goals when they first took over the hotel and the introduction of food for casual diners to minimise the effect of alcohol for motorists. Lists important local events including the Beaumont races, the Paradise Fishing Club competition, other activities on the river, and a pig hunting competition. Refers to the decline of the Beaumont Races in the context of drink driving. Explains the shift of the race to Wingatui and its impact. Describes the closure of the community hall, church and school. Mentions fund raising and Bob Woods. Describes the dam project public meeting at Beaumont in 1989 and the destructive effect on the community. Explains his belief that ECNZ has been deliberately vague about the proposal. Discusses the second public meeting in 1991. Talks about the treatment of people selling to ECNZ, their absence from the hotel and a lack of farewells. Describes concerns about the environmental impact. Summarises the impact on the locals particularly in terms of uncertainty. Refers to ECNZ personnel and how they should have operated. Discusses interest groups Friends of Beaumont (FOB) and Residents of Beaumont (ROB). Discusses the national campaign run by musician Graeme Collins and local attitudes to him. Explains their decision to sell the hotel in the context of the break up of the community and the decline in the hotel's turnover. Describes reluctance to sell to ECNZ and breaking the news to the local community. Describes their farewell, its emotional impact and new lessees Ray and Margaret Pankhurst. Describes the circumstances which led to them leasing the Fairfield Hotel. Talks about retaining links with the Beaumont community, continuing uncertainty in Beaumont and the stress suffered by locals. Explains their hopes for future of Beaumont. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2630. Photo of Frank Murphy as a child; phot of Bronym Bisset in 1959; photo of Frank and Bronwyn Murphy in 1995

Date: 2 Aug 1994 - 02 Aug 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Corcoran, Rachel, 1897-1996

Reference: OHInt-0430/03

Description: Rachel Corcoran was born in 1897. Describes the arrival in New Zealand of her great grandfather Isaac Merrick and his residence on Waiheke Island. Talks about her father leaving the island, going to Auckland and meeting her mother Ann Burns. Mentions she was the youngest of thirteen children. Recalls their first home which was a nikau thatch and their move to Peak Hills near Kaukapakapa. Describes how her father was a bushman who acquired a land lease in the Ararimu Valley. Mentions the death of a baby in the family. Details the purchase of stores from Kaukapakapa. Mentions access via a wire bridge over the creek, no electricity, candles or kerosene lamps. Recalls an open fire, camp oven, iron kettle and washing in kerosene tins. Describes walking barefoot to school, the school building, school teachers and the proficiency exam. Mentions gumdigging and the landscape which was largely fern and ti-tree. Describes how the family were Mormons. Talks about turning sixteen and going to work for the family of Dr Meinhold in Helensville. Mentions he had previously operated on her on the kitchen table. Describes how the doctor travelled by horse and gig. Recalls moving to Auckland and working at the hospital for returned soldiers in Domett Avenue and then for the Upton family of Remuera. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3325.

Date: 1980

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: New Zealand Federation of Labour (1937-1988)

Reference: Eph-C-ROTH-Labour-1980-01

Description: Front shows a photograph of a family (man and wife with three children) sitting in a living room, some at the table. The verso identifies them as the Scadden family, Bruce and Lorraine and three daughters. Bruce is one of the workers on strike at Kinleith Timber Mills. Their circumstances are discussed, as is the general situation with Forest Products and the interference by Prime Minister Rob Muldoon. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on flier. Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of newsprint sheet, 280 x 420 mm.

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Hardy, Anthony John, 1943-

Reference: OHInt-0159/03

Description: Tony Hardy was born in Gisborne in 1945. His early childhood was spent in the Ureweras and the State Hydro Department (New Zealand Electricity Department) Tuai Power Village. Describes the family's move to Lower Hutt in 1956 where Tony Hardy's father worked as an attendant at the Haywards substation (NZ Electricity Department). Describes qualifying as a motor mechanic and spending three years on the West Coast hunting and employed in bush work, mainly for the Kopara Sawmilling Company. Explains the relationship between this privately owned company and the Forest Service. Comments on exploitation of beech forest and gives opinion on conservationists and forest management. Talks about selective logging and sustainable yields. Talks about some time spent in Sydney, getting married and becoming a logging contractor in a partnership with Lou Weinberg in Mapua in 1973. Describes work with Nelson Pine Forest Company, operation of the gangs, their output compared with the Forest Service output, wages, safety aspects of the work and the need for something to be done with the Forest Service by the time it was corporatised. Talks about chipping, working in the Golden Downs Forest and for H.H. Baigent and Son. Discusses the privatisation of the Forestry Corporation and effects on local Nelson timber companies. Talks about Timberlands and Tai Swiss. Compares log hauling with log skidding. Comments on the capital investement involved in machinery. Venue - Nelson : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mr Hardy's home at Nelson Accompanying material - Bound in with abstract and describes in abstract record Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001885; OHC-001886; OHC-001887 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 294. Search dates: 1943 - 1988

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11390

Description: Photographs of timber being dressed in a mill, a furniture maker at work, and items of furniture made from New Zealand Pinus radiata. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 11 Jan 1994

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Ngawaka, Harry, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0104-22

Description: Harry Ngawaka (Walker) born Catherine Bay, Great Barrier Island in 1923. Describes school which was an old tin shed at Kava, teachers, methods of travel to school (3 miles), chores before leaving for school and social life in the area. Outlines work on leaving school, aged 15 years, which included working in the bush for Kauri Timber Co at Whangaparapara, Gibbons & Billing and Freezing works, before joining the Army and serving with 15th Reinforcements to Italy. At the end of war, recalls spending two and a half years in Japan in the occupation forces. Describes life post war, moving to Flat Island crayfishing. Talks about land confiscation in the early days. Simon de Silva was present at this interview but was also interviewd on his own on another occasion. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012382-012383 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4240. Search dates: 1923 - 1994

Date: 1986

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour; V R Ward (Firm)

Reference: Eph-C-TIMBER-1986-01

Description: Poster giving advice as to safe methods of tree felling, shows a 5-frame cartoon tree feller in action with his axe, to illustrate five rules: 1. Make sure others are not within two tree lengths of the tree being felled 2. Keep axe and wedges handy 3. Use correct scarfing and back-cut methods 4. Post road signs if felling near a road 5. Don't leave cut trees standing Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm.

Date: 1981

From: [Ephemera and posters relating to films, motion pictures, cinemas. 1980-1982]

By: Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-D-CINEMA-1981-01

Description: Shows a montage of a demonstration march by the Combined Council of Timberworkers delegates, and a photograph of a worker on a pile of logs. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 755 x 410 mm.

Date: Between 1913 and 1920

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1943-1/4-G

Description: Three men jacking a log in an unidentified logging area in the North Island. Photograph taken by A P Godber, circa 1916? Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1923-1926, 1973, [1862-1866]

By: Holman, Dinah, 1938-

Reference: MS-Papers-8785

Description: Handwritten and typed reminiscences, recorded between 1923 and 1926, and in 1973, of the reminiscences of Henry Davy and his grandson, Ernest Cecil Davy. Henry Davy's reminscences are mainly of his service with Patea Mounted Rifles in Taranaki and Waikato during the New Zealand Wars. Those of Ernest Cecil Davy give a a detailed and vivid account of his life as a casual worker, sharemilker and timber worker in Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand; and include his war service with the 18th Reinforcements in World War I on the Western Front, where he was wounded. Also included are general notes on the Davy family, drawn up, apparently, by Ernest Davy. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript (Photocopy) Provenance: Photocopy given to the donor by Jim McCallum, a retired prison superintendant, in Sydney NSW, who had in turn been given the photocopy ca 1980 by an unknown trainee prison guard. The donor recopied the documents and sent copies to the Auckland Central Library, the Waikato University, Puke Ariki and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Processing information: Access restriction and use conditions removed 5 December 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: 1910s

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

Reference: 1/1-004897-G

Description: Timber workers at their camp, Northland region, taken by the Northwood Brothers, 1910-1919 Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-017

Description: Shows a man representing the N.Z. Timber Industry stopping a forestry worker from cutting down a tree because of the recession in the export timber trade. The worker is standing with his chain-saw at the ready. A couple, planning to build their own house, are pleading for cheaper timber prices within New Zealand. Extended Title - "Hold it! We're cutting down on production because of the export slump" "If you're not getting the export incentive, mate, maybe you could produce cheaper timber for the domestic market!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: [190-?]

From: Daroux, Louis John, 1870-1948 :Photographs of New Zealand and the Pacific

Reference: 1/1-039618-G

Description: Group of people, including women and children, by a bush railway and bullock teams. Photograph taken ca 1900s by Louis John Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: Before 1930s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039101-G

Description: Four timber workers standing on a log being winched onto a railway wagon. The end of the log where the men are standing is in mid-air. Probably photographed by Albert Percy Godber. This image is a glass copy negative made by Albert Percy Godber from a print. For a clearer version of this image see negative at 1/4-039102. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Peter, Juliet, 1915-2010

Reference: A-434-016

Description: One side of sheet shows two views of two men using an electric saw to fell a large tree. The other side shows one study of the men, and a sketch of caterpillar wheels and a tree. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings, on sheet 255 x 325 mm.

Date: Before 1930s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039102-G

Description: Four timber workers standing on a log being winched onto a railway wagon. The end of the log where the men are standing is in mid-air. Probably photographed by Albert Percy Godber. This image is a glass copy negative made by Albert Percy Godber from a print. For a paler version of this image see negative at 1/4-039101. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1833-1844, 1878-1882

By: Laslett, Thomas, 1811-1887

Reference: MS-Group-1408

Description: Includes, three journals re-written by Laslett in 1878-1881 from his original diaries from his four visits to New Zealand in 1833-1834, 1837-1838, 1839-1841, 1841-1843. The journals contain original drawings from the original diaries. On his first voyage, Laslett was carpenter on the HMS Buffalo assisting the Surveyors. And was Timber Inspector for the Admiralty on the HMS Buffalo for three voyages and the HMS Tortoise for the last. The journals contain full descriptions of the ship parties' activities, including descriptions of places, Maori villages, Maori practices, disputes between Maori and between Maori and the ship's party, timber collecting practices including employment of Maori labour, problems between crew and officers, European population, and descriptions of flora. Laslett became Timber Inspector for the Admiralty. Earlier in his career he visited New Zealand on the HMS Buffalo and other ships on timber gathering expeditions. Quantity: 3 folder(s) (each containing one volume). 0.06 Linear Metres.