Cows - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: 1967-1971

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PA12-11563

Description: Transparencies of South Westland, including river and beach areas, and images relating to "meatshooters", 1967-1971. Taken by Les Cleveland. Photographs include the airstrip at Mussel Point, Haast Beach, musterers on horseback with dogs driving cattle on the banks of the Haast River. A number of images are taken from the air. A series of images relate to "Meat Planes" and "Meatshooters" [deer hunters?] with planes and helicopters photographed on the Waiatoto River flats. In a mountainous area a man [holds?] the bottom [skid?] of a helicopter in flight. A series of images show Mike T Bennett. He is seen smoking, carrying a pig on his back, with the severed head of a deer, with a large pile of antlers, and at a "meatshooters" camp by a fire. Lorraine Bennett is photographed cooking and Rosina [Sands?] is seen with her children at a Mussel Point location. A series of images show the Bennett family and "Haastians" having a picnic at Mussel Point. Mussel Point airstrip photographs also include other unidentified children of meat shooters. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Arrived in enclosure labelled "Haast" by Cleveland. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card slide frames Transfers: Part one of two. See remainder of set at PA12-11564.. Processing information: Slides that were originally stored together were split into two parts to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-8803

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams'). The first slide shows the house at 48 Hume Street, Crows Nest, Sydney owned by friends of Mr Williams. The next group are taken from a published guide to the Tarawera eruption, some showing the area before the eruption and one of the effects after the eruption. The following slides show scenes on the West Coast and Canterbury. Many relate to geological and rock formations, including Punakaiki pancake rocks, a sample of orbicular granite at Karamea and a high terrace at Karamea, rocks in the sea at Scotts Bay, cliffs on the Rakaia River, and moraine at Franz Josef Glacier. There are also images of white rata, cows heading to milking and on pasture, and a butter factory in Christchurch. The last two images were taken by Neville Hatwell, one of the Tasman Glacier from the air, and one of the road over the Crown range. Slides on this sheet are numbered 746-897, with nos. 756 to 825 (all on Australia) removed for a lecture series which Mr Williams gave when he returned to England. Those removed are filed in a later sequence. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 898-899, 901, 903, 905, and 921-922) to create representative collections on New Zealand and Australia which he used in lecture series on his return to England. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-019

Description: The original watercolour on which the lithograph "Hokitika River" is based (Barraud's "New Zealand graphic and descriptive", London 1877), shows a view of the Hokitika River. Shows two men with their equipment, standing in the right foreground, on the near bank of the Hokitika River, with snowy mountain ranges in the background. There are several cows on the sandy flats on the opposite bank of the river. The men may be drinking or smoking. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signature and date] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 250 x 353 mm. Provenance: Previously in the collection of the late Adrienne Jarvis of Auckland, and earlier of Hokitika Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-081

Description: Shows some cows on the bank of a shingly river, with a house in the middle distance and snowy mountains beyond Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 343 mm

Date: 2002-2004

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000501

Description: Photographs of Karamea, West Coast. Includes photographs of rivers, streams, farmland, mountains and views of the surrounding area. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (Karamea)" Quantity: 67 digital photograph(s).