Sawmills - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: 5 Jul 1874

By: Stenhouse, A (Mr), active 1874

Reference: MS-Papers-3250

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1972 - 1979

From: Price, Nina, 1953- :[Lino cuts, biro drawings and a painted cardboard model of a house, relating to Denniston, West Coast. 1972-1979]

Reference: A-460-015

Description: Detail of sawmill machinery, showing two blade saws in the foreground, surrounded by rollers, chains and the machinery's frame Artist's note adds: 'I got advice about where this sawmill was and it wasn't in Denniston but in Waimangaroa, at the foot of the Denniston hill' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 175 x 275 mm on paper 210 x 303 mm

Date: 1956-1958

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1959-2007

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1951-1960, circa 1970s

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

Reference: PAColl-10567-13

Description: Photographs of people, buildings, industry, and landscapes taken by Les Cleveland between 1951 and 1959. Largely printed between 1951 and 1960, with some prints made later, possibly in the 1970s. All prints have captions which include the title Cleveland gave the photograph (often including the location of the photograph) and the date it was taken and printed. Almost all images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also stamped with Cleveland's home address. The majority are signed by Cleveland and all are stamped or identified by Cleveland as being a "Vintage Print". Some prints include reference numbers to Cleveland's index cards. Identified people are Jack Ritchie (former licensee of the Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown), Ron Biggs (boiling a billy), Dorothy Debenham at Greymouth, Mary and Heather Cornwell at Milford Sounds, June McMillan at Makara Beach, Senior Sargent George Christopher Donnelly (making a bet at the Kumara Races), and Mike Armstrong (washing dishes in a hut at Welcome Flat). Timber workers are photographed at work at the Kopara Sawmill including Ted McGhie, Ron "Tiki" Brimmicombe, Doug Macalister, and Neil McLean. Unidentified people include timber workers, the crew of the fishing boat Hauiti (photographed in Milford Sound), men in fancy dress participating in the Mayor of Thorndon campaign, children lining up to go to the pictures in Greymouth, children on a bulldozer in Karamea, a boy fishing at Reefton, a man smoking an crib logging at the Arawhata River, and a climber resting on a rock by the Cook River. A Taupo Ski Club group is photographed outside Blyth Hut at Ohakune Ski Field [Turoa] and includes Les Cleveland as well as a box of Lux soap. Buildings photographed include in Greymouth (band rotunda, police station), in Westport (Seatons Boarding House on Bright Street, Kawatiri boarding house (also known as Flemings Boarding House), and St Canice's Catholic Church), and in Nelson Creek (Saddlers Store, Jimmy Diamond's hut, township). Further prints of buildings show the Stafford Literary Institute, flooded bushmen's huts at Mussel Point, a cottage at Blackball, a derelict house at Bell Hill, ornamental faces on the Aubrey Gualter building (corner of Brandon and Featherston Streets, Wellington), the Four Square store at Crofton, Club Hotel in Palmerston North, a two-storied house with external staircase in Turakina, Enterprise Printing in Nelson, a cottage on the road to Goldsborough, J McFarlane's Hotel in Kumara, the Whanganui town clock, and the Weights and Measures Office in New Plymouth. Photographs of industry include a Pelton wheel at Dillmanstown; remains of a gold dredge at Callaghans near Kumara; Jack's Mill near Nelson Creek including a Type CBA No 119 A&G Price Ltd bush locomotive, derelict mill buildings, and a slab elevator; Kopara Sawmill buildings; an open cast coal mine at Charleston; and dredge buckets abandoned at the side of the Greenstone River. Scenic prints show the Tatere River and Tatere Gorge, Moeraki River, the sea at Punakaiki, surf at Hokitika Beach, a log jam and driftwood at Karamea Beach, Okarito River, bush scenes (including at Waterworks Reserve), the head of the Karangarua River looking towards Copeland Pass, the Karangarua Gorge, and Lake Haupiri. Other photographs include gravestones at the cemetery in Charleston, a hedge cutter mounted on a surplus World War Two Bren Gun Carrier, and vehicle scenes outside the George Hotel, Otira Gorge (a Hupmobile tourer and a front-end loader lowering a V8 engine into a truck), Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order and were placed in a box labelled "Vintage Prints" by curatorial staff during appraisal. Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Box one of two from set of prints classified as "Vintage Prints" during Library appraisal. See PAColl-10567-14 for box two.. Processing information: During processing, Library staff arranged prints by date. The volume of prints required that they be housed in two separate boxes.

Date: 1957

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

Reference: PAColl-D-1528

Description: Mounted exhibition print showing men, including Pat Gosling, working in the bush at Kopara Sawmill. Taken and printed by Les Cleveland, 1957. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprint mounted with framing mat on backing board

Date: [ca 1913 to 1914], [ca 1960s]-2011

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

Reference: PAColl-10645-23

Description: Contains prints of scenes relating to Les Cleveland, his family life and photographic interests, circa 1913 to 1914, 1960s to 2000s. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland. Includes photographs of the Cleveland and Porter families in Martinborough, a portrait of Les Cleveland, and Peter, Donna, Mary, and Edward Cleveland with a dog [husky?]. Unidentified people include a young woman, cafe patrons seated indoors and outdoors at Pātaka Museum and Art Gallery in Porirua, and an unidentified group with a snow plough. A group portrait shows the Coal Miners' Ball Committee, circa 1913 to 1914. Wellington buildings are also photographed, including the Chinese church on Frederick Street, a sign saying "Jesus Loves the All Blacks" outside St John's Church on Willis Street (also contains an accompanying news article), and the ruins of the Miramar Gasworks. Three contact sheet strips show scenes from Mussel Point, West Coast, including children at Carter's settlement (including playing on swings at a playground) and two women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast. West Coast images show milled logs, horseback riders, a slip being cleared by a bulldozer, and men from Nolan's Mill drinking and smoking and playing with a dog. Also, six frames show Native American jewellers selling jewellery at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, United States of America. Original enclosures (mainly print wallets) have been retained with prints. The imagelab photo wallet includes a commercial photographer's receipts and notes from Cleveland to the lab technician. Title supplied by Library. Negative of the photograph of the Coal Miners' Ball Committee print is at Alexander Turnbull Library 1/2-012633-F. Arrangement: Prints arrived at the library in a file box in no discernible order. Prints were stored with negatives in photo wallets or kept together by folds of paper or paper clips. Quantity: 26 colour original photographic print(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographs Transfers: See 35mm-109250 to 35mm-109262, 35mm-109307 to 35mm-109311, 35mm-109806 to 35mm-109814, 35mm-109820 to 35mm-109822, 1/4-133735-F, and 1/4-133736-F for negatives originally stored with these prints.. Processing information: Negatives have been separated from prints and original enclosures to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-115

Description: Looking towards the Southern Alps, with a man in left foreground carrying a chimney sweep's brush and a large mill building in the middle distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K. Holmes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 212 x 415 mm

Date: ca1938-ca1943

From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints

Reference: PAColl-6180-06

Description: A saw mill in operation; dredge gold mining on the West Coast; nurses and clients of a Plunket service in Christchurch in 1943; a toll bridge and the Wellington/Porirua motorway at the Tawa junction. There are also photographs relating to the Rev Taylor and Waimate North, and a portrait of Guide Rangi. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s-1980s]

From: New Zealand Centre for Photography :Photographs

By: Hoy, Douglas George, 1937-1992

Reference: PAColl-9528-3

Description: Photographs of railway scenes taken by Douglas George Hoy. Includes photographs of trip to United Kingdom in 1980, and railways in New South Wales. Accompanying material - Negative index Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: April 1992 - 01 Apr 1992

From: Kati Mahaki Kaumatua Oral History Project

By: Duncan, Max, active 1940-1992

Reference: OHInt-0073/3

Description: Max Duncan describes coming to live in Bruce Bay in about 1940 with his grandparents, Bill and Eva Bannister. Talks about local Home Guard, his father's role in it and the particpation of the entire male population. Notes that grandfather was a Koeti and talks about the Koeti family especially Mark and Butler Koeti. Describes the Bruce Bay sawmill, the building of whaling boats, Butler Koeti being an accomplished axeman, the last sports meeting in Bruce Bay and describes Bruce Bay and Jacobs River in the 1940s. Relates story of Maori ghosts outside Papakeri cemetery and that the old people spoke a different dialect in the south. Describes fishing for eels. Venue - Hokitika : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Paul Madgwick Venue - Hunts Beach Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004491 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0770.

Date: January 1995

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

Reference: PAColl-10788-01

Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints by Damer Farrell from January 1995 when he was active as a freelance press photographer on the West Coast. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: Photographic prints originally enclosed in brown paper bag annotated "January 1995" were rehoused in archival enclosures.

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000704-G

Description: View of Cashmere Bay, Lake Brunner, with a timber mill on the right, and a small boat moored, centre left. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Cashmere Bay. [No.] 2360.B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [195-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-117013-F

Description: Stacks of timber in a yard at Ogilvie's timber mill, Gladstone, West Coast, photographed circa 1950s for the National Publicity Studios. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1869

By: Browning, John Samuel, 1831-1909

Reference: A-113-011

Description: View looking north along the Hokitika River towards the port and town area, showing a ferry, ships, sawmills, Gibson's Quay Hotel, houses, and the railway track in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in upper case lettering. On right, artist's initials and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 153 x 380 mm

Date: ca 1910

From: West Coast Historical Society :Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-058144-F

Description: Group of timber workers, on board a Johnson steam locomotive at Bell Hill timber mill on the West Coast, circa 1910. Jack Nyberg is in the right foreground. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1912

From: West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society : Photographs

Reference: 1/2-096918-F

Description: Workers at Stratford and Blair sawmill, Paroa, West Coast, 1912. From left: Geo Taylor, Ern Kitts, Rod Shepherd, Lew Coumbe, Bill Williams, Harry Hopgood. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: May 1941

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913-2009

Reference: PAColl-7171-67

Description: Timber worker using a motorised cross cut saw at Granite Creek near Kongahu, West Coast. Photograph taken by Neville Robert Lewers in 1941. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.4 x 20.5 cm

By: Denniston Coal Miners' Industrial Union of Workers; Miller, Bill, active 1960-1977

Reference: 1/2-048993-F

Description: Men, probably timber workers, outside the Bowater and Bryan sawmill in Cape Foulwind. Source of descriptive information - Sawmill formerly identified just as B & B sawmill. Full name 'Bowater and Bryan' provided by Library client, 2007 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [Date unknown, circa 1920?]

From: West Coast Historical Society :Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: 1/2-058142-F

Description: Nyberg sawmill, locomotive and workers, at Te Kinga, date unknown, (circa 1910?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative