Fire extinction - Equipment and supplies

Date: 1979 - 1980

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

Reference: A-359-326/342

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 17 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: November 1913

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

Reference: 1/4-039059-G

Description: Petone Fire Brigade Station on the corner of Adelaide and Buick Streets. Uniformed firemen are outside using ladders and hoses. A horse drawn fire engine is also visible. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in November 1913. Dated from photographs located in the same area in the Godber Album, Vol 107, p 35 (PA1-o-198). This image is a glass copy negative taken by Godber from the original print in his album, showing the inscription beneath. The original 1/2 plate glass negative is at APG-0504-1/2, with digital copy available; and the original print is in his album Vol 107, p 35 (PA1-o-198) Original print in Godber album PA1-o-198, page 35 Inscriptions: Album page - Petone Fire Station Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 17 Jun 1995

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

By: Smith, Norman V, active 1995

Reference: OHInt-0430/12

Description: Discusses his work experiences until 1962 when he joined the Woodhill State Forest. Describes how his job was under the Fire Service which serviced all the State Forests in the area. Discusses fire equipment and training. Talks about the need to stop sand from covering farms and railway tracks. Gives a historical background to this mentioning the Public Works Act in the 1930s. Recalls gangs and camps in the Muriwai area and headquarters at Woodhill. Describes a number of inventions including a lupin seed sower, marram grass planter, a machine which traversed sand to get kauri logs and a submersible pump to utilise sea water and put out fires. Discusses toheroa digging, community life, the generations of families at Woodhill and the consequences of the forests being sold by the Government. Mentions Dan Young, Ned and Charlie Fenton and Arthur Terlesk. Talks about the tree nurseries, the effect of poisons on the bird life, and whale strandings and shipwrecks on Muriwai Beach. Mentions the `Warkworth'. Talks about the release of fallow deer by Alfred Buckland, deer farming by John Harmer and deer hunting at South Head. Discusses pre European sites, middens, battlegrounds and obsidian. His son Greg sat in on the interview Interviewer(s) - Bernadette Malizia Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3333.

Date: 1883-1910

By: Ashburton (N.Z.). Borough Council

Reference: MSX-8875

Description: Log book of correspondence concerning Ashburton Fire Brigade, especially regarding the actions of Walter E Dolman, Caretaker of The Fire Brigade, between 1883 and 1884. Covers the disbandment and re-establishment of the brigade. Contains inventory of fire brigade equipment. Also newspaper cuttings from the Ashburton Mail and Ashburton Guardian up to 1910. Source of title - Supplied by ibrary Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - NZ Fire Service, Wellington, 2011

Date: 1938, 1940, 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-086

Description: Photographs of houses in Auckland, New Zealand soldiers in a military camp, hippopotami at Auckland Zoo, a firefighting demonstration and a man with the carcasses of wild boar, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1950. Also includes a photograph of the railway station at Palmerston North in 1938 and one of a cottage in Arrowtown in 1940. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1980 - 1987

From: Downstage Theatre Company :[Stage plans and costume designs. 1973-1987]

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: D-025-336/357

Description: Consists of: (336) Ground plan; (337) Working drawings - additions to rostrum seating; (338, 339) Theatre plans - tracing paper on cardboard; (340) Trolley plans; (341) 'The New Place' - Additions to main hall area; (342, 343) Seating plan capacity; (344) Ground floor plan; (345) Position of fire exits, extinguisher and hoses; (346) Extended use of rehearsal room for 'Late night Seasons'; (347) Specifications and notes on auditorium seating; (348, 349) Seating layout 'Greater Tuna' onwards; (350) Section through auditorium; (351-355) Auditorium showing typical end staging; (356, 357) Ground layout and layout plan. Quantity: 22 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sizes vary

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-142

Description: Series of official publicity photographs. Some contain captions. Women's National Service Corps truck driver, Auckland; working in an army library; anti-aircraft training; returned men and women on furlough from 2nd NZEF on parade to a luncheon in their honour at Wellington; All Nations Day parade, Wellington (photo of US Armed Forces); NZ Women's Auxillary Service participating in parade. WAAC writing a letter inside her hut; two WAAF plotters at NZ Headquarters, 1943; series of photographs showing the WAAC Camp Fire Brigade practicising at WAAC Camp, Miramar Includes negative envelopes for negatives at 1/2-176306 to 1/2-176352 Includes two photographs taken by Green & Hahn, photographers, 152 Armagh St, Christchurch Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1904

By: Mather, John, 1848-1916

Reference: A-069-001

Description: A view of the Melbourne fire tower in the background, with stone buildings, a street, clothes hung across the street in the foreground Other Titles - Old fire tower, Melbourne. A bit of old Melbourne Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - monogram with date 19MJ04. Beneath image in pencil: title Old Melbourne. Signature in pencil Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 255 x 190 mm

Date: 1945-1948

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-133

Description: Multiple copies of official and unofficial photographs; most contain captions. Japanese language class; Lord Tedder giving informal talk to Australian Flight Wing Officers at Bofu; group photo of New Zealand team which defeated Australian team to win the Duntroon Cup at Yamaguchi (all named); Captain R Wright receiving the cup from Air Vice Marshal F M Bladin; colour patch worn by members of BCOF in Japan; aircraft of the British Commonwealth Air Group during the Independence Day `fly-past'; guard of NZ Div. Cavalry during the changing of the guard at Brigade Headquarters; opening of the British Training School at Matsuyama on island of Shikoku (Lt-Col E M Mackill Crichton, chief instructor, and others); men on board `Dunera' or ready to depart (includes Trooper F Wilson); General V H Sturdee inspecting a guard of honour drawn from Australian troops of 34 Brigade on his arrival at Kure. AC1 Alsweiler giving cooking lesson to group of Japanese women; group of YWCA workers (B Turner, M K Oades, Mrs M Dodds, B J Burrell) on arrival in Japan; at dinner (N D Barry, J Cleverley, E Armstrong, J Lewis, N Logan); scene of destruction at Chofu; Pte C T Rose at Kawana Hotel; Lt J R Paton on Kawana Hotel golf links with Japanese female caddie; Chick Chin, golf instructor, at Kawana Hotel links; spectators in small craft at `air-power' display; decontamination clothing and masks; Lt-Gen H C H Robertson presenting a trophy to Capt A Sweeney; Sister R Little ski-ing at Dogoyama; Senior staff officers, Component Commanders of BCOF, and Commanders of Allied Military Government regions, photographed at a farewell dinner to Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier (all named on back); Air Vice Marshal Bouchier inspecting NZ contigent at Anniversary Day parade accompanied by Major R Stanley-Harris; Air Vice Marshal Bouchier being greeted by Capt R Hannrod; Australian children with English teacher, Pat Wetz at Army School at Eta Jima; street scene at Kure. Commander-in-Chief of BCOF, Lt-Gen John Northcott inspecting guard of honour on his arrival at Hiroshima airfield to take over his command; Northcott with Brigadier W M Anderson, officer in charge of administration; arrival of advance party of NZ Brigade on the `Cheshire' shortly after disembarkation; men of the British-Indian Division who arrived on the `Cheshire'; Kawana Hotel; horse-riding in grounds of the hotel; general view of the ANZAC Day parade. New Zealand fire-fighters at Eta Jima (Cpl P N Kilpatrick, Cpl H J Morrison, Pte P Davies, D Burnett, R L Owens & Trooper D Norton); mail room; first baby born at BCOF, Muriel Ann Cameron Clarke; series of photographs of BCOF troops marching through Tokyo at American Independence Day Parade; Union Jack Club, Tokyo; celebration of feast of Corpus Christi at a monastery near Hiroshima; sightseeing at Miya Jima at cherry blosom time and at Beppu; transmitting tower at studios of Radio WLKS; Lance-Coporal R Duncan playing in BCOF tennis championships at Eta Jima, Headquarters of BCOF in Japan; Japanese policeman taking the oath before giving evidence at Kure Provost Court; instruction of fire-fighting crew; sheep being unloaded from `River Clarence' from Australia; holiday makers in the snow at Lakeside Hotel, Lake Chuzengi, near Nikko; Air Vice Destroyers of the former Japanese Imperial Navy moored in Kure waiting to be turned in scrap metal; series of breadmaking photos; 1st Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry cocktail party at new BCOF hotel in Maranouchi, Tokyo; Hon Mr F Jones at the official opening of the Maranouchi Hotel run by the Australian Canteens Services; couples dancing; group photo entitled `Christmas in Japan'; ceremonial parade at Iwakuni (14 RNZAF Squadron); RAF Dakota at Iwakuni with blankets and medical supplies for earthquake victims at Shikoku; rescue work; F/Lt E W Perry, Deputy Returning Officer, answering LAC M K Gemmel's queries; aerial target practice on beach at Onasabishima, an island in the Inland Sea; Corsairs of 14 RNZAF in a dive attack. Quantity: 196 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938-1964

From: Campbell, Douglas Archibald, 1906-1969 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9902-1

Description: Large group of photographs of a demonstration using aircraft to fight fires. This took place at Rata Peaks Station, Rangitata Gorge, Canterbury, on 13 September 1957. Aircraft used include an Auster, a Beaver and a helicopter. Two portraits of Douglas Campbell. Photographs of various forms of erosion on farmed land, and of measures taken to stabilize the land. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Ms Janice Campbell, Wellington, 2011

Date: 1885 - 1858 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook of loose drawings, ca 1890?]

Reference: E-036-q-2-030

Description: A man in a hard hat standing alongside a hose-reel or barrel on two large wheels. He is in conversation with another man dressed in a top hat and formal dark suit, carrying an umbrella It appears to be torn from a legal document, and has part of an ink inscription on the back: Cross-Exa[mination] by Mr Abra[ham?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on grey laid paper, 84 x 208 mm

Date: 1959-1974

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-006

Description: Photographs relating to industrial and electrical product safety, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1959 and 1974. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1963

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

Reference: Plans-94-039-709

Description: GA 5896/R1 - Standard details for swinging type fire hose and recess type Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 685 x 1115 mm

Date: 1963

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

Reference: Plans-94-039-710

Description: GA 5896/R1 - Standard details for swinging type fire hose and recess type Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 685 x 1115 mm

Date: 1994

From: Scott, Tom (1947- ) :Cartoon entries for Qantas Media Awards, 1994. 17 February 1994 to 7 December 1994.

Reference: H-236-003

Description: Shows a fireman standing in front of a fire holding a hose. There is a drop of water at the mouth of the hose. The water supply has been cut off by a man who is standing behind the fireman who has a pair of sissors and part of the hose in his hands. Refers to the fire service announcing economy measures. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1963

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :[Architectural plans. ca 1930-1980]

Reference: Plans-94-039-708

Description: GA 5896/R1 - Standard details for swinging type fire hose and recess type Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 685 x 1115 mm

Date: 1912

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

Reference: APG-0624-1/2-G

Description: Interior view of the Petone Fire Station, showing a fire engine (partially out of view) with two firemen standing beside. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1912. Photographs taken at the same time are found in Godber album Vol 107, p 5-6, from which this is dated. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1902

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

Reference: 1/4-039084-G

Description: View of ladders leading up to a high platform, with slides hanging from the top. A group of boys and men (some in uniform) are standing at the base of the platform, with a group of women and children in the left foreground. There are several people on different levels beneath the platform. Taken by an unidentified photographer, filed in Albert Percy Godber's collection. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Fire escapes Hokitika 1902. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: December 1917

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

Reference: APG-0499-1/2-G

Description: Smoke helmet squad of the Petone Fire Brigade at drill. From left to right: C J Patey, A S Burrows, T Williams, H Turner and Superintendent Gaynor. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in December 1917. Original print in Godber Album, Vol 109, p 79 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - Smoke helmet squad at drill. Petone Fire Brigade. 12/1917. C J Patey, A S Burrows, T Williams, H Turner, Supt Gaynor. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1910

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

Reference: APG-0411-1/2-G

Description: Fire hoses hanging on a tower beside the Petone Fire Station, drying after use in the fire at the timber yards of Bailey, Austin & Arcus, in 1910. Photograph taken by A P Godber. Information about the time and place of the timber yard fire from the Godber album, Vol 110, p 96 (Pa1-q-103), with photographs on the previous page showing scenes of the aftermath of the fire. An original print is at Pa1-q-103 (Godber album, Vol 110, p 97) Inscriptions: Album page - After the timber yard fire. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches