Horticulture - New Zealand - Marlborough Region

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: January 1986 - 01 Jan 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Richards, Gilbert Henry, 1902-1995

Reference: OHInt-0053/21

Description: Gilbert Richards was born in Ferntown on 15 January 1902. Talks about his father John Henry Richards, a pioneer of the Paturau area, and gives details of his family background. Notes that John Bramley (Jack) Nicholls, Heather Bonsell and Joyce Parkinson, also interviewed in this project, are also members of his family. Describes his upbringing in Ferntown including childhood jobs and pastimes and the Ferntown School. Talks about milking on the farm, beekeeping, the vegetable garden and home orchard and clearing of land. Recalls Paturau in an almost virgin state in 1912. Describes moving to Paturau to join his brothers who had taken up land from the Taitapu Estate, and living there for sixty years before retiring to Ferntown with his eldest son Billy. Talks about building the Paturau house and working for other people to make money for farm development. Talks about Collingwood hotels and dances, rugby in Golden Bay and the associated social life, the northwest Nelson earthquake, Depression hardships incuding the sale of stock, coastal shipping, various timber mills including Bassett's, Westhaven Inlet and Parkeston, the Prouse and Saunders flaxmill, goldmining on the Taitapu Estate and roads, including the Westhaven Dry Road. Venue - Collingwood : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr Richards' home south of Paturau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003035; OHC-003056; OHC-003057; OHC-003058; OHC-003059; OHC-003060; OHC-003061; OHC-003062 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 8 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 587.

Date: [ca 1915-1920]

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-026657-G

Description: Sacks of hops being piled on to a horse drawn cart, Nelson, circa 1915-1920. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Carting hops at Nelson. N.Z.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.N. Jones Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: between 1863-1888

From: Bloch, Theodor Thorlacius, 1844-1935 :Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-034-49

Description: Picking hops, Nelson. Photograph taken by Theodor Bloch between 1863 and 1888. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Hop picking Nelson NZ Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940

By: Wood, Susan, active 2002

Reference: 1/2-190584-F

Description: Portrait of Frederick Orton Hamilton (1873-1945), hardware merchant, company director and horticultural produce promoter of Nelson, taken in 1940 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 10 x 12.5 cm