Shipping - New Zealand - Tasman Region

Date: 1844-1903

By: Tinline, John, 1821-1907

Reference: Micro-MS-0790

Description: Reflect duties as native interpreter, surveyor and sheriff in Nelson Province. Land purchase disputes with Maori, reports on wreck of "Phoenix" 1846, road linking Nelson and the Wairau, anchorage at Golden Bay, correspondence concerning Whakapuaka Block. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (62 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1952

By: Barltrop, Frederick, 1874-1963

Reference: qMS-0137

Description: Barltrop's talk covers briefly the history of the area where Pelorus Jack lived, Admiralty Bay to Pelorus Sound, and gives the sightings, people involved, anecdotes and dismisses fantasies about Pelorus Jack and notes a more recent sighting of a similar fish Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (with corrections) (38 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 1864-1865

By: Black Diamond (Ship)

Reference: Micro-MS-0773

Description: Voyage from Nelson to Wanganui 4 Oct to 4 Nov 1864 under the command of William Rhind. Second voyage under the command of W C Lambert, 21 Mar to 24 Apr 1865, when the vessel was wrecked at New Plymouth. Correspondence, accounts and papers relating to the loss of the vessel. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 25 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1864-1865

Reference: Micro-MS-0795

Description: Two voyages from Sydney to New Caledonia, voyage from Newcastle to Taranaki and Nelson, where boat became property of Nathaniel Edwards and Co. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (80 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1863, 1866-1872

By: Curtis Brothers (Firm)

Reference: Micro-MS-0803

Description: Merchant firm and Nelson agents for absentee owners in London, especially H Seymour and A Fell. Shipping reports to Lloyds, sales of land and livestock. Private letterbook of H E and O Curtis covers business and family affairs and account of Oswald's duties as Superintendant of Nelson Province. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 650 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: May 1845-Oct 1848

Reference: Micro-MS-0768

Description: Kept by Stephen Carkeek, District Treasurer and checked by Donald Sinclair, Chief Police Magistrate. Payments and receipts for police, Sheriff's customs and harbour departments, for Nelson militia, public works department, constables' widows and Court of Request. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 100 frames).

Date: Jun 1872

By: Wallace (Ship : 1867-1885)

Reference: Micro-MS-0522

Description: Notes on weather on voyage of the paddle steamer Wallace from Dunedin to Nelson; lists of cargo to and from West Coast ports Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (9 pages).

Date: 1840-1909, 1931 (1936)

By: Moore, Frederick George, 1815-1892

Reference: Micro-MS-0793

Description: Correspondence with Charles Heaphy and others, accounts of coastal voyages as commander of the `Jewess', wrecked 1841. State of the country, pioneer life, early travel in Nelson district. Farming journal 1844-1845. Encounter with Te Rauparaha. Letters on steam locomotion. Some material compiled by his daughter, Mrs C Morris. Microfilm copy of MS-1660 (except for biographical note at beginning) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (252 pages).

Date: 10 Nov 1876-6 Nov 1877

Reference: Micro-MS-0734

Description: Log book of the schooner Zephyr (W I Carless, Master) on a voyage from Melbourne to Hobart via New Zealand and on to Port Davey, kept by Robert Sherwin, Mate. At Nelson 6 to 16 Jan 1877, and at Kaipara 21 Jan to 13 Feb 1877. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 58 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 10 Nov 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Gillooly, Dennis Michael, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0053/05

Description: Denis Gillooly was born in Collingwood on 21 January 1938. He describes his family's background including connections with the James family of Jamestown and the Wigzil and Roil families. Describes his father's work on gold dredges and at Mount Burnett coalmine. Talks about the Collingwood wharves, the formation of the Collingwood Shipping Company and work on the coastal ships `Paroto' and `Pearl Kaspar'. Talks about work conditions and wages. Recalls Golden Bay Distributors Ltd and production of dolomite and its processing at Onekaka. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr Gillooly's home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002956; OHC-002957 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 571.

Date: Date unknown

From: Goulter, Enga Margaret (Mrs), 1908-1988 : Photographs of Collingwood

Reference: 1/2-032620-F

Description: The ship `Lady Barkley' at Parapara wharf. Date and photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1945]

From: Bruere, D I (Mrs) : Photographs of Onekaka Iron and Steel Company Ltd

Reference: 1/2-029424-F

Description: Iron oxide being loaded for Wellington at Collingwood wharf, circa 1945. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1844 - 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-173-015

Description: View at Taupo Point, just south of Separation Point, Golden Bay, showing Taupo Pa with palisades and buildings and a bush-clad knoll beyond, the sea and several inshore islands. Depending upon the extent of Messenger's knowledge, the boat anchored off the beach is probably a Deal boat, and the mizzen was a "standing lug". The foresail was a "dipping lug" (see note below, and letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999) A copy of John Wallis Barnicoat's eye-witness drawing "Taupo, Massacre Bay, March 1844", negative 11570 1/2. The original drawing is in a private collection but the Library has a photograph. Probably drawn for James Cowan's The New Zealand Wars, but not used. Two Deal boats and six Deal boat men were brought to New Zealand by the Nelson Preliminary Expedition which entered Nelson Haven in November 1841. One of the boat men was James Smith Cross who became Nelson's second harbourmaster. (See letter from Pat W Win, AT 13/14/1, 24 December 1999). Other Titles - Taupo Pa, Golden Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 114 x 256 mm

Date: Date unknown

From: Goulter, Enga Margaret (Mrs), 1908-1988 : Photographs of Collingwood

Reference: 1/2-032621-F

Description: The ship `Lady Barkley' leaving Parapara wharf. Date and photographer unknown. Note on back of file print reads "Wharf built 1907" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1878-1894]

From: Tyree Studio: Negatives of Nelson and Marlborough districts

Reference: 10x8-1721-G

Description: Screw steamer `Tasman' at Collingwood, photographed circa 1878-1894, by the Tyree Brothers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).