Mills and mill-work - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: July 1948

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Wilson, W, active 1949

Reference: 1/2-034291-F

Description: Photograph of the grading table, State Forestry Mill, Waipa. Shows unidentified men on either side of a long table, handling slats of wood. The table is under a wooden building, which is open at the sides and at either end. Piles of wood can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by W Wilson for the National Publicity Studios in July 1948. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "Waipa State Forestry Mill, Rotorua. The grading table at the State Forestry Mill, Waipa." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1955

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s

Reference: 1/2-034597-F

Description: Aerial view of a pulp and paper mill workers' settlement at Kawerau, looking down on a fight in a ring in the centre. Photograph taken in February or March 1955 by Mr W Walker for the National Publicity Studios. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - A39932 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [ca 1948]

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-034314-F

Description: Photograph of a sawn log coming from the gang saw, Waipa State Forestry Mill. Shows two unidentified men moving a log across some metal rollers. There is other machinery nearby. Photograph taken by Edward Percival Christensen for the National Publicity Studios, probably in 1948. Other - Note on back of file print reads: "Waipa State Forestry Mill, Rotorua. Sawn log coming from the gang saw." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1896

By: Forsyth, James, -1896

Reference: A-466-016

Description: Shows a print of the earliest-known coloured illustration of the town of Whakatane, dated 1896. The painting was given or sold by the artist to the proprietors of the Commercial Hotel, which can be seen on the left. Also shows the hotel Whakatane, to the right, and a steamer, probably the 'Chelmsford'. The Maori village of Wairaka is on the extreme left. Other identified buildings include the flax mill, in the centre of the picture, and the town's first store in the brown gabled building with three windows, to the right. The dominating flat-topped hill is Puketapu, the site of a pa that was occupied up to the early 1800s Probably reproduced by the Whakatane District Museum and Gallery Jim Forsyth was Scottish, and appears to have been an itinerant painter. In 1896 he made a number of drawings of the Whakatane area. He stayed at the Commercial Hotel, and in a little house near the Ohiwa Hotel, where he died on 7 July 1896, at the age of 39. According to the New Zealand Herald of 24 July 1896, he died of self-inflicted head wounds caused by a small tomahawk Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, printed on card 146 x 305 mm Provenance: Anonymous donation, January 2015