Clearing of land - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-186-042

Description: Shows a preliminary pencil sketch of a rural house on a sloping hillside, with a road going by, and a patch of bush beyond the house. At the left foreground is a tree, annotatrdd to show that it had been damaged by fire but the top was still "pretty good". There are colour notes about the foreground and the sky. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 147 x 237 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Brian Groshinski, Australia, in 2003.

Date: 21 Mar 1996

From: Tuapeka oral history project

By: Rishworth, Margaret Joyce, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0569/08

Description: Joyce Rishworth was born in Seacliff in 1921. Describes family and growing up in the area until the age of fifteen. Mentions father was a psychiatric nurse. Mentions the closure of Seacliff Hospital. Describes attending Seacliff Primary School, going by train daily to high school in Dunedin and attending Browns Commercial College. Describes meeting Harold Rishworth and becoming engaged before he went to war. Talks about his capture at El Alamein and his being a prisoner of war. Describes nursing training, but not sitting final exams, and nursing returned soldiers. Describes frequent church attendance. Talks about Harold Rishworth's appearance, rehabilitation and their marriage when he returned from war. Mentions his work at a fellmongery, the birth of their daughter and their move to Milton where they worked on a sheep farm. Describes applying for rehabilitation farms and a move to Lawrence. Discusses the rabbit problem, skinning and selling rabbits and improving land covered in gorse and manuka. Mentions the birth of other children and the difficulty of travelling on poor roads from Tuapeka West to the Lawrence maternity home. Discusses what her children are doing now. Describes having no telephone or electricity until the 1950s, initially no water, cooking on a wood stove and a mail delivery every three days. Discusses isolation as a result of snow and being unable to get home from Dunedin for a week. Mentions flooding and the influence of the Clutha River on farming. Describes increasing the farm size. Talks about recreational use of the river and the role of the punt as a tourist attraction. Details puntmen. Discusses the role of the church in her life. Recalls her husband's death in 1975. Describes membership of Associated Presbyterian Women (APW), Red Cross and Country Women's Institute(CWI). Notes Tuapeka West is also known as Kononi. Discusses involvement with the Clutha Valley High School. Notes the closure of the Tuapeka West School in 1991 and other services which have closed. Mentions the Greenfield pub and local events including the Shearers Jamboree, the punt dance and Tuapeka Mouth cattle sales. Describes disappointment on hearing about the dam and the potential loss of part of their property but comments philosophically on the need for electricity. Discusses being consulted by ECNZ and meetings at Tuapeka Mouth. Talks about sadness at the planned flooding of Beaumont and notes that her daughter and son in Beaumont have sold their orchard to ECNZ. Comments on the uncertainty created by the dam issue. Describes how her home is a base for the family and the dam has an impact on the whole family. Comments on the activities of Friends of Beaumont (FOB) who tried to disrupt punt celebrations. Interviewer(s) - Jerome Cvitanovich Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA 2632. Photo of Joyce and Harold Rishworth; Joyce Rishworth and others; Joyce Rishworth and son

Date: 1880

From: Graham, E J :[New Zealand scenes] [188-]

By: Graham, E J, active 1880s-1890s; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: A-256-007

Description: View from a hill looking down onto a farm, with Otago Peninsula and the sea in the background. There are fences, haystacks and farm buildings, with burnt-off bush in one paddock. The Burton Brothers photographers travelling dark van is parked below. Based on a Burton Brothers' photograph of about 1872 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E J G 1880 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 150 x 190 mm

From: [Gifford, Algernon Charles] 1862-1948 :[Unidentified views of New Zealand. ca 1920]

Reference: A-204-009

Description: Looking across a paddock with tree stumps and a felled tree, towards bush, including pine trees, and hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 252 mm Provenance: A.C. Gifford estate, 1.5.1967

Date: 1896

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1891 and 1895-1896]

Reference: E-033-2-007

Description: Two horses with a cart, and a rough sketch of a man reaching down to lift stones onto the cart. The sea is in the background Other Titles - Halfway Bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper, 205 x 125 mm

Date: [189-?]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140505-G

Description: Tent hut amongst burnt timber, Mt Cargill, Dunedin, circa 1890s, photographed by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: January 1906

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140732-G

Description: Scene including Catlins Lake, and areas of land cleared of trees, January 1906. Photograph taken by William Williams. Note on back of file print reads "from stereo card PA Series 4:1377 - Catlins Lake from our camp. Jany. 1906 W.W " Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1856

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

Reference: E-207-q-041-2

Description: View looking down from a height to a house sited on a slope with an area of cleared and partially fenced land surrounding it. The view, possibly from Signal Hill, is of John Buchanan's own ten-acre block in North-East Valley, Dunedin, no. 45 North Road. Mount Cargill lies behind the house. The road and the stream can be seen below. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J B Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 142 x 180 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

Reference: A-457-008-1

Description: Shows a house on a cleared plot of land, surrounded by bush-clad hills. The land is fenced and there are cows grazing adjacent to the house Taken from the Vincent Brooks lithograph of 'A "bush" section on Green Island, Otago (Fox Lodge)', which appears in C.F. Hursthouse's 'New Zealand, or Zealandia, the Britain of the South' (London: Stanford, 1857), p.239. See also A-256-013: 'A bush section on Green Island, Otago (Fox Lodge)' On the verso is another copied pencil drawing, entitled 'Valley of Misocco', showing a castle and the view into a valley looking towards Soazza, Switzerland, originally by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A bush section / Otago, NZ / 1860 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm