Fur trade

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 5 Oct 1993 - 05 Oct 1993

From: Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre oral history project

By: Rider, Philip Dennis, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0403-06

Description: Philip Rider was born in London in 1923. Describes family background - father Reginald Rider and mother Nellie Rider, nee Watt. Gives details of family coming to New Zealand in 1927 - father a furrier on contract to Fur Trading Company of New Zealand and mother also worked in fur trade - and buying the house in Kilbirnie that he still lives in at the time of the interview. Describes father and mother. Recalls going fishing with father. Describes the family home - the layout and the use of rooms, the kitchen, bathroom and dining room, furniture made by father, the use of the dining room for entertaining. Comments on the use of gas, including the gas califont, electricity, open fires for heating and not having a telephone. Mentions telephone box. Comments on house colours and roofs in the area. Describes school lunches. Mentions Mr and Mrs Hoy. Gives details of the development of the airport and land reclamation. Recalls there were many children in the street and playing in the street and at each other's places. Mentions billiards and cards and describes a kitset radio. Mentions the family cat. Recalls corporal punishment at home and at school. Talks about reading, mother knitting and darning and discussing problems with mother. Briefly describes the garden and talks about neighbours Alex Gowan and the Billman, Scott, Anderson and Wright families. Discusses older brother Len Rider. Recalls services such as the milkman, the postman delivering twice a day, the drain cleaner and trams. Gives details of the shops and who ran them - the grocery, drapery, butcher and hardware shops. Mother mainly shopped at Self Help - describes Self Help shops. Recalls attitudes to illness and refers to tonsils and olive oil. Talks about the dentist and tooth removal. Discusses education at Lyall Bay Primary School - route walked to school, teachers and subjects. Describes the effect of the Depression. Mentions relief workers shifting sandhills for the airport. Mentions door to door salesmen. Describes going to hear Bob Semple speak before the 1935 Election. Briefly recalls starting work in the fur trade in 1937. Describes joining the army signal unit in 1941 and serving in New Zealand, life as a signaller, army radios and other equipment. Comments on the effect of war on the street. Mentions the Home Guard. Describes setting up Rider and Company, a manufacturing furrier business, with father after war while brother worked for Quality Furriers in the Hutt Valley, operating the business from home and also living at home, learning skills from father, drafting patterns, taking over business after father retired in 1950s. Details involvement in Forest and Bird Society, interest in conservation, meeting Ruth Scull and marrying in 1966. Refers to renovating the kitchen after marriage and getting the telephone in the early 1950s - otherwise no major changes to the house. Describes buying first car ca. 1948 and building a garage at the front of the house. Refers to being the only one of his generation still living in the street. Lists reasons for staying in family home. Talks about working for Interlock Ltd in Miramar after retirement and compares working with fur to working with metals. Discusses the Kilbirnie Speedway, the 1940 Centennial Exhibition buildings and the flying boats. Explains his objections to the airport extension plans. Abstracted by - Susan Fowke Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 20 Salek Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006618 Tape numbers - OHC-006619 Tape numbers - OHC-006620 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1523. Photocopies of two photos of Philip Rider with abstract Search dates: 1923 - 1993

Date: 1999

From: Various cartoonists :[Cartoons collected by Jim Anderton, 1970s-2011]

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-

Reference: B-197-021

Description: A four-frame cartoon showing a couple driving at night, and having to swerve repeatedly in order to avoid hitting possum-fur collectors. Relates to Jim Anderton's proposal to provide government assistance to the possum fur industry Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies photocopy of original cartoon. Physical Description: Photocopy, trimmed, on page 230 x 310 mm

By: Dias, R; McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: B-102-018

Description: A view of a stoat, used for its fur Inscriptions: Signed: R Dias Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 493 x 385 mm Provenance: Donation: Lady McIntosh, 11 Wesley Rd., Wellington, 18 Nov 1977

Date: 1960

From: New Zealand Federation of Labour : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-4100-20/40/1

Date: 1971

By: McLeod, Norman Lloyd, 1923-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-8704

Description: Unpublished history of the fur trade in New Zealand, written for the Furriers' Guild. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Prepared for the Furrier's Guild, 1971 Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, W H McLeod, 2007

Date: 2009-2010

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-084

Description: Comprises letters and email concerning various animal welfare issues, including importing cat and dog far and live sheep exports. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: [30 Apr 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/286/11-G

Description: Three women in fur fashions from the newly opened Wellington branch of Pattison Ede Ltd. Photograph taken 30 Apr 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [30 Apr 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/286/10-G

Description: Three women in fur fashions from the newly opened Wellington branch of Pattison Ede Ltd. Photograph taken 30 Apr 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: 2005

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0000313

Description: A husband and wife stand outside a fashion week venue looking at an anti-fur protest poster. The husband carelessly wonders if anyone cares not realising that behind him looms a gigantic bear. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1971

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-0257

Description: Frames 1 and 2 show a young woman working at a sewing machine at an opossum fur factory in Ross. All the other frames show young boys on bicycles, or playing on an old train engine in Hokitika. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 2000-2011

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MSDL-1448

Description: Files relating to Sue Kedgley's participation in animal welfare campaigns including importing of cat and dog fur, layer hens, sow crates, live animal export, animal experiments, battery hens. Includes campaign launch invites, letters, press releases, articles, lobby group material, Green Party fact sheet, drafts of speeches, draft of poster, advertising complaint, copies of letters to New Zealand Herald newspaper, drafts of Green Party policy, legislative bills and submissions to Parliamentary committees, plus copies of submission by Michael Morris on Animal Welfare code of Welfare 2001. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to library within a folder of files shared by Green Party members called "Common Folder Greens/Animal Welfare". Includes subfolders "Administration" "Articles", "Bills", "Correspondence", "Correspondence/Animal Welfare Bill 2010", "Herald Letters", "Policy", "Speeches", "Submissions", "Submissions/Michael Morris Subs". Quantity: 73 Electronic document(s).