McGhie, Ted, active 1950s

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1951-1960, circa 1970s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10567-13

Description: Photographs of people, buildings, industry, and landscapes taken by Les Cleveland between 1951 and 1959. Largely printed between 1951 and 1960, with some prints made later, possibly in the 1970s. All prints have captions which include the title Cleveland gave the photograph (often including the location of the photograph) and the date it was taken and printed. Almost all images are stamped "Les Cleveland Photograph" and some are also stamped with Cleveland's home address. The majority are signed by Cleveland and all are stamped or identified by Cleveland as being a "Vintage Print". Some prints include reference numbers to Cleveland's index cards. Identified people are Jack Ritchie (former licensee of the Junction Hotel, Dillmanstown), Ron Biggs (boiling a billy), Dorothy Debenham at Greymouth, Mary and Heather Cornwell at Milford Sounds, June McMillan at Makara Beach, Senior Sargent George Christopher Donnelly (making a bet at the Kumara Races), and Mike Armstrong (washing dishes in a hut at Welcome Flat). Timber workers are photographed at work at the Kopara Sawmill including Ted McGhie, Ron "Tiki" Brimmicombe, Doug Macalister, and Neil McLean. Unidentified people include timber workers, the crew of the fishing boat Hauiti (photographed in Milford Sound), men in fancy dress participating in the Mayor of Thorndon campaign, children lining up to go to the pictures in Greymouth, children on a bulldozer in Karamea, a boy fishing at Reefton, a man smoking an crib logging at the Arawhata River, and a climber resting on a rock by the Cook River. A Taupo Ski Club group is photographed outside Blyth Hut at Ohakune Ski Field [Turoa] and includes Les Cleveland as well as a box of Lux soap. Buildings photographed include in Greymouth (band rotunda, police station), in Westport (Seatons Boarding House on Bright Street, Kawatiri boarding house (also known as Flemings Boarding House), and St Canice's Catholic Church), and in Nelson Creek (Saddlers Store, Jimmy Diamond's hut, township). Further prints of buildings show the Stafford Literary Institute, flooded bushmen's huts at Mussel Point, a cottage at Blackball, a derelict house at Bell Hill, ornamental faces on the Aubrey Gualter building (corner of Brandon and Featherston Streets, Wellington), the Four Square store at Crofton, Club Hotel in Palmerston North, a two-storied house with external staircase in Turakina, Enterprise Printing in Nelson, a cottage on the road to Goldsborough, J McFarlane's Hotel in Kumara, the Whanganui town clock, and the Weights and Measures Office in New Plymouth. Photographs of industry include a Pelton wheel at Dillmanstown; remains of a gold dredge at Callaghans near Kumara; Jack's Mill near Nelson Creek including a Type CBA No 119 A&G Price Ltd bush locomotive, derelict mill buildings, and a slab elevator; Kopara Sawmill buildings; an open cast coal mine at Charleston; and dredge buckets abandoned at the side of the Greenstone River. Scenic prints show the Tatere River and Tatere Gorge, Moeraki River, the sea at Punakaiki, surf at Hokitika Beach, a log jam and driftwood at Karamea Beach, Okarito River, bush scenes (including at Waterworks Reserve), the head of the Karangarua River looking towards Copeland Pass, the Karangarua Gorge, and Lake Haupiri. Other photographs include gravestones at the cemetery in Charleston, a hedge cutter mounted on a surplus World War Two Bren Gun Carrier, and vehicle scenes outside the George Hotel, Otira Gorge (a Hupmobile tourer and a front-end loader lowering a V8 engine into a truck), Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Prints arrived at Library in no discernible order and were placed in a box labelled "Vintage Prints" by curatorial staff during appraisal. Quantity: 92 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints Transfers: Box one of two from set of prints classified as "Vintage Prints" during Library appraisal. See PAColl-10567-14 for box two.. Processing information: During processing, Library staff arranged prints by date. The volume of prints required that they be housed in two separate boxes.