Electricians

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-064

Description: Shows head and shoulders drawings of two men on the staff at Scott Base in 1963. Other Titles - 15 December 1963 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pastel, 320 x 395 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

Date: 8 Oct 1993 - 08 Oct 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Eteveneaux, Vearl Verona, 1918-2004

Reference: OHInt-0430/05

Description: Vearl Eteveneaux was born in 1918. Her mother's parents, Mr and Mrs Robert Russell, arrived in New Zealand in 1874 and her mother was born in Lawrence. Describes how the family moved to Dunedin where her mother married her father, Ted Harper. Describes how she was born in the middle of the 1918 flu epidemic. Recalls the family's moves to Dannevirke then Gisborne where her father bought a garage. Mentions Robert Kerridge's service car business. Describes attending Gisborne Primary School and getting two years at high school by achieving proficiency. Recalls staying with her mother, who had bad health, until she was married. Describes how her husband Miles Eteveneaux arrived in Gisborne with the Air Force. Talks about his family living in Akaroa then moving to Dipton. Mentions that Miles Eteveneaux showed films round rural halls from the back of a Dodge truck. Describes how he got a scholarship to an electrical college in Chicago where he learnt the functions of studio work. Describes how he operated picture theatres with John Angus, who was killed in the war, and showed movies to the troops in Fiji. Describes how he became an aircraft electrician. Recalls their marriage in 1944 and living in Gisborne where they operated three small country cinemas. Mentions their theatre in Manatuki. Describes buying a run-down Kerridge theatre in Helensville and building it up. Gives her first impressions of Helensville. Recalls how her husband did photography and camera work for British Paramount News. Mentions the 1966 publication `Centre of opportunity'. Describes being very busy helping at the theatre and bringing up children. Mentions her husband's death in 1991 and an accident which broke her legs. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3327.

Date: 1960 - 1969

By: Electrical Development Association of New Zealand; New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRICITY-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960s: EDA. Saving electricity at work; factory, office, shop. Pamphlet 1960s (2 copies) Hutt Valley Electric Power Board. Important notice. Label [with hole to attach string] Tricity House Ltd. Colour code for resistors and capacitors [1960s]. Pamphlet 1960: Certificate of limited registration ... Clive Alexander Schwieters, 21 March 1960 Electrical Development Association. Facts about electric space heating. Booklet no. 6 [ca 1960?] Municipal Electricity Department Wellington. [Small notepad. 1960s?] New Zealand Electricity Department. How to fix fuses the safe way. R E Owen Government Printer Wellington [1960?]. Booklet (2 copies) 1963: Tricity House catalogue. 21st edition. Price list and radio guide [ca 1963] 1965: Benmore, Waitaki North Otago [ca 1965]. New Zealand Optometrical Association. Good light aids good sight. [ca 1965]. Pamphlet Nick's Landing. Unveiling ceremony of the memorial to Captain Alan Nicholas. Deep Cove, 13 March [1965]. Order of service Smiths Industries Ltd (London). Smith's impulse tachometers. December 1965. Pamphlet Tongariro power development. Taumarunui Press Printery Ltd. ca 1965 1967: 16 in tyres turning 12 revs per minute [re pulleys, cutting, polishing - related to Manapouri? ca 1967]. Flier Ministry of Works. Manapouri power. Information series no. 6. November 1967 Manapouri progress. [ca 1967]. Pamphlet (2 copies) 1968: F M Jacobson Ltd, electrical contractors, 344 The Parade Island Bay. Business card November 1968 Ministry of Works. Manapouri power. Information series no. 6. First issued November 1967; revised and reprinted August 1968. Booklet 1969: Ministry of Works. This is Turangi. Information leaflet number 7, March 1969. Booklet Ministry of Works. Wairakei. Information leaflet no. 1, January 1969. Booklet Ministry of Works. Maraetai II. Information leaflet no. 2, January 1969. Booklet New Zealand Electricity Department. Use electricity safely says Mr Safety Watt. 1969. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, mimeographs, sizes varying Processing information: 1962: Wairarapa Electric Power Board. Get up to date' plug into electric living [1962]. Pamphlet, combined into ATL-Group-00753, October 2022.

Date: 1976 - 1979

Reference: Eph-B-ELECTRICITY-1976/1979

Description: Includes: 1976: Electricians Registration Board. Information circular, 28 June 1976 [re registration of electricians] Electricians Registration Board. Circular letter. Increase in fees, 5 August 1976 Hutt Valley Electric Power & Gas Board. Electricity costs for the domestic consumer. November 1976 New Zealand Electricity. Manapouri Power Station. Printed by A R Shearer, Government Printer, 1976. 72279E-25,000/11/75D New Zealand Electricity. New Plymouth Power Station. E C Keating, Government Printer, 1976 New Zealand Electricity. Roxburgh Power Station. A R Shearer, Government Printer, 1976. 81474F-8,000/7/76G NZ Public Service Association. Government attack on electricty workers.Issued by the NZPSA April 1976. White flier Municipal Electricity Department [Wellington]. Circular to customers about tariff rise, with attached pamphlet "How to save on your power bill". 1 April 1976 Philips Electrical Industries of N.Z. Ltd. New tax rate ... effective 1 September 1976. Pink flier Reyrolle Parsons New Zealand catalogue [ca 1976] (2 copies) Tongariro power development [ca 1976]. Pamphlet (2 copies) 1977: CPI Group. Ring grip series; ring grip "Champagne" series, ... switchgear. Flier Dunedin address. Hon G F Gair, Tuesday June 28th. Subject: Energy options, Clutha Hydro, community participation. Upper Clutha Hydro fact-finding mission 29/30 June 1977. Pink flier Hutt Valley Electric Power & Gas Board. Electricity costs for the domestic consumer. August 1977 Clutha Action Committee. Sold down the river. Yellow flier [1977] PDL Industries Ltd. PDL 200/400 series flush switches and switch sockets. December 1977 1978: Colt (N.Z.) Limited, Christchurch Colt 10kw electric unit heater. Flier 4.4.78 with covering letter Hutt Valley Electric Power & Gas Board. Electricity costs for the domestic customer. May 1978 MED Electric cooking recipes. 1 February 1978 New Zealand Electricity. Cobb Power Station. Printed by E C Keating, Government Printer, 1978. 8882C-6000/3/78PT New Zealand Electricity. Manapouri Power Station. Printed by E C Keating, Government Printer, 1978. 3819A-50,000/11/77D New Zealand Electricity. Tokaanu Power Station. Printed by E C Keating, Government Printer, 1978. 8883G-6000/3/78PT PDL Industries Ltd. Electrical products catalogue. November 1978 1979: Hutt Valley Electric Power & Gas Board. Consumer information bulletin, May 1979 (2 copies) MED Electric cooking recipes. 12 April 1979 [NZ Public Service Association]. Electricity workers' rent dispute deserves our support. Yellow flier (2 copies) NZ Public Service Association. The PSA electricity workers' dispute. 20 July 1979. Yellow flier NZ Public Service Association. Would you rent this house? [6 June 1979]. White flier PDL Industries Ltd introduces CLIPSAL electrical accessories [1979?] PDL Industries Ltd. PDL 200/400 series up-date [ca 1979] Wellington Marxist-Leninist Organisation. Alert; fight back against rising electricity costs! 15/2/79. White flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet folded to 217 x 280 mm.

Date: 8 Sept 1987 - 08 Sep 1987

From: NZOHA Electricity Centenary Oral History Project Stages I, II and III

By: Jones, Thomas Sinclair, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0003/14

Description: Describes family background and early childhood, father's working life during the depression (1930s) and his own attitude to politics and religion. Recalls early employment as a message boy (describes the linotype business), a projectionist, and then his electrical apprenticeship with H.C. Urlwin - Christchurch in 1947, night school, and attitude towards cottage wiring work. Gives background to joining the State Hydro Department at Karapiro Hydro Scheme, the life at the single men's camp, the personalities, involvement with Maori. Recalls the personality and skills of Roy Surridge, Power Plant Engineer from Head Office Wellington. Refers to wiring work for the Ministry of Works at Mangakino and Tokoroa and friends (photograph in printed abstract) that he worked with at Karapiro and Maraetai Hydro Scheme. Describes problems and conflict at Whakamaru Hydro Station in early 1950s:- the Metropolitan Vickers machinery; the management style of Resident Engineer Colin Bambury; upgrades in circuit breaker system; accidents and hazards. Outlines time as Overseer at Roxburgh Hydro Station in mid fifties; descibes the personality and effectiveness of Eric Sandelin, the Resident Engineer and boss; compares the equipment from various countries and manufacturers; the need for Roxburgh because of lack of sufficient power in the South Island. Recalls the installation of machinery at Atiamuri Hydro Station in mid 1950s and describes problems that occurred during the commissioning of Benmore Hydro Scheme in the 1060s, details the faults and remedies. Describes the equipment, technical problems and noise pollution while Construction Supervisor at the Otahuhu Gas Turbine station in Auckland in late 1960s. Mentions working relationship with Head Office whilst on Huntly Power Station construction. Discusses the impact of Government privatisation policy on electrical industry, the establishment of trades groups within the Department, industrial relations on the sites, departmental loyalty, and mentions some of the general managers, engineers and the importance of good labourers. Describes the role of construction superintendent. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Jones' home at 20 Leyton Place, Hamilton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001682 - OHC-001685 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 264. Search dates: 1926 - 1987

Date: 1 August 1993 - 01 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Cunningham, Tuihana Jean, 1958-

Reference: OHInt-0067/099

Description: Tuihana J Cunningham born Waihi. Talks about excellent school with reference to teachers, Mrs Grant and Miss Landy. Describes employment options available to women at that time. Talks about relationship with mother and with grandmother. Recalls leaving school after School Certificate and going to work in Auckland as an electrical fitter. Describes in detail working conditions in an all male environment. Recalls applying for an apprenticeship and being refused by board on grounds of gender. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005851A; OHV-0277B Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1258.

Date: 2 March 1993 - 02 Mar 1993

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project

By: Van der Vliet, Johannes Franciscus, 1929-2008

Reference: OHInt-0132/05

Description: Johannes Franciscus (Jan) van der Vliet describes his childhood, life in the Netherlands; decision to emigrate to New Zealand in 1952, work in New Zealand; impressions of Dunedin; career as an electrician and marriage to Maria his wife. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Dunedin Interviewer(s) - Gerard Leus Venue - 78B London Street, Dunedin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005401-5402A; OHLC-001339-001340A Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) (hand-written). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1032.

Date: 11 Feb 1988

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Woolliams, Leslie Tom, 1906-1996

Reference: OHInt-0470/22

Description: Les Woolliams was born in Rotorua in 1906. Recalls going to Rotorua Primary School and beginning an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1920. Describes working for Charlie Leach, an electrician at Okere power station. Talks about the electricians Asher and Clouston and going to Auckland to work for Clouston for a few months before working for Otto Feisst in Lower Hutt. Describes being an electrician for the Hutt Valley Power Board and then returning to Rotorua and opening an electrical shop. Describes working with large bundles of conduit. Recalls how he and Freddie Biggs wired all the houses in Rotorua at the time. Mentions that power first came through from Arapuni and Horahora in 1926. Mentions that Jimmy Hill worked with him. Talks about other electricians Les (`Te Kooti') Clarke, Cyril Clarke, Cedric Knight and others. Mentions the plumbing business of Sam Hale next to the Peerless Hall. Describes marrying in 1928. Comments on the explosion in demand for electricity about this time and particularly after World War II. Recalls the Maori wife of his uncle Frank Woolliams and her family land in the King Country. Mentions that there are three generations of Frank Woolliams. Talks about his father building the Mansions Hotel, running Thirwell House, owning a farmlet and building Woolliams Buildings. Gives details of their operation of the Mansions. Mentions that Fred Reeves, who had run Brent's Hotel, took over the Mansions from his father. Interviewer(s) - Don Stafford Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2871.

Date: 28 Jul 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Knox, James Oliver, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0616/27

Description: James Oliver (Jim) Knox born Dunedin. Briefly details family background. Recalls mother's father and brothers were drowned in boating accident, Otago Harbour. Talks about his five year electrical apprenticeship; eyesight problems; work at Milburn Lime & Cement Works, becoming chief electrician; first impressions on Green Island; coal mining, Fernhill; entertainment, including whippet racing which he describes; Abbotsford Brick works; Hotels with reference to Royal Hotel and Commercial Hotel and interest in rugby. Briefly discusses how rugby has changed. Continues to talk about Milburn Lime and Cement Works including, hours and conditions; type of men employed; pollution; recreation; working with electricity and Health and Safety with reference to three fatal accidents during own employment years. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010108-010109 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3376. Photocopies of 2 b&w photographs: (i) Jim Knox at Cement Works Mildred (Tweet) the cat's 21st birthday ca 1980; (ii) Abbotsford Railway Station ca 1890.

Date: 1998

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923- :[Seven original cartoons for the Pub Charity calendar 1998. 1997].

Reference: A-323-032

Description: Shows a bar room scene in which an electrician, in uniform and with a complete tool kit, approaches the publican about what he thinks is an electrical problem on the premises. Behind them, a man sits in front of three gaming machines, two of which bear the name Live Wire. The publican looks slightly puzzled. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Eric Heath Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 293 x 418 mm. Provenance: Donated by Pub Charity in 1998.

Date: 1976

Reference: Eph-B-LABOUR-1976

Description: Includes fliers on May Day, the wage freeze and price hikes, the Boilermakers' dispute, living standards, government attacks on electricity workers, salary claims of public servants, the New Plymouth lockout of electricity workers, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra salary claim, the reduction of teacher trainees' salaries (cartoon showing Les Gandar as a burglar). Includes fliers issued by the Campaign Against Repressive Legislation, the Socialist Unity Party, the Auckland City Unemployment Group. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and letterpress, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

Reference: A-309-105

Description: Shows a man sitting in an armchair in his living room reading a newspaper. Another man, who is outside, is leaning on the window sill and talking to him through an open window. Just below the window is a small boy who has dismantled a wall socket with a screwdriver and there are live wires coming out of the wall. Refers to unregistered people being able to perform their own minor electrical repairs and comments on the risk involved. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service..

Date: 1960

By: Electricians Registration Board (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRICITY-1960-01

Description: Certificate booklet. The holder was limited to electrical work while employed by the Post Office only, and could carry out: the replacement of fuse links, the connection and replacement of flexible cords, the earthing of appliances, the disconnection and reconnection of radio apparatus, the assembly and repair of electrical equipment associated with radio, the assembly and repair of radio apparatus. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Certificate booklet, folded to 80 x 57 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland, in 2002.

Date: 1993 - 2008

Reference: Eph-A-TRADE-CARDS-2008-01

Description: Includes cards for the following businesses and people: Pauline Gardiner, MP. [ca 1995] Rose Thomas for Mayor; ready for change, ready to lead [2007?] Samaritans, listening and caring. Need to talk to someone? [ca 2000s] Healthline, incorporating Plunketline 0800 611 116. A registered nurse is just a phone call away [ca 2005] Mark Angus Electrical Ltd, your friendly domestic specialists [2000s] Wellington City Mission; thank you for helping us to help others [ca 2007] Thank you for shopping at the Warehouse, where everyone gets a bargain [ca 2005?] Gourmet Pizzas. Pizza to you. 384-8038 Strategies for Kids; Information for Parents. S.K.I.P. Four cards as follows: Me mihi nui ki nga tamariki Awhi atu, awhi mai Mahi tahi, takaro tahi Manaaki tamariki Quantity: 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Magnetic rubber or plastic cards, sizes varying up to 56 x 91 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources, ca 2006

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-847

Description: This cartoon has three scenes. The upper right scene shows a man shouting as he receives an electric shock from plugging a heater into a socket. He is being warned that his electricity will be cut off if he doesn't stop making a noise. In the lower left scene a noisy party is taking place in a house. A policeman is telling a neighbour that the armed offenders squad will shoot out the amplifier. The lower right scene shows a Social Credit political meeting where the speaker is being gagged "for making noises that are disturbing the local branch of the National Party". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1985

From: Ephemera of quarto size relating to women, women's rights, status

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: Eph-B-WOMEN-1985-04

Description: One of a series of flier promoting apprenticeships in the trades, for women. The front shows a photograph of a young woman using an electricity meter. The verso gives information about apprenticeships. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of flier 297 x 212 mm.

Date: 22 February 2013

From: New Zealand Antarctic Society oral history project

By: Foley, Jacqueline, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-1235-09

Description: Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 5 digital sound recording(s). Search dates: 2013

Date: 2002

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-006-172

Description: A scroll showing the "Tradesmen's Commandments". Extended Title - Tho shalt not show up... Though shalt not return client's phone calls... Thou shalt make a client wait 'round all day... Thou shalt tell life story and charge for the time... Thou shalt leave the job unfinished... Thou shalt leave a mess everywhere... Thou shalt charge like an angered bull... Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-004

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a middle-aged man, a Lower Hutt electrician. He has his back to the viewer and is looking over his left shoulder Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 350 x 255 mm