Pine - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 5, 11, 22 Mar 1996 - 05 Mar 1996 - 22 Mar 1996

From: Ngahinepouri oral history project

By: O'Regan, Leonard David, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0635/14

Description: Leonard David O'Regan born Frankton 1921. Describes how family came from Buckland 1919 and looked at 520 acres of swamp. Talks about programme for developing hill country and mentions problem of rabbits and rabbit industry. Refers to Reg Trimble, rabbit inspector for district. Describes Rukuhia Railway Station and recalls trips as a child. Recalls Napier earthquake. Describes Ngahinepouri school and school days and refers to teachers, Mr Fletcher, Miss Tudehope and Miss Anderson. Mentions lunch time games - Tuppenny runs, marbles and hop scotch. Gives description of family home and own house after marriage, house water supply etc. Backgrounds the planting of 20,000 pine trees per year, harvesting of first timber in 1958 and development of mill run by family partnership. Refers to Fred McWhannell, authority on Eucalypts. Recalls World War II service in Air Force going into engineering workshop, later with 40 Squadron getting advanced training in Nelson and going overseas to field maintenance workshops in New Hebrides and Bouganville. Mentions Rabaul operation. Talks about end of war when government formed National Airways Corporation with reference to Dakotas, and later integration into N A C. Mentions offer of good job with Pam Am and decision to return to farming. Describes changes in Ngahinepouri and improvements in technology. Describes social activities, recreation, courtship, marriage and honeymoon. Refers to family's first transport, a model T light truck and first car, a Whippet tourer, later, 1935 New Pontiac; Hillman in 1950 and Austin seven. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Vicki Jones Venue - Ngahinepouri Accompanying material - Post Script (notes made by Mr O'Regan shortly after taping of this interview) at back of abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009723-009729 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3222.

Date: Nov-Dec 1948

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-033866-F

Description: Scene at Alton Lodge Stud, Te Kauwhata, Waikato, photographed between November and December 1948 for the National Publicity Studios by E P Christensen. Shows a paddock, and horses and foals in the distance. A pine tree is on the left. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: 1909

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, John Sydney, 1879-1941

Reference: A-446-009

Description: Shows a view across the north Canterbury plains to the Southern Alps in the distance. There are fenced boundaries in the foreground, and areas of pine plantations dotted through the scene. There is one house nestled among trees in the middle distance to the right. Other Titles - 1909 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J S Alington 4/7/09; Verso - bottom left - Sketched from Nature. Up Oxford way NZ [in pencil, probably in the hand of Charlotte Mabel Alington]; Verso - bottom right - Painted by J S Alington Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 159 x 252 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1924

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, John Sydney, 1879-1941

Reference: A-446-008

Description: Shows a view of the head of the Waikato River, looking south across Lake Taupo to Mounts Tongaririo, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu in the distance. On the right bank, in the foreground, is a Maori pa, with a pataka or food store shown most prominently. Both banks of the river are densely covered in trees, including pine and cabbage trees, and bush. A canoe or waka with six occupants glides away from the pa across the river. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J S Alington 20.1.24; Verso - top left - Copied from a black and white picture. Copied by J S Alington 1924 [in pencil, probably Charlotte Mabel Alington's hand]; Verso - top right - Colours are as fresh as they were when first painted [in pencil, probably in Charlotte Mabel Alington's hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 144 x 244 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.