Ophir

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-033

Description: Black's Rush (later named Ophir), with miners working claims in the Manuherikia River, an encampment above banks, a wagon waiting to cross the river by pontoon. In the foreground is a small hut with a chimney, a flag on top and miners. Two miners are wading across the river. The Raggedy Range is in the background, with a series of jagged rocks along its top Title inscribed in pencil For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023 Other Titles - Ophir Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing card; pencil and grey wash ; image 153 x 203 mm on sheet 180 x 265 mm

Date: 9 Feb 1995 - 09 Feb 1995

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Tikey, Eric, 1926-1999

Reference: OHInt-0616/41

Description: Eric Tikey born Dunedin 1926. Talks about father being gassed in France during World War I and recuperation in hospital in France. Gives a brief history of Ophir from the goldrush days, where parents ran a hotel, and father ran a local taxi service, with reference to Oakland (car) and later a DeSoto. Recalls parents getting first radio in 1930. Talks about involvement with fire brigade and recalls fire at Hunterville Hospital, a hospital for backward children. Mentions Cyril Davies, Guy Anderson, Stan Tomkinson who ran Buchanan's store, Wattie Stewart, Noel lino and Bayleys Tomkins Hedges Tannery. Other topics covered include: marriage; World War Two; Depression and Tikey's Service Station. Refers to big changes in the motor industry and gives details of help from oil company to purchase Green Island Taxis and rental cars. Backgrounds formation of Green Island Businessman's Association started by Bob Edwards a local barber and lists those involved. Also refers to Jaycees and Lions started in Green Island in 1968. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Grant Rule Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010136-010139 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3389. Photocopies of 4 photographs: (i) [Eric Tike] working at Buchanans; (ii) Mr Tikey with mother, grandfather, Great-Aunt and father; (iii) The new Blacks Hotel built in the latter part of 1930s and (iv) Eric and Jessie in the 1940s).

Date: 1959-2007

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

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. 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: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1962-1986

From: McLaughlin, Evelyn, 1916-1976 : Research papers relating to New Zealand post offices

Reference: MS-Papers-12293

Description: Contains Evelyn McLaughlin's collected materials relating to post offices and postal services, 1962 to 1986. Features commemorative and souvenir covers and special postmarks. These include the Ravensbourne Post Office Centenary (1 November 1978), the centenary of the first message transmitted through the Cook Straight Telegraph Cable (27 August 1966), the International Toy Fair in Christchurch (10 May 1971), the opening of the Haast Pass Scenic Highway (6 November 1965), first day change of name postmark for Kenakena Post Office, and the Whakatane National Stamp Exhibition, with postcards and envelopes featuring an illustration of the Wairaka story (19 April 1967). A photograph of the postmaster at Eureka is included with the commemorative cover for the Diamond Jubilee of the Eureka Post Office (1 April 1964). Special mail deliveries such as mail delivered by horse, train, and balloon are also included. Other material includes a note from Robin Startup, registered mail labels and receipts, a newspaper clipping of a photograph of the Pirinoa Post Office being moved to Paremata in 1972, and McLaughlin's research cards listing the dates post offices closed, post offices to close, and post offices to open. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Philatelic and postal history souvenir and commemorative covers, and manuscript material. Processing information: Only some geographic terms are indexed.

Date: 1960s, 1979, 1994-1997, 1999

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11625

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand and other countries, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Suspension 1 - part 4 timber truss | part 5-6 | timber truss 7 | miscellaneous 8 | steel iron 8 misc steel/iron some timber truss | 9 Scotland England USA | 10 Wales Australia". Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. 1 b&w copy transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour and black and white transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1975, 1992, 1994-1998

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11626

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand and other countries, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in an upright slide container with two rows of slide drawers, comprising 10 slide drawers in total. Slides were arranged in the container largely alphabetically either by bridge or river name, or location name, and possibly also by type of bridge. Slides were physically arranged from top to bottom and across both rows. The container was labelled as follows: "Suspension 1 - part 4 timber truss | part 5-6 | timber truss 7 | miscellaneous 8 | steel iron 8 misc steel/iron some timber truss | 9 Scotland England USA | 10 Wales Australia". Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1957, 1992, 1994, 1996-2000

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11655

Description: Transparencies of bridges in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (bridge or viaduct name, and/or river/stream name, and/or road name) and location. Dates and photographer name are often but not always annotated. Title transcribed from item Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, metal case, alphabetically for the first 2 rows. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: [ca 1990s to 2000s]

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

Reference: PAColl-10645-24

Description: Contains contact sheets of New Zealand scenes, circa 1990s to 2000s. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland. Some contact prints have been printed commercially by Wellington Photographic Supplies and Digital Imaging Service FDi. Buildings are photographed at locations including Ophir and surrounding area, Dunedin, Wellington Region, Mangaweka, and Tokaanu. There are also a number of photographs of Māori buildings (whare, [pūwhara?]), painted sculptures with text in te reo Māori [Wellington Region?], and, in Porirua, carved figures commemorating Te Rauparaha. People and events covered include Donna Cleveland and her children Max and Maddy and unidentified people at a Harley-Davidson motorbike event in Turangi. Manhole covers and graffiti on buildings, likely in Wellington [Cuba Street?], are another area of focus. Also includes a hand drawn map of Glenorchy and the surrounding area, notes on the Otago Settlers' Musuem's holdings of John Leslie McIndoe material, and a list, likely of locations photographed by Cleveland. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Contact prints were in a box along with loose negatives, prints, index cards, and other assorted photographic items. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s) contact prints. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographs

Date: 1980

By: New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Canterbury Women's Committee; Ward, B, active 1980

Reference: Eph-E-HISTORY-NZHP-1980-01

Description: Sheet of reproductions of line drawings showing historic buildings: Timeball Station Lyttelton; Coton's Cottage Hororata; Clark's Flourmill Maheno; Farm buildings Orari Gorge; Stanley's Hotel Macraes Flat; Old bridge Kawarau River; Post Office Ophir; 'The Cuddy' Waimate. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 540 x 900 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs June Starke of Wellington, in 2003.

Date: 1981 - 1982

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: New Zealand Historic Places Trust; Leitch, Peter Graham, active 1960s-1990s; Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1982-01

Description: Calendar contains reproduced sketch drawings by Peter Leitch, showing Ophir Post Office, Lyttelton Timeball Station, Highwic Auckland, Antrim House Wellington. Quantity: 1 calendar.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on pages 211 x 296 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Margaret Alington in 1999.

Date: 8 May 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-50728

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 8 May 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-50727

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative