Omakau

Date: [19--]

Reference: MS-Papers-8951

Description: Reminiscence of the flour mill in the Manuherikia Valley, Omakau. This history could have been written by Gordon Glassford Leask as there may have been a family connection with the mill. A Mr S Leask was on the founding committee of the Tiger Dale Flour Milling Company in 1873. The history covers the period from 1869 when the idea of a mill in the Omakau area was first mooted, through to 1966 when the mill site became the headquarters of a weedspraying business. The narrative details the changing ownership of the mill, the local personalities involved in the running the business and the commerical transactions surrounding it. Traces the history of the flour mill established in Omakau in 1873 Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Harvey, George, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2394-F

Description: Panoramic view of a rough-cast farmhouse with Arts and Crafts features, attic windows, near Omakau. Decorative fence on the far right. Garage and outbuildings on the left. Paved drive leading up from centre foreground. Flower beds around the house, small lawns, then areas on either side of drive newly planted with shrubs and saplings. Stand of established trees behind the house on the right. Hills in the background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Geo. Harvey. Omakau. 3 oils. White house, dark red roof. Heliotrope, white & pink flowers in front of house. Red, pink & white roses in bed on left of path. Pink & red roses all along from hedge house to iron shed on left of house. Bldgs on left iron roofs & walls. All colors [i.e. colours] sweet peas on fence on left of view; Marginal notes on negative - 10 10 10 10 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 121.0 cm

Date: 4, 11, 18, 28 August 1993; 1, 4, 9 September 1993 - 04 Aug 1993 - 09 Sep 1993

From: Otago Women and Work - Paid and Unpaid Oral History Project

By: Clouston, Denise, active 1994; Stevenson, Janet Elsie, 1907-1995

Reference: OHInt-0148/27

Description: Elsie Stevenson, born and grew up in a close knit rural community in Omakau, Central Otago. Her parents were farmers. Elsie left school with Proficiency, not wanting to go to High School. She worked on the farm for a number of years but didn't want to be a farmer. In 1929 she married a railway worker and moved to Southland. However as a result of her husband's accident on the railway they eventually returned to Omakau and took up farming. Both Elsie and her husband (and later second husband) ran the farm. They had two children Shirley and Don. After retiring from farming Elsie looked after her parents for a number of years until the passed away - she then moved to Omakau. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Omakau Interviewer(s) - Denise Clouston Venue - Omakau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018523-018529; OHLC-009962-009968 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6421 and OHDL-000760. Photographs of Elsie hanging out washing; in springcart; Elsie in 1989.

By: New Zealand Crippled Children Society

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-CCS-1980s

Description: Three cards featuring landscape paintings: 1. "Awakino River, Taranaki, New Zealand", from the original painting by Leonard Long. By courtesy of Sir Henry Kelliher 2. "Lake Manapouri, South Island, New Zealand" from the original painting by D R Neilson. By courtesy of the artist 3. "Near Omakau, South Island, New Zealand" from the original painting by Peter McIntyre. By courtesy of Sir Henry Kelliher Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on cards folded to 118 x 175 mm. Provenance: Donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2016

Date: 8 May 1959

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-50724

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-50725

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-50726

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-50730

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-50731

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-50729

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