Agricultural exhibitions - New Zealand - Otago Region

Date: 1934

By: Upper Clutha Agricultural & Pastoral Society (Inc)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Upper-Clutha

Description: Includes souvenir catalogue for 1934 (reprint, 1983). Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1955

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Palmerston

Description: Includes two tickets, probably dating 1930-1950s: Second prize (Mauve ticket) Luncheon ticket (Amber ticket) The programmes for the 65th and 66th shows (1948-1949) are listed on the book catalogue and are housed in the Serials section of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Tickets, sizes varying Provenance: Donated by the North Otago Museum, 2013.

Date: 01 Aug 2011-02 Aug 2011 - 23 Sept 2011-24 Sept 2011 - 01 Aug 2011 - 23 Sep 2011

From: Wanaka Station oral history project

By: Blennerhassett, Jill Stewart, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-1011-01

Description: Interview with Jill Stewart Blennerhassett, born at Prospect House, Dunedin in 1933, younger of two daughters of Stewart Dalrymple MacPherson and Gulielma (Billy) MacPherson, nee Sargood. Backgrounds paternal grandparents Jeannie Sinclair MacPherson, nee Trotter, and John MacPherson, Surveyor and manager of Totara Estate, and their children Bill, Sheila and Eva. Talks about maternal family background in Melbourne, Australia, and her great grandfather Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, Mayor of Prahran 1856-1858, and her great great grandfather Frederick James Sargood, Chairman Prahran Municipal Council 1856-1858. Talks about her close knit family childhood in Dunedin with older half brother Rolfe Sargood Mills at their home Piccadilly, Maori Hill, and at Marinoto, home of maternal grandparents philanthropists Sir Percy Sargood and Lady Lucy Sargood, nee Ormond, who bought Wanaka Station in 1912. Talks about growing up as a boy, gardening, horse riding, shooting. Refers to parties, fetes and dances held at Piccadilly, Marinoto and Wanaka Station. Talks about Ukrainian immigrant workers at home and on Wanaka Station farm, and the family relationships with the nanny and house staff. Talks about her mother's first marriage to Lesley Pilkington Mills, her strong character, artistic abilities, being a socialite and a crack shot. Discusses her father's service in World War One, her own relationship with him, cleaning tools together and visiting the Dunedin Club and Dunedin factories with him as director of Sargood Son and Ewen business. Refers to her parents' service in World War Two in the Home Guard and Women's Army Auxiliary Corp, her brother Rolfe Mills being in the Navy, and hosting their British cousins and nanny at home during wartime. Discusses school holidays at Kartitane crib. Details her holidays on Wanaka Station in mid 1940s to 1950s, doing farmwork and attending local dances, Upper Clutha A&P shows, and going water-skiing. Talks about the Station homesteads which burnt down in 1913 and 1931, and living in the renovated stables. Talks about contact with relatives the MacKillops and MacPhersons. Refers to Sir Percy Sargood and uncle Bill MacPherson, who became farm manager in 1946, generating their own power supply and establishing farm and flood irrigation systems near Ripponvale, Cromwell Flats and Kawarau River. Mentions Wanaka Station shifting from running mainly cattle to sheep. Says her parents and Bill MacPherson managed the farm well together. Details life on the farm, food preservation, accidents, haymaking, horse riding, the farm managers and farm workers, the rabbit problems, shearing, the fruit orchards, crop growing. Mentions that James K Baxter worked on the farm. Talks about small town life of Wanaka in 1940s to 1950s. Says after her father died in 1965, her mother took responsibility for the farm, selling land blocks to the Gordons family. Talks about attending St Hilda's Collegiate, Dunedin and Nga Tawa Diocesan boarding school, being keen on sports and later studying physical education at University of Otago. Refers to socialising at university and meeting her husband Doctor John Blennerhassett whom she married in 1956. Discusses raising a family of four, including twins, in Wellington. Talks about John Blennerhassett winning a BNZ Bank scholarship to train and study medicine in United States where they had two more children. Discusses making networks and raising her family in Boston and in Montreal, Canada during the forment of the 1960s. Talks about a 9000 mile camping trip with her children in North America before they returned to Dunedin, so John Blennerhassett could take up his appointment as Head of Pathology at Otago University School of Medicine. Discusses formation of Wanaka Station Trust in 1970s to look after the farm and development of Rippon Lea subdivision. Refers to splitting the Station land with Rolfe Mills after Bill MacPherson died in 1970s, donating land to the community in 1977, and site of original homestead to be Wanaka Station Park in 1997, and giving farmland to be the lakefront and golf course. Refers to development of Rippon Vineyard by Rolfe Mills. Mentions subdividing her farmland between her children. Talks about retiring in 2003 to Barn Pinch Farm, part of the Station, and her interest in photography, 70th birthday present of a tractor, and her involvement with tennis and rowing clubs. Refers to putting land into QEII Trust as Blennerhassett Kanuka Reserve. Refers to land inheritance going down female line, mentioning maternal great great grandmother Emma Rippon who married Frederick James Sargood, and her paternal great aunt suffragette Learmonth White Dalrymple. Talks about her ten years chairing the Sargood Bequest, growth of its charitable work, wise investments and sponsoring Te Kakano Aotearoa Trust, and her continuing interest in the management of Wanaka Station Park. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Three printouts of website biographies of Sir Percy Sargood and John MacPherson, scanned photographs with captions, scanned letter by John MacPherson from 1918 about Stewart MacPherson and Bill (Willy) MacPherson's service in World War One, and newspapers clippings on Wanaka Station and Barn Pinch Farm. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001810 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 Electronic document(s) (abstract and forms). 2 digital photograph(s). 27 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (incl. scanned letter). 6 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 13.23 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft Word; Image files - Jpeg, Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7626, OHDL-001808. Printed scans of black and white photographs of family, friends and the second Wanaka Station homestead, scan of homestead floor plan, scans of colour photographs of the Station woolshed and Jill Blennerhassett at Barn Pinch Farm. Search dates: 1933 - 2011 Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1917

By: New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation; J. Wilkie & Company

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1917-01

Description: Catalogue of entries and photographs of apple orchards and workers around New Zealand. Contains many pages of advertisements for Dunedin businesses. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 140 pages, 217 x 141 mm.

Date: 1935

By: Lake County Agricultural and Pastoral Society

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Lake

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: Lake County A & P Society. 26th annual show of live stock, grain, seeds, roots, fruit, dairy produce, baking etc., to be held at Lake Hayes, Arrowtown on Wednesday 13th March 1935. Prize list Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1999

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the activities and exhibitions of horticultural societies in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORT-SOC-Dunedin-1900s

Description: Includes: 1901: Dunedin Horticultural Society: New Zealand Horticultural and Fruit Growers' Conference & Exhibition under the auspices of the Dunedin Horticultural Society. Oddfellows' Hall Rattray Street, 24-29 June 1901. [Programme] 1933: Dunedin Gardening Club. Objects; Meetings; Syllabus 1933-34. Flier 1934: Dunedin Horticultural Society. Souvenir of N.Z. National Show. Programme and schedule for year 1934-35. Star Print, Dunedin [1934] (2 copies) 1948: Otago Centennial Horticultural Show. Town Hall and Concert Chamber, 3-5 March 1948. Souvenir schedule. Budget Ltd, Print [1948] 1979: Dunedin Horticultural Society (Inc). Schedule 1979-80 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1965

By: Tokomairiro Agricultural & Pastoral Society; Bruce herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Tokomairiro

Description: A schedule of categories for prizes including: horses and cattle, sheep and lambs, home industries, schoolwork and needlework. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 46 pages, 207 x 133 mm.

Date: 1933 - 1937 - 1934

By: Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Otago-1930s

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: 1933: Metropolitan Summer Show, Tahuna Park, Dunedin, 21-22 November 1933. Catalogue of entries 1934: Annual Winter Show, 1-6 June 1934. Schedule of prizes 1934: Annual Winter Show, 1-6 June 1934. Official catalogue 1937: Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Diamond Jubilee Summer Show. Tahuna Park, Dunedin, 23-24 November 1937. Schedule of prizes Quantity: 3 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1925 - 1952

By: Strath Taieri Agricultural & Pastoral Society

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Strath-Taieri

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for 1925 and 1952 shows. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1937

By: Tapanui courier (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-D-SHOW-1937-01

Description: Poster-sized list of prizewinners in various categories: cattle, sheep, horses, light and harness horses, dogs, dairy produce [including baking]. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset on newsprint, 547 x 355 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in 2007.

Date: 1888 - 1891

By: Tuapeka Poultry, Cage-Bird, Cat and Dog Society; Tuapeka times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-POULTRY-1888/1891

Description: Catalogues of the second (1888) and fifth (1891) annual show or exhibition, where categories for poultry were very extensive. Varieties of poultry included: Black-red game cockerels, Pile games hens and cockerels, Black Spanish, Plymouth Rock, Houdans, White Leghorn, Andalusian, Brown Leghorn, Black Langshan, White Langshan, Polish, Light Brahma, Dark Dorking, Silver Wyandotte, Cochin; bantams, Hamburgs. There were also categories for ducks, canaries, greyhounds, and rough collie dogs. Quantity: 2 catalogues. Physical Description: Letterpress in booklets, 210 - 220 mm.

Date: 1927

By: New Zealand Railways; Alex Wildey Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-RAIL-1927-01

Description: Poster advertising train journeys to Dunedin for the Otago Winter Show. Shows at top a logo with two steam engines. Below is a list of fares from the principal stations along the route from many Canterbury railway stations to Dunedin. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card-mounted paper, 897 x 576 mm. Processing information: title and date changed from '1927 or 1932' to '1927' following information from a researcher.

Date: 1951

By: Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association

Reference: Eph-A-SHOW-Otago-1950s

Description: Includes schedule or catalogues for: 1951: Seventieth annual metropolitan summer show. Tahuna Park Dunedin, 20-21 November 1951. Catalogue of entries Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes around 217 x 142 mm.

Date: 1906

From: Thorp, Nigel (Collector): [Agricultural and animal show prize certificates.1903-1917]

By: Thorp, Nigel, active 1978-2018

Reference: Eph-B-ANIMAL-Thorp-1906-01

Description: Certificate awarded to Mr S Prout is illustrated around the borders with images of pigeons, a dove-cote, a terrier, collie dog, a hen and a duck. The monogram crest of the Club appears at top centre. The certificate is signed by the president J Park, and the scretary R A Cranshaw. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on light card, 215 x 278 mm.