Quarries and quarrying

Date: [190-?]

From: Alexander, J, b 1863? :Photograph album of English yachts on the Solent, and other photographs

Reference: PAColl-4213

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11319

Description: Transparency slides taken by Doug Werren, circa 1950s to 1960s. Includes photographs of unidentified hydroelectric power stations, including under construction. Also photographs of [Wairakei?] geothermal power plant. A series of images show a river valley. One construction site [possibly for dam?] is in the vicinity of Mount Ruapehu (visible in the rear of one image in the series). Also includes two images of an unidentified site [quarry?]. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [ca 1995-1997]

From: Young, David Christopher, 1947- :Photographs, mostly relating to the Matahina Dam and to a South Westland canoe trip

Reference: PAColl-10090-1

Description: Photographs recording the construction of Matahina Dam on the Rangitaiki River. Includes photographs of Ray Tarei, Bill Kerrison, Leon Chase, Onehou Phyllis, Dr Jacques Boubee, the site of Waiopa Pa and elvers being transferred to Lake Aniwhenua. Taken circa 1995-1997 by unidentified photographer(s). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 87 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s-1970s]

From: Oborn, Leslie Eric, 1920-2011 : Photographs taken on field trips and holidays

Reference: PA12-8940

Description: Colour slides chiefly of dams and work sites taken by Leslie Eric Oborn ca 1964-1976. Features Aviemore Dam, Takaka/Cobb Hydro Dam, Maunganamu and Tokaanu tailrace, and an unidentified quarry (including people at work). Also includes images of gardens [Avon River?]. Quantity: 21 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour slides

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-138

Description: Shows the quarry cutting with yellow flowering plant on top. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-021

Description: A view of a quarry Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 250 mm

Date: ca 1920s-1930s

From: Lithgow, Robert William, fl 1980s :Photographs of buildings constructed by the Hansford & Mills Construction Co., and of the Kairuru marble quarry

Reference: PAColl-0515

Description: Photographs of quarrying showing the tools and winches used. Photographer unknown. Probably at Kairuru which was the location of the photographs in the album PA1-q-144. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-137

Description: Shows the quarry cutting with yellow flowering [gorse?] on top. Possibly at south Norsewood. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1972-[1981]

From: Action for Environment: Records

Reference: 96-204-3/08

Description: Includes concerns over mining at Orongorongo Station, Capt Turakirae, Fitzroy Bay, Mt Davy, Upper Grey valley and Fiordland National Park Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-020

Description: Shows a man loading a horse-drawn cart Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 250 mm

Date: ca 1920

From: Lithgow, Robert William, fl 1980s :Photographs of buildings constructed by the Hansford & Mills Construction Co., and of the Kairuru marble quarry

Reference: PAColl-3155

Description: Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope. Physical Description: 6 x 8 inch file prints

Date: 17 July 1989 - 17 Jul 1989

From: Winstone Group of Companies Oral History Project

By: Betham, Frederick Kurt, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0152/03

Description: Frederick Kurt Hufnagel-Betham (ka Jim Betham) born Auckland. Outlines family background - father born in Samoa. Grandfather, Kurt Hufnagel was German, captain of a whaling ship who retired to Samoa and had a Copra plantation. Grandmother, Catherine Ann Hufnagel (nee Betham) came from village of Betham, Carnforth, South Westmoreland, England. Bethams (Beethams) emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa. Reference to Bruce Beetham (MP, Social Credit, 1978-1984) and Beethams of Wairarapa. Recalls childhood memories of big spaces, servants and hurricanes in Samoa and also of Queen Street, Auckland after the riots in 1930s. Gives history of Samoa. Describes Mau, Samoan Independence Movement. Gives details of Count von Lucknow and his background. Discusses employment, doing a 5 year engineering apprenticeship at A & G Price Ltd, Auckland 1943-1948, with the intention of becoming a ship's engineer. Explains why, on completion of apprenticeship, he decided on change of career and joined Lunn Avenue Quarry, Winstone Ltd, Auckland, as junior draughtsman, and serving at the quarry until 1974, becoming Quarry Superintendent. Describes role of Winstone Ltd during World War II - supplied concrete for military airport, Whenuapai and a large amount of road work. Gives geological background of Basalt Quarry. Mentions Alan Adams, Leo Foster, Angus (Gus) McKay and Bruce Winstone. Talks about the Trade Union and staff relations. Other topics mentioned include; accidents, with reference to Noel Strid who was killed; workers who included Maori, Dalmations, Norwegians and Scots; Winstone Quarry, Plimmerton with reference to Cam Kay, Tom Wilkinson and Eric Gallimore; Mines Department certification, describing explosion training on site and rules for working with explosives. Backgrounds appointment as Group Environmental Officer (1974-1981). Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 4 Homai Street, Remuera, Auckland Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002827-002829 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0529.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-087

Description: Photographs taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: Circa 1930s

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-038928-G

Description: View of a quarry, with a truck in a cutting and a steam shovel behind. There are a few trees on the hill to the right, above the cutting, and another truck is partially visible bottom right. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1900s]

Reference: PAColl-4593

Description: Photograph of a traction engine operating a stone-crushing machine at a quarry. A bullock team is hitched to a wagon waiting for the crushed stone. Behind them is a hillside of loose stone. Location and photographer unidentified although there is the name G K Oxenham on the reverse. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1900-1977]

By: Cable Price Downer

Reference: PAColl-5905

Description: Mainly photographs of products made by the firm of William Cable and Co. from ca 1900 to the 1960s. These include boilers, turbines, galvanised steel products, ship repairs, constructional steel, factory and other buildings, electric power stations, bridges and roads. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230969-F to 1/2-240005-F. 1/4-114152-F to 1/4-114175-F. 35mm-83290 to 35mm-83299. Quantity: 502 b&w original photographic print(s) Of which four are blue cyanotypes. 3 colour original photographic print(s). 71 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2013

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0026710

Description: Cartoon shows a crane labelled 'Asset sales' with the National Party symbol on it, lifting up a rock labelled 'Genesis', from under which crawls a taniwha labelled 'Iwi claims'. Two men stand on a hill nearby commenting 'Mess with these things and who knows what'll crawl out and bite ya!' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-057

Description: Shows stone hut with roof of wood?, and smoking chimney at far right. It is partly obscured by a grassy slope on right. Behind at left is a rocky outcrop below which the ground drops. There are brown hills in the left distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 200 mm.

Date: [ca 12 Mar 1944]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05311-F

Description: The nature of the country and the prevailing bad weather has laid extra stress on the value of roads in the Monte Cassino area, Italy. New Zealand Engineers have had to do considerable construction and maintenance work and are here seen quarrying metal. Photograph taken circa 12 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 12 Mar 1944]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05312-F

Description: New Zealand Engineers on the Cassino Front in Italy, during World War II, at work quarrying metal for roads, a vital necessity in this area. Photograph taken circa 12 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative