Measuring instruments

Date: between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2413-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island, sea on the left. Seven men in two groups are hauling two large swordfish and a shark up the beach towards a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam. Small fishing hut centre left in front of a line of pohutukawa trees which edge the beach right across the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 829; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Deep Sea Fishing. Mayor Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 103.0 cm

Date: between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-2410-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide beach on Mayor Island with the sea centre left. Four large swordfish and a shark lined up across the beach in the foreground. Small fishing hut in the centre of the image with a line of pohutukawa trees edging the beach across the image. On the far right there is a form of scaffold with markers for measuring the length of the fish and with ropes hanging from a cross-beam, for hauling the fish up. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Sword fish caught off Mayor Island. New Zealand. No. 828; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Sword fish caught off Mayor Island. N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 111.0 cm

Date: 2013

By: TechRentals NZ Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-HIRE-2013-01

Description: Sales and hire catalogue for technical equipment including electronic and data equipment, electric power systems & meters, general industrial measuring tools, measuring tools for environmental and OHS, calibration services. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 77 pages 210 x 147 mm.

Date: 12 May 2005

From: Tairua Oral History Group project

By: Tomlin, Joe, 1920-; Rushforth, David, active 2004-2006

Reference: OHInt-0806-10

Description: Interview with Joe Tomlin, born Wellington, 1920. Mentions training as a watchmaker, then going to England in World War II where he trained in instrument factories. Refers to meeting and marrying his wife in England. Describes arriving in Tairua in 1968 and building a house. Talks about the shifting sands and channels at Tairua and the effects of tides and storms. Describes building a model of the church for Father Bennett, the materials used to build the church, and how the stained glass window was made and framed. Recalls how Tairua was once a bit wild and he could shoot mynah birds out of his bedroom window. Mentions night rescues at sea and designing a beacon for the harbour entrance. Discusses being the local fix-it man for Tairua including for tradepeople. Describes trips to Fiji every few years to service and repair clocks. Details making tools to repair faulty imported earrings, and then making equipment to make faceted earrings. Recalls he was one of the earliest skin divers in the area, and developed the "hubble-bubble" for underwater diving. Describes contract work done for NZED using the hubble-bubble to lay cables under Cook Strait off Ohau Point. Details his invention of a two-man underwater chainsaw driven by an 8 horsepower petrol motor. Recalls the work he did during World War II in England as a bomb site and automatic pilot leveller led to work after the War servicing instruments for a local gliding company for which he received free flying time. Describes how this led him to build a Jodel D11 aircraft in his basement, its test flight over Whitianga, and selling the aircraft when he turned 80. Comments on testing altimeters for the CAA, describing how he built and calibrated a mercury barometer for the task. Discusses motorbike racing with a 1925 AJS Big Port motorbike. Mentions he brought a 350cc radial valve Rudge back to New Zealand after the War and converted it into a trail bike. Interviewer(s) - David Rushforth Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014713 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5308. Search dates: 1920 - 1968 - 2005

Date: 1925

By: Littlejohn & Son (Firm); New Zealand Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SURVEYING-1925-01

Description: Sales catalogue includes lists of items for sale including theodolites and tacheometers, levels, tripods, compasses, measuring tapes, planimeters, scales, protractors, T-squares, and drawing instruments. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 88 pages, 185 x 126 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Christchurch Book Auction, 29 August 2009, lot 110.

Date: 2004

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004187

Description: Shows the Manukau Harbour bar marked by a buoy with a skull and crossbones on a flag. In the distance is ship that has been wrecked on the bar. In the foreground is a ship on which the harbour master is preparing his new method of measuring the depth of the sea over the bar. He is tying rope around one of the feet of a man who clutches a flag in his raised right hand and two bricks with his other hand. The man cheerfully asks the harbour what happens next. Clearly he is about to be thrown overboard and will sink to the bottom of the sea bearing his little flag aloft thereby showing the depth of the bar. Published in Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'SG' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).