Dredging - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1883

By: Riby, Thomas William, active 1883; J T Smith & Company

Reference: C-029-013

Description: A view from the hills above Lyttelton, possibly from the lower Bridle Path, looking down on streets, houses, businesses and the port. Includes Cunningham's Stores, Coal Depot, Timeball Station, dredge and shipping in harbour Believed to have been published to mark opening of Lyttelton Graving Dock, 1883 Reference: Ellis, 977 Compare later version at C-029-014 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, b&w ; image 378 x 602 mm on sheet 500 x 690 mm

Date: 11 May 1994

From: The Merchant Navy story

By: McGee, Ray Gerald, 1923-1998

Reference: OHInt-0321-17

Description: Ray McGee was born in Wellington, 1923. Recalls early education in Kilbirnie, Newtown and Miramar. Discusses employment with Taubman's paint factory and Elextrolux before conscription into the New Zealand Army aged eighteen and training at Waiouru. Lists positions held as a traffic cop, guard at the Japanese prisoner of war camp, Baring Head lighthouse guard and overseeing the Island Bay power links. Tells of discharge from the Army due to youth and joining the Merchant Navy as a trimmer. Describes duties, routes to Australia and cargoes of his first ship the Kaikorai. Outlines transfer to hospital ship the Maunganui as a peggy boy, or messman, travelling to the Middle East via Ceylon, Bombay, Aden and Port Twefik. Remembers depth charges at Gilbraltar in 1943. Discusses the Maunganui crew, hospital boat practices, loading casualities, picking up wounded in the Mediterranean and returning Scottish servicemen to Glasgow. Mentions fellow ship the Oranje. Chronicles transfer to the Kaikorai as a fireman and later as a donkeyman before joining the Kanna in New Zealand. Talks about New Zealand ferries the Rangatira and the Wahine. Outlines involvement with the Union Steam Ship Company. Details employment in various freezing works, with Fletcher Steel and the Timaru Harbour Board. Discusses dredging in Timaru, shipping and cargoes including containers and livestock. Interviewer(s) - Stan Kirkpatrick Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4456. Search dates: 1994