Agriculture - New Zealand - Nelson Region

Date: 1841-1854, 1935-1936 - [1Ca 1950s]

By: Webb, George Hannam, 1929-2007

Reference: MS-Group-1490

Description: Papers relating to Samuel Stephens, a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Nelson. Includes journals and diaries kept by him, letters to his family back in England which describe his life in New Zealand, research material collected about Stephens' life including copies of his death notice, survey maps and pages from the `Nelson Examiner', transcripts of diaries and journals, and photographs of his grave. The journals have details of his voyage to New Zealand from England on the `Whitby' in 1841, of his daily life as a settler in Nelson, on the weather, agriculture and horticulture. He includes sketches of plants and listings of the plants and weather conditions. Quantity: 9 volume(s). 8 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives March 2006; material transferred to the Published Collection, Ephemera Collection and the Cartographic Collection..

Date: 1840 - 1860

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-080

Description: List of farming activities with corresponding costs. Loose page inserted at back of the sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 205 x 250 mm

Date: 1850-1861

By: Monro, David (Sir), 1813-1877

Reference: Micro-MS-0667

Description: Correspondence between Monro and J S Tytler concerning negotiations over Nelson Trust Funds, with comment on the state of the colony, farming, local politics, appointment of R Broughton as Headmaster of Nelson College, 1861. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (ca 65 frames).

Date: 1840 - 1860

From: [Duppa, George] 1817-1888 :[Sketch- and account-book / George Duppa]

Reference: E-075-079

Description: List of farm activities with corresponding list of expenditure Loose page inserted at back of the sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 205 x 250 mm

Date: April 1986 - 01 Apr 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Field, Hildred Olive, 1904-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/04

Description: Olive Field was born in Rockville on 8 Dec 1904. She traces the early lives of her maternal and paternal grandparents, the Diamonds and Fields, who were early settlers in the area. Notes that her family were musical and that her Diamond grandmother sung on the stage in Sydney. Talks about her parents' early lives, her childhood, her grandmother's home health cures and the family temperance pledge. Gives domestic details. Describes the schools at Rockville, Kaituna and Dall Creek and her father's farm which was Maori land bought from Huria Matenga. Recalls the botanist James Dall (1840-1912) and describes patriotic efforts during World War I. Talks about the Depression years, goldmining during the Depression, social occasions with goldminers and Rockville before World War II. Describes local personalities. Talks about nursing in Westport and later returning to Rockville to care for her mother while her brothers ran the farm, which was sold in the 1970s. Includes excerpts from the notebooks of Jacky Jamieson. Venue - Nelson : 1986 Other Titles - Interviewee died suddenly shortly after tapes were made with interview left incomplete Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mrs Field's home in Nelson Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002952; OHC-002953; OHC-002954; OHC-002955 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s) 1. 1 printed abstract(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 570.

Date: Sep-Oct 1985 - 01 Sep 1985 - 31 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Bennett, Florence Evelyn, 1916-2000; Bennett, Thomas, 1910-1993

Reference: OHInt-0053/10

Description: Florrie Bennett was born in Nelson in 1915 or 1916. Describes being raised as a child to constant hard work in Lower Moutere in the 1920s. Talks about not looking forward to the school holidays because of the hard work involved. Describes `hidings'and a tough upbringing in terms of discipline. Mentions that she turned to her mother. Gives details about her brothers and sisters, working in orchards and working for the Hendersons of Motueka and Mrs Savage of Nelson. Recalls receiving no pay for working for her family before she was married. Tom Bennett was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1910. Describes emigrating to New Zealand in 1930 determined to get his own farm and working at Bainham before putting a deposit on a dairy farm in Gardiners Valley in 1933. Describes working at the Harakeke Mill and doing horse contract work for extra income. Talks about being forced off it in 1939 as a result of being unable to keep up payments. Explains why his debt was not wiped by the Mortgage Adjustment Act at the end of the Depression. Talks about marrying Florrie in 1936 and their hard work together. Describes very basic facilities including the need to carry water to the house. Talks about Florrie's work on the farm and also off the farm, including work picking hops. Talks about having babies, breastfeeding and looking after children while continuing with farm work and housework. Describes going to Kaihoka Station to work after losing their Gardiners Valley farm. Talks about the social gap between the boss and the workers. Describes working for John (Jack) Haldane at Bainham and the cream can war at Bainham. Talks about saving money, working at the Cobb hydro site and buying a farm at Hamama in 1946. Describes hard work on the farm and the purchase of the Onekaka farm in 1962. Notes work done on the farm to improve its pakihi soil. Talks about Florrie's role in the decision-making, their partnership, regrets and attitudes to and philosophies on life. Venue - Takaka : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Bennetts' home at Onekaka Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002927; OHC-002928; OHC-002929; OHC-002930; OHC-002931; OHC-002932; OHC-002933; OHC-002934 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 566.

Date: Jan - Mar 1986 - 01 Jan 1986 - 01 Mar 1986

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Langford, Kathleen Edith, 1907-1997; Langford, Lewis Campbell, 1909-1995

Reference: OHInt-0053/13

Description: Lewis Langford was born 23 October 1909 at Bainham. Describes his family background and childhood in Bainham in a poor but religious family. Talks about milking at home from the age of seven and for the neighbours from the age of eight. After leaving school he worked for his older brother on the Bainham farm and also took Council road contracts. Describes buying his own farm at the age of nineteen. Discusses farming in depth, particularly clearing land, digging ditches, working with a horse team, blacksmithing and droving cattle. Describes taking gold miners and others, including the botanist Walter Brockie, into the Gouland Downs on pack horses. Recalls early Bainham settlers, the use of a water wheel to generate electricity, the arrival of electricity in Bainham in the 1940s, the North west Nelson earthquake of 1929, the Bainham timber mill and local cheese and dairy factories. Describes the impact of the 1935 Labour government. Describes his use of horses in the farm, rather than a tractor, until 1954. Talks about the lack of contemporary community involvement. Kathleen Langford was born in Nelson on 29 December 1907. Describes her family, background, early years in Nelson and her education, especially at Nelson Girls College. Talks about her father's family, the Toll family, and their early years on the Aorere goldfield. Recalls the death of her father, her mother's widowhood and determination that her children not go into domestic service. Talks about her grandmother's involvement with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the family's involvement with the Church of Christ. Describes a holiday to Paturau in some depth, her relationship with her mother and working as an office girl. Recalls meeting Lewis Langford and a fairly lengthy courtship during the Depression years. Describe herself as a `townie' and recalls finding it difficult moving to Bainham from Nelson. Describes childbirth during the 1930s including the failure of the phone when required. Talks about haymaking and other work on the farm in addition to domestic work. Mentions domestic help and other help she received with the children. Describes her mother living with them. Venue - Collingwood : 1986 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Mr and Mrs Langford's home at Bainham Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002976; OHC-002977; OHC-002978; OHC-002979; OHC-002980; OHC-002981; OHC-002982; OHC-002983; OHC-002984; OHC-002985; OHC-002986; OHC-002987; OHC-002988; OHC-002989; OHC-002990 Quantity: 15 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 15 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 577.

Date: 24 Apr 1987

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Climo, Mary Matilda, 1895-1988

Reference: OHInt-0053/01

Description: Mary Climo was born in Upper Moutere in 1895. This interview was uncompleted at the time of her death. Recalls her early childhood in the Upper Moutere, Nelson, Takaka and Ferntown areas. Describes the Brunning family, their emigration from Germany and her mother's family to a lesser extent. Recalls her father's work in flax mills at Westhaven and Pakawau wharves and coal mine. Decribes life in Nelson in the 1900s including details of some shops and prices. Venue - Collingwood : 1987 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Joan Whiting Memorial Hospital, Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002942; OHC-002943 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 568.

Date: 4 Nov 1988 - 04 Nov 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Schroder, Nellie Winifred Bernice, 1903-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/03

Description: Nellie Schroder was born in Kent in 1903 and came out to New Zealand with her parents in 1913. Talks about her grandfather from Staffordshire, her parents' Victorian disposition, family relationships and her father's profession as an engineer. Describes the family's reasons for emigrating and conditions on the emigrant ship. Discusses the women's movement and women's rights. Describes going from Wellington to Nelson on the `Nikau', finding a house in Nelson, her education at Girls' Central School and Nelson Girls' College, her parents buying the Tahuna Bay Tea Rooms, her mother's work there, the effect of this on the family and her father's job as Town Clerk at the Town Board. Talks about reading, religion and changing denominations. Discusses becoming a secondary school teacher, boarding at the student's hostel, her work ethic and the inadequate pay. Talks about her social life, seeing Gladys Moncrieff at the Opera House, singing for the Boys' Institute and her lack of sex education. Talks about completing her teacher training certificate in 1922 and becoming infant mistress at Carluke in the Rai Valley. Describes the children, the difficulty in being accepted, meeting Arthur George Schroder, their marriage and working on their Rai Valley farm. Recalls the birth of Solly, miscarriages and other children. Talks about politics and being on the Hospital Board. Discusses her involvement with the WDFF, its aims, its effect on her social life, holding office for the Marlborough WDFF and the advent of the District Nursing service. Talks about being Dominion President of the WDFF and the current state of the organisation. Talks about the effect of her husband's death in 1953, becoming South Pacific Area Vice-President, Associated Country President and editing the WDFF magazine. Venue - Marlborough : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Rai Valley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004143-OHC-004145 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1635 and OHDL-000574.

Date: [ca 5 Apr 1947]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

By: Wood, Geoffrey Cameron, 1920-1995

Reference: PAColl-7796-83

Description: Clover seed being harvested near Nelson, possibly on the farm of P J Challie. Shows a tractor hauling a harvester. Photograph taken circa 5 April 1947 by Geoffrey C Wood. Other - Notes on back of backing board read: "Harvesting clover seen near Nelson. 48 sacks each of 200lb were harvested on Mr J J Challie's farm. Geoffrey C Wood Hardy Street Nelson 5-4-1947." Other - Published in the Evening Post 5 April 1947 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.6 x 16.6 cm, mounted on card 16.1 x 20.9 cm

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Dudgeon, Ellis, 1905-1979

Reference: PAColl-8550-16

Description: Farmer steering a plough being drawn by two draught horses, across hill country land in Wakapuaka, Nelson. Photograph taken circa 1939 by Ellis Dudgeon. Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1939. `Making New Zealand' 1(11): 17 Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Photo K-31 / Same size: 7 7/8 x 4 1/2"; Verso - centre - Original published caption: Ploughing in hilly country, Wakapuaka, Nelson; Verso - bottom right - Photographer's stamp: Ellis Dudgeon / F.R.S.A. A.R.P.S; Verso - top left - P17 / F3 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 20.8 cm Provenance: Photograph from Ellis Dudgeon for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40). Processing information: Formerly filed in Turnbull Library Pictures at: 631. Tillage. ca 1940

Date: 1944

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000999-F

Description: Distant view of Annesbrook Orchard, Nelson, showing fruit trees, house, and surrounding terrain. Photograph taken in 1944, by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Print in album reads: "A distant view of the Annesbrook Orchard, run by the Cawthron Institute for stock experiments". Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20,999 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative