Sheep-shearing - New Zealand

Date: 1960-1962

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10765-2

Description: Proof sheets depicting Māori, taken by Ans Westra between 1960 and 1962. Includes images of: - Porirua, Plimmerton and Wellington - Hui Aroha, Masterton and shearing Wairarapa - Opening of the Waiwhetū marae wharenui - Māori Women's Welfare league garden party - Henare Gilbert - Hui Topu, Ngāruawāhia - Passion play, Hastings - Taita Community Centre and Auckland Community Centre - Gear meatworks hostel, Petone - Annual Kīngitanga coronation hui at Tūrangawaewae marae, Ngāruawāhia Negatives associated with the proof sheets are digitsed and available at Series-6708-1 The proof sheets are housed in plastic sleeves, two per sleeve, back-to-back, with a paper sheet separating each pair. These are annotated by Ans Westra with additional information. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s) contact proof sheets containing 12 frames.

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s

Reference: PA12-11258

Description: Photographs of men shearing sheep, wool being handled, and bales of wool. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 2017

By: Low, Ruth Entwistle, active 2003-2015

Reference: OHColl-1578

Description: 13 interviews with figures involved in the New Zealand shearing industry, conducted by Ruth Low in 2017 as material for her book 'The Shearers' (2019). Interviews were with farmers, farm managers, shearers, and shearing contractors. The interviewees were: Reginald (Reg) Benjamin, Richard Brewer, Peter Casserly, John and Catherine Ford, Katherine (Kate) Foster, Richard Foster, Sam Jefferis, Brian Kerr, Jack Luttrell, Charles (Charlie) Matthews, Myles Mullooly, Edmund (Eddie) Parkinson, and Richard Winiata. Project received Award in Oral History funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2016. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 13 Interview(s). 47 digital sound recording(s). 39 Electronic document(s). 13 printed abstract(s). 12 colour copy photographic print(s). 12 digital photograph(s). 2 folder(s). Search dates: 2017

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

Reference: PA12-11404

Description: Photographs showing sheep being sheared. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1934 - 1935

By: Commercial Printing and Publishing Company Ltd.; Field, William Geoffrey Hughes, 1897-1973

Reference: Eph-D-SHEEP-1934-01

Description: Broadsheet shows a calendar for 1934 and part of 1935, and has blank panels for Shifting Record, Shed tallies, Lambing periods of gestation, Wool bale records. Around the sides are advertisements for: I.C.I. .22 Rimfire express high velocity cartridges for shooting rabbits; Geo H Scales cargo steamers; "Ariki" Lister shearing tool; Richard Johnson & Nephew - Johnson's fence wire; Wurm-Ez-Ol worm drench; W T Avery scales; Wood's Peppermint Cure; New Zealand Salt Company; Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd, London; Bergers Paints; Wright Stephenson sheep dips, medicines and constitution balls; Francis Holmes Ltd cement; NZ rail freight charges; C.W.S. Co-Operative tea. Interspersed are cartoon illustrations by "M", for activities in a sheep farmer's life. At top centre is "The new chum takes a hand" showing a newcomer trying to shear a sheep. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset, 765 x 495 mm.

Date: 1966

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-1966-01

Description: Pamphlet issued prior to the 1966 general election, shows portraits of Keith Holyoake and John Marshall, US President Lyndon B Johnson, photographs of large construction and industrial projects under way. One side shows illustrations of a sheep shearer, a crane on a construction site, a woman office worker, a man on the telephone, and a worker drilling rock. The "back" cover shows a photograph of a family admiring their Morris Mini car. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet 241 x 485 mm, folded to 241 x 123 mm.

Date: 6 June 2018

From: Farming women of Golden Bay oral history project

Reference: OHInt-1252-06

Description: Interview with Carol Wyllie by Anita Peters, recorded on 6 June 2018. Topics covered in the interview include: early life; marriage; Kaihoka; Collingwood; Stoke; shearing; cooking; children; farm and house in Stoke; home activities; socialising with other women; involvement with Rural Women Organisation; technology; diversification; problems and issues on the farm; and development and history of land. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 2 digital sound recording(s). 4 Electronic document(s). 1 digital image(s). Search dates: 06/06/2018

Date: 7 August 2013

From: Picton Freezing Works oral history project

By: Connor, Francis Thomas, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-1621-02

Description: Interview with Francis (Frank) Connor by Loreen Brehaut recorded on 7 August 2013. Topics covered in the interview include: family and early life; working on farms and shearing; marriage; working in Picton as a solo butcher; range of speed and skill amongst butchers; sticking pens; slaughtermen; working at Blenheim abattoir; various people worked with; unions and strikes; butchers clothing; and closure of Picton Freezing Works. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 4 digital sound recording(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 Electronic document(s) digital abstract. 1 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement form. Search dates: 07/08/2013

Date: 1974

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AW-1107

Description: All frames show people attending a country show. Frame one shows a man in a white coat talking to a woman standing beside a horse. Frames 2 to 7 show a Māori man holding his baby on a fence; frame 8 shows a group of spectators; and frame 9 is a man shearing a sheep with a young girl waiting to take the fleece. A woman is leaning against the woolshed in frame 10; a nun is pushing a young girl in a wheelchair across a paddock, and frame 10 shows two young women on horseback, both on dark coloured horses, each leading a white horse. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0486-F

Description: Images show scenes from the Gisborne District, possibly Tolaga Bay, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show a carved figure on a meeting house porch pole, a man and boy on a [Fordson] Dexta tractor, and a sheep shearing gang working inside. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0487-F

Description: Images show scenes from the Gisborne District, possibly Tolaga Bay, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show a group of girls playing hopscotch and Maori girls sitting on a wall with a church in the background. Also shown are interior images of a shearer shearing a sheep. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0488-F

Description: Images show scenes probably from Tolaga Bay, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show groups of Maori children, and portraits of a Maori girl and boy. Two frames show a wool gatherer working at a bench and one frame shows a male shearer shearing a sheep. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 29 May 2017

From: Out and about: Lesbian social life in the 1980s oral history project

By: Courtney, Helen Kathleen, 1952-2020

Reference: OHInt-1390-06

Description: Interview with Helen Courtney by Nadia Gush, recorded on 29 May 2017. Topics covered in the interview include: working as a shearer; attending Auckland lesbian balls; perceptions and experiences of gender norms; and processes for drawing cartoons. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Search dates: 29/05/2017