Radio stations - New Zealand - Chatham Islands

Date: 1932-1933

By: Hayward, Maurice Henry, 1910-1985; Hayward, Shirley, active 2004

Reference: PA1-o-1246

Description: Photographs taken by Maurice Henry Hayward while on a work relief scheme on the Chatham Islands building a new wharf at Waitangi. Included are views of Waitangi and its principle buildings, the Post Office, the hotels and the radio station. Also depicted is race day, bullock teams, horses hauling wool bales on sledges, sheep waiting at Waitangi Wharf, human bones, Tommy Solomon's funeral, a shipwreck, the countryside, and coastal views. Throughout the album are images of the old wharf at Waitangi, and the new one under construction and finally completed. There is a record of a tramping and hunting trip made by three or four men, one of whom was Hayward, and two interior views of the living quarters for the relief workers. Some photographs show the men riding horses, and dressed as cowboys or tough looking seamen. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1928-1968

From: Clough, Richard Lea, 1939- : Photographs of the Chatham Islands

Reference: PAColl-4788-1

Description: This collection also contains typed notes identifying the subjects of the negatives in PAColl-4788 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1912-ca 1925

By: Newlands, Robert G, active 2001-2007

Reference: PAColl-6846

Description: Photographs of the buildings, equipment and mast of Chatham Islands radio station ZLC. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 14 Dec 1985

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: McLaughlin, James, 1908-1994

Reference: OHInt-0070/29

Description: Jim McLaughlin recalls family background, childhood in Westport, education, early work as message boy in Post and Telegraph Department in Westport, the postmaster W T Johnston, details of shifts, duties, salary, uniform and cleanliness, clearing post boxes, discipline, training in morse, layout of Westport Post Office, selling telephones to the farmers, peoples' reaction to telephones initially, operators listening to telephone calls, importance of wrist in sending morse, press telegrams, suicide of telegraphists, mentions work as radio inspector and signals officer in World War II, traits needed for good telegraphy. Describes earthquakes, Murchison earthquake June 1929, damage, conditions in Nelson, effect of earthquake on communications, land and forestry, relieving work at Nelson Post Office as telegraph cadet, acquaintanceship with Keith and Norma Holyoake, Motueka, transfering to Wellington radio in 1931, Depression in 1930s, work as radio operator in Chatham Islands 1930s, describes place, the post office and the radio station, the spark transmitter, death and funeral of Tommy Solomon, the Moriori, the racing club, life of the Chatham Islanders, fishing, background to becoming radio inspector in Nelson from 1936-1943, work as radio inspector at Nelson in World War II, duties, training radio operators for the Hudson bombers, work as Maori interpreter at the Chatham Islands from 1932-1936. Talks about work as senior radio inspector in Hamilton from 1943 to 1965, views on engineers, involvement in several Royal visits, reference to some notible Post Office events from 1930-1962, attitude of Head Office to his work, retirement. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Hamilton Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 60 Awatere Avenue, Hamilton Accompanying material - Copies of the following included in printed abstract: Jim McLaughlin's curriculum vitae, typed, two pages; various radiograms to Jim McLaughlin; article from the Waikato times, 24 Mar 1958 entitled 'American satellite heard in Hamilton; 'Powerful signals picked up from Soviet satellite', Waikato times, 14 October 1957; various other articles about the same subject; a letter from Alan Frame from the Old Timers' Club to Jim McLaughlin; editorial by Leo Simpson entitled 'So you think you're an engineer, mate!', Electronics Australia, August 1984. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001240 - OHC-001243 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 161. Search dates: 1908 - 1985

Date: January-February 1933

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1319

Description: Photographs taken and purchased, by Charles Fleming during a trip to the Chatham Islands. The images cover the principle settlements of Waitangi, Te One, and Owenga. Also landscape features such as Waikaripi, Red Bluff, the Nairn River, Te Whanga Lagoon, Tennants Lake, the Pinacles on the south coast, Titirangi Bluff and fossil bed, Mount Dieffenbach [Diffenbach], basalt pillars at Port Hutt, views of the north and south coasts, Maunganui rock outcrop, Tioriori, Momoeatoa [Momoe-a-Toa], Cape Young, Lake Pateriki, and Lake Huro. Life on the Chathams includes native forest, stranded whales, sheep, the Chatham Islands aster (Olearia sedimentata), the Chatham Island forget-me-not (Myosotidium nobile), karaka trees, and a colony of Chatham Island Shags (Phalacrorax onslowi). There is a photograph of Bob McClurg's garden, and another of his two grandaughters. This trip was organised by Arthur William Baden Powell who was the conchologist at the Auckland Institute and Museum. He invited Charles Fleming to go with him. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).