Construction industry - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1811-[ca 1894], 1933

Reference: MS-Papers-1907

Description: Two memoranda books include details of expenses for building a cottage, a bakers oven in 1862, rents received (1865-1866), accounts for family's shoes (1867), journey to Hokitika 19-30 October 1865 and recipes There is also a miners right issued to George Innes, Tuapeka (September 1861) and a manuscript of business notes (1860-1866) which includes costing of material in construction of brick house, Cashel Street (1863) and record of work done There is also a copy of Wellington Girls College Reporter, Jubilee number (May 1933) George Innes was a builder who lived at various times in Hokitika, Otago and Christchurch. He arrived at Lyttelton on the Fatima in December 1851. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces, 3 volumes, 2 loose papers). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: 1937-1938

From: Orchiston, Bruce Elwyn, 1914-2005 :Photographs of New Zealand slums

Reference: PAColl-6013-4

Description: Photographs of substandard housing and state housing developments in the South Island, taken 1937-1938 by the Department of Housing Construction. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 26 Nov 1992

From: Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Oral History Project

By: Preston, Jessie Grace, 1906-1998

Reference: OHInt-0314/17

Description: Describes her family background, particularly her grandparents the Musgroves and the Simpsons. Talks about how her parents met and her father's building business, the Musgrove building firm. Notes that her mother and brother continued to run it after her father's death from influenza in 1920. Talks about staff loyalty and a number of building projects with which the firm was associated. Describes her schooling, including corporal punishment, Christchurch Teachers College and university and her first teaching job at the sole charge school at Goldsborough near Hokitika. Describes this as a small gold mining town and herself as the last teacher at the school. Talks about her next teaching position at Kaikoura. Comments that she had met her husband to be at Hokitika where she returned and was married. Recalls early involvement with Plunket after the birth of Janet in 1936. Talks about becoming Treasurer, then President, the Plunket service offered locally, Plunket nurses Mrs Bonisch and Nurse Turner, contact with the Greymouth branch, fundraising to buy a car for the Plunket nurse and the independence of the Hokitika Plunket branch. Venue - Hokitika : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Venue - Hokitika Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDT-000014; OHDT-000015 Quantity: 2 DAT tape(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 875.

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0025336

Description: Shows Gerry Brownlee, Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister, next to a stack of paperwork labelled, 'building consents' where the C has been crossed out and replaced with an N to spell 'nonsents'. Text above reads, 'The Christchurch Silly Council,' a pun on Christchurch City Council. Brownlee says, "Time for a bit of constructive advice." Refers to International Accreditation New Zealand revoking the council's building consent accreditation citing an inability to bring its processes up to the required standard. Brownlee says the Government will seek to audit recent building consents to ensure they were up to the required standards. (Stuff.co.nz) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2014

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

Reference: DCDL-0028029

Description: Cartoon shows sky scrapers being built in Auckland out of shipping containers. One building is in the shape of the Sky Tower; another building has a large sign reading, Fonterra, on top. Auckland mayor Len Brown is shown wearing a cape that reads, Super Len, and waving his hands in the air saying, "Whoa enough!!" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).