Kiwifruit

Date: Ca 22 August 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1981/2872-F

Description: Sid Desborough pruning Sydney, a kiwifruit plant on his property at Summerlands, north of Manakau. Photographs taken ca 22 August 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Sid Desborough pioneered kiwifruit cultivation in Horowhenua. He began planting at Summerland ca 1974, and named his first plants after people working at the orchard at the time. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1994

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :Editorial cartoons. 1 March - 30 April 1994

Reference: H-114-031

Description: Shows a fruit drink label (Snaffle), featuring a koala in a tree. The koala is talking on a cell phone, saying that he has been sprung, but to tell Paul Keating that there have been no new developments in New Zealand on ANZUS or the republic question. Refers to the use of a koala on kiwifruit drink label Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1970-1989

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1970s?: 'Flavorific' Summerland Orchard. Main Highway, Ohau, six miles south Levin. E021 [1970s?]. Card J Wattie Canneries Ltd. Wattie's Boysenberry recipes [1970s?] Kimberley Gardens, berryfruit growers, Main Road South, Levin. [Pamphlet about fruit for sale. 1970s?] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. 'Fresh-Up' apple pie filling, 'Fresh-Up' apple slices and 'Fresh-Up' apple sauce. [Recipes. 1970s?] 1979: Kiwifruit! [Pamphlet in Japanese. ca 1979] New Zealand kiwifruit [Pamphlet in Japanese. 1979] New Zealand Kiwifruit Export Promotion Committee. New Zealand kiwifruit. Pamphlet with text in several languages (3 copies) New Zealand kiwifruit, the new international fruit [Pamphlet with text in several languages] Plentibay Exports. Kiwifruit, an exotic flavoured sub-tropical fruit grown in New Zealand. Pamphlet [1979] 1980s?: Be pre-peared; Wattie's pear recipes [1980s?] (2 copies) Blackberry recipes without sugar [1980s] Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Publicity Council Inc. N.Z. oranges [Flier of recipes. 1980s?] Growing babacos. Landsendt, 108 Parker Rd., Oratia, RD Auckland 7 [1980s?] Kiwano. [Recipes. 1980s] N.Z. Citrus. Great recipe ideas using NZ lemons [1980s] N.Z. Nursery Men's Association. Fruit for health. Information bulletin no. 10 [1980s?] Ortho [ie Orthocide]; helping the world grow better [1980s?]. Pamphlet Watties; a can for all seasons [1980s] 1980: NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. All about apples [ca 1980] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. What, why how? [ca 1980] (2 copies) 1981: Bay of Plenty Berryfruit Co-Operative Ltd. New Zealand. 1981 Fruit Distributors Ltd. Using your 'nana [1981] 1983: NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. Exciting apple recipes for 1983 (2 copies) NZ Kiwifruit. Kiwifruit; a gift from New Zealand [1983] Welcome to berry time at Brown Acres. Main Road Manakau. Second edition - many new ideas [Recipes] 1985: Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association Inc. HBFA 1985 NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. A brief profile [1985?] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. Apples and pears; the story of their everyday freshness [1985?] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. Exciting recipe ideas with apples and pears [1985] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. Fact sheet [ca 1980] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. Processing the New Zealand apple [1985] NZ Apple and Pear Marketing Board. What's cooking with apples. [Recipes, 1985] New Zealand Feijoa recipes [ca 1985] 1988: Fruit Distributors Ltd. Bananas and health [ca 1988] 1989: Kiwifruit country [1989]. Pamphlet Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1976 - 1978

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-337-087/103

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand economic and political issues. Quantity: 16 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, approximately A4, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1986 - 1992

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-604/635

Description: Includes cartoons about: David Lange proposes better relations with Australia; the French torture the New Zealand kiwi; concorde pilot asked to ship live sheep; wealthy American businessmen try a deal with desperate Hawkes Bay farmers; the French ask David Lange to release the Rainbow Warrior saboteurs; Australians upset by New Zealand's winning a carpetting contract in Canberra; Lange savaged during attempts to trade butter with the EEC "club"; USA President Ronald Reagan takes Australian PM Bob Hawke away from "this nasty area" of New Zealand; USA gets tough with New Zealand; New Zealand's trade threatened by split with ANZUS; troubled trade relations with Libya,Iran, EEC, USA; Fijian Indians want to migrate to New Zealand; Australia threatens trade cuts for non-participation in ANZUS; Kiwifruit for the Ayatollah (Khomeini of Iran); Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen loses popularity; Kiwi expatriates laze in the Queensland sun drinking beer; the snake of CER (Australian Closer Economic Relations); David Lange asks Bob Hawke for the boat "Akarana" back; new "Asian" city for Helensville; MP Marshall to consider tougher measures with China if necessary; no political asylum in New Zealand for Fiji Indian; huge power plant for North Island planned using Australian coal; French MP Michel Rocard promises to try and help New Zealand trade in the EEC; Chinese immigrants arrive; 100,000 live sheep leave for the Persian Gulf countries; Jim Bolger goes to Baghdad with a feather in his cap; Foreign Affairs Minister Don McKinnon is keen on new links with the USA; US President George Bush allocates Jim Bolger two minutes' conversation in the men's toilets; Jim Bolger visites British PM John Major; Bill Birch announces that migrants are essential; Jim Bolger and Don McKinnon are successful in getting New Zealand a place on the UN Security Council; US President Bill Clinton likes New Zealand green-lipped mussels. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1997 - 1998

By: Brockie, Robert Ellison (Dr), 1932-; National Business Review Ltd

Reference: H-507

Description: The majority of the cartoons were published in the National Business Review, although also included are some quick sketches that do not seem intended for publishing. Quantity: 40 photocopy/ies on acid-free paper. Physical Description: A4 size

Date: 1983 - 1985

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: B-144-586/603

Description: Includes cartoons about: Giant sheep proposed for New Zealand; Rob Muldoon between the devil and the EEC (French as neutron bomb testers and as potential butter export markets); Deputy PM Duncan McIntyre makes no comment about the saga of the Russian research ship; New Zealand has to compete with Australia for kiwifruit exports; NZ butter dumped in the EEC; Australian redback spiders and CER (Closer Economic Relations); sheep forced to become a pavement artist to support New Zealand; Prime Minister Muldoon meets President Mitterand with NZ's butter problems behind his back; kiwifruit exports soar; New Zealand dairy exports to the USA threatened by break with ANZUS; barber hanged for using wide comb; Mike Moore going overboard with his lamb promotions; New Zealand and Australia having a beer trade war; sheep on the dole; alarmist Jim McLay believes the Chinese, Russians, Australians, and Eskimoes are coming; Russian submarine brings Soviet fishing crews into Wellington Harbour; cruelty on live transportation of sheep; lamb beheaded for services to New Zealand. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 18 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 420 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1924

From: Duncan & Davies Nurseries: [Horticultural sales catalogues. 1910s-1980s]

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Duncan-1924-01-v

Description: Advertises and describes the Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit. It reports that "quite a sensation has taken place among horticulturalists during the last year or two, on seeing and hearing of this wonderful fruiting climber". Explains that a male and female plant must be planted near each other for best results. Extended Title - From Duncan & Davies "General catalogue of choice nursery stock" 1924, page v (central purple pages). Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on page of catalogue, 179 x 120 mm.

Date: 14 April 1989 - 14 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Bilkey, Joy Margaret, 1925-2013

Reference: OHInt-0058/09

Description: Joy Margaret Bilkey gives details of her family background and how the families were settlers in Waipu. Talks about her paternal great grandfather's cabinet and furniture making career, which included making furniture for English royalty and about her father's work as a builder and her mother's as a music teacher. Describes her education and details the development of her reading habits and tastes and where she got books from. Talks about working for her future parents-in-law. Describes training as a primary school teacher at Auckland Teachers' Training College, teaching at Maungaturoto District High School Primary Department and then relief teaching both before and after her marriage to Arthur Edward Keith Bilkey in 1951. Details the development of their orchard from citrus to kiwifruit and gives some historical background to the development of the Kerikeri area, Kerikeri Primary School and the beginnings of the orchard industry in the area. Describes how the community changed with the influx of orchard people. Mentions the development of clubs and services and how cut off Kerikeri had been in the early days. Notes that there are very few Maori in Kerikeri. Details her involvement with the Kerikeri Public Library as a committee member from 1962-1980 and the early development of the library before the Public Library was established. Describes how the books were looked after by individuals, then by the Plunket Society and then in the school building, membership charge, source of books from Country Library Service and private donation, lending and overdue policy. Details the members of the committee, its work to establish the library, the volunteers and the paid staff, fundraising, getting the building built, changing use of the library and her own involvement while she had young children and was relieving teacher. Mentions Margaret O'Connor as the first library assistant and other people instrumental in establishing the library. Mentions Dennis (?) Malone, Isabella Godbert and Mrs Bonny Cron. Talks about the increasing popularity of non-fiction books, the importance of the Country Library Service, the visits of the book van, its drivers and their routines. Talks about Jim Sutherland and the death of the book van service. Describes the special collections at the library, the request and reserve system operating, the changing nature of the Kerikeri population and change in library membership. Discusses the use of voluntary staff noting that there has only been one paid librarian in the last few years and that Kerikeri Library is the largest in New Zealand to be staffed by voluntary workers. Describes the role of the Library in the community. Venue - Kerikeri Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Bilkey's home at Kerikeri Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains a photocopy of a newspaper article on the Kerikeri Public Library. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002065, OHC-002066 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2744, 2745, 2746, 2747 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 314. Printed abstract contains portrait photograph of Joy Bilkey dated 1986, photograph of Joy Bilkey inside the bookvan in the mid 1970s, a photograph of the Kerikeri Public Library, a photograph of Bilkeys' grandchildren reading in the book van ca 1984 and two photocopies of photographs of Kerikeri Search dates: 1925 - 1989

Date: 13 April 1989 - 13 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Godbert, Isabella Phoebe Catriona, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0058/12

Description: Isabella Phoebe Catriona Godbert (nee Lumgair) gives details of her family background in England and Scotland. Notes the Scottish origin of her names. Describes her childhood and education at 13 different schools because of her father's Air Force job. Mentions the lack of expectation that she would have a tertiary education. Gives details of learning to read at an early age and her reading tastes. Describes her job at the Kerikeri Public Library processing fiction. Notes the categories of books in the library, the nature of the users, membership numbers, subscription system and the impact of volunteers on the costs. Describes her employment history as an au pair, as an officer cadet with the Royal Air Force, as a Kindergarten relief teacher and in the Post Office in New Zealand. Mentions marriage to Derrington Godbert who was in the Air Force and then a teacher. Talks about returning to England for four years and living in Beachlands and then Kerikeri when they returned to New Zealand. Talks about Kerikeri before the kiwifruit boom noting that it had been a poor area and cut off because of bad roads. Discusses changes because of the boom including immigration. Describes the role of the Settlers' Association in the development of the area and in the history of the library. Details the history of library services in the area. Recalls the establishment of the Kerikeri Public Library, the library committee, the architecture of the new building, the problems getting it built, fundraising activities and organising the loan. Describes her work at the library, the volunteer system, ordering books, the system of Council Rates payment and how the paid and unpaid staff work together. Notes that Kerikeri Library is not a free service but that it is possible to subsidise users. Mentions that there are few Maori members of the library. Details the use of the library for blood testing, traffic tests, ambulance centre and meeting rooms. Describes how the library collections and users have changed over the years and notes the importance of the Country Library Service book supply in the early years. Mentions volunteer Bonny Cron. Talks about the library's relationship with the local school, Country Library Service and the National Library and discusses the general development of regional libraries during the 1970s and the impact of the end of the book van service. Describes the day of the book van visit including the role of the book van drivers. Notes that the role of summer holiday student scheme workers and PEP (Project Employment Programme) workers in running the library. Comments on her work as a laboratory assistant and resource librarian at the school. Venue - Kerikeri Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Godbert's home at Kerikeri Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains photocopies of minutes from meetings of the Kerikeri Settlers Assocation which mention the library service, dated 1944, 1947, 1960 and 1961. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002060, OHC-002061 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2738, 2739, 2740, 2741 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 312. Printed abstract contains portrait photograph of Isabella Godbert dated 1965 and a photograph of Isabella Godbert with her husband Derry and children Catriona and Timothy dated 1988. Search dates: 1938 - 1989

Date: 2004

By: New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-2004-01

Description: Booklet listing trusts, committees and associations, and then growers, organised by the type of fruit they grow : Avocados, citrus, feijoas, kiwifruit, Nashi Asian pears, passionfruit, persimmons, pipfruit, summerfruit, tamarillos. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, 210 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Kibblewhite, Wellington, in 2015.

Date: 1992 - 1993

From: Paynter, Bill 1949- :The Independent cartoons. 20-27 November 1992

Reference: H-126-002

Description: Shows Jim Bolger driving a bus through a landscape covered in piles of rotting kiwifruit. He points to a house at the roadside where a man sits on the verandah whittling a piece of wood. Refers to the collapse of the kiwifruit industry Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: [1980s]

From: Sheffield House Publications Collection

By: Park, Lloyd, active 1980s; de Hamel, Michael Alexander, 1949-; Sheehan, Grant, 1950-; Tulloch, Bob, active 1970s-2000s

Reference: PA12-11351

Description: Photographs of kiwifruit orchards, vines and fruit. Also views of kiwifruit being sorted and packed. Quantity: 10 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1987

By: New Zealand Lamb Information Bureau

Reference: Eph-D-MEAT-1987-01

Description: Shows a photograph of a meal of three lamb kebabs, rice, bread, nuts, grapes, kiwifruit and a glass of milk. Below is a panel showing five hurdlers leaping over bars representing the nutrients supplied by 100 grams of lean lamb: protein, zinc, iron, vitamin B12 and niacin. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm.

Date: 2015 - 2016

By: Seeka Kiwifruit Industries Limited

Reference: Eph-B-FRUIT-2016-01

Description: Illustrated folded pamphlet outlining the history of the Seeka company and its kiwifruit growing business. Dated 2016 because of the company's name. It was Seeka Kiwifruit Industries Ltd. from August 1995 to October 2016, after which it became Seeka Limited. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on tripart-folded light card, folded to 298 x 140 mm.

Date: [ca 1949-2012]

From: Day, Melvin Norman, 1923-2016: Collection

By: Day, Melvin Norman, 1923-2016

Reference: E-970-f-2

Description: Sketches by Melvin Day, mainly undated, comprising: Five sketches on the reverse of Rotorua High School pupils' library cards. One sketch is dated "15 Ma[rch] 1951". Also includes one library card with no sketch on the reverse. Names on library cards are "Iharaira, Robert M; Taylor, Warwick J E; Mackay, Ross A; Head, Wo; Brian; Ronald Head". Three of the cards also record the year as 1951 and the form as "I Boys". Sketches are of human forms and face, and Māori carvings, one is possibly a hei tiki (167 x 127 mm). An undated sketch of a young person, possibly a Maōri woman (559 x 345 mm). Undated sketches on a folded sheet of paper, depicting aspects of Māori material and cultural heritage, one possibly after H Robley, with titles "Maori digging with ko", "Method of tattooing", "Tattooed head", "Method of weaving", and "Throwing a spear". One sketch of a man wearing a cloak indicates the material as being flax and kiwi. Also a sketch of a man riding a donkey. (675 x 430 mm). A sketch of hills titled "Waimangu Turnoff" with raupō and road indicated in the foreground, [a date?] below the title reads "12/9" (223 x 260 mm). Study of foliage and fruit (including cross-section of a Chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit)) with colours indicated (400 x 285 mm). Design in black ballpoint pen for abstract painting or paintings (147 x 210 mm). One trade sample of ‘Aquarelle’ brand hand-made paper (345 x 260 mm), printed with brand and one small scrap of hand-made paper, Pencil sketch on paper, possibly of Wellington Harbour which reads on the reverse "These works have been photographed and catalogued" (355 x 380 mm). Four loose works on paper, square format, mixed media; including one landscape sketch signed and dated "Day/2012"; also including one abstract design inscribed on back in blue ballpoint pen with notes on Oroya Day collection valuation 2003, (250 x 250 mm approximately). Four designs for paintings after Piero della Francesca, mixed media on light card; annotated on back with artist’s contact details and prices; numbered: #1, #3, #5, #6; (147 x 104 mm). Title supplied by Library. Day worked as a teacher in the Rotorua area in the early 1950s. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 22 sheets. Physical Description: Pencil, ball point pen, and pastel on card and paper, sizes vary.

Date: 2004

By: Dalgety & Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FRUIT-1982-01

Description: Packaging showing a photograph of kiwifruit, and a 2-dimensional graphic symbol of a kiwifruit. Insturctions for eating are given in 5 languages: Italian, English, French, Japanese, German Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Flattened box, 110 x 77 x 63 mm. with clear plastic window 67 x 77 mm.

Date: 14 August 1993 - 14 Aug 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Riley, Jennifer Louise, 1976-

Reference: OHInt-0067/063

Description: Jennifer Louise Riley born Hamilton. Outlines family background. Aged 5 years when family moved to Waihi. Elaborates on father's job as manager of Kiwifruit Orchard Syndicate. Talks about sister's epilepsy and mother setting up support group. Jennifer is presently head girl at Waihi College and describes responsibilites. Other topics discussed include: sex education in the home and school; equality for boys and girls and her hopes of going to Brazil next year as an AFS Student. Talks about advantages of mining town which she sees as more money for schools. Sees no drawbacks. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005863B; OHV-0279E Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1671.

Date: 1975 - 1979

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-132-031/047

Description: Includes cartoons on Mrs Rowling's displeasure at her husband's singing with Harold Wilson, apprehension at the EEC, the question of cruelty in export of lamb to the Middle East, kiwifruit export (kiwifruit the reason John Walker can run so fast?), Walding confronts EEC levies, OPEC trading prices, Talboys with Hugh Watt as High Commissioner in London, Muldoon meets Callaghan the British Labour Party leader, Muldoon eats with Russian ambassador, New Zealand exports water to the Middle East, immigrants from Northern Ireland, Muldoon has lunch with President Carter, export of sheep dags, foreigners' diplomatic immunity on the roads, migration from New Zealand causes population drop. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by the artist. Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those not found in the albums have been given estimated dates. Quantity: 17 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: [ca 1980s]

By: Reynolds Film and Video Productions; New Zealand Film Archive

Reference: PAColl-8307

Description: Photographs relating to the kiwifruit industry, taken ca 1980s by an unknown photographer, comprising images of kiwifruit vines and of boxes being loaded into a shipping container. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Transparencies at PA12-3437 to PA12-3440 Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies strips with 40 images. Provenance: Material collected by Reynolds Film and Video Ltd and donated to the New Zealand Film Archive in 1989. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - PR-04-0430 : NZ Film Archive : [Collection of ephemera. 1970-1980s].