Carter Holt Harvey (Firm)

Date: 1998

By: New Zealand. Māori Language Commission

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1998-02

Description: Poster announcing a conference shows a Maori motif in a central panel, in shades of gold, purple, maroon and green. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Andrea Tangohau, in 2013.

Date: 1976 - 1977

By: Carter Holt Harvey (Firm); Devonport (Auckland, N.Z.). Borough Council; Goodhue, C L, active 1976; National Australia Bank; New Zealand Retailers' Federation; Nielsen, Angela Rosemary, active 1977; O'Gorman, Lance, 1939-; Pictorial Publications Ltd; Smither, Michael Duncan, 1939-; Thorndon Society (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1977

Description: Includes calendars: The Burton Brothers; a portfolio of New Zealand views (in envelope) (2 copies) Carter Holt Holdings Ltd [calendar] 1977 Devonport Borough Council. Recycling [calendar] 1977, and 1977-78 Hillside homes of Thorndon 1977 calendar" (illustrator C L Goodhue)(2 copies) Frances Hodgkins calendar 1977 National Bank (of Australia) calendar 1977 "New Zealand in colour 1977" / Pictorial Publications, Hastings New Zealand Retailers' Federation. 1977 Retail calendar [Angela Nielsen] calendar 1977 Lance O'Gorman "Lithographs of New Zealand paintings. 1977 calendar" (2 copies) Ponsonby businesses, by Robin Morrison. Calendar 1977 "The Pooh calendar 1977" London: Methuen's, 1976 "Michael Smither's Thorndon; the Thorndon Society calendar 1977" The Turnbull House calendar 1977 "Gateway to Wellington" (2 copies) Quantity: 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on calendars (plus three duplicates).. Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1989-1991

From: New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage III

By: Rogers, Thomas Ellis, 1937-2013

Reference: OHInt-0166/04

Description: Interviews Tom Rogers on eighteen separate occasions. Describes his position as District Manager for the Bay of Plenty of Timberlands, the forestry arm of the Forestry Corporation. Comments on the benefits of getting away from bureaucracy provided by restructuring. Mentions the effects on the forests of Cyclone Bola. Talks about the confrontation with Tasman Forestry over the Forestry Corporation's attempt to bring their rent, based on an old agreement, up to a realistic market rate. Comments on the need for staff counselling as a result of privatisation. Describes the process of preparing for the sale of assets. Mentions Alan Gibbs, Andy Kirkland and John Fernyhough. Discusses Maori land claims, problems at Kaingaroa village, resistance to the sale of Whakarewarewa forest and the effects of the Tauranga waterfront dispute. Discusses the Crown Forest Sale Asset Act. Talks about bidders for the forests who include Elders, Tasman Forestry and Carter Holt Harvey. Comments on politicians David Lange, Roger Douglas, Winston Peters and Geoffrey Palmer. Talks further about the Tauranga waterfront dispute and the standing down of 200 employees, stockpiled logs and loss of $5-6 million. Describes the staff interviews being done by Scott Deloittes. Discusses the sale of Bay of Plenty forests as a way of getting round the difficulties of the Tasman sale agreement. Gives details of other sales including Golden Downs and Conical Hill. Notes that these sales have brought it home to staff that the end of Forestry Corporation is near. Comments on Treasury, the 1990 National election victory, release of Nelson Mandela and some other international events. Venue - Rotorua : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Various locations Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004298; OHC-004299; OHC-004300; OHC-004301; OHC-004302; OHC-004303; OHC-004304; OHC-004305; OHC-004306; OHC-004307; OHC-004308; OHC-004309; OHC-004310 Quantity: 11 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 10.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 690. Search dates: 1989 - 1991

Date: Mar 1989-May 1991

From: New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage III

By: Saunders, Ranulph Hereward, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-0166/01

Description: Interviews Harry Saunders on sixteen separate occasions. Describes himself as one of the people identified to stay and assist with the management of asset sales. Comments on the impact of sales on the forestry management programme and his work in the Forest Development section. Comments on Maori land claims and racism. Gives operational detail about aerial spraying, root raking and burning. Comments on the Commonwealth Games, Eastern Europe, Waitangi Day, the Cabinet reappointment, National's endorsement of the nuclear-free policy, the forthcoming election and release of Nelson Mandela. Talks about possible employment prospects including self-employment. Mentions Ian Glennie. Discusses fire prevention and a burnoff before planting in the Gwavas Forest which resulted in a forest fire. Refers to the Hawkes Bay Regional Council. Discusses a Carter Holt Harvey injunction which could result in no forestry land sale in Hawkes Bay. Discusses the Fletcher Challenge purchase of Golden Downs forest and sees it as a base-line for future negotiations. Announces the sale of forests to Carter Holt Harvey, staff relief at the announcement and his failure to be offered work with them. Talks about not getting the management contract on Te Awaho forest, other job applications, his disappointment and the effect on his family. Describes being offered a job by Forestry Corporation managing unsold East Coast forests and forming a company Forest and Land Management Ltd. Mentions Jeremy Thompson, his partner in this venture. Notes that his family will move to Gisborne. Discusses National's 1990 election victory and Peter Tapsell, Minister of Forests, from state sector to privatisation. Comments on Forestry Corporation, Andy Kirkland and the Labour Government. Venue - Napier : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 32 Wycliffe Street, Onekawa, Napier Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004320; OHC-004321; OHC-004322; OHC-004323; OHC-004324; OHC-004325; OHC-004326; OHC-004327 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 8 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 692.

Date: 1989-1991

From: New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage III

By: Viles, David Gordon Kenneth, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0166/02

Description: Interviews David Viles on nineteen separate occasions. Describes the restructuring decisions, involving dismissing staff, as the most difficult he has had to make. Comments on the profit of Timberlands at the end of a two year period. Describes ill-feeling towards Treasury and Government. Describes time spent on staffing issues and his joint responsibility for the sale of South Island forestry assets and their continuing operation. Notes that there are six districts in Timberlands South Island and morale is a challenge. Discusses the need to settle Maori land claims to enable the asset sales programme. Comments on the Treaty of Waitangi State Enterprises Act and the Crown Forestry Asset Sales Bill. Describes the increasing impatience of potential buyers. Gives details of the asset sales programme timetable and the launch of the programme. Talks about his family's response to his work situation. Describes the difficulty between regional and Wellington managers. Discusses the work being done by Scott Deloitte with staff preparing an inventory of staff skills. Talks about staff stress and looking at other work options. Comments on the centralised nature of the asset sales programme and his feeling of lack of involvement. Mentions the North Island manager of the asset sales programme, Peter Herrick. Comments on his relationship with Andy Kirkland. Notes increased trading results and the Corporation's encouragement of increased profit before the sale of forests. Describes criticism of the Corporation by other companies and in the media. Discusses legal action against the Corporation by Carter Holt Harvey. Comments on the change of State Owned Enterprise minister from Stan Rodger to Richard Prebble. Mentions Ruth Richardson and David Caygill. Notes that the delay in the asset sales programme is the result of the lack of agreement between Government and Maori to changes to the Crown Forestry Licence. Talks about the withdrawal from tender of Canterbury and Hawkes Bay forests as the result of legal proceedings and the setting up of a subcommittee of the Board to negotiate the sale of these forests. Mentions John Fernyhough, Andy Kirkland, Marilyn Goddard and Tim Saunders. Comments on the power of Treasury in this process. Discusses the demise of the Forestry Corporation, redundancy payments and staff reaction to the end of the Corporation. Describes his own mixed feelings about the end result and fears at the treatment by Crown of unsold forests. Comments on the role of Andy Kirkland in the corporate success of the Forestry Corporation. Venue - Christchurch ; 1991 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Various locations Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004328; OHC-004329; OHC-004330; OHC-004331; OHC-004332; OHC-004333; OHC-004334; OHC-004335; OHC-004336; OHC-004337 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 9 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 693.

Date: 1984

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1984

Description: Includes: Carter Holt. Santa's parade; promotion finishes December 15th 1984 (Catalogue booklet) D.I.C. Centennial superbuys; 100 years of quality and value [Catalogue. 1984] Phillips & Impey handyman sale. July 1984 (Sales booklet) Phillips & Impey Summer fix-it sale. March 1984 (Sales booklet) (2 copies) Placemakers Building and Decorating Centres. Summer project savings [1984] Placemakers. "This wonderful summer ... take a look at what you can do" [1984] (Catalogue booklet) [Advertising pamphlet for Pink Super Batts, Continental Soup, United Building Society, Value Tales, Garden Birds of the World, NZ Post Office Philatelic, Panda Jewellery, and Rigby House cutlery] Reckitt & Colman. The Phantom Coupon Cutter [Sheet of 6 coupons]. 1984 Woolworths Variety. Dollar dazzler sale, spacials available 23-28 Augusat [1984] Woolworths Variety. July supervalues [Sales catalogue booklet. 1984] Woolworths Variety. Week One; Week Two [December 1984 - January 1985] (Sales catalogue Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1990 - 1999

By: Buchanan, Dean Leonard, 1952-; Bustin, Debra, 1957-; Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog; New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment; Bailey, Margaret Lockhart (Dr), 1945-

Reference: Eph-E-ENVIRONMENT-1990s

Description: Coromandel Peninsula Watchdog. Coromandel Peninsula - too precious to mine / [Artist] Dean Buchanan ("Nikau for Veronica"), 1990. Dowse Art Museum. Environmental Issues [Exhibition] / Artwork by Debra Bustin, 1992. Ruth Paul. Islands survivors; nga morehu o nga moutere. Conservation Te Papa Atawhai; New Zealand is in our hands; Sunday Star [ca 1986-1994] Living places: Whaitua oranga. Wai Maori: stream and wetland. [Designer] Kristine Cotton. Produced by the New Zealand Conservation Authority, with the Department of Conservation, for Conservation Week 1993. Thankyou to the Maori Language Commission (2 copies). Living places: Whaitua oranga. Ngahere; Forest. [Designer] Suzanne Day & Katrine Lawton, Maukau Polytechnic Graphic Design. Produced by the New Zealand Conservation Authority, with the Department of Conservation, for Conservation Week 1993. Thankyou to the Maori Language Commission. Living places: Whaitua oranga. Takutai: Coast. [Designer] Craig Broughton & Sarah McCardle, Manukau Polytechnic Graphic Design. Produced by the New Zealand Conservation Authority, with the Department of Conservation, for Conservation Week 1993. Thankyou to the Maori Language Commission. Living places: Whaitua oranga. Pae maunga: Mountains. [Designer] Tamsin Hunt & Kthryn Davis, Manukau Polytechnic Graphic Design. Produced by the New Zealand Conservation Authority, with the Department of Conservation, for Conservation Week 1993. Thankyou to the Maori Language Commission. New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment. Climate change. The heat comes on. One earth, one family. Published for World Environment Day 1994. Main photograph Diane Imus; insets: Susan Ensor, John Morton, Nizar Mohamed, Paul Jacobson. New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment. I can do that! - Ka taea tena u au!. Our environment - what can I do about it? World Environment Day 1996. New Zealand. Ministry for the Environment. Women for the Environment. Celebrating the past, challenging the future [1993?] Project Crimson. Protecting and caring for pohutukawa and rata. Seeing red. Supported by Carter Holt Harvey & the Department of Conservation. [1999]. Recovery Trust for the Destruction of Ozone Depleting Substances: Returning to a safer, healthier enviroment is everyone's responsibility [ca 1993-2006?] (2 copies) Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.

Date: 1993

From: Walker, Malcolm 1950- :The Independent cartoons. 18 September - 8 October 1992

Reference: H-073-001

Description: Shows Tipene O'Regan and other Maori as pirates boarding a ship (Sealord). A man (Carter Holt Harvey) is being made to walk the plank, while the captain (Doug Kidd) is being overpowered. Refers to the exclusion of Carter Holt Harvey from the Sealord deal intended to settle Maori fisheries claims Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1997 - 1998

By: New Zealand. Māori Language Commission

Reference: Eph-D-MAORI-1998-01

Description: Shows a half-length portrait of a Maori woman in a feather cloak, dissolving to a background of native bush. There is a carved figure at top left, and a rushing stream at the lower right. The woman shown has been identified as Mere Boynton. Also sponsored by ECNZ, Carter Holt Harvey, TVNZ, and Te Puni Kokiri. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 840 x 560 mm. Provenance: One copy donated from the papers of Rona Bailey, 2006.

Date: 1993

By: New Zealand geographic (Periodical); Conroy, Glenn, active 1990-2000s; Devcich, Natalie, active 1993; Roberts, Gordon, 1935-

Reference: Eph-E-TIMBER-1993-01

Description: Shows coloured photographs telling 'the radiata story' ('from pollen to log'); with diagrams and maps of rates of planting since 1921, statistics of end uses. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph 585 x 810 mm. Provenance: Donated by Anna Veritt in 2006.

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0013759

Description: The scene shows a farmer talking to the manager in a rural lending bank about borrowing to buy a farm. Text above reads 'Carter Holt Harvey in $224.5 m sell-off of dairy farms - News'. The farmer tells the bank manager that he wants to ask for the full amount and then negotiate downwards. Refers to the news that Forestry firm Carter Holt Harvey is putting 29 dairy farms on the market with a total asking price of $224.5 million. The farmer has high expectations. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1980-1994

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7623-444

Description: Old share certificates of Brierley Investments Ltd, 1980-1984; Carter Holt Harvey Ltd, 1982-1993; Wrightson Ltd, 1994. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts

Date: 1997-2000

From: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon, 1915-2001 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7623-439

Description: Papers relating to Douglas Lilburn's investments with Carter Holt Harvey Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter