Construction industry

Date: [1912-1929]

From: Lithgow, Robert William, fl 1980s :Photographs of buildings constructed by the Hansford & Mills Construction Co., and of the Kairuru marble quarry

By: Lithgow, Robert W, active 1980s; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942

Reference: PA1-q-144

Description: Photographs of construction projects undertaken by Hansford & Mills Construction Company. The most important section consists of views of Parliament Buildings in Wellington, with a large number of images, both exterior and interior. Much of the detail relates to the marble columns and veneer, the marble sourced from the Kairuru Quarry in the Takaka Hills. Interior views show details of various areas, including the Legislative Council Chamber, the House of Representatives, the Maori Committee Room, the lobby for the members' lounge, and marble decoration in the main vestibule, the first floor, and the staircase. There are a number of images of the Kairuru Quarry, showing methods of quarrying the marble, transportation of the marble to Wellington, and machinery used for cutting and shaping the stone once it had arrived in Wellington. One scene also shows the incline at the old quarry at Sandy Bay. Other buildings, all only exterior views, or views of steel construction in early stages, include the State Fire Insurance Building (Featherston Street), Magnus Motors (Wakefield Street), the steelyard in Cable Street, the Ford Building (for Colonial Motor Company), and the Wellington Gas Company buildings, all in Wellington. Also two views of the Christchurch branch of the Wellington Woollen Company. Inscriptions: Album page - Photographs of buildings erected by The Hansford & Mills Construction Co., Ltd., Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-bound album with red leather spine; 30 x 23 cm

Date: 1893

By: F W Niven & Company; New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: D-002-006-a

Description: Sheet of advertisements. Series of illustrated advertisements depicting commercial and industrial life of Wellington and showing and naming shops, post office etc. Includes illustration of Heretaunga mounted rifles. Same as D-002-006 Extended Title - Supplement to: N Z Times nd NZ Mail Wellington Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 585 x 954 mm

Date: 1924

Reference: Plans-80-1404

Description: Shows section b-b, arrangement of steel in end beam, details of upstream end of new wharf, connection to existing wharf, plan of rear corner of wharf and portion of connecting bay Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Chief draughtsman T D Anderson 22.7.1924 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: 1895

By: F W Niven & Company; New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: D-002-007

Description: A sheet of advertisements. A series of illustrated advertisements depicting the commercial and industrial life of Wellington and showing and naming shops, a church, the hospital, etc. Extended Title - Supplement to: N Z Times and NZ Mail Wellington Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (col.), 570 x 954 mm

Date: 1922

Reference: Plans-80-1410

Description: Site plan with detail of back walling, existing wharf, wharf to be demolished and swinging basin. Shows the River Yarra and North Wharf Road. Other Titles - The Melbourne Harbour Trust Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chief Draftsman. T D Anderson 19/6/22 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on blue paper

Date: 1926

Reference: Plans-80-1408

Description: Detail of elevation Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Chief draughtsman J Hosking Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: [ca 1912]

By: McDonald, Colin A, active 1912

Reference: qMS-1173

Description: Comprises brief introduction to early history of NZ beginning with Tasman and moving on to the arrival of Cook, the missionaries and the settlement of the Gisborne area. Includes sketches, maps, illustrations, summaries of the main events of the region, statistics on farming, land and occupation, a description of the borough, the springs of the region, Waikaremoana, industry, sections on the Tokomaru Sheepfarmers Freezing Co Ltd, the Gisborne Farmers' Frozen Meat Co Ltd, the Gisborne Gas Co, the railway, a history of oil exploration, the timber trade, the Gisborne Brewery and Aerated Water Factory, the lightering service, the harbour, including trade and dredges, sheep returns, clubs and sports, climate and birthrate and a map of the proposed wharf extensions Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (83 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (34 cm;green linen) Illustrated, with maps

Date: 2002

By: Darroch, Bob, 1940-; Star (Dunedin, N.Z.); Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: H-688-001/010

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand social issues and politics. Fathers taken to task over violent behaviour at children's sports, results of new alcohol study, mothers dealing with families with colds during winter, consequences of genetic engineering in dairy herds, schools try to deal with chronic absenteism, US President threatens Saddam Hussein, government loses $315 million dollars in investments, leaky homes, USA and Iraq face off, New Zealand planes have peices fall off them while they're in the air. Quantity: 10 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A5 size photocopies of ink and letraset drawings.

Date: 1932 - 1935

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning employment, career choices and vocational guidance]

By: Crawford, W J, active 1933

Reference: Eph-A-EMPLOYMENT-1933-01

Description: Booklet outlining the principles of the No. 10 Government Building Subsidy scheme whereby homeowners and business owners could renovate their properties saving up to 50% on labour costs alone. The Unemployment Board paid a subsidy for the work to be done, to keep people in the work force. The booklet also contains many advertisements by Wellington building supply companies, builders and building contractors: Carrara Ceilings, John Duthie & Co. Ltd, Wellington Plumbing Supplies Co., Jenkins & Mack Ltd, Higgins & Arcus, A & T Burt Ltd, J H Bethune & Co., Lamb & Johnson, Turnbull & Jones Ltd., J H Gilchrist & Sons, Leonard Tingey, Eclipse Foundry Co Ltd., Warcup & Elliott, Winstone Ltd, Palmer & Askew, Harcourt & Co., Scoullars, Eveready Electric Hotwater Services Ltd, A Johnson Ltd, Fama Stonewood Florring Co., Symonds Bros, Tolley & Sons Ltd., W M King, Guthrie Bowron & Co Ltd., Plumbers Ltd, H E Shacklock Ltd, Berger Paints, James Stewart Electrical Co Ltd., McLeod Weir & Hopkirk, Francis Holmes Ltd, W H Long & Co Ltd, Nu Tread, W Booth & Co., Scott Timber Co Ltd., Coleman & Coleman, A R Hislop Ltd, Brownlee Ltd, C & A Odlin & Co Ltd. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 185 x 128 mm.

Date: 1895

By: F W Niven & Company; New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: D-002-005-a

Description: A sheet of advertisements. A series of illustrated advertisements depicting the commercial and industrial life of Wellington and showing and naming shops, the Boys' Institute etc. Same as D-002-005 Extended Title - Supplement to: N Z Times nd NZ Mail Wellington Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 585 x 954 mm

Date: 1924

Reference: Plans-80-1403

Description: Plan of site showing type of piles, arrangement of rods in front beam, bollard bay details and side elevation See Plans-80-1407 with drawing no. 5014 which replace some details on this plan Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Chief draughtsman T D Anderson 22.7.1924 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: ca 1940 and 1985

By: New Zealand Concrete Research Association

Reference: PAColl-0584

Description: Four photographs of the construction of what is probably Mount Stuart Stadium in Auckland; a road bridge probably over the Waikato possibly at Hamilton; the newly constructed DSIR Physics and Engineering Laboratory at Lower Hutt; and an older photograph of men on a construction site ca 1940. A letter enclosed from the librarian at the New Zealand Concrete Research Association is dated October 1985 which has been used as the probable date for the majority of the photographs in the collection. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-189515 to 189519 Quantity: 4 b&w lantern slide(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca1970-ca1980

From: Reed Publishing :Photographs relating to New Zealand mostly 1950s-1970s

By: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd; Schofield, Bernard, active 1970s

Reference: PAColl-4871-04

Description: Quantity: 45 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 22 Sep 1984

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Henshaw, Eric Ivan, 1903-1999

Reference: OHInt-0470/14

Description: Eric Henshaw was born in 1903 and spent his childhood in Rotorua. His wife was a Mathews from Ngongotaha. Recalls some aspects of his early life, including the Palace Hotel and the Government Gardens. Focuses on his building in the Putaruru area. Recalls building the workmen's cottages and huts at Maroa and the mill at Mokai. Describes hand sawing the heavy timber. Interviewer(s) - Philip Andrews Quantity: 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2862.

Date: 14 Jun 2006 - 6 Jul 2006 - 06 Jul 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Norton, John Gregory, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0856-13

Description: Interview with John Norton, born in Picton in 1935. Discusses growing up in a large family in Picton, his schooling, and his father's fishing boat. Refers to school holidays at Te Awaiti and occasionally being taken out on whaling boats. Talks about his boatbuilding apprentiship, and leaving it when he married Myrna to work at the freezing works and whaling. Refers to a son Chris dying of cot death. Describes the construction projects he worked on after he left whaling, and having his own construction business from 1977. Refers to his marriage ending after 23 years, remarrying in 1978, and his wife Noelene dying of of a brain tumour. Mentions two of his adult sons dying in accidents. Briefly outlines being a boxer from his school days and continuing to train boys. Talks about whaling from 1958 to 1962, working as a gunner with Joe Perano. Describes the working day, starting at the lookout by daylight. Mentions the dangers of handling explosives at sea, difficulties tracking whales in rough conditions, and not wearing life jackets. Talks about the superstitions of the Peranos. Refers to some whalers being shattered by the end of whaling. Mentions being a keen member of the whale counting team at the lookout. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016015 - OHC-016016 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 2 interview(s). 1.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5777, OHDL-001411. Includes colour portrait (OHDL-001412) Search dates: 1935 - 2006

Date: 15 Jul 2003

From: We call it home; State Housing history project

By: Home, Leonard Stuart, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0872-08

Description: Interviewer(s) - Ben Schrader Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015642 - OHC-015643 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Search dates: 1929 - 2003

Date: 2016 - 2017

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning housing, rental accommodation, housing standards and solutions]

By: The Wellington Company

Reference: Eph-B-HOUSING-2017-01

Description: Folder containing: 1. A prospectus bookletfor a new housing development of 96 homes ranging in size from one to four bedrooms; and plans and conceptual drawings of the development. 2. Price list dated January 2017 showing some properties already sold 3. Floor plans and elevations for the 2-bedroom type; with interior specifications (A3 sheets) 4. Double-sided coloured flier "Be part of the future of Erskine" 5. Two copies of a flier from Mevo, offering two years of Mevo membership to residents of Erskine. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Folder containing booklet of 16 pages, 297 x 219 mm., loose pages, some folded in half to fit same dimensions

Date: 1895

By: F W Niven & Company; New Zealand times (Wellington, N.Z. : 1874); New Zealand mail (Newspaper)

Reference: D-002-008

Description: A sheet of advertisements. A series of illustrated advertisements depicting the commercial and industrial life of Wellington and showing and naming shops, churches etc. Includes an illustration of Hutt Park race course. Extended Title - Supplement to: N Z Times and NZ Mail Wellington Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 585 x 940 mm

Date: 1924

Reference: Plans-80-1402

Description: Shows section of wharf near a centre beam, back elevation of wharf and arrangement of steel in centre slabs. Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Chief draughtsman T D Anderson 22.7.1924 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper

Date: 1924

Reference: Plans-80-1407

Description: Plan of site showing type of piles, and side elevation Includes note which reads: These details replace similar details on plan no. 4966 (Plan-80-1403) Other Titles - Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Chief draughtsman T D Anderson 22.7.1924 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper