Coal trade

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/16-Acc.38882

Description: Identifies coal fields in the North Island of New Zealand 1938 Base map - New Zealand Geological Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 63.5 x 48.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1886

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/14-Acc.38880

Description: Identifies coal fields in the North Island of New Zealand 1886 Base map - Department of Lands and Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 60 x 49 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1898-1971

By: Sarony Studio (Wellington, N.Z.); Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Peter Pan Studio; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Anton, W J, active 1952; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Davis & Company (Wellington, N.Z.); Robson and Boyer (Firm); Campbell, Colin, active 1914

Reference: PAColl-0580

Description: Family photographs of the Barnes family featuring the homestead Terewhiti and the following family members: Henry, Walter Ernest (Ernie - at various ages), Mary, Julia (Ernie's wife), Ernie's son Thomas, Lorraine, and Leslie. Also included are scenic views; scenes of mustering and shearing on the farm; Ernie and others in First World War uniforms; a burned down house; soldiers at Trentham camp eating a meal outside their tent (as a postcard signed by George McDermott to his brother and sister Alice and Bill); Lorraine Barnes taking part in a recording of the radio show The Quiz Kids as a member of the Hutt Valley team (The Quiz Kids was introduced by Selwyn Toogood in the 1950s); results of a national election being monitored on a wall chart ca 1930s; Ernie Barnes as captain of the Wellington Telephone Exchange Cricket Club; and two of officers and soldiers from the Second World War. The collection also includes a letter from the depositor with a small family tree. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1886

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/15-Acc.38881

Description: Identifies coal fields in the South Island of New Zealand 1886 Base map - New Zealand Geological Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 60 x 49 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1886

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/12-Acc.38878

Description: Identifies in colour coalfields in New Zealand 1886. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 78 x 58.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1967

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: B-100-030

Description: Tom Shand, New Zealand Minister of Mines and of Electricity, is holding a bottle from which a genie, labelled Kapuni, is emerging to the alarm of watching men labelled power boards and coal. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Extended Title - Kapuni. Power Boards. Coal. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on paper, glued to mount card. Image size 291 x 397 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Enerco, then by Orion New Zealand Ltd.

Date: 1971 - 1972

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-

Reference: A-290-101/106

Description: Includes cartoons about army training (Soldier Sam), energy sources for electricity, car sales regulations, politicians, defamation and cartoonists, protests against French nuclear testing and the national debt. Quantity: 6 bromides. Physical Description: 5 bromides approximately 270 x 370 and one bromide 138 x 370 mm.

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/13-Acc.38879

Description: Identifies in colour coalfields production 1938. Reference graph given. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour drawing on cream linen. Scale indeterminable. 78 x 58.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1921-1925

From: McLeod, Hector Norman, fl 1902-1927 : Business papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0154-38

Description: Clippings dealing with New Zealand mineral resources; oil and coal mining, etc. Special mention of oil in Taranaki Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1938

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-7/4/17-Acc.38883

Description: Identifies coal fields in the South Island of New Zealand 1938 Base map - New Zealand Geological Survey Quantity: 1 map(s) with ms annotations. Physical Description: Ink drawing on cream paper. Scale indeterminable. 60 x 49 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1855

By: Beauchamp, John William Gay, 1826?-1882

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbhm/1855/Acc.295

Description: Plan of Motupipi Coal Field, property of H R Nicholson, on Section 159, off what is now Tasman Drive, near Takaka. Shows site of coal mine, coal reef, limestone range, sand bank, reef, swamp and Motupipi River, with some sounding measurements as at high water mark. Marks Sections 161 and 158. Includes note regarding soundings Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, 57 x 65 cm

Date: 25 July 1993 - 25 Jul 1983

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

By: Malone, Gail Edna, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0067/086

Description: Gail Edna Malone born Waihi. Outlines family background - father born Karangahake and ran a wood and coal business. Recalls, leaving school aged 15 years and going to work as grocery assistant at Rutherfords IGA. Explains the consequences of common policy in the grocery trade for a woman on reaching the age of 21 years - had to have pay equity with men so women lost their job. Other topics covered include: work experience at McLeay's; marriage to farmer; rearing 4 children; involvement with Waihi Silver Band - playing drum and involvement with the Waihi Embroidery Club. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical info available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005843A; OHV-0270D Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1250.

Date: 25 Nov 1997

From: Welsh Society of Wellington Oral History Project

By: Jones, Berwyn, 1922-2010

Reference: OHInt-0728/16

Description: Berwyn Jones born Bargoed, Glamorganshire, South Wales 1922. Describes family background, school life, involvement in Church, the Local Defence Volunteers, Army cadetship at Pontypridd and joining the Army in 1943, training at Formby, north of Liverpool. Recalls posting to East Africa six months before war ended, time in Nairobi followed by Somalia and then Ethiopia where the military commission was trying to help the Ethiopian army enter the modern world. Describes large workshop in Mogadishu (Somalia). Mentions being demobbed 1947. Backgrounds decision to emigrate to New Zealand, arriving January 1955, taking up a position in Dunedin with the Otago Hospital Board. Notes that at that time the Otago Hospital Board was the only teaching hospital in the whole of New Zealand. Discusses the formation of the Coal Advisory Service Association and becoming its first Director, a position held for five years. Mentions moving to position with Ministry of Works, remaining until retirement aged 60 years. Recalls joining the Welsh Society in 1961 and refers to Mr and Mrs Jesson. Also refers to various places used for meetings and to the English Speaking Union which was used as a venue for Saint David's Day for several years. Refers to Gwyn Owen, a bank officer with ANZ, who was President in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Mentions Roma Howard from Upper Hutt, Peter Fairfax, and Miss Ives who had been housekeeper to Sir David Smith, a judge in the High Court. Names the holding committee during the recess: Self, Hefin Morgan, Gwyn Owen, Egryn Evans, Margaret Buddle and her friend, Mrs Quartermaine. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - David Hughes Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011917 ; OHLC-005975 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4104.

Date: 1909 - 1913 - 1924 - 1930 - 1972 - 1925 - 1962 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-COAL-1900/1989

Description: Includes: 1909: Paparoa Coal Mining Company Ltd. Circular 1909 1913?: Westport Coal Company Limited. Coke manufactured at Granity near Westport, New Zealand. [Promotional booklet with testimonials. 1913?] 1924: Receipt for wood and coal delivery from W Cockerill, N.E. Valley, Sunnydale. 12/9/[19]24 1925: Extract from regulations under the Coal Mines Act 1925, dealing with explosives - to be issued to every shot-firer ca 1930: T McKay & So, coal merchants, Parnell phone 47-732; Remuera phone 25-996. We sell Glen Afton coal, famous for heat, the largest output in New Zealand [Blotter. ca 1930] ca 1958: New Zealand needs mining engineers; enter a professional career as an engineer of manager in the coal mining industry. R E Owen, Government printer, ca 1958. Pamphlet 1962: Coal; how when and where to order state coal. 35,000/4/62 - 52392. Y29 [1962] 1972: New Zealand State Coal Mines. Safe work rules. A R Shearer, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand 1972. 15513E-2,000/8/72 A ca 1981: Private Coalmine Proprietors Federation. All about coal .... from a private source. Pamphlet ca 1981 (2 copies) 1984: West Coast coal transport options, by Dr Roger Blakeley, General Manager state Coal Mines. From the Mines Division, Ministry of Energy [Stamped 25 Jan 1984] 1985?: Ministry of Energy. State Coal Mines. Maramarua Coalfield investigation & development [Pamphlet. 1985?] Ministry of Energy. State Coal Mines. Huntly East Longwall Mining project. [Pamphlet. 1985?] 1987: NZ Department of labour. Sales of solid fuel. Weights and Measures Act 1987. WM2/P264/10,000/87 [Pamphlet] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1945

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to petrol, motor fuels, petroleum industry, drilling]

By: New Zealand Gasogene Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PETROL-1940-01

Description: Pamphlet promoting a gas producer that uses fuel derived from coal, for fuelling vehicle engines. Shows photographs of the apparatus in place on a car, and gives prices, instruction for use, maintenance, and controls. The New Zealand Gasogene Company was in Wellington. An Auckland agent was Truck Services Limited, 4 Gittos Street, Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet, 290 x 225 mm. Provenance: Cory-Wright Salmon papers, 77-048-27/06. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 77-048-27/06. Transferred from Manuscripts 77-048..

Date: 2013

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: National Business Review (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0031558

Description: Depicts Finance Minister Bill English wearing a money bag as he gestures towards the large words 'Solid Energy' which is propped up from behind. On right of frame, Prime Minister John Key looks doubtful and gives the thumbs down gesture as he looks at 'Solid Energy'. In response to a report from potential receivers KordaMentha, Key has said Solid Energy is in bad shape, and warned of a debt restructuring or sale. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024096

Description: Shows the words 'Solid Energy'. The word solid is beginning to crumble and deteriorate. One worker says to the other, 'Quick- call the govt... get help' and the other responds, 'Can't... no Telecom staff'. Context: Solid Energy, New Zealand's largest coal mining company and a state-owned asset, is facing financial troubles and has laid off hundreds of workers. Telecom, New Zealand's largest telecommunications firm too has announced that it will be cutting hundreds of jobs in the coming months to combat intense competition in the retail phone and broadband market. (22 February Radio New Zealand, and New Zealand Herald) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0024139

Description: Shows members of the National Party walking across a precarious, crumbling stone path over a fiery abyss with a monster labelled, 'market forces' towards a cave labelled, 'coal mines of failure'. Prime Minister John Key asks Gerry Brownlee, former energy minister if he's sure this is the safest route. Kate Wilkinson, former minister of labour, and an unknown fourth person are following. Refers to the financial troubles of Solid Energy, the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and a state owned asset, as well as the Pike River Mine accident in 2010, which resulted in the deaths of 29 miners. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Dominion post (Newspaper); Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-

Reference: DCDL-0024192

Description: Depicts Minister for State Owned Enterprises Tony Ryall spitting out a hot coal as Finance Minister Bill English looks on. Caption reads 'All choked up'. Refers to collapse of state owned enterprise coal mining company Solid Energy after its debt rose ti $389 million and further significant loss was flagged for its next half year result. Solid Energy was included in the National government's partial state asset sale, but this changed once its finanical decline became clear (NZ Herald 22 Feb 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024251

Description: Former Solid Energy CEO, Don Elder, stands at a podium. A voice asks him, 'And so Mr Elder... Was this the perfect storm that continued to suck ridiculous salaries out of a dying company and then deposit them into its CEO's bank accounts?' Refers to Solid Energy, New Zealand's largest coal mining company and a state owned enterprise, which holds debt of $389 million. In describing the conditions that led to the financial difficulties, former CEO Don Elder, former Chairman John Palmer, along with both the Minister of State Services Tony Ryall and the Minister of Finance Bill English all referred to it as a 'perfect storm.' Elder left his position at the company on 4 February 2013, but was retained for two months, working from home at the same salary he earned as chief executive to help with the company's transition. (Stuff.co.nz, 7 March 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).