Hāpuku

Date: 1991

From: [Posters and ephemera of around A2 and A1 size relating to fish, fish species and fishing in New Zealand and the Pacific. 1990-1999]

By: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand; Grace, Roger, active 1991

Reference: Eph-D-FISH-1991-01

Description: Poster showing a photograph of a fish near the ocean floor, and a diver looking on from the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 700 x 490 mm. Provenance: One copy donated by Mary Newman, Wellington, in 2004; one by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2013.

Date: 1907

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to and around New Zealand. 1905-1909]

By: Northern Steam Ship Company Ltd; Jones & Coleman (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1907-06

Description: Photographically produced menu shows a double spread, with the menu page on the right, for dinner on board the SS 'Ngapuhi' on 9 February 1907. On the left side are three photographs: Whangaroa Harbour, S.S. Ngapuhi, and Whangarei Creek. The menu sits in a folder with a variation of the title, and the photographer's name in gold lettering. Menu items include soups, boiled hapuka & oyster sauce, paté chaud de pigeons, fillet of hare, roast beef, roast lamb, boiled York ham, vegetables, meringue à la creme, apple soufflé, plum pudding and brandy sauce, fruit jelly, sago custard, paté de fois gras, vanilla ice cream, dessert, cafe. The photographic page was originally tied into the cover with thin blue ribbon and white ribbon, of which fragments remained upon accession into the Library. Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photographic print inside folded cover, 198 x 141 mm.

Date: 1946 - 1950

From: New Zealand. School Publications Branch: [45 double-sided photographic posters, photographed by National Publicity Studios and other photographers. ca 1949]

By: Browne, Victor Carlyle, 1900-1979; Chapman-Taylor, James Walter, 1878-1958; New Zealand. Ministry of Works; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference: Eph-D-EDUCATION-1949-1-01/30

Description: Photographs are by National Publicity Studios, V C Browne, J W Chapman-Taylor, Ministry of Works. Includes posters numbered: 1. The coast of New Zealand. The mouth of the Tongaporutu River, North Taranaki (J W Chapman-Taylor) 2. Running water. An Otago prospector washes gold in a cradle (National Publicity Studios) 3. Russell. The oldest port in New Zealand (National Publicity Studios) 4. Lyttelton. A port in the crater of an old volcano (National Publicity Studios) 5. Dusky Sound. A port where no one lives (National Publicity Studios) 6. Wellington. Loading cheese at a busy modern port (National Publicity Studios) 7. Nature changes New Zealand. A cap of hard material has saved this earth pillar at Putangirua, Palliser Bay, from being washed down by heavy rain (J W Chapman-Taylor) 8. Running water. When men destroyed the forest cover, water began to wash the land down to the sea (Ministry of Works) 9. Kapiti Island. This stronghold of Te Rauparaha is now a bird sanctuary (J W Chapman-Taylor) 10. Our coastline. A hundred years ago these black iron sands were the only road from Auckland to New Plymouth (J W Chapman-Taylor) 11. River control. Stone groyne and green willows turn the fierce current away from the soft earth (Ministry of Works) 12. Jackson's Bay. A port built to ship timber (Ministry of Works) 13. Sheep. The shepherds tie their dogs while meat is being killed for them (National Publicity Studios) 14. Crayfishing on the Kaikoura Coast. Line fishing is combined with crayfishing. Here the hooks are being baited ready for an expedition (National Publicity Studios) 15. Sheep. Early in the morning the sheep are mustered in from the slopes above Lake Wanaka (National Publicity Studios) 16. Crayfishing on the Kaikoura Coast. Out through the rocks. The fisherman will collect his crayfish, bait the pots again, and perhaps do some line fishing (National Publicity Studios) 17. Sheep. Good men shear two hundred sheep a day (National Publicity Studios) 18. Crayfishing on the Kaikoura Coast. Hauling a crayfish pot on board (National Publicity Studios) 19. The catch. Many other kinds of fish are caught by crayfishers. This hapuku will be crated for the Christchurch market (National Publicity Studios) 20. Yarding. Driving sheep from one yard to another is hot and dusty work. These sheep are merinos; notice their horns. Merinos are high country sheep (National Publicity Studios) 21. Packing crayfish. These will be sent either to the Christchurch market or to Picton for canning or export (National Publicity Studios) 22. Droving. Shorn sheep hold up a truck-load of wool on its way to the rail-head at Gisborne. These are crossbred sheep (National Publicity Studios) 23. At the factory. These girls are wrapping crayfish tails in cellophane fro freezing and shipment overseas (National Publicity Studios) 24. Culling. The shepherd, by swinging the gate, is separating sheep he wants to keep from others he doesn't want to keep. This is called culling (National Publicity Studios) 25. An airport. Loading luggage on to a mail plane at Harewood (National Publicity Studios) 26. Dipping. After, shearing, the sheep are dipped in a poison bath to kill ticks which live in their wool and suck their blood (National Publicity Studios) 27. Roads. This road crosses the Southern Alps at Arthur's Pass. Beneath it is the Otira Tunnel (V C Browne) 28. Branding. After shearing, the sheep are branded before being sent back to the hills. If sheep from two sheep runs become mixed they can be recognised by their brands (National Publicity Studios) 29. A river port. Coal ships going in and out of Westport, at the mouth of the Buller River (V C Browne) 30. Wool-classing. Wool has to be separated into various grades which are sold at different prices and used for different purposes. Here some ex-soldiers are learning how to do this work. They will be called wool-classers (National Publicity Studios) Date estimated from the fact that some have been date-stamped 31 August 1950. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset photographic prints, 513 x 584 mm., on both sides of sheets

Date: 1933 - 1935

By: Zealandia Packing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-FISH-1933-01

Description: Sheet of canned fish labels shows stylised fish "from New Zealand waters" on labels for 7 ounce and 14 ounce cans of Tasman trout, Hapuka, Schnapper, and Mullet [1933-1935]. Rykers is assumed to be the artist because the item came into the Library with his collection of artwork. The Zealandia Packing Company was registered in Auckland in 1933 and operated at Totara Point in the Whangaroa Harbour 1933-1935. Other Titles - Company Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Eight relief prints on sheet 445 x 570 mm. Provenance: Donated by Neville Rykers, son of the artist, Auckland, in 2011. Transfers: Collection as a whole brought into Drawings Paintings & Prints. Transfers made from there.

Date: [1960s?]

From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection

By: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006; Walters, Gordon Frederick, 1919-1995

Reference: PAColl-10532-29

Description: Photographic prints of Māori carvings and artworks of hāpuku (groper) possibly taken by Margaret Orbell, Gordon Walters, and unidentified photographers. Includes images of a korere (feeding funnel), and a carved mask (possibly a koruru). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: A negative was separated for storage reasons and is now at 35mm-103885.. Processing information: From bundle 3, ATL box 15.

Date: 1924

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-NZ-1924-02

Description: Brochure advertising the attractions of New Zealand as a big game fishing destination. The cover wrap shows photographs of the bays and inlets of New Zealand's coastline, and a deep sea fisherman standing beside a captured swordfish. Inside the brochure is text, and further photographs of scenic coastlines, fishing boats, swordfish, a remora having its grip tested, hapuka, and head of captured mako sharks. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brochure, 7 pages 242 x 310 mm, folded to 242 x 103 mm. Provenance: Purchased from J R Witte, United States, in 2006.

From: Various artists :[Original illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A H McLintock, 1966].

Reference: A-332-140

Description: Reduced scale drawings of the hapuku and tuna, publication-ready Reproduced in Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, vol 1, p. 907 and vol 3, p 460 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on card, 305 x 203 mm

Date: July 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/3049-F

Description: Fishermen Frank Dellabarca and Jimmy Imlach at Island Bay, photographed in July 1957 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original newspaper caption reads: "unloading the dinghies on the eastern side of Island Bay. The two fishermen facing the camera have a groper in each hand and are carrying them to the truck. The time is about 4.30pm and they have been out for about 12 hours" (Evening Post, 27 July 1957). Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - beneath image - 1957 3025 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose acetate negative, 5.5 x 5.6 cm