Transportation - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: [ca 1937-1939]

By: Kaarup, Mavis, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-0393

Description: The collection includes: nine photographs of sheep droving and shearing on a Canterbury farm including one of sheep in a pen being branded and one of two Ford cars on a road surrounded by sheep; two of hay harvesting one with a horse-drawn thresher and the other with a tractor; the first electric tractor; seagulls flocking around newly ploughed earth; looking across the plains towards the mountains near Ruapuna with piles of boulders in the foreground; sheaf throwing at a country sports meeting at Hinds which involved throwing a sheaf over a bar set at pole-vaulting height; two photographs of heavy snow in Ashburton, one of shops in East Street and another of someone attaching skis next to a no cycling sign; a Burnett's motors truck laden with bags of wheat outside a barn with three workers next to it; and the Pa at Whakarewarewa. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1905

By: Willis & Aiken Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-1905-01

Description: Timetable for the tram lines operating in Christchurch in 1905: Papanui; Fitzgerald Avenue to Bealey Avenue; Sydenham and Cashmere Hills; Lincoln Road; Square and Ferry Road; Linwood and New Brighton. Includes illustrated advertisements for J Ballantyne & Company, Bishop & Co (wines & spirits, Armagh Street), E Reece & Sons (hardware), G Coates & Company (importers), Eastern Tea Company, Mason Struthers & Company, J M Heywood & Co Ltd (carriers), Ashby Bergh & Co (stoves), Strahan's Fish Game Poultry & Fruit Supply, Geo Simpson (builder), New Zealand Insurance Company, Charlie Ball (cycles), H B Lane & Son (butchers), Chas Duggan & Sons (decorating), R Hall's Belvue House (accommodation), J A Lummis (sign painter and decorator), Australian Alliance Assurance Co, Geo T White (watchmaker), Lethaby's Umbrellas, Watson's Whisky, Frank A Cook (grocer, tea merchant), Pitcaithly & Co (Halswell Quarry), Young & Fisher (boots & shoes). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, 120 x 60 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private vendor, United Kingdom, in 2013.

Date: 1942

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to buses, bus companies, and bus transport services]

By: Timaru (N.Z.). Borough Council; Stevens, John, active 1942

Reference: Eph-B-BUS-1942-01

Description: Recto of sheet shows a map of Timaru, a list of the route sectional points, and a list of fares. The verso shows the Gleniti service, the King Street bus, and timetables for stops at Highfield, North Street, Evans Street, Grasmere Street, King Street, Church Street, Hassall Street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on both sides of sheet, 281 x 332 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Miss Maureen Vance whose name is written on the item.

Date: 27 April 1990 - 27 Apr 1990

From: Womens Division Federated Farmers of NZ (Inc) Oral History Project.

By: Jessep, Kathleen Margaret, 1908-2009

Reference: OHInt-0115/4

Description: Kathleen Margaret Jessep born Kakahu, South Canterbury. Outlines family background - paternal grandfather, John Miles Verrall, was a Member of Parliament for Shirley (1888-1890). Talks about childhood; domestic routine; infectious diseases; social life; transport - horses and traps and buggies; religion; hobbies etc; politics; Flu epidemic; teacher training (1920s) marriage to Charles Garfield Jessep and employment. Discusses World War I (1914-1918) and how it affected schooling - parents involved with Patriotic Committee. Talks about first involvement with Womens Division Federated Farmers ca 1961 and close connections with Winchmore Branch. Mentions bush nursing started by WDFF and agitation for Correspondence School to start. Access Contact - Renamed 'Rural Women New Zealand' in Oct 1999, ph 473 5524. Lillian.rwnz@clear.net.nz Venue - Ashburton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gillings Farm, Frasers Rd, Ashburton Accompanying material - newspaper cuttings and copy of letter to Cancer Society Arrangement: Tape numbers -OHC-004659-004662 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0815. Three photographs: 1. L-R: Jeanette Tarbottom (nee Jessep), Kath Jessep (nee Verrall) receiving Provincial Honours Bar and Amy Jones, Donimion Treasurer, 1981: 2. L-R Jeanette Kathleen Jessep (later Tarbottom) and Kathleen Margaret Jessep (nee Verrall) ca 1937; 3. Verrall family ca 1912.

Date: 01 June 1918

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/2-028962-G

Description: Photographs shows adults watching as children board a new Edison electric bus outside the Orange Hall in Hornby, Christchurch for free trip on the bus. Occasion was visit by Christchurch Tramway Board trip on the bus to mark new public transport route to Islington, Templeton and Hornby. Nearby man wheels his bicycle past. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. The electric motor bus used truck and Edison storage batteries supplied by Messrs A.H. Harris and Co. The body was built by Boon and Co. Ltd from designs supplied by the Christchurch Tramway Board (see The Press 3 June 1918 pg.4). Source of descriptive information - scene identified by Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Maclay, Adam Henry Pearson, 1873-1955 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-023902-G

Description: Photograph taken circa 1920 by Adam Henry Pearson on Hereford Street, Christchurch. Shows two New Zealand Express Company trucks with loads of Michelin tyres parked outside two businesses; Andrews, Baty & Company Ltd (left) and New Zealand Express Company (right). Source: From item (1/1-009278-G). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information from a researcher.

Date: 1928

By: Willis & Aiken Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-1928-01

Description: Punched (or "nipped") green ticket with spaces for 24 rides, either to or from Christchurch City. The expiry date is rubber-stamped in blue on the recto. The text on the verso explains terms and conditions. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on green card, 76 x 117 mm., with 23 punch-holes