Sealing - New Zealand - Southland Region

Date: 11-12 Dec 1994 - 11 Dec 1994 - 12 Dec 1994

By: Huria, Gabrielle, active 1995; Fife, Noeline, 1917?-; Fife, George, active 1940s-1995

Reference: OHColl-0340-1

Description: Noeline and George Fife talk in depth about their lives on Rakiura, Stewart Island. Noeline backgrounds family, education and childhood experiences. Describes her arrival, settlement and marriage on Rakiura in 1948, Woodley House, employment, the population and community, native flora and fauna, birth of her children in Invercargill, changing forms of transportation, social activities, supplies from the mainland and environmental issues. Recites a poem written by her son Rewi Fife. Outlines and discusses numerous native birds found on Stewart Island. George provides details of the local fishing industry and his career as a fisherman. Also discusses mutton birds and muttonbirding practices, whales and whaling, seals, old timers and hermits on the Island, the hospital and medical facilities, the southern lights Aurora Australis, weather conditions and various natural phenomena. Recounts modernisation of the Stewart Island settlement over time. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Huria Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDT-0429, OHDT-0430, OHDT-0431, OHDT-0432 Quantity: 2 DAT tape(s) -120 mins. 2 DAT tape(s) - 90 mins. 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 7 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4669.

Date: 1909

By: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917

Reference: MS-1385-1386

Description: Author's copies with ms annotations and corrections. Also some letters to McNab bound in Other Titles - Murihuku; a history of the South Island of New Zealand and the islands adjacent and lying to the south, from 1642 to 1835 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (with ms annotations) & ms (22 cm; blue linen, in grey phase boxes)

Date: 1817-[ca 1840]

By: Boultbee, John, 1799-1854

Reference: qMS-0257

Description: Voyage to Brazil, 1817, brief residence in Barbados, 1818; sealing in Bass Strait area, 1823, pilot at Port Macquarie before joining sealers around south-west coast of South Island, 1825-1828. Describes Maori friends, including chief Topi Patuki and others; Maori life and customs; sealing and trading personalities and activities in the area; flora, fauna, geographical details. Worked in Australia, 1829-1830 before going to Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Ceylon, where he died. Also Maori and Malay vocabularies, settlements in Solander's Straits, etc. Publication - Journal of a rambler; the journal of John Boultbee / edited by June Starke [Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986] Other - All images are in folder at back of volume Quantity: 1 volume(s) (310 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (34 cm; handmade soiled sailcloth in blue morocco hinged-lid box) Contains 9 pages of illustrations. Includes sketches of canoes, long club or mipe, greenstone maree, fish hooks, Maori dwellings, tattoos, landscapes and islands. Also a colour printed sketch of a meeting between Maori and Europeans

Date: 6 Nov 1822-28 Mar 1823

By: Blosseville, Jules Alphonse Rene Poret, baron de, 1802-1833

Reference: MS-0246

Description: Detailed description of the voyage of the `Snapper' along the coast of the lower South Island from Dusky and Chalky bays, Foveaux Strait, Preservation Bay, Port Macquarie, Stewart Island, Old Man's Bluff and other named points. Meetings with other vessels, including the `General Gates', the sealers in the region, and Maori are described. Source of title - Transcribed Written by Blosseville, senior midshipman on the `Snapper' from the diary and observations of Capt Edwardson and translated by Charles Wilson from the French Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (25 cm; ¼ maroon roan, green boards (Acc 27920)