Strawberry industry

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: 1892-1967

By: Dale family

Reference: MS-Group-1496

Description: Papers include diaries and letters written by Thomas Dale to his future wife and parents while on active service during World War One; work diaries kepts by Thomas while working at the family orchard; drafts of stories written by Thomas and letters written to Albert and Nell Dale. Albert Dale and his son Thomas were fruit farmers at Birkenhead in Auckland. Thomas Dale saw action with the Auckland Infantry Regiment in World War One. Quantity: 44 volume(s). 34 folder(s). 0.80 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2006 Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Photographic Archive - Photographs of Dale family and property - To Ephemera Collection - World War One greeting card.

Date: [early 1920s]

From: Mossong, Verna :Negatives relating to Nelson and Taranaki, 1920, and Kemp House in 1975

Reference: 1/4-023678-F

Description: Women strawberry pickers taking a break, at Lower Motueka, probably at Limmers. Virginia Marion Limmer is second from the left. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Virginia Limmer identified by a family member. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).