Schools - New Zealand - West Coast Region

Date: [1920s-1950s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-22

Description: Photographs of West Coast scenes, personalities, comprising: Visits to West Coast of Duke of Gloucester (1934-1935), Sir Willoughby Norrie (1952-1957), and Viscount Galway (1935-1941). Galway was visiting the Coalbrookdale mine at Denniston. Horse racing meetings Teams competing in West Coast Indoor Basketball Association competition, 1955 Hockey team Lawn bowls clubs Tennis clubs School groups Photographs taken 1920s-1950s by James Ring and L A Inkster of Greymouth Quantity: 78 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1890s-1900s]

From: Worters, Ian, fl 1999: Photographs of Worters, Taylor and Havill families

Reference: PAColl-5978

Description: Group photograph of members of the Havill and Gale families, pupils of Stafford School, South Westland, photographed in 1908, and a picnic at Stafford attended by Prime Minister Richard John Seddon some time between 1900 and 1906. Copies of photographs made ca 1999. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Copy prints 10.2 x 15.2 cm

Date: 1965

From: Toomath Wilson Irvine Anderson, architects :[Architectural plans. 1955-1988].

By: Nelson Education Board

Reference: Plans-2005-057-1965

Description: Includes foundation plan, floor plans, elevations, site plan, drainage, plumbing, electrical, toilets and kitchen; portal frame, joinery details and profiles. No job number for these plans. Reference number reflects date of completion rather than job number. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 560 x 760 mm.

Date: [ca 1957]

By: Pearse, Ben, active 1957-1987

Reference: PAColl-6976

Description: Scenes of the jubilee of a convent school (possibly St Patrick's) and of Blaketown and its school in 1957. The convent reunion shows ex-pupils grouped by the year they attended the school, a dinner, a table of trophies etc. The Blaketown jubilee is marked by a procession of floats, the creation of a Miss Jubilee, a dinner etc. Also included are a two older copy negatives of Greymouth and scenes on the wharves with what may be a shipwreck and the grounded vessel the Abel Tasman. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059346 to 059428. Quantity: 2 container(s) of negatives. Physical Description: Film and glass negatives Transfers: File print at PAColl-4384. Processing information: Description updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by the donor.

Date: 1895-1993

By: Blackball School

Reference: fMS-Papers-6659

Description: Comprises photocopies of daily attendance register for Blackball Public School (1899); examination register (1928); and registers of admission (1895-1993) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photcopies)

Date: 1950, [1961]

By: Munro, William Alexander, 1903-

Reference: MS-1695

Description: Source of title - Cover title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (30 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: [ca 1930s-1950s]

Reference: PAColl-6633

Description: Three negatives associated with Minnie Bignall's time at Greymouth District High School 1888-1893. The first is of the school buildings, the second is of a group of people eating at a table, and the third is of Minnie Bignall's standard certificate. The photographer is unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-032661 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: 35mm strip with 3 images

Date: [1880s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-30

Description: Collection comprises street scenes; shipping and shipwrecks at Greymouth and other places; HMNZS Pukaki; railway locomotives, railcars, bridges and accidents; visits of parliamentarians Peter Fraser and Sir Eruera Tirikatene, and Governor at Brunnerton coal mine; croquet; schoolboy rugby; fancy dress; opening of Catholic church building; waterfall; fires; floods; and state house. Photographs taken 1880s-1960s by James Ring and L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1920s-1930s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-28

Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers, WAACs, school cadets and school girls; men in rugby uniforms pulling sulkies; winners of fire brigade, rifle shooting and dancing competitions; railcars and railway accident; Springs Junction; and Mitchell's Hotel, Lake Brunner. Photographs taken 1920s-1930s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1950s-1960s

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-04

Description: Automobiles, buses, a Baptist church building, new J class steam locomotive (NZR no 1208), and railway accident in November 1960. Photographs taken 1950s-1960s by Inkster studio, Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 17 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Buchanan, David Edward, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0419/02

Description: Ted Buchanan was born in Reefton in 1927. Recalls his family moving from Ikamatua to Haast when he was five. Describes how his father was frequently away as he was a mill worker. Mentions that the six children had chores and his mother, Isabel Buchanan, was tough and capable. Recalls her ploughing fields to plant potatoes. Talks about the vegetable garden, making bread, bottling and storing fruit and making jam. Describes going to school at Okuru, Te Taho and Ikamatua. Mentions his father died when he was twelve. Recalls playing cards, listening to the radio and catching cockabullies for recreation. Describes going to Christchurch for six months when he left school, returning to Haast, felling bush in the Arawata area with his brother Henry and living at the Public Works Department (PWD) camp. Mentions also doing road work. Describes whitebaiting at Cascade and bringing the whitebait out by horse or boat. Mentions constructing an air strip and taking freezers in. Describes deer stalking with Des Nolan for two seasons and gives details of working at Carters Mill as a bushman. Talks about marrying Collette Brazil who worked in a hotel in Hokitika. Mentions visits from the dentist at Hokitika and Dinny Nolan who also pulled teeth out. Talks about ways of getting out to medical help. Recalls the Duggan family, the McPherson family on the Turnbull River and Myrtle Cron who could shoot and skin a deer. Recalls shifting to Mosgiel for his children's education. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2896.

Date: 15 Jun 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Mackey, Ann Patricia, 1920-2004

Reference: OHInt-0419/10

Description: Ann Mackey was born in Hokitika in 1920. Describes growing up at Okuru where her father would be away on cattle drives for several weeks. Talks about her mother's ability at operating the ferry across the Okuru River. Describes carrying water from the river for household use. Talks about whitebaiting and using sugar bags to make whitebait nets. Recalls Grandfather Eggeling who stuffed native birds. Mentions Arawata Bill. Describes going to school at Dinny Nolan's house and later to the Okuru School. Mentions riding bareback to school, the other children, and teachers Hector Brown and Mr Gillan. Recalls corporal punishment. Describes leaving school at the age of twelve. Comments on her cousins, the Nolan boys, going to boarding school at Oamaru. Talks about Christmas, picnics and the Easter races at Mussel Point. Recalls first leaving Okuru at the age of five and going over the cattle track. Describes her next trip at the age of fourteen and having all her teeth removed. Mentions that Dinny Nolan pulled teeth out and also made coffins. Describes deaths by appendicitis, accidents in the area and trips out by stretcher. Talks about the McPherson and Harris families and card parties. Describes her mother's cooking including goslings, whitebait and scones. Mentions visitors and cooking for workmen. Discusses doing the laundry including heating the copper. Recalls being lonely and having a pretend friend. Describes how the phone could be cut off for weeks. Describes swimming, tramping and helping with mustering and haymaking. Talks about how shy she was when she left the area and not being able to play sport. Discusses her husband Harold Mackey, who worked for the Public Works Department, and their taking over his father's farm at Kowhitirangi after World War II. Alan and Eunice Cron participate in part of the interview Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2904.

Date: 25 Apr 1996

From: Haast oral history project

By: Cowan, Bernard Homersham, 1921-2003

Reference: OHInt-0419/04

Description: Bernard Cowan was born in Christchurch in 1921. Gives details of his family background. Mentions his mother met his father in Christchurch and went to live at Okuru. Mentions their farm was between Waiatoto and Arawata. Discusses their income from cattle and home made butter. Describes how his brother died when he was seven and his father was killed in 1935 when Bernie was fourteen. Describes attending school at the Nolan's household school. Talks about the other children and teachers. Recalls being carried out on a stretcher on the Haast-Paringa cattle track with appendicitis when he was twelve. Mentions his grandmother went with him. Recalls a difficult trip back from Hokitika, where he had been visiting his mother in hospital, in the boat `Elsie' as a nine year old. Recalls no hot or cold water during the Depression, eating wood pigeons and fish and having difficulty paying bills. Mentions his sister was educated at Hokitika and was training to be a nurse until the death of his father. Describes meeting and marrying Myra Roberts and getting a job with the Public Works Department (PWD). Recalls working at the aerodrome at Mussel Point and on road building. Comments on how the air service saved people's lives. Describes selling deer skins while working for the PWD. Describes selling the farm in 1947, buying a truck to cart gravel and having five trucks working at one time. Describes whitebaiting and selling the whitebait and a crayfishing venture with his son John. Discusses crossing rivers. Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2898.

Date: [1920s-1960s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-29

Description: Collection comprises parades of soldiers; school sports day (races and novelty games); winners of fire brigade competitions; railcars, railway excursion and railway accident; organiser of croquet tournament; fancy dress; elderly men in carriage; Angus McLagan addressing miners; waterfall; trout fishing; and Rewanui railway station. Photographs taken 1920s-1960s by L A Inkster, Greymouth. Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1900s

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7337

Description: Postcards by Muir and Moodie of Palmerston Street with the Prince of Wales Hotel on the corner and other shops on the street; the Bank of New Zealand on Palmerston Street; Victoria Square showing a pond and a statue; the state school; and the harbour with some tug boats moored. Photographer was Muir & Moodie. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w copy negative(s) of a postcard.

Date: ca1905

From: Humphreys, W :Photographs of the Westport Coal Company's operation at Denniston

Reference: PA1-o-994

Description: Album of portraits, group photographs, and photographs of Denniston buildings. A number of the group photographs have been set in the bush. They appear to be family groups, and one group of young men, all in their Sunday best. Two photographs are of men with horses outside a corrugated iron stable, another shows two men on a track in the bush, another shows a group of three surveyors photographed outside a mine entrance. One photograph records what seems to be a corporate visit to Denniston. One of the men is probably Jonathan Dixon who became general manager of the Denniston mines in 1902. The buildings depicted are houses, Denniston public School, and the Denniston Hotel Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1874-1926

By: Ryall family

Reference: MS-Papers-1497

Description: Leases, private correspondence, and notes of early Barrytown family; papers re community affairs, including Kynnersley Public School (Barrytown) register, 1881-1926; papers on road construction; Barrytown Miners' Association notes, 1895 Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres.

Date: [1900s-1940s]

From: Quinn, Joseph, d 1998: Negatives and prints from photographic studio operated by James Ring, L A Inkster, and Joseph Quinn

Reference: PAColl-9543-09

Description: Scenes and events on the West Coast, comprising: scenes in Greymouth, Hikitika, Reefton & Westport; Holland settlement, Cobden; Kotuku; events associated with Rotary, Women's Institute, Women's Guild and Grey Art Society; gold sluicing at Bell's hill and Barrytown; Marist and Grey Main School class photographs 1937; new District High School, Reefton; school crossing patrols; first communion groups; Jacks Mill School, Kotuku; Annual Conference of South Island Federated Catholic Clubs at Dean Carew Memorial School, Greymouth. Photographs taken 1930s-1940s by L A Inkster, and prints made by Inkster from negatives taken 1900s-1920s by James Ring. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1987

From: University of Canterbury. Department of Education : Records of the first joint AARE/NZARE conference, Christchurch

Reference: 89-012-01

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1889 - 1890

By: Greymouth State School

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-Greymouth-1800s

Description: Includes: 1889? State School Greymouth. Grand entertainment in aid of the Children's Prize Fund in the Public Hall, on Friday evening, March 29 [1889?] (with choral items by Miss Weaver's class; and a comedy "Anything for a change"). Flier / programme 1890: Greymouth State School. Grand concert to provide prizes for the children. Public Hall, 5 March 1890. [Musical items]. Programme / flier On both programmes the name of Mr J Zachariah has been underlined, and the programmes may have come from his collection. Other performers include Miss Hamilton, Miss Griffith, Mr Castle, Mr Beresford, Miss Castle, Mr Swingland, Mr L J Williams, Mr E A Wickes. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and fliers, sizes varying up to 240 mm.