Shipbuilding industry - Employees

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-077

Description: The essay describes the origins of the Graydon family, John and Margaret Graydon's voyage to Auckland in 1858 on the Evening Star, their lives and those of their children and grandchildren in Auckland. John worked as a shipwright. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes photographs of the family

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[32 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in March and April, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-174

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister David Lange as a lifeguard on duty. He directs a glance full of hearts towards a bikini-clad woman labelled "Oz Frigates", ignoring the waving hand of the drowning "Local ship-building" in the water at the left. Other Titles - March; Australian There was protest that the purchase of Australian-built frigates would damage the New Zealand local ship-building industry. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 178 x 260 mm.

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: 1/4-000593-F

Description: Shipbuilding tow-boats for the US Forces under the Reciprocal Lend Lease Scheme. Shows the boat 'Koroki' almost completed in an Auckland ship yard. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000591-F

Description: Henry, a carpenter who came from England some years ago, fitting a cope iron to a motor tow-boat being built for the United States armed forces, during World War II. Photograph taken in Auckland, in 1943, by John Dobree Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's caption, from the Photographic Archive file at 6/1/30, for the first of the set of photographs at 1/4-000581 to 000620, reads: "War purposes have made extensive developments to the shipbuilding industry in New Zealand. Hundreds of units have to be built for the Allied mosquito fleet of the Pacific area. This series of forty photographs show how eight motor tow-boats were built for the United States Armed Forces, and give some of the personal background to the story..." Caption - Pascoe's caption for this image in Photographic Archive file 6/1/30 reads: "Carol and June get up early. Breakfast is an important meal; on it hard work must be done. Before the war these girls were partners in an art novelty shop in Wellington. Now, they are competant on the farm and would not leave the life." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative