Sheep-shearing - 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: 4 February - 19 March 2013 - 04 Feb 2013 - 19 Mar 2013

By: Karaitiana, Robert Leggett Paul, 1930-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Clucas, Rosemary, active 2013-

Reference: OHColl-1077-1

Description: Interview with Paul Karaitiana by Helen Frizzell. The interview focuses on Karaitiana's whanau and family land, his blade shearing career, and muttonbirding at Pohowaitai Island. The interview also discusses language and Te Reo Maori, and Karaitiana's thoughts on his cultural identity. Awards/funding - Interview funded by the Ngai Tahu Fund Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Includes photographs, scans of newspaper clippings, whakapapa information and other materials Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-002186 to OHDL-002188 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 20 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 interview(s). 9.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7785, OHDL-002187. Search dates: 1930 - 2013

Date: [1920s]

From: Searell, Pamela :Photographs owned by Miss Ruby Victoria Jackson

By: Jackson, Ruby Victoria, 1888-1980; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-o-459

Description: Snapshots of family and friends associated with Ruby Victoria Jackson, taken by unidentified photographers. Many of the people shown are unidentified, or only identified with Christian names. Many of the images relate to sheep stations won by three Jackson brothers in the soldiers' ballot after the first World War, 1914-1918. They owned Netherwood (originally by a Johnson who married a Jackson), Te Arowhenua and Berridale in the Waihopai Valley; also Leatham and The Branch Station on the Branch River. Other sections of the album relate to holidays, including trips to the West Coast, and to the North Island. Several views of Wellington are night scenes. The funeral ceremonies for Miss Jackson's father, Walter James Jackson, are shown in a number of photographs; and the last sequence shows Chinese friends probably associated with Miss Jackson's links with the Chinese Anglican Mission; and the visit of Dr Toyohiko Kagawa to New Zealand in 1935. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with textured black cloth cover, entitled "The Lambton album" (with R.V. Jackson in ink over the title); 22.0 x 32.5 cm

Date: [1920s]

From: New Zealand Department of Education: Photographs of schools

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Esquilant, William Charles, 1866-1952; Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948; Steffano Webb Photographic Studio; Campbell Photography; Drummond, G, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-147

Description: Album showing school and university buildings, chiefly in the Auckland region. Several images show the buildings under construction, or newly built. Photographs taken by various photographers for the Education Department, during the 1920s. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth-bound album, 19 x 32 cm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-043

Description: Shows a man talking to a farmer who is complaining that he cannot shear his sheep because it is raining. A newspaper in the man's pocket contains the headline 'Farmers welcome badly needed rain' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, blue coloured pencil and crayon on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 7 April 1999

From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions

By: King, Colin McDonald, 1949-; Vallance, Nikki, 1968?-

Reference: OHInt-0509/09

Description: Colin King was born at Leeston in 1949. Gives details of his Scottish background. Discusses death of siblings. Recalls growing up on a dairy farm in Lincoln. Comments that his parents were fervent Jehovah's Witness. Describes his education and enjoying school and school sports. Talks about working on his father's farm and his interest and involvement in running. Mentions he was a Canterbury representative in 1966 and 1968. Talks about his father selling his farm and giving him a handpiece, comb and cutters. Recalls shearing with Roger Corby in Oxford, North Canterbury. Gives his impressions of the shearing shed. Discusses wages, clothing work, physical demands, shed routines, an open shed system and union involvement. Recalls buying a Mark II Zephyr and meeting Lynne and getting married in 1971. Describes moving to Alan Reid's contract run in Rangiora, buying a property and beginning a family. Discusses the pecking order of shearers. Recalls the 1974 shearers' strike, meeting at Trade Union Hall and his role. Describes entering a show at Rangiora and the competitors. Discusses records, tallies, sheep types and shearing styles. Mentions he is a left handed shearer. Discusses his first time at the Golden Shears in 1981, moving to Otorohanga and his first shed in Te Kuiti. Describes the 1982 Golden Shears final which he won. Compares King Country shearers with Canterbury shearers. Discusses the beginning of the King Country Shears competition in 1985, becoming NZ Shearing Champion in 1987 and winning the Golden Shears again in 1987 and 1988. Discusses the wide and narrow comb controversy of the mid 1980s. Gives opinions on the judging. Mentions both he and wife Lynne King were judges. Talks about his children and mentions that Nickolas is a competitive shearer. Describes being in the United Kingdom for a few years then returning to the South Island. Comments on shearing now being NZQA recognised. Comments on the vision and drive of Godfrey Bowen. Comments on originally shearing to buy a farm, struggling on the farm and farming with his son-in-law. Recalls shearing in Western Australia. Discusses comb use, blade shearing, spline drive and the quality of shearing gear. Discusses occupational safety and health (OSH), retraining, the future of the wool industry and the Fernmark Quality Programme(FQP). Interviewer(s) - Nikki Dalziell Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2519.