Carpenters

Date: 5 January 1978

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Stevenson, Alan, active 1978

Reference: EP/1978/0031-F

Description: Carpenter Geoff Walker erecting a large signboard at Ngauranga warning motorists of possible disruption during the laying of a new watermain. Photograph taken by Evening Post photographer Alan Stevenson on the 5th of January 1978 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 1940-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-207

Description: Photographs of state houses, mostly in the Wellington region, taken in the 1940s, mostly by National Publicity Studios photographers. No captions supplied. Arrangement: Prints from box labelled `Plates of NZ Industry State Houses, Factories, etc'. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1984

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Cheerful sketches. Rewi Alley, Peking. Oct[ober] 22, 1984. [Sketchbook].

Reference: E-593-021

Description: Shows a carpenter at his bench on the pavement, an elderly man, and a man walking along with a bunch of persimmons on their branch. Other Titles - Beijing Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour sketch in hard-cover black book, 220 x 143 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 2000.

Date: 18 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Leckey, Richard Edward, 1937-

Reference: OHInt-0562/07

Description: Richard Leckey was born in Gazaiabad in 1937. Explains that his father worked for the railways, talks about his transfers and recalls memories of Kotri, railway houses and servants. Mentions his brothers and step-sisters, his own schooling at Lawrence College. Recalls his experiences of partition. Talks of his sister living in New Zealand, followed by the rest of the family, and his father's money in India. Talks of his carpentry apprenticeship in Auckland and describes his various jobs with hydro schemes. Mentions his wife's work on a psychiatric ward, his work in the same hospital and at a freezing works. Mentions his returned serviceman's loan, wanting to buy land. Talks of Maori associations, his genealogy, the SAS in New Zealand and why he left it. Explains the changes in his religions and mentions Indian religions. Talks of his family in Australia, Pakistan and England, school uniform, western clothes, mealtimes and games played and mixing with Muslim children. Mentions club membership and cultural differences. Talks of his drinking habit, settling in New Zealand and outlines the differences in lifestyle. Talks about his property in Karamea, and interest in forestry, his carpentry and building. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008512, OHC-008513 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2645.

Date: 17 May 2006

From: Oral history of Cook Strait Whalers based in Tory Channel

By: Barnes, Emlyn, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0856-01

Description: Interview with Emlyn (Tim) Barnes, born in England in 1933. Discusses doing a shipwright's apprenticeship and later working in the merchant navy as a ship's carpenter. Refers to emigrating to New Zealand after several visits, living first in Napier and Wellington before settling in Picton. Mentions working as a boatbuilder and farm labourer until he was invited by Athol Perano (first mate) to crew on the Orca where he worked for two years. Talks about the boat, its crew, catching whales, and towing them inshore. Comments on not having much contact with workers in the whaling station factory, which was a dangerous place to work. Recalls that the Orca developed a boiler problem which ended its days at sea. Discusses his feelings about whaling. Mentions working later as a builder and boatbuilder and working on the waterfront. Interviewer(s) - Loreen Brehaut Accompanying material - Digital abstract accompanied by a brief biographical document Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015994 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 1 C60 cassette(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 40 Minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word; Image file - Jpeg Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5765, OHDL-001387. one colour portrait (OHDL-001388) Search dates: 1933 - 2006

Date: 1925-1926

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/04

Description: Correspondence and papers include list of carpenters and joiners, 1925 (arranged by industrial district); noxious weeds; daylight saving; financial accounts, 1925; establishment of Hutt Hospital, Lower Hutt; donations for Massey Memorial; old Maori ferry canoe at Mangaroa; Akatarawa Reserve; NZ Forestry League re A H Miles estate at Akatarawa; NZ and South Seas Exhibition re Wellington Provincial court; train services; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1894-1899

From: Jenkin, Robert :Albums of photographs by Arthur Jenkin, ca 1895-1898

By: Jenkin, Arthur, active 1890s

Reference: PA1-o-1048

Description: Opens with Queenstown and Dunedin, and closes with the SS Rotorua in George Sound and Mitre Peak, Milford Sound. But most of the rest of the album relates to the Auckland region. There is a strong emphasis on Piha its coastal features like Lion Rock, and on groups of mainly men who went there on camping, hunting and fishing weekends or holidays. There is also one image of a group of surveyors and their camp at Piha dated 1894. Many images record social outings and picnics, especially at Northcote. These include both men and women dressed up for the occasion. There is a goup image of the St James Football Club dressed for the game dated 1895. Two photographs show a horse and buggy driven by a youthful Uncle Harold accompanied by Grandpa Jenkin and baby Irene. Another shows Mr Ogles's horse and cart, and another Jim Bailey's (of Cabbage Bay) ox team. There is also an image of a team of horses and a sled taking the milk to the factory at Onewhereo. There are images of waterfalls at Karekare and Nihotapu (Waiatura), and of the Nihotapu Creek. Some views of Auckland City and one of Waitemata Harbour probably on a weekend with yachts out on the water. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1940s

From: Firth, Cedric Harold, 1908-1994 :Photographs of private houses, public housing, and some furniture.

Reference: PAColl-5870-5

Description: Aerial views of state housing projects in progress in the Hutt Valley, Wellington. Views of streets with state houses in them and of individual state houses. High rise public housing apartment blocks, and a couple of designs for town centres. There are also some photographs of builders working on construction, and one view of piles of timber. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1908-1945

By: Craven, Herbert, 1879-1940; Craven, Herbert Lindsay, 1904-1988

Reference: MS-Group-1899

Description: Farm diaries, mainly of his work as a jobbing carpenter, noting details of work, clients, and payments (1908-1917, 1919-1921, 1923-1926, 1928-1929, 1931-1932, 1935-1937; ledger and account book (1907-1912); account book listing building materials used and their (ca 1910); also included is an account book of the Ohura District Coal Mine Workers Industrial Union of Workers at the Tatu State Colliery (1938-1945) Source of title - Supplied Craven, a jobbing carpenter, also worked on farms, and as a coalminer in the Ohura district. Quantity: 27 volume(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1963

From: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979 :[Antarctic material relating to 1963 expedition of HMNZS Endeavour to Scott Base and Hallett Station] 1963

Reference: B-117-074

Description: Shows head and shoulders drawings of two bearded men on the staff at Scott Base in 1963. Other Titles - 16 December 1963 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pastel, 320 x 395 mm. Provenance: Donated by NZ Tourist and Publicity Department, 30 March 1976.

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Collection

Reference: PAColl-4960

Description: Four views of the house called Kairuru built on Takaka Hill including one of the men who built it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-27780 to 27783 (PH-DBII-013-4); 1/4-064467 (PH-92-017) Negatives at 1/2-051945 to 051955 (PH-2006-024); 1/2-116418 to 116452 (PH-DBI-033-1). Quantity: 4 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 14 April 1989 - 14 Apr 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Bilkey, Joy Margaret, 1925-2013

Reference: OHInt-0058/09

Description: Joy Margaret Bilkey gives details of her family background and how the families were settlers in Waipu. Talks about her paternal great grandfather's cabinet and furniture making career, which included making furniture for English royalty and about her father's work as a builder and her mother's as a music teacher. Describes her education and details the development of her reading habits and tastes and where she got books from. Talks about working for her future parents-in-law. Describes training as a primary school teacher at Auckland Teachers' Training College, teaching at Maungaturoto District High School Primary Department and then relief teaching both before and after her marriage to Arthur Edward Keith Bilkey in 1951. Details the development of their orchard from citrus to kiwifruit and gives some historical background to the development of the Kerikeri area, Kerikeri Primary School and the beginnings of the orchard industry in the area. Describes how the community changed with the influx of orchard people. Mentions the development of clubs and services and how cut off Kerikeri had been in the early days. Notes that there are very few Maori in Kerikeri. Details her involvement with the Kerikeri Public Library as a committee member from 1962-1980 and the early development of the library before the Public Library was established. Describes how the books were looked after by individuals, then by the Plunket Society and then in the school building, membership charge, source of books from Country Library Service and private donation, lending and overdue policy. Details the members of the committee, its work to establish the library, the volunteers and the paid staff, fundraising, getting the building built, changing use of the library and her own involvement while she had young children and was relieving teacher. Mentions Margaret O'Connor as the first library assistant and other people instrumental in establishing the library. Mentions Dennis (?) Malone, Isabella Godbert and Mrs Bonny Cron. Talks about the increasing popularity of non-fiction books, the importance of the Country Library Service, the visits of the book van, its drivers and their routines. Talks about Jim Sutherland and the death of the book van service. Describes the special collections at the library, the request and reserve system operating, the changing nature of the Kerikeri population and change in library membership. Discusses the use of voluntary staff noting that there has only been one paid librarian in the last few years and that Kerikeri Library is the largest in New Zealand to be staffed by voluntary workers. Describes the role of the Library in the community. Venue - Kerikeri Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Bilkey's home at Kerikeri Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains a photocopy of a newspaper article on the Kerikeri Public Library. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002065, OHC-002066 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2744, 2745, 2746, 2747 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 314. Printed abstract contains portrait photograph of Joy Bilkey dated 1986, photograph of Joy Bilkey inside the bookvan in the mid 1970s, a photograph of the Kerikeri Public Library, a photograph of Bilkeys' grandchildren reading in the book van ca 1984 and two photocopies of photographs of Kerikeri Search dates: 1925 - 1989

Date: 18 December 1992 - 18 Dec 1992

From: New Zealand Netherlands Foundation oral history project

By: Jansen, Godfrey, 1911-

Reference: OHInt-0132/20

Description: In this interview, Godfrey Jansen who was born in the Netherlands, chose to talk mainly about the years 1939 to 1950. Recalls arrival in New Zealand in 1939 with four other Dutch carpenters, having travelled on the `Monowai' under special arrangement between Netherlands and New Zealand governments. Describes employment, firstly on commercial buildings in Wellington and then on state housing in the Hutt Valley. During the war recalls building military camps for US Marines on leave in New Zealand. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Upper Hutt Interviewer(s) - Adrienne Jansen Venue - Upper Hutt Accompanying material - photocopies of newspaper articles re Dutch carpenters coming to New Zealand Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005430; OHLC-001373 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1044. One photocopy of a b&w photograph of Godfrey Jansen and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands March 1992

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-090

Description: Photographs, related to industry, labour, and labour unions, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-011

Description: The activities of passengers aboard the Canterbury Association ship Duke of Portland. Included are No. 1, Miss Bodie, since married to Sir Richard le Fleming, a fellow-passenger; No. 2 Bob; No. 3. Marks (a man at the ship's wheel); no. 4. Master Jackson ; No. 5 Mrs Palmer; No. 6. Page; No. 7. Copeland; No. 8. Doctor, not the other 'doctor' (butcher); No. 9. How the carpenter calked & tried to stop the leaks of the old Duke, but if he couldn't how could he? twas no use!! (A back view of the ship's carpenter kneeling, and working on part of the inside of the hull of the Duke of Portland, with a patchwork of pieces of timber, an iron pot behind him); No. 10. Mrs Landor (i.e. Margaret Lander, a woman sewing); No. 11 Page (a young man in a cap); No. 12. Mrs Wood (steerage) (a plump woman sewing); No. 13. Sunkeld, emigrant to N. Z. (a young man, his baby seated on his knee). No. 14. 'Duke Humphries' sewing his wallet in cabin - & using his patent candlestick (a young man in a cap, sewing a large piece of fabric, a candlestick on a board close by). Quantity: 14 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash drawings, various sizes, glued to album page

Date: 1895-1930

By: Carpenters Association; Tesla Studios; Hardie Shaw Studios; Tomlinson, Francis Ernest, 1864-1944; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Clifford, Henry Herbert, 1872-1949; Gill, H J, active 1912

Reference: PAColl-2134

Description: Quantity: 16 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1955 - 1956

From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]

By: Mitchell, Victor Leonard William, 1925-1980

Reference: B-125-037

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 450 x 388 mm

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-011-09

Description: A back view of the ship's carpenter kneeling, and working on part of the inside of the hull of the Duke of Portland, with a patchwork of pieces of timber, and an iron pot behind him. He is possibly inside a cabin. Identification: according to the passenger list for this voyage, the ship's carpenter was William Marks On the back of Pearse's drawing 'The cowman looking after it' (E-455-f-010-08) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 86 x 147 mm

Date: 1870 - 1877 - 1873

By: Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910; Stacpoole, Frederick, 1813-1907; Harbroe, Arabella, active 1940s

Reference: D-012-004

Description: Shows Christ with His Mother in the carpenter's shop. Christ is raising his hands in crucifixion mode The original oil, known as The shadow of death, in Manchester City Art Gallery, was painted between 1870 and 1873 Other Titles - The shadow of death. 1870-1873 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - on left, in pencil: W Holman Hunt; on right, in pencil: F Stacpoole Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Mezzotint engraving, 734 x 581 mm

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-465

Description: Sir Guy Powles, New Zealand's first Ombudsman, and a builder look at the refurbishment of Pioneer House that the builder is working on for the Ombudsman's use. The main part of the refurbishment is a row of counters at which people will be able to register their complaints against the Inland Revenue Department. Sir Guy is well pleased and says 'Yes, that should be about right'. Text is in pencil beneath the cartoon. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 255 x 385 mm