Balclutha

Date: [ca 1933-1959]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Watherston, R A, active 1956

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-202

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1933-1959. Various photograph of Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu - Soldiers memorial; camping grounds; Queenstown School; Queenstown Post Office; main street; Scott Memorial in Queenstown Park; town centre, 1933; several elevated views; Queenstown Gardens; Kawarau Dam, 1949; aqua-skiing on the lake; Earnslaw; loading wool at Greenstone Bay, 1950. Franz Josef Glacier; mountaineers cutting steps on the glacier; Arrow Basin; Kaniere gold dredge at Kumara, 1959; St Mary's Church, New Plymouth; Mrs W Reid of Runanga surf casting at Crows Bay, West Coast; hay making near Waikari, North Canterbury; Honeymoon Bay in Tasman Bay. Sheep mustering on high country run of A W Gard, Mt Bell Station (near Kurow); photo of musterers (all named on back) and property owned by Gard. Photographs sent to New Free Lance with accompanying letter by R S Watherston of Springhills, 1956 Also Balclutha; Milton; Woodbank Church; Russell, car ferry at Paihia; Mr Barker's stud at Wanaka; bridge over Molyneux River; Roman Catholic Church at Tokaanu; Wanganui river boat; rock formations at Palliser Bay; yachts of man-made lake Lake Whakamarino, 1947; Cascade Saddle; Mount Egmont lighthouse; Pukekura Park; tree growing amongst rocks on Dunstan Range; Taihape Plunket Rooms; elevated view of Nelson; haymaking near Dagarville; Marion Camp, Homer Tunnel; Northland express passing down main street of Kawakawa, 1947; Centennial Memorial, Wanganui; A & P Show, Taranaki; Dobson; Victoria Park, Waimate; main street of Levin, 1930; Midhurst Co-operative Dairy Factory; St Bathans, 1947. Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1938-1947

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-10/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-3-015/016

Description: Unfinished drawing, showing a steamer on the right, jetties, part of the bridge across the Clutha and indications of buildings Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, 64 x 216 mm (page size)

Date: 1926

From: Panoramic photographs of New Zealand taken by R P Moore

By: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948

Reference: PA6-081

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954

Reference: PAColl-3773

Description: Arrangement: Negatives in registers at F 175149 1/2,- F 175201 1/2. Previously NegColl-122A/2 Quantity: 53 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm

Date: 1952

Reference: PAColl-7242

Description: The premises in Ashburton of E Burrows and C J Redmonds; the premises in Balclutha next to a garage called Wilson Elliott; the premises in Clinton next to the agency for Dalgety & Co Ltd; the premises of the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd on Fenton Street, Rotorua next to Ernest Adolph's cycle shop; the site for a new building also in Rotorua; the premises in Wairoa; three views of the premises in Opotiki next to a garage or loading bay with a Capstan advertisement above the door; the branch in Dannevirke with two cars parked outside; the premises in Waimate with a plumbers next door; the warehouse premises next to a railway track in Invercargill; and a view over the Hastings District from the top of Havelock North hill looking east. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1950

By: Wellington Regional Planning Authority

Reference: PAColl-0287

Description: New Zealand Towns, regions, scenery and primary industries. Includes many aerial views. Quantity: 175 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1847

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain)

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1847/Acc.46977-84

Description: Copy of a manuscript map which covers the coastal area from Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula to Nugget Point and including Dunedin, Mosgiel, Milton, Balclutha areas. Shows unnumbered land blocks and basic topography. Has stamp of New Zealand Company with date 11 Mar 1848 Relationship complexity - The Alexander Turnbull Library has a New Zealand Company lithographed map that is likely to have been based on this map. Reference - MapColl 834.52a/1847/Acc.474, National Library Catalogue Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 8 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [1:63 360], 90 x 190 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1868 - 1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f

Description: A few British and European scenes. The remainder show Lake Wanaka, Nelson, Timaru, Bluff, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds, Chalky Inlet, Lake Waihola and numerous other South Island scenes; Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Bay of Islands Title from spine Inscriptions: Some signed: K.H. ; K. Holmes Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour drawings 145 p. 290 x 490 mm ¼ red morocco, red linen

Date: 1905 - 1914

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARD-Balclutha-1910-01

Description: Postcard shows a coloured illustration of a steam train going away into the distance, with the last carriage (the guard's van) in the foreground. Attached to the verso of the card, superimposed on the guard's van is a small black satchell labelled "Greetings from Balclutha" and containing a concertina-folded strip of ten black and white photographs of Balclutha scenes: Freezing works, traffic bridge, S S Clutha, water tower, post office, George Street, Clyde Street, the river, general view, Clarke's Buildings The verso has a handwritten letter, begun by Lily and finished by Rita: "My dear Auntie Lil, I got your P.C. & thankyou for it. Also the ribbons & hankys. Tell Pat I got his lollies & oh they were nice. I have got my school book now & I learn my lessons every night. How is Sharp & Tiny Tim getting on. Grannie made me a little dust cap for me to dust out my play house. I will bring it up for to milk the cows at Xmas. Love to all from Lil. - Lily is tired so I finished it / Rita" Quantity: 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and ink holograph, on postcard 89 x 137 mm, with adhered "wallet" of photo views on strip 248 x 42 mm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Moir, John Paterson, -1941

Reference: Pan-2387-F

Description: Panoramic view across a field to a collection of farm buildings. There is a road on the far left and a driveway from it leading to a garage. A car is parked outside the garage (Number-plate: NZ-82-921) beside which three people are standing; a man wearing overalls and a woman with a small girl. Behind them are several small buildings and a larger barn. In the centre of the image are several wheeled farm implements and a man (just visible) in the middle of a pile of hay on a laden cart drawn by four Clydesdale horses, dogs alongside. Two men are by a large haystack on the right, one on the far side high up with a pitchfork, the other on the near side standing at the foot of a ladder. A few sheep in one of several sheep pens centre right; single-storeyed building behind the pens. Flock of sheep in paddocks in the middle distance, farmland all around. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J.P. Moir, Hillend, Balclutha. 3 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 118.5 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Jory, Richard John, 1880-1975

Reference: Pan-2401-F

Description: Panoramic view taken from a gravel road which stretches away in the centre of the image. A drive leads to a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse (with verandah on the right-hand corner) seen across a sloping paddock in the left middle distance. Tall stand of various trees, including pine trees, behind the house. Outbuildings nearer the road in the centre of the image, animals grazing nearby. Cleared land and tussock hills centre left background. Wide grass strips along both sides of the road, basket willows along a stretch of the Clutha River on the right. Rolling hills in the background. Shadow of the camera visible in the centre foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - J. Jory. Balclutha. 3 B&W; Marginal notes on negative - 17 17 17 17 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 112.0 cm

Date: 2006-2007

From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials

Reference: PAColl-10421-07

Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the South Island. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).

Date: 30 May 2007

From: Methven Heritage Project - RSA and Arable oral history project

By: Symons, Sydney Osburne, 1918-

Reference: OHInt-0920-18

Description: Interview with Sydney Osbourne (Ossie) Symons. Born in Balclutha in 1918 to Helen Symons and Herbert Symons. Backgrounds parental grandparents and siblings. Recalls the impact of The Depression, how the family broke up and how he lived with relatives. Says he went to six different schools and two of them twice. Lists Henley Primary school, Taieri Plains, Kaikorai Valley Primary school, Green Island Primary school, Mornington Primary school, Dunedin, Woodside Primary school, near Outram, Menzies Ferry Primary school near Edendale, Southland. Talks about milking cows around Edendale district, being a cowboy at Castle Rock Station, Lumsden, and working as a shepherd. Says he worked as hotel porter in Kaikoura, then moved to Christchurch. Describes work at New Brighton Cafe and Coronation Hospital with returned World War One soldiers with TB, and at Flemings Flour Mill tipping wheat. Mentions dancing at the Caledonian Hall three nights a week. Recalls volunteering for World War Two and training at Burnham Camp for field ambulance work in 3rd Echleon. Describes voyage on 'Orchades' in 1940 to Bombay India. Details leave at Freemantle, Perth, Bombay and Deolali during the trip. Talks about leaving Bombay on the French boat 'Felix Roussel' in a convoy which was bombed by Italian warship in the Red Sea and Port Sudan. Says the HMNZS 'Leander' and HMS 'Kimberley' chased the warship off. Says they arrived at Port Said, Egypt and took train to Maadi Camp. Describes camp, rail car, marches and leave in Cairo. Remembers being at Amaryia camping area in a sand storm. says went to Alexandria, embarked on a Greek boat 'Bar Peter' to travel to Greece. Mentions air raid. Says they arrived at Piraeus Harbour, camped at Hymatis Park, New Athens, then travelled by train to Katerini. Details number of men in field ambulance A and B companies, headquarters and ASC (Army Service Corps). Recalls going up over Mount Olympus to Vale of Tempia and B Company set up on hillside. Describes seeing action when Germans broke through and being strafed by Messerschmidt aircraft. Says they came to Katerini which had been bombed and saw unexploded bombs on the road. Talks about going to Marathon Beach, boarding the 'Glengyle' ship for Souda Bay, Crete. Talks about rations, catching squid and buying oranges with Occupation money. Says the British warship 'York' was bombed daily. Talks about German Junker Ju 52 aircraft arriving, gliders with troops and paratroopers landing with coloured parachutes. Says they began to round us up. Mentions they took their tin hats off and raised their arms for overhead aeroplanes to indicate they were prisoners of war. Mentions English speakers were Austrians. Describes the last paratrooper being disarmed before sundown. Refers to moving to Daratsos village. Says his job was carting water and stretcher bearer. Refers to infantry being tired. Talks about the retreat, getting to Souda Bay and leaving at night on board the destroyer 'Phoebe'. Talks about arriving at Alexandria, Egypt and going to Helwan Camp. Mentions 60 of their company got back from Crete. Refers to Baggush, Western Desert and getting reinforcements. Mentions underground canteen selling Canadian beer, Black Horse and Stella Beer. Talks about Battle at Sidi Rezegh and the number of wounded. Refers to Rommell's Panzer columns. Talks about being handed over to Italian as prisoner of war. Mentions International Red Cross and escape plan. Expands on leaving camp in great rattle of shots. Explains what Brigadier Kippenberger did. Recalls going to Maadi, then Baggush and reuniting with unit. Talks about going to Lebanon, to Bekka valley for training at the Free French army barracks and arrival of Indian company with mules. Refers to going across the plains to Aleppo, Syria. Discusses the fighting during Battles of El Alamein, the artillery barrage and casualties. Mentions those with metal detectors clearing track through for trucks. Refers to 'The Box' (fortified defensive position) and servicing the wounded of the British Green Howards Regiment. Talks about seeing Hurricane fighter bombers running into a trap set by Messerschmidt fighters and being shot down. refers to Hurribombers (Hawker Hurricanes) and squadron of Spitfires fighting German tanks. Details equipment used by units at Sidi Rezegh, two pounder guns, honey tanks (British Stuart light tanks). Discusses General Grant tanks, Sherman tanks, anti tank guns with six pounder guns (pheasants) and 17 pounder guns. Refers to digging a slitty (slit trench) and Kittyhawk strafing by Canadian pilot. Recalls going to Medenine Aerodrome, Tunisia. Talks about biscuit and water rations at El Alamein. Refers to working with Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah Witness and Bretheran men in the medical corp. Refers to end of active service and going home on 'New Amsterdam' via Freemantle and Hobart. Says he went to England and worked with 2NZEF prisoners of war in isolation ward and laboratory at a hospital in Haine, Kent. Says he worked his way home on the 'Oranges' Dutch hospital ship. Refers to going to Sheffield, Canterbury where wife Miriam Lucy (nee Thompson) had a cottage. Says they married in 1943. Recalls working on farms, grubbing gorse and shearing. Says four children were born before they bought farm at Alford Forest, and two more children afterwards. Talks about learning about mustering from neighbours at Heron Lake and Mount Somers station. Refers to working for others farms while he had his own. Says he lived 32 years at Alford Forest, and has been retired 22 years in Ashburton. Abstracted by - Nicola Roberston Interviewer(s) - Kathryn McKendry Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016780 - OHC-016781 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Adobe PDF Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6040, OHDL-001835. Search dates: 1918 - 2007

Date: 21 Dec 2012

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-11684-10

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Riverview Trust (on behalf of L.J. Moore); family and farm history; photographs and land documents. Original owner was George Moore, who acquired 414 acres in 1892. In 2012 the property was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Accompanying digital files at MSDL-3731 and MSDL-3732.

Date: 2 Oct 2001 - 02 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: Martin, Ivan John, 1952-

Reference: OHInt-0828-07

Description: Oral history interview with Ivan Martin born 1952 in Mosgiel, Dunedin. Talks about father, James Ivan Martin, working in the printing industry. Describes his printing apprenticeship in Balcutha with South Otago Newspapers. Talks about working for newspaper printers including Southland Times and Clutha Leader. Discusses the huge changes in technology over the last 30 years in printing industry. Mentions involvement in unions. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5554.

Date: 2 Oct 2001 - 02 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: Haigh, Peter Laurence, 1932-

Reference: OHInt-0828-02

Description: Oral history interview with Peter Haigh born 1932 in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. Talks about his apprenticeship at the local newspaper in Tamworth, The Northern Daily Leader, at the age of 15 years. Describes becoming a Linotype and Intertype operator at the Balcutha local newspaper, Clutha Leader in 1971. Compares experiences of Australian printing industry with New Zealand. Discusses typesetting and the changes from using metal type to using computer programmes. Interviewer(s) - Noel Waite Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 60 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5549. Search dates: 1932 - 2001

Date: 2 Oct 2001 - 02 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: Lee, Christopher Mark, 1965-

Reference: OHInt-0828-04

Description: Oral history interview with Christopher Lee born 1965 in Dunedin. Talks about being part-owner of Clutha Print. Talks about how he became involved in the printing industry. Discusses the printing industry in Otago and the various commerical printers. Interviewer(s) - Noel Waite Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5551. Search dates: 1965 - 2001

Date: 1960 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Pipe-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960: Dominion Pipe Band Championships, Lower Hutt and Wellington. Hutt Recreation Ground, 18-19 March 1960; Athletic Park Wellington, 20 March 1960. Programme 1962: Gore Pipe Band 1912-1962, 50th jubilee. Field day to be held on Sunday 8th April 1962, at the Gore Showgrounds. Souvenir programme 1966: Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast Pipe and Brass Bands Association. Annual display. Rugby Park Greymouth, 1 October 1966. Programme 1968: Recital of highland bagpipe music by Pipe Major Donald MacLeod, formerly of the Seaforth Highlanders. Little Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington, 24 February 1968. Presented by the Wellington Pipers' Club (Inc) in conjunction with Comunn Na Piobaireachd (NZ) Inc. (2 copies) 1969: [Balclutha Pipe Band]. How it began [parts by Hadley V Bond, 1969] Wellington - Hawkes Bay Centres Pipe Band Contest. Memorial Park Palmerston North, 9 February 1969. Programme Quantity: 6 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes up to 24 cm Provenance: Donated or purchased from various sources, including Barry Chalmers, 2005.