Dobson

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: [ca 1940s]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-003

Description: Photographs of Stewart Island, Westland, Southland and Nelson taken circa 1940s for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of road construction, towns, rivers, bridges, lakes, mountains and personalities. Quantity: 55 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 20 May 1998 to 06 August 1998 - 20 May 1998 - 06 Aug 1998

By: Deverall, Patsy, active 1999-2015; Rust, Niria Yvonne, 1922-2002; Hawthorne, Raymond, 1936-; Hastedt, Jean Alison, 1938-

Reference: OHColl-0880

Description: Interviews about leading New Zealand potter, art teacher and painter, Yvonne Rust, conducted by Patsy Deverall in 1998. Three interviews with Yvonne Rust describe the Northland Craft Trust, beginnings of her pottery and pottery on the West Coast. Four interviews are with people who knew her as apprentices or students. Subjects include learning to pot, development of pottery in New Zealand from the 1940s-1990s, the nature of art, teaching art at high schools, night classes and pottery schools, sourcing West Coast clay and glazes, developing kilns and studios, and artists of the time such as Barry Brickell, Olivia Spencer Bower, Theo Schoon, Mirek Smisek and Japanese master potter Hamada Interviewees are Jacky Fahey, Jean Hastedt, Raymond Hawthorne, Evelyn Hewlett and Yvonne Rust Awards/funding - Project received an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Patsy Deverall Venue - One interview with Yvonne Rust was recorded at her home in Barrytown, West Coast Accompanying material - Article from New Zealand Women's Weekly October 6, 1986 called "Change of direction...at 64" about Yvonne Rust. Northland Craft Trust, Autumn newsletter Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-025056 - OHC-025066 Transcripts: OHA-8293 - OHA-8295 Quantity: 11 C60 cassette(s). 3 transcript(s) edited. 7 interview(s). 11 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available for three interviews only. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Patsy Deverall, Auckland, 2007 Search dates: 1948 - 1998 Processing information: Individual interviews not yet described

Date: 1900 - 1949

Reference: Eph-B-GEOLOGY-1900/1949

Description: Includes: ca 1908: The Westland Stone Company (Limited). The directors ... take pleasure in bringing to your notice the fact that their quarry, situate at Dobson near greymouth, is now equipped with the latest machinery and appliances ... H Bignell, Managing Director [ca 1908] For private circulation only. Prospectus of proposed company will be issued shortly. The Taitapu property,southwest of the West Wanganui Inlet, now known as Westhaven which will be the port. [Land for farming, timber milling, coal, gold, etc]. Signed] George Hiagh or R D McKenzie [ca 1908?] 1925: Report of F W Major, metallurgist and cement technologist, on the properties and raw materials over which the national Portland Cement Company Limited (of New Zealand) have options. Wellington, 26 Sept 1925 1927: An estimate of the smelting costs of the production of electric pig iron from Para Para iron ore at the "New Zealand Sounds Hydro-Electric Concessions Ltd", Deep Cove, Smith Sound [1927?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, mimeograph, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Acquired from various sources.

Date: 1947-1952

By: Brunner Mineworkers' Union

Reference: MS-Papers-0665

Description: Includes telegrams, correspondence and miscellaneous papers Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr F W Munden, Huntly, 1972

Date: 1929-1959

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-180

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1929-1959 Athol; Milford Hostel with Sheerdown Mountains in background; aerial views of Milford Sound; Aerial view of Southland Boys High School, Invercargill; Tautuku Beach & white pines near Huiopapa (photographer J D Roberts, 1959); harvesting oats in Five Rivers district. Buller Gorge; Punakaiki; Dobson; Ross (aerial); Denniston & Denniston tepid baths; Franz Josef Glacier; Greymouth (Whites 47547); new Nurses Home at Reefton (opened Sep 1949); house once owned by Felix Campbell which was purchased from Dennehy Estate by Greymouth Borough Council, 1949 Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1927

From: New Zealand. Department of Mines : Mining manuscripts

Reference: MSY-4517

Description: Includes evidence given by witnesses with index Quantity: 1 volume(s) (468 pages). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1926-1927

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/05

Description: Correspondence and papers re unemployment; Paekakariki Quarry; visit of Duke and Duchess of York; epidemic organisation re influenza; tree planting and eucalypts; old Maori canoe in Mr Whiteman's paddock at Whiteman's Valley (see also folder 119/4); Dobson Coal Mine Disaster Relief Fund, 1926; railways; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 22 Jun 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46697

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 22 Jun 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46699

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 22 Jun 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46698

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 22 Jun 1958

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46696

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative

Date: 1887

By: Bennie, James, 1874-1945

Reference: B-035-024

Description: First Dobson School as drawn on the opening day 15 August 1887 by the son of the first Headmaster. The school is a wooden building, L-shaped, with newly-cut tree trunks around it, a bell frame at the front, dense bush behind, mothers farewelling children, the headmaster beckoning and children playing outside Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jas Bennie Delt [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - title [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink drawing. 210 x 340 mm

Date: 2000-2005

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000438

Description: Photographs relating to Brunner Rugby League Club based in Dobson, West Coast Region. Includes group portraits and matches. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Sport (footie (league (brunner)))" Quantity: 25 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-13435-F

Description: Grey River, West Coast Region, and the settlement of Dobson. Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation in 1948. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; Weekly press (Newspaper); McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: C-079-054

Description: Shows a group of seven boys playing cricket on a country road. One boy stands watching in flax at right, while a girl walks away in the distance. The wickets are substituted by an old bent tin. The following information was supplied by Mr L.J. Burdett, AT 13/14/1, 1 February 1995): The boy holding the bat, standing next to bowler is Thomas William Harrison Hill (1885-1972); the bowler is Jack Barnett; the distant girl is Cecillia Liddle. The town shown could be Dobson or Brunnerton (conflicting information in letters AT 13/14/1, 8 October 1987, from Judy Siers, derived from information from the artist's daughter Myrtle Presants; and 1 February 1995, from Mr L.J. Burdett). However it is almost certainly Dobson. Judy Siers also writes that "the attached print ... originally appeared in the Christchurch Weekly Press 28 October 1899". It is likely that the print was issued as a supplement to the paper, as it does not appear within the pages of the Library's copy. Title from pencil inscription on verso. Picture was formerly attributed to Charles Nathaniel Worsley. However, another copy in private hands is inscribed "Young New Zealand cricket in a mining town (Brunner area)" by P. R. Presants, and has imprint. It also has on the reverse in pencil 'Dobson, 1896' and the location of the view at Dobson in the hand of the owner's grandfather, Clem Green, (the husband of Cecillia Liddle). The owner of the privately-owned copy also believes the little girl in the picture is her grandmother, Cecillia Liddle (pers. comm. December 2003). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young New Zealand at play: cricket in a mining town Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) 340 x 490 mm.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 340 x 490 mm.

Date: May 1951

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-28447-F

Description: Township of Dobson and the Grey River, West Coast, 1951. Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Source of descriptive information - Location identified by Library client. Original wrongly described, from Whites register, as Stillwater. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate