Newspaper presses

Date: 3 Oct 2001 - 03 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: McFelin, Maurice Collins, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0828-06

Description: Oral history interview with Maurice McFelin born 1927 in Dunedin. Talks about his linotype operator apprenticeship under Con Walsh. Describes working for the Tablet for 45 years. Refers to how most print employees were Catholic. Mentions being a union member. Talks about other printing firms in Dunedin. Mentions women working in printing industry. Interviewer(s) - Noel Waite Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5553 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available with abstract. Search dates: 1927 - 2001

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: 1 Oct 2001 - 01 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: Murphy, Brendan Anthony, 1944-

Reference: OHInt-0828-09

Description: Oral history interview with Brendan Murphy born 1944 in Dunedin. Talks about his experience of being a apprentice compositor. Describes the changes in printing industry. Discusses working at the Tablet for 13 years until 1971, being editor of the Mountain Scene (Queenstown local newspaper) and eventually working at John H McIndoe Ltd, retiring in September 1987. Discusses the takeover of McIndoes by Alliance Textiles in 1983, the Old Master Printers' Association, increased competition and advances in technology within the industry. Interviewer(s) - Noel Waite Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5556. Search dates: 1944 - 2001

Date: 2 Oct 2001 - 02 Oct 2001

From: History of printing in Otago oral history project

By: Whitehead, Brian, 1938-

Reference: OHInt-0828-13

Description: Oral history interview with Brian Whitehead born 1938 in Watford, England. Talks about his apprenticeship as a compositor in Hampshire in 1954. Describes working on cruise ships which carried printers and the work that this involved. Refers to working in newspaper printing once he married and had a family. Describes emigrating in New Zealand in 1975 and working for Wickliffe Press in Dunedin for 6 years. Talks about the difference in the printing industry in New Zealand compared to England, in particular unions. Discusses working for Rehabilitation League for 10 years until 1990. Talks about working for a variety of other printing firms until he came to Clutha Print. Describes working for Clutha Print until he left in 1996. 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-5560.

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: 1906-1907

From: New Zealand. Department of Labour :Photograph albums for the International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-1907

By: New Zealand. Department of Labour

Reference: PA1-o-371

Description: Views of various factories and businesses in the Auckland Region, taken circa 1906, by unidentified photographers. They include interior and exterior views, and employees. Other Titles - N.Z. Department of Labour Other Titles - Factories and workrooms, Auckland Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with tan leather cover, entitled `N.Z. Department of Labour. Factories and workrooms, Auckland. N.Z. International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-7'; 25.5 x 31.0 cm

Date: [ca 5 Dec 1943]

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

By: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996

Reference: DA-04730-F

Description: Egyptian machinists turn out the cover of the NZEF Times Christmas number in the machine room in a building in Cairo, Egypt. For several reasons the NZEF Times has always been printed on flatbed machines. On the extreme right, is M Joseph Schock who is the Austrian manager of the machine floor. Photograph taken circa 5 December 1943 by George Robert Bull. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [8 Jun 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/310/10-G

Description: Castings of Evening Post machinery. Photographed circa 8 Jun 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [8 Jun 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/310/11-G

Description: Castings of Evening Post machinery. Photographed circa 8 Jun 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres