West Coast Region (N.Z.) - Social life and customs

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company; Taranaki Museum

Reference: A-104-024-b

Description: View from close to the mouth of the river, looking inland. Shows boats on the river, including (possibly) the Cobden ferry, and a horse-drawn cart on the road to the right, leading along the south side of the riverbank towards the houses and shops of the town Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Deacessioned from the collections of Taranaki Museum, 1994.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925

Reference: A-104-024

Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Cooper, William Marshall, 1833-1921; Schmidt, John Diedrich, 1839-1925; Harnett & Company

Reference: A-104-024-c

Description: Shows boats on river, including (possibly) Cobden ferry, and horse-drawn cart Title from inscription on verso of 24a. See Ellis, E M. Early prints of N.Z. 1642-1875. Christchurch, 1977. p. 192-193. Other Titles - Lithographed by John Diedrich Schmidt from a sketch by William Marshall Cooper Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 210 x 300 mm Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in July 2001.

Date: [ca 1895]

By: Rae, William, active 1852-1895

Reference: MS-1800

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; ¼ maroon leather, grey boards)

Date: [ca 1890-ca 1967]

By: Ward, James, active 1890s-1960s

Reference: MS-Papers-3683

Description: Recollections of a lifetime on the West Coast of the South Island, mainly in the Buller district of the province of Nelson. Notes on life at Burnett's Face, Denniston, in the early days of the settlement. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (41 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs V I Willson, 4 Domett St, Westport, 20 Sep 1967

Date: [ca 1887-1888]

By: Collins, G G, active 1887-1888

Reference: MSX-2270

Description: Collins describes his sojourn in NZ, giving his impressions of people, places, architecture, vegetation etc. Includes many Burton Bros photographs and some by J[ames] Ring; also ephemera, maps. Collins travelled mostly in the South Island, especially on the West Coast and many of the photographs relate to mining, bush transport, bush scenes, West Coast townships, ports, churches etc. Also includes groups of people. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and photographs (½ black morocco, dk green boards)

Date: 16, 23 August, 13 Sept, 1994 - 16 Aug 1994 - 13 Sep 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Jones, David, 1914-1999

Reference: OHInt-0406-19

Description: David Jones born Wanganui, 1914. Outlines family background - maternal grandparents from County Cork, Ireland - mother born in Greymouth - Uncle Jack became Mayor of Greymouth. Talks about the West Coasters. Recalls the Chinese gold miners and the differences in their work conditions from the other miners. Describes growing up in Wanganui; family house in Keith Street; Masonic Lodge; father's fear of fire as a result of the great Raetihi bush fire in 1918. Recalls going to work in an electroplater's shop and at the age of 15 `doing a man's work for a slave wage'. Talks about the lack of a trade union covering electroplaters in Wanganui and the subsequent working conditions. Explains electroplating process. Moved to Wellington and recalls decent pay and work conditions and his first union meeting at the age of 22 when he requested that the Wanganui and Palmerston North area be covered by the engineers union which did eventuate. Explains that conditions had improved on moving back to his former job. Other recollections include: fishing; native school, Putiki; Maori canoes on the river; cherry trees planted by Mother Mary Aubert; influenza epidemic 1918; end of World War I celebrations; 1920s earthquake; big flood in 1926 and Foster's Hotel fire. Recalls declaration of World War II and joining Expeditionary Force, travelling in `The New Amsterdam' to Sydney, then to Singapore where they transferred to the `Aquatania' bound for Egypt. Was part of the 4th anti-aircraft regiment. Has vivid recall of events, relating many stories and mapping his movements during the war and comradeship. Talks about the dreadful living conditions during the war and gives his opinions on war. Mentions Battle of Alamein. Moved from the deserts to Bari, Italy and relates stories from the Sangro River. Talks about the fall of Cassino and experiences in Italy. Talks about life after the war and his research into rammed-earth building, using that method to build his own house which he describes. Talks about his book on the subject of rammed earth building that is being published at present. Recounts his involvement with RSA and Vietnam issues - was totally opposed to the Vietnam war. Gives reasons for living so long in Wanganui and the changes he has seen in the town. Recounts his involvement with the Four Seasons Theatre. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Abstracted by - Michelle Horwood Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - 22 Ngatarua Road, Wanganui Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007598-007600 ; OHC-006766-006767 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1917. Photocopies of 3 photographs: (1) David Jones Italy 1942; (2) David and Aunt Avril Jones and brother Lou; (3) David and Lou 1940.

Date: 1956-1958

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-3

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1956 to 1958. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Most prints relate to the West Coast Region, but also some images of Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago regions. Identified people are: Kopara Sawmill workers Bill Brown, Owen Jacobs, Morry Pullman, Hans Van Ruyven, Jimmy Birchfield, Doug Macalister, Joe Kavanagh, Neil McLean, Archy Fluerty, saw doctor John Henry Ord, Ted McGhie; licensee of Nelson Creek Hotel D Graham; Dorothy Debenham; Mick Bowie, and chief guide at Mt Cook Hermitage. Unidentified people include a female French tourist and some children. Featured natural environments include Karamea beach scenes, mining and sawmilling sites, and Buller Gorge. Featured town sequences include Reefton and Nelson's Creek houses and businesses, many of which are derelict. Further images (and series of images) of note include: a series of images of the Kopara Sawmill with forests, exterior felling scenes, lumber yard, processing of timber, and workers; spectators at a Cobden soccer match; crib-logging on the Wataroa River; various road works and maintainence scenes; locomotive at Ngahere sawmill site; images relating to various mining activities; church buildings; municipal buildings; and some mountaineering prints. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1959-2007

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10131-4

Description: Photographs of the South Island of New Zealand taken by Les Cleveland, 1959 to 2007. Information relating to the content as well as the date taken and the date printed, is on the rear of most prints. Identified people are: Senior Sergeant George Christopher Donnelly of Hokitika police; Ivy Harper and Bert Birchfield; Mike Armstrong and Jim Daken; Mary and Heather Cornwell; Charleston coal mine operator Neil Mouat; Mack Heinz; Tex Smith; Mike Armstrong; Henry Heveldt and M Bennett of Nolan's Mill; Garth Graham; meat shooters Mike Bennett and Kevin Blythell; John 'Opo' Angus, the Eggling brothers; helicopter pilot Ben Morris and Les's wife Mary Cleveland; and Johnny Hewer, Claire Easterbrook and Liam Easterbrook in front of the Neils Beach school house. Featured natural environments include the hot springs at Welcome Flat and the Karangarua Valley, River, Ranges, and the view from the Sefton bivouac, Ocean Beach, and Neils Beach, including car wrecks at the rubbish dump. Other images (and series of images) of note include scenes from the Kumara races; environmental damage (slips and road works at Milford Tunnel, Inangahua River road, and Haast and Jackson's Bay area; open face coal mining at Charleston; deer hunting, largely based in Mussel Point; Central Otago Hotels (Cardrona, White Horse, and Vulcan); Post Offices and boxes (St Bathan's, Outram, Ophir, and Dunedin) and a Pacific Films crew on Fox Glacier. Also includes images of James Heveldt's grave (Jackson's Bay), Peregrine Vinyard, a new house in Bannockburn, a girl in a Westport ice cream parlour, women in a Carter's Sawmill shop, a Hokitika cake stall, and various shop fronts and signage in Dunedin, Gore, and on the West Coast. Arrangement: Photographs ordered chronologically by Library using the date on rear of prints. Note that some images in the same photographic sequence have been given varying dates by the photographer. Quantity: 80 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1938

By: Kennedy, Jim, 1915-

Reference: PAColl-10587

Description: Photographs of Jackson Bay, taken by an unidentified photographer in 1938 while Jim Kennedy was working for Public Works. Includes views of Jim Kennedy whitebaiting, a cricket match, a group of unidentified people after a dance, the houses of J B Jackson and Alf Reese, pipes and a billiards table being unloaded from the wharf, the erection of a radio mast, a plane on a beach, the vessels 'Gael' and 'Waihau', and landscapes including Neill's Beach, Arawhata River, and Smoothwater Bay. Images of notes show: the last unloading of goods from the wharf by horse and dray; and the seaside house of J B Jackson covered in snow. Each photograph has a description written on the back in pencil and in ball-point pen. Other material of the same provenance is housed at: Eph-F-CONFECTIONERY-1970s-01 Some of the prints in this collection are made from the same negatives as prints in PAColl-10550-2 (Meikle). However the inscriptions on the reverse have slightly different information. Arrangement: Photographs were orignally in a small box with a label "Dad's old photos of Jackson's Bay" Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photographic prints Provenance: Donor is the son of Jim Kennedy. Processing information: Not all names have been indexed.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-091

Description: The essay gives an account of the life of Janet Lawson Brown who left her native Scotland as a young girl with her parents and other family members to immigrate to Australia. In 1865 she followed her fiance George May Bannan to New Zealand from Melbourne and married ten days later. They stayed in Auckland only a short time before going to the South Island where they opened a store at Little Grey Junction on the West Coast. The essay also traces the lives of Janet and George's children Quantity: 1 folder(s). 44 pages. Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs of Janet Lawson Bannan, George May Bannan, and Blackwater

Date: [ca 1895]

By: Rae, William, active 1852-1895

Reference: MS-Papers-2766

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pages on 5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Transfers: Transferred from the Stafford papers.

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-099

Description: The essay covers the period 1829-1947 and is mainly concerned with the first 20 years of the author's life in Westport and Petone but also gives an account of the lives of her parents and grandparents. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available. Includes a great many photographs

Date: [1994]

By: Perry, Myra Isabella, 1920-2013

Reference: MS-Papers-7090

Description: Reminiscences by Myra Prebble of her life as a child in Nuhaka and Gisborne, her travels to Europe, her marriage to Alan Perry and their move to Shannon, then Wellington and Karamea. She describes family life, outdoor life, the Inangahua earthquake, the various events and activities they took part in particularly choir singing, trips made away from the Wesst Coast, especially during the 18 years they lived in Karamea from 1958 to 1976. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr A H C Perry, Shannon, May 2001

Date: 1907-1910

By: Grace, William James Eglinton Vernon, 1900-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1090

Description: Reminiscences of the Grace's childhood, 1907-1910, spent at Otira, where his father was foreman of works for the first attempt to construct the Otira tunnel. Originally compiled for the NZBC programme `Open country'. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1974-1975

From: White, Dorothy Mary Neal, 1915-1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7995-056

Description: Letters from Dr Ballantyne to his wife, Dorothy Neal White, while he was working at Karamea on the West Coast as a locum tenans to the community. Describes the workings of the Karamea community in detail. Includes a map and newspaper clippings. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1880-1900]

From: Freeman, A T, fl 1983 : Gold diggings by G S Sawden and Emigration by J P

By: Harper, George Sawden (Rev), 1840-1911

Reference: MSX-2559

Description: Reminiscences by Harper of his time on the West Coast as a Wesleyan minister covering the period 1864 to 1866, probably written in the 1880s from his diaries. The account is inscribed `To my wife, my companion on the Thames goldfields, together with her father Mr Charles Ingamells whose careful preservation of my diary has made this work possible'. He describes his day-to-day life and organising a pioneer church amaongst the goldmining community from 1864 to 1866 and also a brief visit in 1876, and writes of the many and various people he met and dealt with Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1990]

By: Phillips, Redmond Bernard, 1912-1993

Reference: MS-Papers-4333

Description: Comprises imagined and semi-autobiographical account of Phillips's Reefton families, the Phillipses and the Chattocks, beginning with their being gathered together for the christening of Alford (Phillips's elder brother) in 1907. Phillips describes his work as a collection of sketches, stories and memories of Reefton. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (168 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: 17 Dec 1995 to 15 Feb 1998 - 17 Dec 1995 - 15 Feb 1998

By: Bradshaw, Julia, active 1995-1998; Hutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; West Coast Historical Museum

Reference: OHColl-0419

Description: Life history interviews with older residents of the Haast district in the South Island, many of whom are descended from the first Pakeha settlers who arrived in the 1870s and 1880s. Discusses living in an isolated area, medical emergencies, farming, fishing, deer shooting, local identities, schooling, the development of the air service and problems of getting in and out of the district. Interviews Betty Eggeling, Desmond Nolan, Bernard Cowan, Alan Cron, Mary Jones, Ruth (Ruby) Hill, Myra Cowan, Ted Buchanan, Henry Buchanan and Ann Mackey. Publication - The far downers : the people and history of Haast and Jackson Bay (University of Otago Press, 2001) The district was not connected by road to the rest of New Zealand until 1965 when the road from Wanaka to Haast was joined to the road from Haast to Hokitika. Abstracted by - Julia Bradshaw Awards/funding - Award in oral history Interviewer(s) - Julia Bradshaw Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 10 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Search dates: 1920 - 1990

Date: 27 Jan 1986

From: New Zealand Post Office Oral History Project

By: O'Gorman, Ellen Catherine, 1891-1992

Reference: OHInt-0070/26

Description: Ellen O'Gorman outlines family background, education, childhood at Addisons on West Coast of South Island, hotel as family business, appointment to Addisons Post Office as postmistress, need for accuracy in work, daily routine, telephone, mail routine, telegrams, salary, delivering telegrams, work as postmistress at Ngakawau Post Office in 1912, describes town, the Stockton mine, social life, salary, Ngakawau Telephone Exchange, daily routine, accidents at the mine, social life, lighting, security, pensions. Describes move to Wellington in ca 1914, work as waitress at Trocadero Private Hotel, reasons for not continuing with post office work, marriage, post office as a career in retrospect, work with St Vincent de Paul Society. Venue - Lower Hutt Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - 1A Tocker Street, Lower Hutt Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001255 - OHC-001256 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 163. Search dates: 1891 - 1986