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Sawmills

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Bates & Co. Sawmill, the Catlins

 Digital Image
Identifier: D08740003

Bates & Co. Sawmill, the Catlins, c.1910

 Item — Box 1: Series S1805; Series S0874; Series S0875; Series S1053; Series S1172; Series S1172; Series S1167; Series S1166; Series S0949; Series S0950; Series S0975; Series S1343; Series S1400; Series S1402; Series S1401; Series S1403; Series S1797; Series S1883 [Barcode: Small Collections Box 1]
Identifier: S08740003

BUCKINGHAM, Kenneth James interviewed by Kathryn Summers

 Record Group — Box 33
Identifier: H0251
Overview In this interview Kenneth talks of his family history and Grandparents journey to NZ in the 1860s and eventually settling in the Waikawa Valley. He talks of the importance his grandfather put on education and details the education of his father and himself and his love of playing sport. He goes on to discuss travel he has undertaken and farming methods of the time e.g., dairying, the use of horses and gelignite. He talks of living conditions and how his father had the only car in the district...
Dates: 2016

CARRAN, Christopher (Chris) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box 54
Identifier: H0574
Overview Fifty years ago, while the politicians and planners made board table decisions about the future development of what was one of New Zealand's remotest regions, Chris Carran and his brothers were working on those changes from the ground up. As agricultural contractors, in the mid-1950s they were hired to clear the land and plough paddocks that would permanently alter the topography of former run country in the Te Anau Basin. From those inauspicious beginnings as a teenager, Chris returned to Te...
Dates: 2009

CHISHOLM, Robert John interviewed by Sandra Earwalker

 Record Group — Box 15
Identifier: H0249
Overview In this interview Robert tells of early life and shifting to Tokanui including his education, employment, war years and rationing, and health and getting rheumatic fever. He recalls local history of Tokanui including: sawmills, local rugby, the depression and Black Pine Beer.
Dates: 2016

COYLE, David John interviewed by Joy Lietze

 Record Group — Box 28
Identifier: H0189
Overview In this extensive interview David recalls his family history and life; World War 2, education and in employment. He goes in to detail about his employment in the timber industry in Tapanui covering aspects from the sawmills through to the selling of the timber off shore.
Dates: 2013

DUNCAN, James Bernard (Jimmy, Jag) interviewed by Jenny Campbell

 Record Group — Box 15
Identifier: H0279
Overview In this interview James tells in detail his family history before talking of his employment in various areas of Australia and his return to Rotorua and Auckland. When he moved to Christchurch, he became a long-distance truck driver until he had an accident and decided to return come to Southland where he worked in the coal mines for 23 years before being made redundant. Safety issues in the mines were a concern of his. After leaving the mines he was employed by Brightwood Sawmill in Otautau,...
Dates: 2016

EVANS, Lenard Hugh interviewed by Lloyd Esler

 Record Group — Box 26
Identifier: H0122
Overview Len was born in Riverton and describes his early life growing up at Pourakino Valley. He looks at his education, the railway and timber milling, and his employment in saw mills and meat works. He goes onto talk about the Chemical Works i.e. construction of, and father’s employment there. Len has a series of family photos and photos of the various aspects of the area that he talks about e.g. Tecofsky Track, Buchanan Mill, chemical works, and his mother with supplies and bullock. He continues on...
Dates: 2008

HUGHES, Milton (Minty) interviewed by Madeline McGilvray

 Record Group — Box 63
Identifier: H0449
Overview Minty Hughes was born in Otautau in 1911. In this interview Minty discusses his father and his work in the flax mill at Pukemaori and his mother's home near Monkey Island, Orepuki. He describes travelling by steamer to Port Craig in 1923 and attending school there. Minty talks about the sawmills at Port Craig, transporting the logs, the Percy Burn viaduct, loading the boats with timber, a brief history of the Craig family and how the settlement got its name. He mentions his job as whistle boy...
Dates: 1998

KILLEEN, James Columbian interviewed by Madeline McGilvray

 Record Group — Box 62
Identifier: H0446
Overview In this interview James gives details of his parents' backgrounds, the village in Galway, Ireland where he was born in 1906 and why he came to New Zealand. James describes leaving Galway in 1929 and his impressions of Invercargill on arriving in 1930. He describes working at the Fortification sawmill before labouring on buildings in Invercargill. He describes working on the Te Anau to Milford highway in very difficult working and living conditions. He notes that three hundred men worked on the...
Dates: 1999