Industrious Kiwis
Records and Archives Week is an Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) initiative, which has been celebrating and promoting the value of records, archives and associated professionals in New Zealand since its inception in 2004.
The theme for Records and Archives Week 2010 is archives and records of industry. Our industrial heritage is inherently linked to our cultural identity as a country – from our traditional roots as a farming nation to our present growing influence in the film industry.
It is important that the records of our industrial past are preserved for future generations. In support of this year’s theme the library is showcasing a small selection of items from our unpublished collections that celebrate and reflect this theme of industry.
More about Records and Archives Week on the ARANZ website
Manufacturer’s Research Committee brochure to encourage the use of science in industry.
Gold miners at Waitekauri circa 1900.
Back cover of booklet promoting New Zealand as a tourist destination
Gum diggers spearing for Kauri gum in Northland circa 1910.
Canned meat labels from Gear Meat Company scrapbook of labels
Group of flax workers circa 1910
Charles Heaphy painting of Kauri forest, Wairoa River, Kaipara circa 1839
Unidentified woman attaches a handle to a newly made cup
Corruption & incompetence allegations catoon, Sunday News, 1 November 2002.
Cheese manufacture at an unidentified dairy factory.
Land girl June Matthews helps Bob McKenzie to ear mark a lamb, 30 September 1943
Cartoon celebrating Tip Top Ice cream operating for 70 years in New Zealand
Massey’s Special Constables outside the Kauri Timber Company at Freemans Bay, Auckland, during the 1913 Waterfront Strike.
Sound recording studio at His Masters Voice (HMV) New Zealand Ltd factory, Wakefield Street, Wellington, photographed in May 1957. A man has turned from a large tape recording machine to look at a master record being cut.
Map showing the layout of the Auckland station and railway tracks in November 1886.
Staff at Griffins Food Ltd factory, Lower Hutt, packing water crackers. Photograph taken in the early 1940s by CPS Boyer.
Demonstration in Parliament Grounds by New Zealand apple growers, taken 22 June 2005 by Dylan Owen.
Cartoon depicting the unravelling of the Wool industry in the 1960s.
Cartoon referring to Turners & Growers drive to crack open Zespri's monopoly on some $1 billion of export kiwifruit.
Poster promoting film by New Zealand producer Vincent Ward.
