page 11 - 39 years of relentless newspaper war
-
then comparative peace - photo
- Mr W.H.Crawford. - 2a
page 12 - photos
-
Interior of the Advocate office
November 1897
Advocate building in 1900, cnr Bank
and Vine streets. 03a
page 13 -
Growing Up Together - photos -
Water
street building and staff of the Advocate in 1921
a press, a rotary Cossar in
1928
leaning on the Cossar is Mr H.W.Crawford
Its delivery fleet ready to roll, the Advocate
had
by 1932 expanded on Water st to its present day frontage.
page 14 -
Development determined by sail - lifeline of the North -
photos - coal carrir "Clio" 1894 picture
beached at low tide to take on sawn timber
an
unnamed scow, during the 1890's
page 15 - continuation of Development determined by sail -
lifeline
of the North -
photos - Aratapu on the northern reach of the
Wairoa
River was in mid 1890's a flourishing timber port
one of the 1st
vessels built in Northland, the herald was launched in Paihia
in
1826
paddle wheeler
tug
Lyttelton belches smoke as she hauls a Craig line ship away from
Grahamstown wharf in 1908 ---
this vessel
photographed in 1897 was loading sawn kauri for Sydney.
page 16 - Legacy of know-how led to industry unique to
Whangamumu photos - Mr
E.W.Cook, of Hikurangi well
remembers the day nets were first used to
catch whales.
Humpback whales
lie
rotting on the beach below the Whangamumu processing factory in 1901
blubber chunks
from
a flensed carcass litter the end of the factory jetty --- paid 2
pounds
and 4 biscuits a day
It was from such
small boats as these that the Whangamumu whalers laid
flax, then rope and later steel nets to trap the whales -------
Page 17 - We
suffered our share of disasters at sea - Sail era saw
men
and ships lashed by storms.
This one page Northern advocate extra
reported the first serious maritime mishap on Whangarei Harbour -
the
loss of the yacht Minerva and 8 lives ----
only survivor John Pearson,
those who drowned were - J.P.Tucker, Albert Tucker,
H.F.Sealy, Clifford Wilson, Ed Courtney (jun) Frank Ramsay,
Albert Brooker, Alex Gallie. photo
- the 3 masted Forrest Hall litters Ninety Mile Beach
where the vessel met her end in 1909, all aboard got to
shore safely.
Page 18 -
A
Lucky few were able to step ashore -
Some, like Waiti Dunn battled
to
live and won
But luckless lingered and died photos -
Holed by rocks at Kaiwaka
Point, Grahamstown, on 24 April 1897, the Huon Belle was the 1st trading
vessel wrecked in Whangarei Harbour
Northern Wairoa swimming
champ,
sole survivor of the 1902 wreck off the west coast of the
barquentine
May
The debris from Kaitawa bears mute
testimony
to her final moments as she sank with total loss of crew of
Cape
Maria van Dieman in 1966
Captained by Mr J.McIntosh, this
Houhora whaleboat travelled 56 kilometres -- to
intercept
the steamer Zealandia
with news of the
Elingamite disaster.
The Zealandia rescued 89 castaways
page 19 - Continuation of
page
18 story photos -
Survivors from the
Elingamite wreck who reached Houhora in an
overloaded ship's boat pictured aboard the vessel
Clansman after being
picked
up by Master of the
Endeavour 11, Captain
J.F.Berry,
broken arm in a makeshift
sling ---
aground just
off the entrance to Parengarenga Harbour -- near her
final
moments 21 February 1972. -----
Page 20 - Rail began
with
tramway tracery in the bush -
History of Rail - the
evolvement
of rail transport in Northland was woven with 2 of the regions
biggest
and earliest industries timber and coal mining ----
the most important rail
development in Northland was the 1872 construction by Mr William
Bedlington --- Mr Joseph
Bennett followed Mr
Bedlington's example and built
-------
photos -
One of Northland's many
logging
tramways 1899 picture,
a small ex-NZ railways
locomotive
steams across a trestled dip on the Kauri timber coo's Puketi bush
line
towards Kerikeri ---
an incline tramway at the
Panopa
coal mine, Kiripaka, near Whangarei. 1901 picture
moving a long load of big
timber,
the Puketi bush steamer snakes out of the hills near Whangaroa
-------
Page 21 - Grew to much
grander things - and
eventually
linked the land photos -
Gullroost which from 1911 to 1933 bridged Whangarei
Harbour between Kioreroa and Grahamtown, now
Onerahi
--- 1912 picture
Whangarei railway station in 1925
the Prime Minister Mr W.F.Massey officially
open
the Kaikohe - Otiria
branch line
Page 22 -
Wheel-rutted tracks pointed the way. - photos
The Herekino -Whangape road in
1902 when it was negotiable only in good weather and with
bullocks.
Corrugated, potholed and
patched this was Bank st, or Fireball Hill as it was
then
called in 1897 Whangarei.
Turn of the century scene
between
Springs Flat and Kauri shows a road --------
Page 23 - Pick,
shovel
and rubble formed first rocky roads. photos -
this 1897 scene shows the
pick,
shovel and barrow removal of part of the Bluff ------
Mr
Phil Torley is seen with his
1st service car
street metalling and grading
in
Whangarei began in James st in 1911 -----
Page 24 - Gaps were
bridged but it remained NZ's "Roadless North" Photos
1st Victoria bridge in
1898
replaced in 1938 -----
Commerce st, Kaitaia in
1919 ---- 1st stormwater pipes laid in the
street.
Horse-buses and private
vehicles throng Water st in 1912 ------
Page 25 - Motor
tour influenced passengers "political pull" photos
4 photos on page of old cars stuck in the mud
etc.
and men pulling them out, this page is about roading.
page 26 - Remember
when - photos -
getting to Auckland in 1909 meant waiting on
Marsden
Point wharf for the steam ship Mania
the floral fete at Kensington 1898
we all went skinny dipping on school picnic day at
Smugglers?
Kamo in 1887 was just as big as Whangarei
Page 27 -
photos -
around 1928 the bus to Auckland went through
Waipu
Gorge
1885 - Whangarei school photo,
everyone
had to have boots and bonnets for the school photo
1913 - Whangarei philharmonic Society's
opera
"Doris" opening of the Town hall, bowman Mr Charlie Smedley
Page 28 -
Your Mail Sir - by seaplane -
Captain Bob
among the first photos -
Mr Philip Going, better known as
"Captain Bob" pioneer pilot, instructor, aeroplane builder, wireless
operator, and pathfinder
Dargaville, scene of this
Boeing
seaplane Royal Mail flight mishap ---
Ex Air Force Waco --used by the Northland Aero
Club in 1948
Boeing piloted by George Bolt carried the Bishop
Cleary
Page 29 - Axe and gumspear shaped the land
- and future - story of the gum industry
photos -
Grading gum for auction in
Auckland -- these 1900 gumstore workers --------
photo of a typical gumdigger of 1890
Page 30 - Northland
gum
worth more than Otago gold
good gum saw everyone in the hunt but it
was
probe, dig, drain and sweat. photos -
on page
4 photos of gum digging but
no
names.
Page 31 -
Rundown path was rapid when men opted for land
-
Timber "destroyed for a mess of
pottage" faced parallel course photos -
Working the Kaihu region
around
1910-12 these
Dalmatians were among the
1st in the gum industry to
mechanise. Their
mobile pump was used to drain diggings and wash spoil for gum
chip ---
Page 32 - Realisation
came
too late photos -
Yoked to a log so far
behind a 20 bullock team plods through the bush ----
Traction engine were
used
for log hauling this one operated just north of
Whangarei
in 1917.
Logs perched at the top of the
Wairua Falls ---- in 1896
Boomed next to Onerahi wharf
from
which logs were tipped from their railway bogies into the tide
--------
Page 33 - Flour, beer, flax and gold
momentarily flourished, then flopped
photos
Mr Robert Mair's flourmill in
1900 --- Mr Gilbert
Mair ran
commercially a stone towered
mill near Hatea Drive - Drummond st corner.
High hopes for a tung oil
industry based on these trees at Kerikeri and plantations in the
Awarua
area.
These 1898 Parahaki gold
prospectors were slated when they found colour within sight of
Whangarei ----
Waders and yoke were during
the
1930's standard equipment for shellfish diggers on Ninety Mile
beach -----
Page 34 - Then
Came
the stayers - photos
shipment to mills for
rope,
twine and paper manufacture, hanks of stripped flax are carted away
from a drying paddock ------
The Whau Valley coal mine in
the
1870's the tramline -- along Kamo Rd and Donald st to
the
Shute on the banks of the Hatea River.
Getting wool to market was a
long
slow haul, this 16 bullock team --- ----outside the
Waiotira hall in 1920
One of the small steamers
owned
by the Northern Dairy Company between 1909 and
1933
---at the Mangawhare wharf in 1915. -----
One of the old Hokianga Dairy Co. barges
loaded with butter ready for the Hohianga harbour ------
sometime between 1910-15
page 35 - Oil
Industry
came from different direction photos -
Kaiaka near Kataia was to see Northland's first
determined search for oil in 1972 -----
Whangarei Freezing Co.
works at Reotahi in 1916 ------
The predecessor of the Wilson NZ Portland Cement
Ltd works at Portland -----
page 36 & 37 - Nation's cradle saw many firsts
- time line ----- photos -
Whangarei's first school opened in 1857
page 38 & 39 - Great
fire in Whangarei - 10 shops destroyed ----
photo -
of Cameron st fire
the morning after the fire in 1899
page 40 - Northlanders
the
first to fight - photos
-
a successor to Whangarei
Calvary
Corps, a dour Marsden Mounted Rifles unit ---- 1902
Whangarei Volunteer Rifles unit members parade
in
Bank st 1901
Bank outside what was then the Post Office
waiting official confirmation of the Boer War
Northlanders all, the 1-15th Company 1st
Auckland Battalion just before Messines battle, Belguim in
1917
page 41 - then
Front runners for battle Honours in three wars. photos -
patrol boat Q08 was one of the many small and not
so
small vessels fitted in Whangarei for a W.W.11 coastal surveillance
role.
The Queen's and Northland regimental Colours ----
Victoria valley farmer and volunteer bomber pilot
Flying
officer Lloyd Trigg ---- 033a
page 42 - Though
strange
in character, Northland sport scores high. photos -
Sports editor Garry Frew - 034a
NZ prof. single sculling champ Jim Mason of Whangarei and
NSW
champ. and challenger George
Cerutty who
in 1926 -----
big game angler
Bill Pockington.
- 034f
table tennis champ Neti Traill - 034a
Wrestling champ Lofty Blomfield -034b
Games cyclist
Laurie Byers - 034c
NZ Open champ.
Jim Galloway - 034d
NZ hockey rep Brian Maunsell - 034e
page 43 -
Those "wizard" days of the 1930's
-
over the Falls - minus barrel photos -
1st world speed record set on
ninety mile beach 18 Jan. 1930 Mr Norman Smith ----
lightweight amateur Harry Hughes of Whangarei
---- John Kake
Davis of Kiripaka -----
page 44 - Northland
names
figure in title records of the world -
Senior
topliners from A to Y ---- photos -
weight lifter Peter Ridgley, -- Empire Games
---
sawyers - Nelson Thorburn and Mervyn Reed
Moerewa athlete Bob Thomas --- long
jump
record holder and high and broad jump champ. Bryce
Beeston, NZ team captain ---- Northland
sportsman of the year
axeman Innes Davidson -
national rep and champ.
page 45 -
No
end to Champions of the past 20 years -
Senior topliners from A to
Y. long list of names - 037a
page 46 - In
Great
Grandma's day - photos -
1908 members of the Whangarei Golf
Club - 038a
players from left - Miss Hogwood, F.Mander, Miss
Steadman, T'H;Steadman, Miss A. Mander, Miss
Marshall, Rev Patulio
centre row - Mrs Sissons, Mrs Marshall, Mrs
Patullo, Mrs Mander, Mrs Steadman, mrs mair,
mrs Harington
front row - Mr White, Miss Patullo,
J.R.Richardson, H.C.Rishworth
Pirates Hockey
team - 1907 - 038b
back row - E. Le Ruez, W.Bentley,
H.Fraser, J.Woolley, A.R.Pickmere, N.Drummond.
front row - A.Eccles, ---
----- C.Eccles, ---- C.E.Woolley.
Whangarei Rowing Club
1927-28 Heavy Maiden tour - 038d
left to right - R.Peacock, Major A.D.Jack
(coach) L.Hall, J.Webber, J.Butt, (cox)
F.Cotton
Paparoa Tennis Club
in early
1900's - 038c
back row - Ernest Goodall, Frank Goodall,
Herbert Slater,
centre - Molly Stewart, Bernice Tibbits,
Elsa
Cliff, Bessie Gerrand, Amy Wilson,
front - Bertha Pendray, Mary Pendray.