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UPDATE (March 2013): Work has begun on the foundations for our new archive building. |
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CHAIRMAN'S CHATGreat news! Following on from grants approved by Trust Waikato, Lion Foundation and the Sir John Logan Campbell Residuary Trust, the Trust has received a letter from Lotteries Environment and Heritage advising that they have granted us the full amount of the application we made for $360,000. This was the grant we particularly needed to get to be sure of being able to attach the archive room to The Treasury. The committee was a bit stunned!! With Christchurch needing so much help we weren’t certain if we would be considered at this stage. After ten years of working towards providing an archive room to national standards we are now nearly there. There is a display in The Treasury foyer which includes a sketch of the design, letters of support for the project and the estimated budget, and we would encourage those of you who can to visit The Treasury to view this. For those of you not able to visit, the opening page of The Treasury’s website includes a perspective of the new archive alongside The Treasury.The Trust has funds in hand and we now only have $50,000 of the estimated $1,100,000 to raise ourselves by way of donations and Club of 64 etc. The sooner we raise this last part of the funding, the sooner we can start the building process. We have to make use of the donations from the funding bodies within a certain time frame. We currently have 15 Club of 64 members – we are actively approaching people to join the Club of 64 as if we can get 17 more members at $6250 we will have the funds in hand to construct the archive. Member Heather Gordon recently donated $1,000 and has issued a challenge to everyone – 190 x $1000 donations would also get us the required amount. If there is anyone who would like to be part of this exciting project which will be of benefit to the whole region, and can help by making a donation, please contact me. This project is a very ambitious one for a town the size of Thames, and the Trust has done incredibly well to have reached this stage. After ten year’s hard work it would be devastating to have got as far as this only to find it slips from our grasp. Morrie Dunwoodie, Chairman, The Coromandel Heritage Trust. |
The proposed $1.1 million archive building to be built at The Treasury
$360k boost for archiveQuote from an article that appeared in the HAURAKI HERALD on Tuesday March 20, 2012. |
Donations:FOR THE ARCHIVE: A huge thanks to the following people for recent donations towards the building of the Archive. You are part of something which will be important to the region for years to come. Thanks to new members of the Club of 64 Nita Pearce, David Hughes (Paeroa now Zurich), Jack Price; and also to donor Heather Gordon.GrantsThanks To:LOTTERIES ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE: have granted us the full amount of our application for $360,000 towards the building of the archive room. LION FOUNDATION: $75,000 Fundraising:Roughly speaking, we have approved grants in hand totalling $565,000 from funding agencies, The Trust has already spent $180,000 to date on the feasibility study, engineering and architects fees, consents, funds retained by Council on the purchase of the site for the archive, and we have $180,000 cash in hand which includes the Lion Foundation grant of $75,000. We are now at the crucial stage of fundraising for this $1,100,000 project. We need to raise another $190,000 which is the last of the amount we are committed to raising as our contribution to this project. This will mean that members of the Trust and the community will have contributed around a third of the total cost of the project.. The fact that the Trust and community have been prepared to raise this large sum of money has shown that we have not expected it all to come from funding agencies, and this has no doubt helped the funding agencies to support this project.Used Printer Cartridges:Please continue dropping used cartridges in to us and if you know of neighbours, offices etc who would also save these for us us please let them know we are collecting them. We can get a dollar for some cartridges if we deliver them to a firm in Auckland. We have another delivery to make – thank you to members for handing in so many empty cartridges.Sales:The following items are now available for sale at The Treasury - packaging and postage extra.DVDs $15.00:KOPU BRIDGE DVD: The story of the old Kopu Bridge.CROSBIE’S CLEARING by D. Wilton: A 20-minute documentary that recounts the history of a remote farm block in the Coromandel Ranges which was settled in 1880 and farmed until about 1970. The DVD includes recorded observations of Madge Sutton, who lived at the settlement in the early 1900s, and numerous rare photographs of the site. CDs $15.00:ORAL HISTORIES: recorded by The Coromandel Heritage Trust Recorders. Oral History Transcriptions: $5.00.TOSS HAMMOND, transcribed by Lee Bisset: almost half a century since they were recorded, these tapes of Toss Hammond’s recordings are available as CDs. Over an hour long, they describes his journeys up the Thames coast in the 1880s together with the exploits of famous chiefs such as Taraia and Rautao, sports days etc and are a rich and fascinating account of Maori and early settler history. A very special gift - $15 for a CD, $20 for CD and transcription. SCHOOL RECORDS: admission details. TREASURY PENCILS: $1.00. TREASURY PENS: $3.00. BOOKLETS:‘OUR PEOPLE OUR STORIES’ Bk I - $5.00, Bk II - $7.00: interesting snippets from the stories recorded by The Coromandel Heritage Trust Oral History Recorders‘TREASURY TALES’ Bk I - $7.00: interesting and often quirky snippets about people and places in the TCDC/HDC areas, compiled for Coromandel FM to read on air through the day ‘LOST LANDMARKS’ by Althea Barker: $7.00: well researched information about some of the landmarks in early Thames, with a photo of each ‘PLAYING SPORT ON THE THAMES GOLDFIELDS: 1867 – 1920’ by Althea Barker: $8.00: showing the wide variety of interesting sports the early settlers took part in, with photographs ‘A DIARY OF ACCIDENTS - LIFE AND DEATH IN THE THAMES GOLDMINES’ by David Arbury compiled by Althea Barker $12.00: HOT OFF THE PRESS. David left several draft manuscripts for this booklet which his family gave permission for us to use. Althea has assembled this in the way she thought David would have done, with photographs and newspaper cuttings. BOOKS:‘The Coming Year’ by Meghan Hawkes $20..00: stories taken from early Thames newspapers.‘Hauraki Memories’ by Ken Clover $45.00: taken from Ken’s oral histories. ‘Even More True Tales of Northern Coromandel’ by the Coromandel Town History Research Group $25.00: the third in this series of interesting stories, submitted by people with connections to this area. ‘Walter Callaway : A Maori Warrior of the Boer War’ by Mike Dwight $35.00: the story of one of the first NZ men to fight abroad and at a time when ‘no natives could fight in a White Man’s war.’ THANKS TO:MARISE MORRISON & ROBYN REVELL: for the lengths they went to to get the last newsletter to everyone before Xmas. This involved not only stapling and envelope stuffing. They posted the envelopes into a nearby post box and then realised that it had already been emptied for the day, and the delay of another day would mean that the newsletter would not reach most people before Xmas. So they made a hurried trip to the PO to BEG that they send someone round to collect again from just this one box. Our thanks go to the willing Courier standing close by who offered to go round immediately and collect the letters.ALTHEA BARKER: for compiling the first of the David Arbury booklets. His family kindly gave permission for us to use drafts David had made, and as David was one of our original Trustees, it is very pleasing to see him ‘published’. Althea’s booklets are contributing to our ‘income’. LESLIE McMcMAHON: for typing out many of our hard to read manuscripts, which makes it quicker and easier for researchers to access the information. MERV TILSLEY & GRAHAM ROBINSON: for having a stall two weeks running, the first at the Thames Saturday market, and the second the following Saturday at the Village Fair at the Thames Museum at the end of Heritage Week. As a result, Merv sold nearly $400 worth of booklets and DVDs – a great help to our finances. THE TREASURY VOLUNTEERS: some of whom did double duties during Heritage Week so we could remain open all week. DAVID WILTON & GRAHAM ROBINSON: who donated the takings from their Heritage Week activities to The Treasury. MARK BRIDGMAN: For donating the takings from the heritage film showings to The Treasury. JOHN PATTON MOBILE AUTO ONE THAMES: For sponsorship of the lectures during Heritage Week. THE FAMILY OF THE LATE ALLAN BERRY: for donating those books from their father’s collection which would be useful to The Treasury. Thanks also to executor Robert Brouwer for facilitating this. ON THE SHELVESWe Are Collecting ....Birth, death & marriage certificates; family reunion books; school jubilee books; school year books; history books about the region; photos; maps; family trees; business records; club records; oral histories; reports by local historians including Toss Hammond, Alistair Isdale and David Arbury.NEW ADDITIONSThis is only a selection of what has been received!Books:‘A History of Bulls Battery’ by Ross Dreadon (donated by Lance and Ava Strong)‘Always the Sound of the Sea : Daily Lives of NZ’s Lighthouse Keepers’ by Helen Beaglehole ((donated by Robert Oxner) ‘At Home & Abroad’ by Alan Tunnicliffe (donated by Judy Shanks) ‘Cain Family History’ (donated by Judy Shanks) ‘Cyclopedia of New Zealand’ (donated by the family of the late A Berry) - the complete set for all NZ and a great resource for The Treasury ‘Ducks, Diopsomaniacs & Diseases : A history of the Mercury Bay Hospital and the Ambulance Service’ by Sylvia Reid (donated by Sylvia Reid) ‘Going Up and Going Down’ by Helen Laurenson (donated by Joyce Doull) ‘Inside Stories : A History of the NZ Housewife’ by Frances Walsh (donated by Robert Oxner) ‘Kauri King Amongst Kings’ pub Wilson & Horton (donated by Lance & Ava Strong) ‘Mining Up the Moyles’ by Alan Spence (donated by Alan & Nancy Spence) ‘Opoutere School Centennial 1908 – 2008’ (donated by Ray Annan) ‘Perspectives of a Strike : Waihi 1912’ by Mary Carmine (donated by Mary Carmine) ‘Philimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers’ (donated by Judy Shanks) ‘Powicks Past & Present’ by Alan Tunnicliffe (donated by Judy Shanks) ‘Taranaki Odessey 2001’ by the NZSG (donated by Robyn Revell) ‘Thames Gateway to Beauty and Progress’ by Thames Public Relations Committee (donated by Lance and Ava Strong) ‘The Arrival of Charles George Weston in NZ’ (donated by Kathryn Weston) ‘The Australian Connection’ by Alan Tunnicliffe (donated by Judy Shanks) ‘Tragedy in 1918 : The Influenza Epidemic’ by Noeline Verheyen (donated by Robyn Revell) ‘Words Run Like the Tides : An Anthology of Poetry from Thames & Beyond’ pub. Thames Poets Circle (donated by Robert Oxner) – includes work by committee member David Legge and member Rosalie Steward ‘Strength of Spirited Pioneering Women of Achievement’ (donated by Robert Oxner) Isdale Manuscripts:Thames BandsHammond Manuscripts:‘Black Bob’ Clementson; Dr Hovell; Thomas IsemongerMiscellaneous:BOXES OF RESOURCES: A large donation of valuable material from Judy Shanks of Hamilton. This included family history books, genealogy books, a large number of microfiche (including Auckland Assessment Rolls, Canterbury Death Duty Index, Deceased Estates, Marriage Notices, Otago Settlers pre-1861, NZ Contingents to the South African War, Port of Wellington Entry, A Return of Freeholders, Wills at Lands & Deeds Wellington, Sheepowners Returns, NZ Probates, NX Public School Teachers, Public Trust Deceased Estates, NZ Cemetery Fiche, NZ BDMs, IGI – Great Britain, Wales, Scotland, Channel Islands, Denmark) and a fiche reader in very good condition.GLASS NEGATIVES: a box of glass negatives, some badly damaged but most in good condition. JUDDS FOUNDRY: a box of miscellaneous papers and photos and including 5 diaries, donated by Denise Judd - a great record of the foundry’s beginnings in Thames. NEWSLETTERS: Whitianga Probus – a great record of the group’s history. BOOKLET: ‘How Workers Are Exploited : Waihi Strike Lessons No.2’ (from the Waihi Museum) BOOKLET: ‘Ninetieth Anniversary Meeting : Thames Jockey Club 1868 – 1958 (from Brian Heberley) PHOTOCOPY: ‘Taina’ by G M Henderson (donated by David Savage) – the recollections of Valentine Savage, boat builder, Thames PHOTOS: Album and loose photos and negatives (donated by Lindsay Ballard) NEWSPAPERS: Thames Valley floods (from Lance and Ava Strong) MINUTES: St George’s Church Guild 1992 – 1998 (donated by Lance and Ava Strong) PLAN: Additions to the Thames Courthouse 1955 (donated by Roseann Piaggi) GLASS NEGATIVES: 15 boxes (donated by Heather Phillips) WHITEHEAD FAMILY TREE AND HISTORY: from Jo Whitehead MUTTON FAMILY: 6 CDs containing records for the Mutton family and in-laws (donated by John & Peter Moore) MONTAGUE RECORDS: photos, letters, tree etc (donated by Kerree Cleave) NEWSPAPERS & PROGRAMMES: (donated by Joy Gamby) JOURNAL: ‘Archaeology NZ Mar 2012’ donated by David Wilton and containing a paper he delivered on the Puriru & Parawai Mission Stations Certificates:Keep them coming! If you have any birth, marriage or death certificates, baptismal records etc. we are collecting these now. Copies are fine if you want to keep the original. They do not have to be people who lived in the region, but if they tie in to the family you are researching, or are a member of your extended family (no matter where or when they lived) then they WILL be useful. Some Recent additions: Crook; Johnston/Waite; Weston; Weston/Cousins; Weston/Hanlen; Weston/LeesObituaries, EulogiesChurch Service Sheets: Church service sheets now often contain lovely photos and sometimes information. A big thank-you to those people who are handing in copies of their eulogies to us – these are a mine of information and contain not only the important biographical details but also very interesting family stories. They will be hugely valued by future generations and will keep the memory of your family member alive. Some of our recent additions: Crook; StrongPROJECTSThe Coromandel Heritage Trust Oral History Recorders:Convenor - Margaret Nankivell; CD printer - Lee Bisset; transcribers - any volunteers?? This is an extremely valuable way of documenting the history of the region. The group records on equipment of the highest standard, donated by Toyota in 2006. Please contact Margaret if you would like to help. HUGE thanks to Althea who has indexed the recordings to make finding information quicker. The Oral History group has been busy. As noted in ‘Events’ and ‘Thanks’ a second very successful Oral History morning tea was held on 25 Feb. 2012, and Graham manned a stall twice during Heritage Week. Margaret also reported that they had a table at the Thames Genies Expo and were kept busy with visitors being very interested in what they are doing and how they do it. In particular, a lady from Dargaville was interested in setting up a group. She later spent time with Margaret going through all the procedures and there have been many emails backwards and forwards since.NO. OF INTERVIEWS: 54 interviews – 9 have recorded 2 discs. NEW INTERVIEWS: ‘Brian Matich - Memories of the Waiotahi Valley’ (Gwyneth Wright); ‘Life Story’ Jack Price (Morrie Dunwoodie). Jack Price’ (Morrie Dunwoodie); ‘Dora Connors - Thames Memories’ (Lee Bisset), and Krista Maley is doing a second interview ‘David and Lynn Brown - History of the family business’. The Oral History group has been busy. As noted in ‘Events’ and ‘Thanks’ a second very successful Oral History morning tea was held on 25 Feb. 2012, and Graham manned a stall twice during Heritage Week. Margaret also reported that they had a table at the Thames Genies Expo and were kept busy with visitors being very interested. The Coromandel Heritage Trust Indexing Group:Convenor - Marise Morrison. This group meets on Tuesday mornings from 10.00 until about 1.00. They index items in The Treasury Collection. The work of this group will be invaluable to researchers. It will speed up the time spent hunting for information. Visitors will be able to use the computers to check if there are any items recorded about their particular area of interest and go straight to the relevant book. Anyone who is interested would be very welcome to join this group - please contact Marise if you can help.Commemoration Pages:These pages have met with great interest. A $100 donation gives you a page - these will later be made into ‘books’ and prominently displayed in the foyer of The Treasury. Not only do they become an interesting information resource about you or your early family, but we can acknowledge our donors by putting their names at the bottom of their page.Pioneer Register:This is a very worthwhile project started under the umbrella of the Hauraki Thames Indexing Group. Forms for this project are available at The Treasury, can be downloaded from the website (www.thetreasury.org.nz), or write directly to The Coromandel Heritage Trust, PO Box 75, Thames 3540. If you had early family in the TCDC or HDC areas, please fill out one of these for us. These may not go onto the shelves immediately as there is a process to be followed so Linda can digitise them.DIGITISING: Linda Hansen (Switzerland) is digitising these forms so that they will be easily searchable. As well as entering all the information on the forms, Linda searches the internet for more information about the individual, sometimes getting in touch with family members where she can. She also links into any other sites providing details, such as war records. SOME NEW FORMS: The Capill/Smith family of Thames & Puriri; the Corbett/McLeay family of Thames; the Jenkin/Phillips family of Thames; the McCurdy/Scalley family of Thames; the Simpson/Wetherall family of Thames; the Wells/Paul family of Thames; the Wishart/Redshaw family of Thames Treasury Tales: G. Dunwoodie searches out interesting snippets about people, places and events about life in the early days from all over this region. These Tales are taken only from resources in our collection, to give people an idea of the information they will find at The Treasury. Coromandel FM broadcasts these regularly. Booklets containing some of these tales can be purchased at The Treasury. Coro FM has asked for another set of stories. Goldfields Mall Display:We have been asked to provide an on-going heritage display at the Mall. We wanted this display to include the whole of the TCDC/HDC area and to provide interesting and thought-providing items to make people aware of, and understand more about, the heritage of the region they live in. RECENT DISPLAYS: Heritage Week; Boer War Soldiers.New Projects:WEDDING PHOTOS:Marise is assembling these photos. Keep these photos coming in – it doesn’t matter whether they are early photos or your own. If you have a connection to this area they will be a great resource for the future.HOUSES:Photos of your family’s house and any information you have about it would be very welcome – when built, builder. Also certificates of title etc.PEOPLE WE ARE PROUD OF:An idea of Althea’s. We are asking people to do some research and write a page and provide a photo of people from this region who have made us proud in some way. Some of the volunteers and members may be able to get their thinking caps on and research a well-known or famous ‘ex’ from the region.WEB PAGEWebmaster and Journal Editor: Kae Lewis.EMail Address: KaeLewis1@gmail.com Visit www.thetreasury.org.nz to see the valuable website Kae has developed. We have had a lot of praise for the contents of this site. Kae is also editor of the Journal - if anyone wants to contribute an article, it needs to be written in a Word document and must be complete, including proof-reading. To keep the files manageable, please write ‘PHOTO and the NAME of photo’ into the document wherever you would like it inserted, and send the photos as .jpg attachments to an email. Kae has recently changed the opening page of the website so that it shows three different stages of the Carnegie Building. One of these photos shows what the new archive will look like attached to The Treasury. A recent email to Kae and to the Trust from one of the contributors to the Te Ara website (The Online Dictionary of New Zealand – a government publication). 'First let me congratulate you on the presentation of Thames material on The Treasury website. It is a magnificent resource; and your treatment of the memorials of Thames is exemplary. I am about to add a link to the site from the Coromandel pages of Te Ara …'.There is already a link on Te Ara, from the Old Wires Track photo in an article by David Wilton. Two links to this NZ Government site says a lot about the standard of the webpage and also of the articles in The Treasury Journal. NEW ADDDITIONS TO THE TREASURY JOURNAL:'Tararu Cemetery – What stories and secrets does it hold?' by Althea Barker.'Sawmilling At Thames And The Coromandel' by Bob Young. 'Richard Ruffin and his Family in the Coromandel' by John E. Ruffin. 'Stories of Thames' by Meghan Hawkes. 'Thames Orphanage and Training School' by David Wilton and Miriam Heberley. 'The Big Pump Site' by Dave Wilton. RESULTING FROM THE WEBSITE:Several people have asked for research to be done for them. There is a charge for this, so the website is helping to provide some income for running costs.The Treasury has an email address: info.thetreasury@gmail.com and this has been added to the website (Click on CONTACT US). This immediately brought in enquiries. Forms are being downloaded and sent in for the Pioneer Family Register and membership of the Trust. Resources are also being sent in as a result of people seeing on the website what we are doing. |
THE COROMANDEL HERITAGE TRUSTEMail Address: info.thetreasury@gmail.comPostal Address: PO Box 75, Thames. Patron: Ian HopperTRUST BOARD AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:TRUSTEES:Morrie Dunwoodie (Chairman)Gary Meek (Treasurer) Pat Mravicich Rodney Poulgrain (Hon. Solicitor) Kem Tukukino Sue Wright Judy Vedder-Price COMMITTEEMarilyn Dodds (secretary)Pam French Jim Dahm Geraldine Dunwoodie Miriam Heberley Mark Lahore David Legge Marise Morrison Mervyn Tilsley David Wilton NEWSLETTER EDITOR: David Legge WEBMASTER AND JOURNAL EDITOR: Kae Lewis 705 Queen Street Thames, New Zealand. Email The Treasury  |