User:Mittenhunter

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Kia ora,

My name is Rachel Bell and I am an archivist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

I grew up in rural Aotearoa and maintain an interest in agricultural history and non-urban areas as well as architecture and architectural history. I am also a keen knitter/spinner/beginner weaver and have a special interest in textiles and textile history.

I am very new to Wikipedia (July 2024) and am finding my way slowly.

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"Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises"

Elizabeth Zimmerman

This user is new to Wikipedia. Please assume good faith, remain civil, and be calm, patient, helpful, and polite while they become accustomed to Wikipedia and its intricacies.

I am a paid employee of the Fletcher Trust, an independent, registered charitable trust in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Trust’s philanthropic strategy is to focus on supporting initiatives in education that have the potential to positively impact on large numbers of young New Zealanders. Since 2025 this has included making material from the Fletcher Trust Archive available for use on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. To date, the majority of this has been done by an external contractor employed by the Trust, or through partnership with the 2025/26 Auckland Museum Summer Studentship programme.

I will sometimes make edits, and contribute images or information from the Archive, or related to the material we hold in the Archive. This is usually done on my own time. I will not edit pages about the Fletcher Trust or its activities, or current members of the board of the Fletcher Trust that employs me. 

I have made contributions to the Wikipedia page of John Hood. Hood was previously on the board of the Fletcher Trust and I met him once, briefly, in this capacity. Edits to his Wikipedia page were made after his resignation from the board. I have also made contributions to the page of Kerrin Vautier. I have not met Vautier, but we have communicated in the past via email regarding an unrelated, personal research enquiry.

1. Milne & Choyce: correct spelling error
2. Otautau: add image of school under construction, 1954. P9204/101. Also refer to Southland Times 13 September 1954 re: opening.
3. Penrose: enrich
4. Hampton Court Flats: enrich
5. Roxburgh Dam: photograph of penstock manufacture?
6. Fletcher Construction: enrich with images, early Fletcher Bros etc.
7. Knox College: P9027/13 of Fletcher Bros & Morris staff working on college
8. MLC Building, Auckland: look at Home & Building magazine in Auckland City Libraries, Jan 1957. Look for photograph of building in progress. Photograph fron Arrowhead Feb/March 1956 of NZ Marble Co working on panel?
9. Courtville Flats, Auckland: create page?
10. Smeetons's Building, 75 Queen Street, Auckland: create page?
11. Richard Keal: early Auckland architect. See: cyclopedia of nz 1902.
12. AUT: add image of Seddon Memorial Technical College under construction. Add reference to this in Richard Seddon bio too?
13. HVDC Inter-Island: add reference to FCC installing cable under Cook Strait from Fighting Bay
14. Charles Sew Hoy: add P9045/1 or similar to Big Beach section.
15. Golden Bay Cement: own page? currently a stub