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North Shore History: David Verran
Archival material at the New Zealand Maritime Museum goes online By David Verran
Since 2020, the New Zealand Maritime The museum has both a near total run from Museum has made annual funding December 1945 to Autumn 2010 and an applications to the New Zealand Lottery associated collection of 2639 photographs from Commission for an intended five-year that magazine from the 1960s to the 1990s. digitisation programme. Digitisation started It also has a good run of copies of the ‘New in February 2021 and the museum is now Zealand Yachtsman’, from 23 April 1909 to 18 applying for a third year of funding. June 1918.
The museum has a total of over three million I have also received inventories of the AHB items. Currently over nine thousand items have engineering files and correspondence yet to been both digitised and made available on the be digitised. As appropriate to Harbour Board museum website. Files for future digitisation files these concentrate on the Naval Base include Auckland Harbour Board (AHB) and especially the passenger ferry wharves at engineers' correspondence from 1907 to 1988, Devonport, but also have relevance to such AHB engineers' files from 1908 to 1972 and head topics as the Devonport Borough District office correspondence from 1871 to 1989. The Scheme (likely the maritime aspects), mooring museum is exploring a method to make PDFs areas for boats, dinghy lockers and even available. It is also in the process of digitising all the water supply for the Devonport Steam the AHB Minute Books and Indexes from 1871 to Ferry Company. There are similar files for the 1989, along with AHB photograph albums. The Birkenhead, Northcote and Chelsea wharves. earliest album is of sketches, with images dating Note that the Auckland Harbour Board managed between 1840 and the 1980s. The Auckland the port of Auckland and later Onehunga as Harbour Board operated from 1871 to 1989, and well, covering both the Auckland and Manukau when it was wound up its records went to the harbours. Maritime Museum. K168-171, Photograph Album 10, Auckland Other files include those on the Kauri Point I checked out the site for North Shorerelated material and found photographs taken Harbour Board archives [19136], courtesy of the New Zealand Maritime Museum. This features the Hobson Street, Birkenhead Reserve (1914 to 1953), the Kauri Point Naval Depot (1935 to 1974), the Chelsea housing estate in Northcote, Birkenhead, Chelsea, Takapuna, and Northcote vehicular ferry berths, and is (1965 to 1983), the proposed Meola Reef harbour Bayswater, Narrow Neck and Devonport. dated 13 September 1923. bridge across the Waitemata Harbour (1972 Those from Northcote include black and white photographs from to 1977 and 1983) and the buoys and beacons in that part of the the early 1960s of the coal hulk ‘Eure’, while those from Takapuna harbour (1965 to 1975). include colour photographs of yachts taken in 1989. There are also Many of the photographic albums include images of the colour photographs of powerboats off Bayswater taken in 1979. Devonport wharves, but there are also those of the vehicular Amongst other photographs, I also located older photographs of wharves at Birkenhead and Northcote, particularly from the 1920s Bayswater Wharf and Narrow Neck Beach. (see above). Other photographs include those of ‘up river’ wharves
Devonport is represented by a number of photographs, in the operated by the Auckland Harbour Board. They include Birkdale main featuring the Devonport Naval Base and the Devonport Yacht (later renamed Beach Haven), lower Albany and Herald Island, from Club, as well as three fully digitised files regarding the latter from the November 1921. old Auckland Harbour Board. There is also, for example, a partially Altogether a wonderful collection of photographs and other digitised file regarding the cargo wharf at Devonport for the period material much more readily available, with the promise of much more 1925 to 1983. to come! Go to - https://collection.maritimemuseum.co.nz/explore
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Benefitz invests in Swiss machinery
Despite the problems created by Covid19 over the past two years, Benefitz will continue its commitment to the latest technologies with the purchase and installation of a brand-new state-of-the-art grand format printing machine in April. This machine is called the SwissQ Nyala 4S.
The North Shore company prints many of New Zealand’s biggest images and this new machinery will enhance that capability – being faster and more efficient than existing machinery – and also provide environmental improvements. As the name suggests the machine is coming from a Swiss manufacturer, SwissQprint, based in Kriessern, Switzerland.
“The SwissQ Nyala 4S is fast and flexible and can print as a ‘flatbed’ machine on rigid substrates and also on flexible substrates for billboards, banners, wraps and point of sale etc.,” explains Rob Gunston, GM at Benefitz. “We have chosen the option that is the most productive of the SwissQprint range, printing up to nine colours that can include special white ink or a clear coat. It’s capable of printing up to 370 square metres per hour.
“We have a policy of continuing to invest in new technology for both efficiency and to constantly improve our environmental performance. Every time we make an investment like this, the advancement in the technology offers huge environmental benefits. We feel sure our customers appreciate this commitment to cleaner technologies.”
The new Benefitz SwissQ Nyala 4S will print (up to 3.2 metres wide) using LED curing technology. LED curing is cooler, having neither a warm-up nor a cool-down time. As well as having the eight colour (plus extra) print capability, it has an addressable resolution up to 1080 dpi and a visual resolution up to 2160 dpi. It also has an added feature called ‘droptix’. This means that print items can be enhanced with 3D effects.
Benefitz operates 12 different machines in the large and grand format printing space with the biggest capable of printing up to five metres wide and virtually any length. The company recently printed all the big images for the Michelangelo exhibition held in Auckland with one print being 19.8 metres long by 4.6 metres wide. This big image print capability is complemented by a range of print finishing machinery as well as signage, digital printing, offset printing and design services.
Benefitz Parkway Drive manufacturing plant is powered by solar energy. With the move to new premises in 2020 Benefitz installed a significant solar energy system capable of powering the entire business. It is one of the biggest in the country.
“We are looking forward to the new SwissQ arriving during April and getting it into production,” adds Rob Gunston. “We feel sure our customers will enjoy all the advantages that it will provide and it will bring in new business as well.”
The new BenefitzHQ at 5-11 Parkway Drive is just 75 metres away from the businesses previous home of 17 years on Constellation Drive.
Benefitz is powered by Solar Energy with the entire north-west side of the roof covered in solar panels.
Loving the new Benefitz HQ!
Benefitz, the publishers of Channel Magazine are now firmly established in their new HQ – a purpose fitted out facility on Parkway Drive, just off Constellation Drive. That big move was completed during the Covid-19 period over the past two years.
Benefitz is a unique business that designs, manufactures and implements a range of solutions for communication. These include web design and development, graphic design, volume and short run printing, publishing, signage, fabrication, display and exhibition.
The new facility – Benefitz HQ – has the entire business is now located under one roof. Over time the operations of the company had grown to encompass two buildings on Parkway Drive.
“Our desire was to have our whole operation on one facility so when the opportunity came up to take on the building at 5-11 Parkway Drive we jumped at the chance to create our new Benefitz HQ,” says Managing Director Aidan Bennett. “The building offered us a blank canvas really, being a large empty factory in a great position.”
The decision to take on the new building and relocate everything to the one site was made back in 2019, and became even more important with the Covid pandemic disruption.
“We were initially meant to move our head office from the Constellation corner into the new building in May 2020. Covid lockdowns got in the way so timeframes were changed,” adds Aidan
Benefitz entrance and reception area. The Benefitz open plan creative area.
Production office and vinyl cutting machinery.
Bennett. “We completed the entire move in May 2021 when we finally moved our signage and XL printing operation from their Parkway Drive premises.”
Aidan Bennett says they have seen real benefits of all being under one roof. “This move has certainly revitalised our business. Having everything we do under one roof is great for our team and good for our customers. It also provides our customer’s with an idea of the range of solutions we can provide. No other business in New Zealand provides the variety that we have, and certainly not under one roof.”
The main entrance to the business opens up to an impressive caféstyle reception area (with popular coffee machine) then onto the open plan area that is home to 12 stand-up desks for the Benefitz creative and web development team. This area is also home to the admin team and a spacious meeting room.
Walking beyond this open plan office area a door (with a ‘Let’s Explore’ invitation) takes you directly into the large manufacturing
PUR and hard case book binding is always busy.
facility. This includes the signage workshop complete with fabrication and application areas and a CNC router. There is a work space where projects such as car signage can be undertaken. Adjacent is the XL printing area with flatbed, billboard/banner and fabric printing as well as digital cutting and finishing technology.
At the south western end of the large factory you will find the volume printing technology. Two Komori 5-colour presses and a workhorse Heidelberg printing press. Accompany this is a range of print finishing equipment including folders, coaters, stitchers/ staplers, diecutting machines, and guillotines. Benefitz busy PUR and hardcase binding machinery is also in this area.
A new addition to the factory is a 20 metre by 17 metre internal structure that is the airconditioned home to production and sales/ management offices (with meeting rooms) as well as Benefitz powerful larger and smaller format digital printing machinery. No less than 10 different digital machines which complete the businesses capability of printing virtually anything.
There is also an impressive staff kitchen and social area on the upstairs mezzanine floor.
“While we are still working to get things absolutely spot on, visitors are impressed when we give them the full tour of the new building,” says Aidan Bennett. “It really does give them the full picture of our capability. They have a greater understanding that there is not too much we can’t produce in the communications space.”
Benefitz HQ is powered by solar energy with the entire northwestern side of the massive roof completed with solar panels. Benefitz entire business is predominantly powered by solar now
Benefitz HQ: 5-11 Parkway Drive, Mairangi Bay, North Shore. Visit: www.benefitz.co.nz
Benefitz Komori volume printing machinery.
Grand format printing and finishing.
Signage workshop complete with fabrication and application areas.
