Te Waimate Mission Station

Date: [1963-1965]

By: Mortimer-Jones, Clive, 1880-1965

Reference: MS-Papers-6011

Description: The reminiscences comprise four items relating to Mortimer-Jones's time in Northland, `Some New Zealand coastal steamers and my 1910 visit to Kaitaia; the little coastal steamers of NZ', `The old mission house at Waimate North', `Christ Church, Russell' and `Churches in the north'. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-5871, letters written by Mortimer while a home missionary Accompanying material - Letter from John Mortimer details re the Mortimer-Jones name and obituaries for Clive Mortimer-Jones Mortimer-Jones was a clergyman who came to New Zealand in 1909. For 3 and a half years after his arrival he was Superintendent of Home Mission Clergy looking after the pastoral needs of pakeha in the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with corrections

Date: 1966

By: New Zealand Historic Places Trust

Reference: E-279-q-049

Description: Shows the Mission House, Waimate, Bay of Islands, and garden. On verso: Historical note relating to the Mission House. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - The Mission House - Waimate North Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 84 x 140 mm

Date: 1921 - 1885 - 1867

By: Woods, S J, active 1970s-1980s; Blakeley, Philip William, 1915-1994

Reference: A-003-042

Description: Modern reproductions of artist's impressions of historic buildings of New Zealand: Auckland University, 1921; St Bartholomews, oldest church in Canterbury, 1885; Supreme Courthouse, Wellington, 1867; Oneida Homestead near Wanganui, 1871; The Waimate Mission House, 1831; Bath House, Government Gardens, Rotorua, 1890. Possibly calendars with date sections removed. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S.J. Woods; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 228 x 323 mm, on sheet 280 x 372 mm, bound together with metal strip along top.

Date: 1839 - 1843

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: E-380-063

Description: A front view of the Mission House and garden, Waimate, Bay of Islands, the residence of Rev Richard Taylor from 1839-1843, drawn by him in his daughter's sketchbook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Church Mission House - Waimate, Bay of Islands - My residence from 1839-1843 R T Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1973

By: New Zealand Historic Places Trust; Siers, James 1936-2013

Reference: Eph-D-HISTORY-NZHP-1973-02

Description: Poster shows a photograph of the exterior of the mission house building at Waimate North. The logo of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust is at top left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster 685 x 490 mm.

Date: 2001-2004

From: Jones, Jenny Robin, 1947- : Research papers and transcripts

Reference: MS-Papers-11793-20

Description: Contains handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, newsletters, brochures and other materials regarding Hokianga and writers from Hokianga. Also includes a copy of an interview with retired journalist Mervyn Cull dated 28 May 2004. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 22 June 1843 - [ca 1990s s- 2020s]

From: Frankcom, Margaret, active 1991-2023: Collection of New Zealand missionary and pioneer mail

By: Skevington, John, 1814-1845

Reference: MS-Papers-12917-3-4

Description: Lot description from Spink Auction House: "1843 (22 June), entire letter from Wesleyan Missionary John Skevington at the short lived Heretoa/Waimate Mission Station to fellow missionary Samuel Ironside at Cloudy Bay. [...] Ironside was a signatory of the Treaty of Waitangi". Refers to "a case against Bro. Creed for over-familiarity with a servant girl and the punishment meted out with loss of position". Item includes transcript. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Delivered to Library in a Spinks Auction House folder labelled with lot number "2038". Quantity: 1 folder(s) contains letter, and supporting research documentation.

Date: 1841-1842

From: Mair, Gilbert, 1799-1857 : Inward letters

Reference: MS-Papers-10823-1

Description: Letters to Mair at Wahapu and Wangarie [Whangarei?] concerning William and Robert Mair's tuition at the Waimate Mission School; reports on their progress and gives half yearly accounts for board and tuition; also refers to an outstanding debt Quantity: 1 folder(s) 4 letters.

Date: 1840

By: Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850

Reference: E-128-q-006

Description: Shows the Waimate Mission Station on the left, a two-storied building with verandah and the Waimate Church in the centre at a slight distance Original wash drawing is the property of Royal Society Tasmania, held by Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart Other Titles - Mr Clarke's house at Waimate Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 139 mm on sheet 276 x 215 mm

Date: [1963-1965]

From: Mortimer-Jones, Clive, 1880-1965 : Letters to his family and his church

Reference: MS-Papers-9171-1

Description: The reminiscences comprise four items relating to Mortimer-Jones's time in Northland, `Some New Zealand coastal steamers and my 1910 visit to Kaitaia; the little coastal steamers of NZ', `The old mission house at Waimate North', `Christ Church, Russell' and `Churches in the north'. Mortimer-Jones was a clergyman who came to New Zealand in 1909. For 3 and a half years after his arrival he was Superintendent of Home Mission Clergy looking after the pastoral needs of pakeha in the Bay of Islands. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1975

From: Stafford, Donald Murray, 1927- :Kerikeri - Waimate; art prints from original drawings by Don Stafford. Rotorua, Thermalart Productions [1975]

Reference: A-104-043

Description: A front and side view of the two-storied mission station, Waimate, with its garden Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 203 x 254 mm

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: 1/4-132834-F

Description: Photographic negative taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton 1970s-1986. Title taken from enclosure. Abbreviations have been expanded and repeated names entered only once. Arrangement: Negative was together with a print in a labelled glassine bag in a sequence labelled "Accommodation". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white negative. Transfers: Print separated from negative is at Library reference PAColl-10686-01-100.. Processing information: Negative was separated from print and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: 1/4-132835-F

Description: Photographic negative taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton 1970s-1986. Title taken from enclosure. Abbreviations have been expanded and repeated names entered only once. Arrangement: Negative was together with a print in a labelled glassine bag in a sequence labelled "Accommodation". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Black and white negative. Transfers: Print separated from negative is at Library reference PAColl-10686-01-101.. Processing information: Negative was separated from print and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1970s-1986

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-3794

Description: Transparencies of stables and similar outbuildings on stations or farms taken by Geoffrey or Jocelyn Thornton, 1970s to 1986. Includes stables at Te Waimate Station and Totara Estate, view from yard and roof detail of old stables/woolshed at Upper Takaka, stables at Waikonini (Scotsburn) at Peel Forest, and stables at Woodlands at Motu Bush. Title supplied by Library. Some enclosures included slips of paper with notes about cropping the images. Arrangement: Transparencies were in a labelled glassine bag in a sequence of mainly negatives and prints and some transparencies; the sequence was labelled "Stables". Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Transparencies were removed from glassine bags and rehoused for reasons of preservation and appropriate storage.

Date: 1959-1965

From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers

Reference: 73-160-4/03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: 1835 - 1836

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0031-1836-81

Description: View across a plain, with a flat-topped hill in the background and the Church of England mission station buildings in the middle ground. Two whare, a pataka, and a group of Maori with a dog are in the foreground After a drawing by Samuel Williams 'South-west view of the Waimate' engraved to illustrate William Yate's 'An account of New Zealand' (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), opp. p. 192 Other Titles - Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853. South-west view of the Waimate, 1835 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 150 mm

Date: 1830 - 1838

By: Gardiner, Thomas, active 1830s-1850s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-049-020

Description: Waimate North Mission Station seen from the front, with its flag inscribed Rongopai flying in the foreground and several outbuildings, including a dovecot to the right. The beginnings of a circular garden with two small small bushes and a surrounding drive can be seen in the foreground. The building has dormer windows in the roof and verandah posts. A copy of the engraving after Samuel Williams' 'The missionary house, Waimate' in William Yate's Account of New Zealand (London, Seeley and Burnside, 1835) p. 197 Title from mount Another view of the same house by Richard Taylor, drawn between 1839 and 1843, (NON-ATL-0131) shows much more development in the garden, including climbing plants, possibly roses, growing up onto the roof of the house, a fenced-in verandah, a garden developed in front of the verandah, and a much more developed central circular garden bed in the foreground The artist, Gardiner, is known to have copied other views of both New Zealand and Tasmania, published between 1835 and 1856. None of his work is signed, and the source of his name is unknown, although it may have come from the owner of his work in the 1950s, Captain A W F Fuller. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 250 mm Provenance: Previously Collection of Capt A W F Fuller, London (died 1961).

Date: October 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-012

Description: A road in the foreground, fences and paddocks, cows grazing and further grazing animals in the middle distance. In the centre, a church, with a two-storied house (the Waimate Mission Station) and other smaller buildings to its left. Two small houses beyond a clump of bush to the right. In the background, a steep hill (Pukenui or Puke Nui) with either cultivated land or a pa on one side A copy of Cyprian Bridge's watercolour of the same scene, held at A-079-036 Identification: the hill referred to by the artist as Poka Mie is a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, now known as Te Ahuahu Other Titles - Pukenui Puke Nui Waimate North Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and watercolour, 252 x 364 mm

Date: 1835

From: Yate, William, 1802-1877 :An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's position in the northern island. London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835.

By: Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

Reference: PUBL-0101-188

Description: Shows the mission house at Waimate North. ATL copy at p 919.31 1835 (More copies in Reserve and Wrapped Reserve) Extended Title - from William Yate's "An account of New Zealand ..." (London, Seeley & Burnside, 1835), opp. page 188. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on page of book.. Physical Description: Engraving, 85 x 135 mm.