Tarawera, Mount (N.Z.) - Eruption, 1886

Date: 12 Apr 1975

By: Fox, Charles Elliot (Rev), 1878-1977

Reference: OHColl-0037/1

Description: Charles Elliot Fox came to New Zealand in 1884, where his father served as an Anglican minister in Gisborne. Recalls his childhood in Gisborne; the Tarawera eruption and his mother's death from tuberculosis on the night of the eruption, the possibility of a visit of Te Kooti to Gisborne; attending Napier High School and memories of Te Aute; his study of Greek and Latin and playing cricket and rugby. Discusses attending St John's College, Auckland and pranks played. Describes walking from Napier to Wellington. Comments on the bush around Norsewood and Woodville and Napier before the earthquake. Recalls listening to William Colenso's sermons, and boyhood friendship with Percy Spiller. Describes Samuel and Leonard Williams. Recalls his early interest in Melanesia. Describes time as a headmaster on San Cristobal and experiences with local headhunters. Comments on this practice in relation to weapons supplied by the British. Describes dressing as a Melanesian while living in the islands and preaching sermons in eight languages. Talks about his compilation of a language dictionary and publication of a book on the area. Mentions Bishop Patteson. Comments on colonial government, the Christian mission in the islands and the future of the Solomon Islands. Venue - Waipukarau Interviewer(s) - June Starke Interviewer(s) - Athol Williams Venue - Woburn Hospital, Waipukarau Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000269 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 folder(s) - handwritten abstract. 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7230.

Date: 1934

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-020

Description: Published by Reed, Dunedin, 1934. Also some loose material that was laid in to the volume, including photographs, clippings, and whakapapa (from Tamatekapua, to Patiti - Alfred Warbrick). Photographs include a carving of a Māori goddess Horoirangi, carved on a cliff of Tihi-o-Tonga, Rotorua; an image of Gilbert Mair; an image of a cave; and an image of a small island in a lake. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume, loose papers and photographs in a folder

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-41-25

Description: Photograph of the desolated area on the shores of Lake Tarawera where the village of Moura had been before the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Photograph taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Identical image at PA7-39-30. Same image held by Te Papa [C.010747]. View online. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title on negative - The site of the destoyed village of Moura, Tarawera, NZ. 890; Recto - bottom right - On negative - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company

Reference: PA7-52-10

Description: View of volcanic ash covering the land showing the effect of the volcanic eruption on trees near the shores of Lake Tikitapu. In the foreground to the right is a man wearing a long white scarf and a hat. Two small wooden buildings are near the newly-formed lake's edge. Two figures can be seen beside the building on the left in the middle distance. Photograph taken by shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Compare with image at PA7-37-27 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tuttle & Co for Simpson & Co; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Tikitapu Lake & Mt Tarawera eruption Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.5 x 21 cm on mount 24.4 x 27.5 cm

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-17

Description: Photograph of whare and the meeting house partly covered with volcanic ash. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead shortly after the eruption in 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Wairoa (Destroyed), N.Z. 894 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20 cm

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-37-27

Description: View of volcanic ash covering the land and effect of the volcanic eruption on trees near the shores of Lake Tikitapu. In the foreground to the right is a man wearing a long white scarf walking towards the photographer. Two small wooden buildings are near the newly-formed lake's edge. Two figures can be seen beside the building on the left in the middle distance. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4070 - Tikitapu Lake - after eruption June 10 1886. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.8 cm on mount 22.7 x 29 cm

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-30

Description: Photograph of the desolated area on the shores of Lake Tarawera where the village of Moura had been before the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 5703 - Site of the destroyed village of Moura, Tarawera; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: 1886

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/4-009360

Description: Artist's impression of Mount Tarawera erupting from near the White Terrace. From Burton Bros print number 4000. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [after 10 Jun 1886]

From: Christie, Hettie Florence, 1902-1988 :Photographs and album of New Zealand scenes

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-41-05

Description: View of the lake in the distance and devastation to the landscape in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tarawera Lake from Wairoa, NZ. 871; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.5 x 21 cm

From: Creator unknown :Photographs depicting areas of New Zealand

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA7-21-07

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1886

By: Larkworthy, Falconer, 1833-1928

Reference: qMS-1133

Description: Various material relating to the eruption, collected by Larkworthy Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 25 items). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, printed matter (30 cm; brown binding box) Illustrations, maps

Date: 1886

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PAColl-7232

Description: Photographs of the Haszard family, parents and six children, outside their house before the eruption, the ruins of their house after it, and the ruins of McRae's Hotel. Photographs taken by Charles Spencer. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [After 10 Jun 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-39-25

Description: Photograph of McRae's Hotel, Te Wairoa taken by Alfred Burton shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera, 10 Jun 1886. Shows the hotel on the left, Sophie's whare, and (on far right) a two-storey building. In the foreground are four men standing on a pile of volcanic ash. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4127 - Wairoa - after eruption June 10 1886. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.4 x 20 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: [1886]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-18

Description: View in the Tiki Tapu bush, near Blue Lake, Whakarewarewa, after the Mount Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886, taken by George Dobson Valentine in October 1886. The two men in the foreground are possibly Charles Chapman and Joseph McRae who are known to have accompanied Valentine at this time. Indentical image at PA7-54-03 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Tiki-Tapu Bush. After eruption. 119. GV Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 28.9 x 18.7 cm

Date: Oct 1886

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-27-03

Description: Mount recto - Looking north east from a point west of Rotomakariri, across the end of that lake and up the Tarawera Chasm on the side of that mountain Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [after 10 June 1886]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-06

Description: Maori guide Sophia's whare at Te Wairoa. The roof and sides are covered in mud and volcanic ash. Photograph taken by Burton Brothers, shortly after the eruption of Mount Tarawera on 10 Jun 1886. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4129 - Sophia's whare - Wairoa, after eruption June 10 86. Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.7 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.8 x 29 cm

Date: ca 1886

Reference: 1/4-002924

Description: Captain Way's house buried shortly after the eruption. Photograph taken by Burton Bros ca 1886. There is a further note on the file print "Same print by Tuttle & Co for Simpson & Co labelled as Old Church, Wairoa. See Nairn Album II p.6" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1895?]

By: Leitch, George, 1842-1907

Reference: qMS-2106

Description: Includes news clippings and theatre programme A dramatisation of the eruption of Tarawera Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 180 leaves). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) (38 cm; brown buckram)

Date: Dec 1887

From: Hawkins, C T, fl 1976 :Photographs, mainly New Zealand scenes by the Burton Brothers

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-10

Description: View showing the volcanic ash and resulting destruction caused by the eruption of Mount Tarawera in the vicinity of Okaro Creek. A man can be seen surveying the cliffs in the middle distance. Photograph taken by the Burton Bros in Dec 1887. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 4553 - On the ash fields Okaro Creek - Dec [18]87 - 18 months after eruption; Recto - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 20.2 cm on mount 22.6 x 28.9 cm

Date: 1886, 1888

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MSX-5136

Description: Contains diary entries for 11 June-16 August 1886, 9-13 March 1888 together with surveyor's field notes and sketches. Mount Tarawera erupted on 10 June 1886. Three days after the eruption Smith commenced a topographical survey of the region, in the course of which he descended the crater to a depth of 500 feet. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss Pencil sketches