Grant, Andrew McGregor, 1867-1923

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: PAColl-9928-26

Description: Unbound pages from two photograph albums, with images relating to the Presbyterian mission in the Whakatane District, taken circa 1920s by unidentified photographers. The images show a wide variety of identified scenes, groups, buildings and events including: - opening day of the school at Matahi. - rallys of Maori mission workers in 1921, 1923, 1924. - local Maori people. - mission hospital at Nuhaka. - portrait of Rua Kenana and Rev John George Laughton. - mission house at Matahi. Accompanying information - Five photocopied pages, provided by Binney, with the note "From Rev Fletcher's collection. Now at Whakatane Museum (1986) (Duplicated in Fowler) " Relationship complexity - Some images duplicated at PAColl-9928-27. An album with the same images, from the collection of Rev Henry James Fletcher, is held at the Whakatane Museum. Some of the images from this collection, and information regarding them, may be found in an article in Te Ao Hou, Number 73, July 1973, pages 27 to 34, titled 'Memories of Waiohau' by E E Little. A copy is filed in the Binney backfile in the Photographic Archive. Arrangement: Ordered according to the numbers written on the back of the pages. Quantity: 59 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1960's-2009]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11456-02

Description: Contains folders titled: "Irene Paulger (temporary file)" 1966-2004 "Rua correspondence 1981" 1980-2006 "Xeroxes documents 1916 etc. Webb stuff. My working notes and letters re trial 1977-1978" "CMS and Missionary material - old and new" [ca 1960's-1990's] "Purewa Biddle (typescript)" (How Rua was captured) "Police letters. Rua - arrest and trial" 1966-2009 "Perjury trials. Later trials of 1916. Foreman's reply to jury etc" (copies of newsclippings) "Firearms" Quantity: 1 box(es).

Date: 1916

From: Murphy, Elizabeth, fl 1976 :Photographs relating to the trial of Rua Kenana

Reference: PA1-o-357-11

Description: Mr T England, District Constable Andy Grant and District Constable William Cobeldick standing outside the Supreme Court, Auckland, during the trial of Rua Kenana Hepetipa in 1916. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mssrs T England, Dist Constable Grant & Cobbledick Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1916

By: Suckling, Walter, active 1860s-1880s; Wilkinson, Percy Russell, -1954; Ruscoe, I H (Mr), active 1973

Reference: PA1-o-358

Description: Photographs taken during the trial of Rua Kenana in 1916 at the Supreme Court in Auckland. Includes portraits of people associated with Rua and the trial, and most of the photographs were taken outside the Supreme Court. Photographer unidentified, except for a two-part panorama of Maungapohatu Pa, probably taken by Percy R Wilkinson, a surveyor sent in by the police to gather evidence for them A label at the back of the album advertises Walter Suckling (as the publisher?) It is understood that a number of similar photograph albums of the trial were created. Rua Kenana was accused of using seditious language, counselling others to murder or disable the police, and resisting arrest. He received the sentence of one year's hard labour followed by 18 months' imprisonment. Inscriptions: Album page - Frontispiece - To my old friend - - Hare Hongi. Commemorating the longest trial ever held in this country - with very best wishes. Percy R Wilkinson. Kai huri whenua. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Small fawn cloth-covered album, with stamped label `V.P.K. snaps'; 8 x 11 cm

Date: April 1916

From: Blue album

Reference: PA1-o-042-50-2

Description: District Constable Andrew (Andy) Grant sitting on a horse outside the Ruatahuna Post Office, Old Road, Ruatahuna. Photographed in 1916 by Arthur Ninnis Breckon. Publication note: Possibly printed in Auckland Weekly News ca 1916. Also published in Binney, Chaplin and Wallace, 'Mihaia: The prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu', 1979, p.86. District Constable Andrew Grant was stationed at Te Whaiti from 1900 until his death in 1923. He was part of the expedition that went into the Ureweras and arrested Rua Kenana at Maungapohatu in April 1916. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12 x 16.5 cm, mounted on album page 26.1 x 35.4 cm

Date: 1916

By: Suckling, Walter, active 1860s-1880s; Wilkinson, Percy Russell, -1954; Murphy, Elizabeth, active 1976

Reference: PA1-o-357

Description: Photographs taken during the trial of Rua Kenana in 1916 at the Supreme Court in Auckland. Includes portraits of people associated with Rua and the trial. Most of the images were taken outside the Supreme Court. Photographer unidentified. A label at the back of the album advertises Walter Suckling (as the publisher?). One view is a two-part panorama of Maungapohatu, probably taken by surveyor Percy R. Wilkinson It is understood that a number of similar photograph albums of the trial were created. Rua was accused of using seditious language, counselling others to murder or disable the police, and resisting arrest. He received the sentence of one year's hard labour followed by 18 months' imprisonment. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Similar album at PA1-o-358 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Small fawn cloth-covered album, with stamped label `V.P.K. snaps'; 8 x 11 cm