At Maungapohatu. School started by Rev J G Laughton (1891-1965), in a round building that was formerly Rua Kenana's dance house. Name and information transcribed from file print of photograph 1/2-030908.
Maungapohatu School
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Copy negatives of images relating to Rua Kenana and Maungapohatu
Date: [ca 1910s-ca 1930s]
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: 35mm-100296-100300-F
Description: Negative strips with 21 copy negatives of unidentified images (people and scenes) relating to Rua Kenana and Maungapohatu taken by unidentified photographers. Original images taken circa 1910-circa 1930s. Binney labelled this set: "Bracey album negatives and Mrs Ingram Mp [Maungapohatu]. One of the strips is labelled " 1. New school/2. Teiria (Mihiroa) Accompanying material - Original negative sleeves held at PAColl-9928-38. Relationship complexity - Images possibly published in Judith Binney et al, Mihaia: The prophet Rua Kenana and his community at Maungapohatu (Wellington, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, c1979). Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strips with 21 images. Physical Description: Film negatives, 35mm
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Maungapohatu
Date: 2005-2009
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11115-120
Description: Contains correspondence with Rev Wayne Te Kaawa and copies of booklets and reports written by him, material relating to discussion around the return of land at Maungapohatu and the Waitangi Tribunal Maungapohatu hearing held in February 2005, including a description of the event written by Binney, also material relating to Ruatahuna Maori Pastorate 90th anniversary service Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Reverend John George Laughton, his assistant John Currie, and their class of Maori chil...
Date: 1918
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030857-F
Description: Reverend John George Laughton, his assistant John Currie, and their class, outside Maungapohatu School (formerly Rua Kenana's dance house or whare kanikani) at Maungapohatu, in 1918. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
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Maungapohatu School, formerly Rua Kenana's whare kanikani
Date: ca 1921
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030908-F
Description: Maungapohatu School photographed circa 1921. The cleared hill to the right of the house is Tukutoromiro. Photographer unidentified. This image was published in J Binney's 'Mihaia', 1979, page 139 with the caption: "The whare kanikani as the school about 1921. It was described as being 30ft in diameter with walls 11 1/2 feet high. It stood about 2 1/2 ft off the ground. In front is the muddy slide made by children. The cleared hill to the right, across the river, and down which the track winds, is Tukutoromiro." This round house was formerly Rua Kenana's whare kanikani (dance house). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
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Maori groups alongside the school at Maungapohatu
Date: ca 1920s?
From: Henry, Annie (Sister) : Photographs owned by Sister Annie Henry
Reference: 1/2-030869-F
Description: Captions on back of file print reads "Maungapohatu school. The round house (formerly Rua's dance house) was pulled down and this building replaced it as the school." and "Some of material from Temple used in building of mission house, not schol. Not on same site." Shows a building in the countryside, with groups of Maori children, and adults, outside on the grass nearby. Photograph taken (circa 1920s?). Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative
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Photographs of Maungapohatu taken when the Asher family attended events to mark the ret...
Date: Aug 2007
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
By: Asher, Monica Innes, active 2003-2007
Reference: PADL-000622
Description: Photographs taken in Maungapohatu in August 2007 by Innes Asher. Taken when the family visited to attend events held around 4 August 2007 to mark the return of land from the Presbyterian Church to the local people. Some images include paediatrician Innes Asher (great grand-daughter of Presbyterian minister Reverend John Alexander Asher (1864-1948). Images include a group, including Asher, having a hangi meal at the marae; Anne Bill; further groups and scenes including Asher; exterior of the almost derelict Maungapohatu Mission School and Chapel; interior of the Chapel; scenes with exteriors of Tane-nui-a-Rangi and Te-Whai-a-te-Motu meeting houses; details of the painted Maori carvings on the exterior and verandah of the Te-Whai-a-te-Motu house. Source of descriptive information - Photographer, and family relationship between Rev Asher and Innes Asher, from personal communication with Innes Asher. Relationship complexity - Further images taken during this visit are at PADL-000611. They were taken at Ruatahuna. Arrangement: Files were originally in a folder labelled 'For Wayne' Quantity: 66 digital photograph(s).