New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872 - Campaigns - Gisborne Region

Date: 1869

By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882

Reference: Plans-80-1219

Description: Three cross-sections of this hilltop pa, relating to the plan held at Plans-80-1218. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 302 x 505 mm

Date: [ca 1865?]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.19hkcmf/[ca. 1865]/Acc.27681, 27683

Description: Military map showing Pukeruru Pā, the old pā site, gun pits added to original pā, main approach, a spring ('probable water supply'), terraces and positions relating to cross sections A-B and C-D, showing the longitudinal approach over terraces to summit. Includes a small locality map of the pa site in relation to Waiapu River, Tikitiki township, Poroporo River and Rangitukia. Cross section scales are 50 feet to an inch. Steep face is 30-40 degrees slopes. Second copy, Acc.27681 is ink and watercolour on card. Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1: 3 960], 35 x 40 cm. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: [ca 1950-1960]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-088

Description: Typescript articles by Elsdon Craig and others on aspects of the war in the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne regions. Not dated, but probably written in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1865?]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.19hkcmf/[ca.1865?]/Acc.27680, 27682

Description: Military map showing the reconstructed view of the hill fort, Pukeruru Pā; fortified fencing, 17 whare and various buildings, meeting house, the lookout within the pā, a pātaka (raised storehouse), within several layers of pallisade. Indicates steep slope behind pa and light bush. Maker not identified. Second copy, Acc.27680 is ink and watercolour on card. Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1: 792], 35 x 40 cm. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: [ca 1941]

From: Blair, Mary Ramsay Ellen, 1875-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0014-09/2

Description: Manuscript by Blair, `The East Coast fort; Fort Turanga, the district of the massacre, 1868' describing her grandmother's experiences during a Hauhau incident at Kaiti in 1868; also covering letter to Mr Taylor re some of her writing in progress (1941) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: PA3-0349

Description: Photograph of a drawing of a monument erected in the Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne, to commemorate the settlers who were killed by Te Kooti and his followers on 19 March 1868, taken ca 1870s by an unknown photographer. Names are: Major R Biggs and family; Sgt Ladbury; Jane Farrell; Lieut Walsh and family; John McCullock and family; Mary McDonald; John Cadle; Richard Rathbone; Capt J Wilson and family; John Mann and family; Robert and Jane Newham; John Moray; Maria and A E Goldsmith; G N Dodd; and Richard Peppard. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1869

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-A50

Description: Map shows bush line and a line of forts from Poverty Bay to Ngatapa. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 1 aperture card. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [ca.1: 126 720], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: ca 1868

Reference: 1/2-003125-F

Description: Photograph of a drawing of the memorial to the settlers killed by Te Kooti in the Poverty Bay Massacre. Beneath the illustration is the list of names of those killed with their ages. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1908?

From: Ward, John Patrick, 1847?-1914 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11616-3

Description: Draft chapter titled "Von-Tempskey's Forest Rangers and No 6 A.C." by J P Ward relating to the battle at Ngatapa. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 8 Dec 1868

By: Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, 3rd Duke of, 1823-1889

Reference: MS-Papers-10824

Description: Private letter from Sir George Bowen, Government House, Wellington to accompany an official despatch. Discusses Maori activities on East Coast Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 letter. Physical Description: Holograph, mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Brian Groshinski, 2011

Date: 1866 - 1956 - 1868 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-013

Description: Six-panelled account of Te Kooti's resistance to European incursions onto his land, his capture, transportation to the Chatham Islands, his revenge killing of the families of Major Biggs and Captain Wilson and Paratene at Poverty Bay in 1868, and his ultimate pardon in 1883 These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1869

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: A-048-011-a

Description: Shows a hilltop pa held by Te Kooti and assaulted by Government forces, 1868-1869. Same as A-048-011, A-048-011-b Extended Title - Published in: Cowan, J. The New Zealand wars. Wellington, 1923. v. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 7 x 13.5 inches

Date: 1869

By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882

Reference: Plans-80-1218-a

Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm

Date: 1869

By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882

Reference: Plans-80-1218

Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 442 x 282 mm

Date: 1869

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: A-048-011-b

Description: Shows a hilltop pa held by Te Kooti and assaulted by Government forces, 1868-1869. Same as A-048-011, A-048-011-a Extended Title - Published in: Cowan, J. The New Zealand wars. Wellington, 1923. v. 2 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 7 x 13.5 inches

Date: 1864 - 1872

Reference: MapColl-832.16hkm/[1864-1871]/Acc.3908

Description: Hand drawn military map of the area from Tauranga to the Waiapu River, south to Poverty Bay, across to Lake Taupo. Lakes, mountains, rivers, islands, bays, points and harbours are drawn, some of which are named, as are some settlements. Includes tracks, some of which are described as 'Te Kooti's trail' and 'Mair's pursuit of Te Kooti'. Battle sites are prominently marked, named and dated. A note written adjacent to several battle positions state that these cannot accurately be determined. Title handwritten in pencil along the top of the map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, scale [1:380 160], 35.7 x 61.4 cm. Provenance: Includes many pencilled spelling corrections. The scale is written in pencil in the bottom right corner and in ink centrally, under the map.

Date: [2004]

By: Bloomer, Peter H E, active 2004

Reference: MS-Group-1548

Description: Material extracted, abstracted and collated by Bloomer relating to the New Zealand Wars in Mohaka and the Hawke's Bay region, mostly from the `Hawke's Bay herald' from 1858 to 1888; includes topics such as the Chatham Islands escape, deaths, Gudgeon, Hawthorne, Ngatapa and Whitmore; rural grants and Clyde grants; and index to some of the `Hawke's Bay herald' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Compiled by Bloomer in response to TVNZ's programme on the New Zealand wars in the Hawke's Bay and Mohaka regions Quantity: 3 megabyte(s) textual material.

Date: 1869

By: Bousfield, Octavius Lawes Woodthorpe, 1830-1882

Reference: Plans-80-1218-b

Description: Map of the Pa, showing the defensive positions of Major Fraser, Hotene with Ngatiporo, Major Roberts, Wickliffe, Ropata with Ngatiporo, the mortar battery, and Colonel Whitmore. Also shown are the earthworks including rifle-pits within the pa, a chapel and deforested land covered with stumps and branches Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 442 x 282 mm

Date: 1869

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-A50a

Description: Map shows Ngatapa Pa, trenches and disposition of various forces. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [ca.1: 720], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: [1980s?]

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-8044-319

Description: Script of adaptation of `Season of the Jew' by Russ Hay Quantity: 1 folder(s).