Halcombe

Date: 1882-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-2243

Description: Papers include letters to Denmark, a history of the Scandinavian church in New Zealand 1865 - ca 1900 by Mads with a translation and history from 1928 by Ansgar, sermons and diaries of Ansgar Christensen, 1928-1957. Also includes Clem Koch's history of the Lutheran Church in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Mads Christensen was sent to New Zealand by the Inner Mission Board of Denmark in 1886. He was ordained and inducted to the Mauriceville Parish in 1886; from 1893 he served in Palmerston North. From 1928 to 1958 his son, Ansgar, served in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palmerston North. In 1928 his son Ansgar took up his father's responsibilities for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Palmerston North which he served for the next thirty years Quantity: 56 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1950-1959]

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: PA12-8287

Description: Includes - Interior of St John's Church Hall, Halcombe. Congregation members, Halcombe, Rongotea, Normanby, and Palmerston North. Quantity: 9 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-010-a

Description: The township of Halcombe (named after the artist's husband, A. W. F. Halcombe) with houses on a sloping hill above a road, bush cleared back in the background and the Tararua Range in the distance. Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph: Halcombe ESH 1878 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - ESH 1878. Halcombe. [inscribed in reverse. The artist has neglected to reverse them on the lithographic stone to allow them to print out correctly] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 116 x 203 mm

Date: [ca 1950-1959]

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: PA12-8286

Description: Includes - Clergy and congregation members, Halcombe. Visiting group from Hawera at Normanby church. Post Office staff, Halcombe. Ladies Guild, Halcombe. Congregation group, Rongotea. Group outside Anglican Church, Halcombe. Groups of people at Stratford and Hawera. Presbyterian church, New Plymouth, used by Lutheran congregation. Lutheran church, Mauriceville. Dannevirke Lutheran Church. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1962 - 1968

By: Oroua County (N.Z.). County Council; New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.43eac/1962/Acc.31102

Description: Four maps that are part of the 1962 Oroua County district scheme, including one each of the Halcombe, Bunnythorpe, Ashhurst townships and one of the entire Oroua County. Contains two separate reference sheets that refer to the Halcombe and the Oroua County maps. The three township maps show zoning, reserves, recreation areas, water, railways, streets, and district boundaries. The Oroua County map annotations identify zoning, reserves, recreation areas, water, railways, streets, district boundaries, hospitals and community buildings, and are colour-coded to the reference sheet; other annotations name schools, halls and cemeteries. The Oroua County borders Rangitikei, Woodville, Manawatu and Kiwitea counties. All maps are diazo prints. Only the county map has watercolour annotations. Quantity: 4 map(s) bound together. Physical Description: 4 maps and 2 reference sheets, diazo and watercolour on paper, bound with cardboard covers and fabric, scales differ, 69 x 134 cm or smaller.

Date: 1895

By: Owen, Frank, 1851-1907

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/ca.1895/Acc.6325

Description: Cadastral map of Halcombe on the Rangitikei Plains showing numerous numbered blocks in which individual sections are numbered with some acreages. Streets are named, Ferguson Square and Marshall Square and the railway line are marked. Note on cataloguing card states: Possibly surveyed by Frank Owen Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on dressed linen, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:2 376], 93.9 x 83.9 cm.

Date: 1875-1983

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: 89-055

Description: Comprises records for Palmerston North, Makaretu, Dannevirke, Halcombe, Norsewood, Mauriceville, St Luke's Hall, Women's Guild, Men's Fellowship, Youth group, financial and other papers. Source of title - Supplied title Lutheran Church located in Church Street, Palmerston North. Quantity: 4 box(es). 26 volume(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: Merged with ATL-Group-00496 (formerly MS-Group-1908) in June 2020.

Date: 1952-1966

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-2200-CR-1/07

Description: 41st to 54th Convention Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1904

From: [Ephemera and fliers or quarto size, relating to lectures and public talks given in or about New Zealand. 1900-1969]

By: Wanganui chronicle (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-LECTURE-1904-01

Description: Shows a head and shoulders portrait of Clement L Wragge, an astronomer. His lecture was to include discussion of evolution, the great Paris telescope, the moon, forecasting the weather, the science of the atmosphere, the wonderland of Australia. All were to be illustrated by "magnificent pictures of the heavens, sun, moon, planets, &c., being splendid! appalling!! and sublime!!!". He was represented by G Victor Beck. The verso contains testimonials and reviews of his "entertainment". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of flier, 290 x 224 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1462 - Other material from the same provenance is at PAColl-8906, and MS-Group-1462..

Date: 1863-1994

By: Strauch, Dorothy Ida, 1917-2011

Reference: MS-Group-0714

Description: The papers collected by Dorothy Strauch are in two parts. The first relates to the mission of Christoph Dierks at Waitotara and includes copies of letters he and other Lutheran missionaries wrote back to Missionsanstalt Hermannsburg in Germany. This correspondence is in German. The second part of the collection comprises printed material, mainly serials, gathered by Dorothy Strauch in her capacity as archivist for St Martin's Lutheran Church, Marton. Missionsanstalt Hermannsburg dispached Christoph Dierks, Hartwig Dierks, Heinrich Loose and Wilhelm Kowert to New Zealand to serve as missionaries. Christoph Dierks, Dorothy Strauch's grandfather, conducted a mission to the Maori at Waitotara, 1878-1898. Quantity: 20 folder(s). 7 volume(s). 0.53 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Map showing layout of proposed township of Waitotara and map of Palestine published in Berlin (in German) - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Pencil sketch of manse, St Paul's Lutheran Church, Waitotara - To Photographic Archive - Framed photograph of wedding of Prof Winkler, Waitotara, ca 1904 and loose photos of Dierks family and others associated with the Waitotara mission and St Martin's Church, Marton - To Book Collections - Martin Luther `Ko te Katikihama poto' 1896.

Date: [ca 1950-1959]

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: PA12-8285

Description: Includes - Lutheran congregation, Stratford, at Christmas gathering. children with calves, Halcombe School gala day. Old Lutheran church, Mauriceville. Church centre, Crummer Road, Auckland. Cutting down pines, St John's Church Halcombe, 1954. Young people at a youth conference. People at a mission rally, Halcombe. Halcombe wedding. Confirmation candidates, Halcombe. St John's Church Halcombe dressed for a wedding. Children at a church picnic, Halcombe. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1901-1950]

From: MacDonald family : Papers

Reference: 84-145-32

Description: Miscellaneous, some relating to Charles Leonard George MacDonald. Includes invoice from W G Mackay, general storekeeper, Halcombe, 1901; Report (ie testimonial) for Eric John Dixon MacDonald, 1931 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials

Reference: PAColl-10421-02

Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials, chiefly for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the North Island. Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).

Date: 2000-2007

From: Maclean, Elizabeth Susan, 1932-2011 : Research papers relating to Frederick de Jersey Clere

Reference: MS-Papers-11828-29

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-10110

Description: Slides relating to the Lutheran Church of New Zealand, chiefly taken circa 1950s-1960s by unidentified photographers. Contains slides of Lutheran Church buildings around New Zealand. These include interior and exterior shots of churches in Dannevirke, Marton, Halcombe, Mauriceville West, Upper Moutere, Crummer Road (Grey Lynn), Christchurch, Hamilton, and Palmerston North, as well as manse in Palmerston North and Auckland. Some church locations are unidentified. Reverend N Shultz is photographed with members of Hamilton's Estonian community in traditional dress and there are images of unidentified congregants. Miscellaneous images include Mrs Eckert playing cricket, a cake stall, Auckland Museum exterior, and scenic shot of Mount Lyttle (photographed by N Hatwell). Arrangement: Material came to Library in disordered state. Library arranged collection into general subject sequence. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: 2 Jun 2013

By: Somerville, Anne, active 2013; Somerville, Malcolm, active 2013

Reference: PAColl-10154

Description: Colour photographs relating to the service held at the close of St John's Lutheran Church, Halcombe, Manawatu, on 2 June 2013. Most of the images show scenes inside the church and hall during the service. They include readings by Pastor Mark Whitfield and others, singing, communion and presentations. Other images show the Pastor and congregation outside the church immediately after the service. Publication note - Many of the photographs were used in `Walk of faith' (Halcombe: St John's Lutheran Church, 2013) edited by Anne Somerville Source of title - Title supplied by Library Wife of the photographer and the grand-daughter of the minister of St John's between 1921-1951, Pastor Hamuera Te Punga. Quantity: 22 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler prints Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive and transfers made from there - To Ephemera Collection - Order of service at the close of St John's Lutheran Church, Halcombe, Manawatu, Sunday, 2 June 2013, a 16 page booklet.

Date: 1883

By: Scammell, Bruce, active 1971-1993

Reference: PAColl-4648

Description: Photographs of Halcombe showing a steam train and carriages on a railway line. Together they show shops, the hotel, Bell's store, the first Anglican church, Slavak's Hall and the stationmaster's house. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-007-a

Description: View across an extensive cleared area, with dense native forest in the background. Cabbage trees to the left, and a train is about to round a corner on the tracks to the right. Several houses in the distance. Lithograph from The Feilding settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu, New Zealand, by A. W. F. Halcombe (1878) Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 109 x 195 mm

Date: ca 1840. ca1900

By: Luke, David Manly, 1926-

Reference: PAColl-7443

Description: Photograph of St James Anglican Church Halcombe, the first church designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere. Portrait of John Vaughan grandfather of Frederick de Jersey Clere Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The photograph of John Vaughan was given to David Luke by his uncle Eric (F T Clere), who was the younger son of F de J Clere. Eric also provided the biographical information

Date: 1884-2014

By: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Halcombe, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-1339

Description: Includes church registers, Ladies Guild correspondence, Halcombe Luther Society records, hymn sheets and service books, Constitution of St Johns and by-laws, articles, publications, minutes, general correspondence, reports and financial records. Relationship complexity - E L C C Trust Board records continue those held at MS-Papers-2200 Quantity: 45 folder(s). 14 volume(s). 4 colour copy photographic print(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter