King Country

Date: [1880-1965]

By: New Zealand Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic

Reference: 77-206

Description: Records comprising subject files, executive and various committee minutes, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous material Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 18 box(es). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plaque re memorial window placed in 1st Pakeha Church to commemorate the Sacred Pact not to sell liqour to Maori - To Photographic Archive - Portrait of Ratana clergy, ca 1950s; negative of King Country Pact plaque (PAColl-8347) - To Cartographic Collection - Two maps (PR-05-0227).

Date: [1970s]

By: Middleton, Walter Maitland, 1903-1978

Reference: MS-Papers-7875

Description: Semi-autobiographical manuscript written by Walter Middleton describing his life mostly in the King Country and Taranaki region including Waitara, Te Kuiti, Taumarunui, Awakino etc in the 1930s; he writes of his life as a travelling salesman and describes the people he met during his work and leisure pursuits. He includes his relationship with one woman, who died of meningitis. He also enjoyed hunting and describes various hunting expeditions and the guns he used. Source of title - Supplied Stock and station agent, salesman. Married twice. Father (from his first marriage) of writers Ted (O E) Middleton and Ian Middleton. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph corrections

Date: 1922-1923

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-554

Description: Collection of photographs created and probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell, from the time of her marriage to Frederick McWhannell. The first scene shows them on their honeymoon, at One Tree Hill in Auckland, on 13th November 1922. From there they go to Whangarei, with views of the Whangarei Hospital, men playing tennis, a group of three men and a woman entitled `The foundations of "Fairview" Onerahi', and Whangarei Falls. Following Whangarei are a number of views of Russell, including the jetty and `The Gables', and the yacht `Kitty fraser'. Later in November they reach the Coromandel Peninsula, and photographs include Cyril Cory-Wright in the launch `Eilepa', and a photograph of Mrs Cory-Wright with her children Patsy and Derek; and the Reverend Norrie (minister of the Coromandel Peninsula). The next group of photographs show Mrs Shires, and scenes of sheep mustering at `Oruru', Kaitieke in the King Country. At the front of the album is an envelope with mostly unidentified people, taken much later, most of them being coloured. Also inserted in the album is a newspaper cutting from the Herald (Section 2, Wednesday 13 June 1984), on a young couple (Tony and Sue Clark) who had managed to create a successful farm from very rough hill country on the Kawhautahi Road, near Kaitieke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cloth cover, entitled `From my camera' in white cursive script; 25 x 30 cm

Date: [ca 1909-1953]

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/09

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1887

By: Corkill, Thomas Eustace, 1861-1934

Reference: qMS-0548

Description: Biographical note on author on inside front cover Other Titles - Spine title More wanderings through the King Country Quantity: 1 volume(s) (63 (82 blank) pages). Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm; purple boards, marbled edges)

Date: 1938, 1940

From: Bertram, James, 1910-1993 : Papers of James and Jean Bertram

By: Bertram, Jean Ellen, 1908-2000

Reference: MS-Papers-4255

Description: Comprises two letters from Sargeson to Bertram dated 6 Nov 1938 and 5 May 1940 discussing farm work, literary matters, King Country, etc. Also typescript of piece sent to Bertram, entitle `Sketch of a life', by Frank Sargeson, 17 leaves. Accompanying material - Accompanied by copy of letter from donor to Library, 26 July 1979 Arrangement: Previously MS Papers 432 : 175 (Sargeson, Frank) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (19 leaves, 3 items). Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Jean Bertram, Lower Hutt, 1979.

Date: 1884-1905, 1949

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/16

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1918-1949

From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4760-8

Description: Assorted material in many different hands. Includes proverbs; chants; notes on Maori lore; notes from an inhabitant of Taupo; notes re the old missionaries, views of marriages between Maori and Pakeha; names of planets, stars etc. Extracts from writings of Reverend Richard Taylor and Kerry Nicholls. Obituary of Mrs Celia Kinder and a booklet from King Koroki and his people to the Prime Minister entitled `A statement relating to the King Country pact'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1858-1908

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/14

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1950-1990]

From: Edmond, Lauris Dorothy, 1924-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4680-11

Description: Contains notes and background material relating mainly to the pre-1955 section of the book but also contains correspondence for 1961; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters to Trevor from the Wairarapa Times-Age, Masterton; letter to Lindsay Rowe from Val, Tauranga School of Nursing; from Noel (possibly Parsloe), Weir House, Wellington, to Mrs Scott; John, Vic I, to Lindsay and Doug; from Murray to Edmond; and from Cecily, Remuera, to Edmond. Essay on the King Country by Trevor Edmond. Also includes details by Colin on school staff (1950), possibly Ohakune, and on Kings Court, a boarding house run by Ma and Bert Young Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1884-1953]

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/03

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1930-1953]

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/07

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1982

From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection

Reference: 84-131-55/11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1885-1917

By: Westmacott, Herbert Horatio Spencer, 1885-1960

Reference: Micro-MS-0847

Description: Detailed memoirs cover childhood and youth in South Canterbury, the family's move to the King Country ca 1913, military service in World War I, including Gallipoli campaign Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s) (21 volumes). Physical Description: Positive microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1923

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/08

Description: Includes petitions from Waitomo Electorate and Waimarino Electorate Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1997

From: Nathan, Simon, 1943- : Research papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7897-7

Description: Report by Mason on a geologial reconnaissance of the Wanganui River from Taumarunui to Pipiriki (1939); research achievements from 1954 to 1997; field work, 1946-1947 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1979-1982

From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki

Reference: MS-Papers-9587-01

Description: This volume explains the outline of the collection and gives the reasoning of why the dossier was put together . This volume gives a brief background on the project. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies

Date: [ca 1909-1945]

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-17/11

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1900 - 1960

By: A M (Artist), active 1900?; McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: G-526

Description: A railway viaduct high above a river, with steep bush-clad banks, in the King Country On donation described as King Country railway viaduct Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 310 x 455 mm

Date: 1950-1959

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-10/02

Description: Newspaper clippings arranged by subject: Licensing Committees; licensing laws; liquor with meals; King Country Quantity: 1 folder(s).