Mercury Bay

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: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-070

Description: William and Sarah Lee arrived at Mercury Bay with their family in 1868 and settled at Purangi. The essay describes the family's forty years in various occuaptions - In the bush, on the rivers, on the gumfileds, at the goldfields and on the land. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available. Includes photographs

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1840

Reference: MapColl-832.15gmfw/1840/Acc.6850

Description: Diagrammatic map drawn on higher ground overlooking the scene where the HMS Buffalo navy ship was wrecked ('28th July 1840, at 10 am'). Map shows the site was wrecked, in a flat, sandy beach area, the thickly wooded hills behind it, the encampment of those who were in the wrecked ship, points on the beach where parts of the ship were washed ashore, and an area of flat marshy ground. Also depicted is the neighbouring pa site (maori village) of the Chief Teraroa, ('Teraroa's hippah'), the encampment of the part of the Buffalo's crew 'who were employed in the firest, preparing the cargo, Mercury River, part of Wiritianga's pa site, as well as Mr Brown's wharf-store and settlement ('Buffalo's store's were landed there'). Signature of creator on map but hard to distinguish. Appears to be ?T. Laslett. Shows several drawings of trees, buildings at Brown's settlement, navy tents. Other Titles - pa site Stamped in right hand bottom corner 'Hydrog[raphic] Office, 20 Au. 41'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 32 x 45 cm.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: Mathew, Felton 1808-1847 :[Scrapbook. ca.1845].

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: E-389-q-001

Description: Shows six Maori men launching a canoe into waves. Palm trees or tall tree ferns are at the right. Engraving has been cut from page containing 2 engravings; see full page at A-256-028. Image of canoe, and possibly the whole image, is derived from a work by Louis Auguste de Sainson 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe, Nouvelle Zelande' showing Astrolabe Bay (Golden Bay, South Island) not Mercury Bay, with local Maori dragging a canoe into the water, in 1827 during a French visit to the area. The palm trees suggest a scant knowledge of New Zealand geography and flora on the part of the engraver. Not in Ellis' Early prints of New Zealand (1978) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - MERCURY BAY - NEW ZEALAND Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 93 x 85 mm, on sheet 288 x 240 mm.

Date: 1939 to 1950

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-237

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter, between 1939 and 1950. Many of the scenes show camping holidays, with camping sites at Whangamata (two holidays, January 13-29, 1939; and January 26 to February 16 1940), Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier, Palmerston North, Taupo, and Waikanae. The album is split in two, with half starting at one end, and the other half starting upside down at the other end of the album (tete-beche). Two photographs show Thomas Hunter with his son Irwin wearing army uniform, taken in 1940. The last few scenes are of Thomas Hunter's home at 10 Clermont Terrace, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, lacks cover; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: 1769 - 1784

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Smith, Samuel, 1745-; Hogg and Company

Reference: A-111-096

Description: An arched rock with a pa on top Derived from an engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 125 x 193 mm

Date: 1780 - 1789

By: Hogg and Company; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-111-065

Description: An arched rock at Mercury Bay from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand Derived from engraving by Newton after Parkinson on Cook's 1st voyage in: Parkinson, S. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1773. Pl. 24 Trimmed inside plate marks Inscriptions: Head of plate: Engraved for Moore's voyages & travels [i e Moore, J H. A new and complete collection of voyages and travels] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving b&w 135 x 177 mm

Date: 1778-1903

From: United Kingdom. Admiralty : Records relating to the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-05-5947

Description: Includes register of men serving in the Southern and Greenland Whale Fisheries protected from impressment; court of enquiry into loss of HMS Buffalo, Mercury Bay and charges against assistant Surgeon D Russell 1840-1841; papers relating Matthew Flinders and HMS Investigator, the loss of HMS Porpoise ; the voyage to Isle of France and Flindrs' imprisonment by the French, 1806; papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes relating to Royal Navy activities in the East Indies 1779-1782 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-111-011-a

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay as in the title), with a pa on top. Shows Maori in canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011 Other Titles - pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 1836

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Domeny de Rienzi, Gregoire Louis, 1789-1843

Reference: A-015-011

Description: A pa atop an arched rock at Mercury Bay Originally derived from engraving after Sporing on Cook's 1st voyage in Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages. London. 1773. Vol. 2, pl. 18 The arched rock has been wrongly identified as Cook's 'Tegadou' (Tolaga Bay) or Anaura Bay. It was located at Mercury Bay Other Titles - Fortified pa on the arch at Tegadou, (Tolaga Bay) Anaura Bay, Mercury Bay Extended Title - Published in: Domeny de Rienzi, G. L. Oceanie. Pl. 127. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 118 x 207 mm

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: n d

By: Henderson, Jane, active 1864

Reference: MS-Papers-0677

Description: Henderson describes her voyage to New Zealand with her parents in the `Talbot' (1864), and their life in Mercury Bay where her father worked in the sawmills. Written by Mrs Lyon. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1784

By: Morris, Thomas, active 1750-1811; Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771

Reference: A-111-011

Description: A pierced rock in Mercury Bay (not Tolaga Bay) with a pa on top. Shows also Maori paddling canoes Derived from the first published illustration in Hawkesworth's voyages, 1773, v. 2, pl 18, which in turn is from a pencil drawing by Herman Diedrich Sporing ('A perforated rock fortified on the top'. Endorsed in Sporing's hand, `Sporing's Grotto. Opuragi-bay. New Zealand) The view is actually of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay. `Opoorage' was Cook's rendering of Purangi ie Mercury Bay. See also footnote in Beaglehole's Cook, v. 1, p 200. Confusion has arisen in early titling of engravings on account of the Sporing and Parkinson views of the Tolaga Bay archway Same as A-111-011-a Other Titles - Pa Extended Title - From Anderson, G W, ed. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages...London: A Hogg [1784] op. p45. Derived from Hawkesworth, J. Voyages, 1773, v. 2 pl. 18 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 203 x 330 mm

Date: 193? - 1937

By: Withiel-Thomas, Arthur, active 1935-1937?; Shand, Jocelyn, active 1990s?

Reference: PAColl-3265

Description: Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954-1966

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6445

Description: Trip to Mercury Bay and Great Mercury Island, and trip to the Tauherenikau Valley. Views of Great Mercury Island include Landing Bay. Views of the coastline. The campsite. Peachgrove Bay. The island's interior. Tauherenikau trip includes the valley below Cone Hut. Mount Reeves and the Tauherenikau River. View from the top of the puffer. Tauherenikau Hut. Cone Hut. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1946 - 1948

By: Cooper Printing Company Ltd; Holmwood, Edward John Evelyn, 1910-1987; Mercury Bay Publicity Committee

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Coromandel-1959-01

Description: Folded pamphlet illustrated by John Holmwood showing Captain James Cook observing the transit of Mercury. Inside is a fun map showing recreational activities in and around Mercury Bay: skin diving, big game fishing, Hot Water Beach, surf casting,Maori pa site, site of wreck of HMS Buffalo, tennis, golf, bowls, water skiing, surf casting, pig hunting, gold mining area, Buffalo Beach. Also shows a Whites Aviation panoramic photograph of Whitianga, and a photo of the new Whitianga Hotel. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of sheet 221 x 375 mm, folded in four, to 221 x 95 mm.

Date: 1950-1965

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to fishing clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-FISHING-CLUBS-1900s

Description: Includes: 1951: Bay of Islands Swordfish and Mako Shark Club (Inc). Russell New Zealand. 30 June 1951 Mercury Bay Game Fishing Club. November 1951 1952: Bay of Islands Swordfish and Mako Shark Club (Inc). Russell New Zealand. 30 June 1952 Mercury Bay Game Fishing Club. December 1952 1961: Mercury Bay Game Fishing Club. Yearbook 1961 (2 copies) 1963: Tauranga Big Game Fishing Club (Inc). Mayor Island, the ocean gateway to Tauranga, New Zealand. Prepared by R D McCully [for the Club. 1963?] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes up to 240 mm.