Originally a Māori (Ngāpuhi) village called Opango. In the early 19th century Rewha Rewha, rangatira of Ngati Whatua, raided the village and fugitives subsisted among the Kohekohe groves on Tokareireia (Kaikohe Hill). After the incident, the village became known as Kaikohekohe but was later shortened to Kaikohe.
Kaikohe
Whangarei minute books Nos 22 (continued) -24
Date: 1946-1949
From: New Zealand Maori Land Court: Tokerau District minute books
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-06-188
Description: Court sittings in Whangarei, Auckland, Russell and Kaikohe by Judges Prichard and Bell Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Kaikohe Parochial District : Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials
Date: 1823-1949
By: Kaikohe Parochial District
Reference: Micro-MS-0882
Description: Marriages, Paihia and Kororareka, 1830-1841; marriages, Bay of Islands and Pararaka, 1857-1866; baptisms, 1823-1840 & burials, 1830-1842, Paihia and Kororareka; burials, 1872-1912, Pararaka; burials, 1843-1949, Russell; marriages, 1858-1881, Paihia; marriages, 1852-1871, ?; baptisms, 1855-1949, burials, 1852-1885, Paihia; baptisms, 1840-1844, marriages, 1840-1877, burials, 1841-1879, Paihia Relationship complexity - Other registers at Micro-MS-0263 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive.
Baptismal registers
Date: 1835-1959
From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-06
Description: Registers of Kaikohe, 1886-1959 (mainly Maori; incl South Hokianga); Kaipara, Mahurangi, 1872-1932 (incl Maori); Te Pahi, Kaipara, 1893-1896; Kaitaia, 1835-1856. Marriages and deaths from last register continued on reel 7 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: See inventory for fuller description of contents.
Photographs relating to Julius Hogben
Date: [ca 1940-1952]
From: Hogben family :Family photographs
Reference: PAColl-9874
Description: Photographs relating to Julius Hogben. These include - Hogben seated at a table with four other people probably taking part in a radio broadcast. Julius and Kathleen Hogben, probably at Julius's retirement event. They are holding gifts. Photograph of of a tree (Agonis flexuosa) taken by Stephen Roth. Julius Hogben in humerous conversation with unidentified man. Scenic view with poplars, river and hills, Nelson 1944. Quantity: 1 box(es). 5 b&w original photographic print(s).
Baptism registers
Date: 1843-1957
From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-05
Description: Contains registers for Hokianga (Maori and English), Holy Sepulchre, Mt Albert, Home Mission Districts, Howick and Kaikohe (Maori) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, and W J Jordan
Date: 1926-1947
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-187
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1926-1947. Peter Fraser - Labour candidate for Wellington Central (1931); several of Prime Minister Fraser during the war years; with Sister Nepia (Wairoa District Nurse) and A T Carroll, May 1947; with WAAFs S H Boyd & M C Bullard, 1944; receiving Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law at Cambridge University, 1944; with Miss Jean McKenzie, General Freyberg & Mrs Harold Kemp on arrival in London when he was made a Companion of Honour; gathering at Ruatoki where Fraser addressed the gathering, 1947; Hirini Heremaia performing a powhiri to the official party at the opening of Northland College, Kaikohe by Rt Hon Peter Fraser, 1947 Walter Nash - During the war years when he was Minister of Finance; as President of International Labour Conference at Philadelphia, 1944; Mr & Mrs Nash, 1938; Mr & Mrs Nash with F G L Bertram (deputy-director of Civil Aviation in British Air Ministry) on board Aorangi, 1936; Mr & Mrs Nash in their lounge with their two sons, 1936. W J Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in London - MP for Manukau (1931); Mr & Mrs Jordan laying a wreath, May 1938; Mr & Mrs Jordan and family, 1936 & 1939; with his mother, Sep 1936; during the war years. Includes list of photographs Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
Sheila Hogben's holiday album
Date: 1939-1941
From: Hogben family :Family photographs
Reference: PA1-o-1739
Description: Sheila Hogben's album of holiday photographs. The first holiday taken during the Christmas break, 1939-1940, included six girls camping at Waiau Pa, Manukau Harbour. The six girls with their bicycles ready to leave on their trip. Shots of the girls at their camp with two men, Charlie and Arthur. The rest of the photographs are mainly shots of the girls at tennis, at the beach, and in the pastoral landscape of the farm where they were camping. The second holiday was a tour of Northland made in January 1941. This time a group of four girls set out with their bicycles loaded down with camping gear. They also travelled by hitching rides on trucks and they are seen on their first lift on the back of a truck with their bicycles. Group photographs in bathing togs on the beach at Tikinui. Two girls swimming with two men in Three Chain Lake. The girls with the Meredith family, Glink's Gully. In Trounson Park Kauri Reserve and Waipoua Forest. Swimming at Waimamaku. Outside their tents at Opononi. On Ferguson's Estate, Kaikohi. Views of buildings at Waitangi. The stone church at Paihia. Views of the Bay of Islands. The girls at Kawakawa, Whangarei, on Brynderwyn Hill and at Waipu Cove. Their last lift on a truck with Bert and Dicky. Back with the family at Red Beach. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Sub-centres - Correspondence
Date: 1941-1942
From: New Zealand Red Cross Society : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0258-03E
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Research notes on civic heraldry
Date: 1965-1967
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: 82-213-21
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Photographs of Northland Region
Date: 1840, 1941 - 1959
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
By: Hardcastle, Peter Richard, 1921-1991; Whites Aviation Ltd; Ross, Neville, active 1959
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-025
Description: Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
[New Zealand Social Credit Political League Inc] :Cracknell for sealed roads and progre...
Date: 1954 - 1957
By: Northern news (Newspaper)
Reference: Eph-D-NZ-SOCIAL-CREDIT-1950s-01
Description: Text only, in bold capital letters, black on white. Vernon Cracknell's name is underlined. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Relief print on poster, 457 x 578 mm. Provenance: From the papers of Vernon Cracknell, deposited in 1996.
Encyclopaedia of NZ. Geographic Section - Research notes arranged by place - K-L
Date: [196-]
From: Dollimore, Edward Stewart, 1904-1973 : Papers
Reference: 83-145-122
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Minute books
Date: 1960-1962
From: New Zealand Maori Land Court: Tokerau District minute books
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-06-191
Description: Court sittings in Whangarei, Kaitai and Kaikohe by Judges Porter, Fraser, Sheehan, Brook, Scott and Davis Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Sutherland, James Hector, 1925- : Country Library Service papers
Date: [ca 1969-1984]
By: Sutherland, James Hector, 1925-
Reference: MS-Papers-6085
Description: Research notes on the history of various rural libraries, library and reading lists, and a partially handwritten and partially typed manual compiled while working for the mobile library of the New Zealand Country Library Service in the 1970s and 1980s. Also includes blueprints of plans of the mobile library van, together with details of its shelving arrangement. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, blueprints Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 9 albums and 4 packets of photographs.
Whangarei minute books Nos 14-16
Date: 1925-1932
From: New Zealand Maori Land Court: Tokerau District minute books
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-06-185
Description: Court sittings in Whangarei by Judges Achesson and Ayson Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Johnson, Margory :Photograph of New Zealand returned servicemen at Kaikohe, 1933 :Photo...
Date: 1924-1925, Anzac Day 1933
By: Johnson, Margory, active 1924-1933
Reference: PAColl-1266
Description: Quantity: 6 photocopy/ies and. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 1 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.
Photographs of war memorials - North Island - K and M
Date: 2006-2007
From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials
Reference: PAColl-10421-03
Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials, chiefly for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the North Island. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).
Interview with Dorothy Wilson
Date: 22 Apr 2003
From: Women's Electoral Lobby oral history project: WEL women who made a difference
By: Wilson, Dorothy, active 2003
Reference: OHINT-0733-06
Description: Venue - Green Bay, Waitakere City. Interviewer(s) - Maureen Birchfield Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012274 - 012275 Tape numbers - OHLC-006709 - 006710 Copies are time coded Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4143. Two laser copies of photographs in abstract: colour photo of Dorothy Wilson at home, 22 April 2003; Colour photo of Dorothy Wilson and Celia, 1986.
Ngā pukōrero o te wa, tape 21. Henare Wihongi, Kaikohe
Date: Date unknown
From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings
Reference: OHC-031757
Description: Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 audiocassette(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
[Programmes relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1952]
Date: 1952
From: [Pamphlets, programmes, flyers relating to wood-chopping and sports meetings, collected by Eric Warner. 1915-2009]
Reference: Eph-A-SPORT-Warner-1952
Description: Includes: 1952: Central Hawkes Bay A & P Association. Annual show, New Showgrounds Waipukurau. 19 January 1952. Axemen's section. Programme 1952 annual Clearwater County Fair and celebration. Orofino Idaho, 19-21 September 1952. Programme Central King Country Axemen's Association. Sixth annual carnival to be held on Taumarunui Domain, 28-29 March 1952. Chopping, sawing, cycling, national dancing, side shows. Competitors' programme Kaikohe Athletic, Cycling and Axemen's Club. Fifth annual athletic, cycling & axemen's carnival. Kaikohe Recreation Grounds, 16 February 1952. Programme Manawatu Athletic & Axemen's Assn. Chopping, cycling, sawing to be hled in the Show Grounds Palmerston North, 8 March 1952. Programme Manawatu Cycling & Axemen's Association Carnival. Showgrounds Palmerston North, 8 March 1952. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Athletic Cycling and Axemen's Union. 1952 championships. Showgrounds Palmerston North, 1-2 February 1952. Programme (2 copies) Owhango Sports Meeting. Recreation Ground Owhango, 12 April 1952. Chopping events, cycling events, horse events, athletic and field events, national dancing. [Competitors' programme] Rangiora Cash Cycling Club. Sports meeting. Recreational Grounds, Rangiora. Easter Saturday, 12 April 1952. Official programme Quantity: 9 Programme(s). Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.