Tokomaru Bay

Date: 1908-1949

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0488

Description: Contains personal and professional correspondence regarding visits, marae, historical research; newspaper clippings and a report, `Wanganui Maori Conference as a Parliamentary paper'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1933

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018C

Description: Correspondence regarding the construction of the Tokomaru Bay and Otaki meeting houses Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 19 January 1988

From: Matthews, Christopher :Photographs of Hawkes Bay and East Coast post offices

Reference: PAColl-1300-1-01

Description: Exterior view of Tokomaru Bay Post Office, taken 19 January 1988 by Christopher Matthews. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Tokomaru Bay Post Office with 'te maunga o Marotiri' in the background. 19 Jan 1988. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Resin coated paper print 21.3 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1946-1950

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0391

Description: File 186 - A variety of papers including papers on Maori education and the Ruatoria water supply Includes letters containing funding for buildings in the Tairawhiti area. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1969, 1987

By: Dell, Sharon, 1951-

Reference: PAColl-9217

Description: Photograph of Ngoi Pewhairangi, taken Tokomaru Bay 1969. Photographs of National Library nearing completion, showing Alexander Turnbull Library staff Jeavons Baillie and Diana Meads, taken ca 1987. All photographs taken by Sharon Dell. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1975

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1843

Description: Freezing works at Tokomaru Bay, the wharf and ruins of Hicks Bay freezing works, and the Marae at Tokomaru Bay Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1912-1934

From: New Zealand Shipping Company : Records

Reference: Series-4038

Description: Ledgers and other financial records relating to the Company branches at Tokomaru Bay and Foxton Quantity: 7 volume(s).

Date: 1960-1976

From: Awatere, Arapeta (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1910-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6735-24

Description: There is a letter from Colonel Awatere who accepts funds on behalf of The Asthma Foundation of Western Australia. There is a letter from Awatere to the Minister of Maori Affairs, Mr Hensen, pertaining to the share holders of land, Harataunga 2C2B Block in Tokomaru Bay. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: 1879-1959

By: Mackay, James George, 1879-1959

Reference: MS-Papers-9876

Description: Notes and newspaper clippings to go with McKay's `Shipwrecks in New Zealand' (annotated copy), including article on the `Alcestis'; notes on the `Agnes', on John Lewis, whaler; `Fact, fable and fallacy' by Aristotelian (Mirror, Mar 1952); shipping lists; copy of article on the `Falco' (1846) and further notes on same; map, Tokomaru Bay, Waima Cove Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Shipwrecks in New Zealand Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for further McKay records Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: [ca 1963]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/02A

Description: Papers relating to Maori music and waiata. Includes the script for a radio programme about Maori music by Phyllis Williams (Kirimamae), called "Maori Song Forms" on the scripts. Many of the waiata featured in the programme relate to Ngati Porou, and people mentioned in the programme include Sir Apirana Ngata, Ngaropi White, Materoa [Reedy], Hera Haereroa, Enoka Te Pakaru, Hiria Tamati, Matekino Brown, Alfred Hill and Tuta Nihoniho. Also mentioned is the story of Pou (Pourangahua) and the origins of the haka associated with Te Rauparaha "Ka mate, ka mate" are discussed saying it has connections to the story of Maui capturing the sun. Different kinds of waiata or song forms are discussed as well as titi torea, or Maori stick games. Also includes lyrics and translations of many Maori waiata, a booklet of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, translated into Maori, with notation, and a programme for the 123rd Waitangi Day Celebration, at Waitangi on 6 Feb 1963. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1882

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-122

Description: Contains whakapapa from Rangi and Papa to Ngati Porou in general, and Henare Potae in particular; cosmological notes about the separation of Rangi and Papa, notes about Tawhaki, Maui and Rata and their various supernatural feats Also contains Ngati Porou whakapapa, and narratives about Ngati Porou ancestors including Ira, Ruatapu, Pawa and Paikea and their settlement of the East Coast region; there are also letters from Keriana (Potae?) and a narrative about the origin of greenstone Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-103-4

Description: Shows Tokomaru Hill Other Titles - Tokomaru Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Tokomaro Hill 21/10/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 50 x 161 mm

Date: 1929

Reference: PA1-o-705

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1912-1913

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0555

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: McConnell, E G (Mrs), active 1979

Reference: PAColl-0476

Description: Chiefly photographs taken in and around the settlement of Tokomaru Bay, including the New Zealand Shipping Company building. Also one of the wrecked ship Star of India; one of the beach at St Heliers Bay, Auckland; one of a car alongside the ferry at the Mokau River; one including a Willys-Knight car. All were taken circa 1920s. Photographer(s) unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 25 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1933-1937

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1321

Description: Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best. Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden. Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features. Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point. A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island. Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks. Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935. Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935. Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks. Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice. Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin. Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata. Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933. A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony. Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1912

From: Roberts, E M :Photograph of early coaching and Wellington Post Office

By: Roberts, E M (Mrs), active 1963

Reference: PAColl-D-0563

Description: A Tokomaru Bay mail coach pulled by five horses and carrying two men on the road to Te Puia Springs in 1912. It is stuck in mud. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Title and date Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 260 x 370 mm mounted

Date: 1946

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0313

Description: File 114 - Contains a receipt from the station regarding finances Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1895 - 1975

By: Macpherson, Beverley, active 1977

Reference: PA-Group-00026

Description: Includes views of timber industry in the King Country, South African War, and World War One Arrangement: Photographs on shelf at PAColl-0023-1, PAColl-0023-2, PAColl-8577-1, PAColl-8577-2 Quantity: 239 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 colour original photographic print(s). 57 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 62 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1938

By: Patrick, Jack, active 1938; Patrick, Toby, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7735

Description: Photographs taken in the Tokomaru Bay district in 1938 by Jack Patrick, showing damage caused by flooding. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Toby Patrick, November 2002. The photographs were taken by the grandfather of the donor.