Waipā River

Date: 1953-1959

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

Reference: PA12-6454

Description: Views of the summit ridges of Pirongia Mountain. Rock formation near Lake Aarapuni. View of the Waihou River. Pokaiwhenua Falls near Arapuni. Fishing on the Waipa river. Old kauri timber dam, Kaueranga River area. Views of copper mine, Mansion House, and Bostiquey Bay, Kawau Island. Carpenter's shop and abandoned house. Track clearing in the Wairongomai Valley. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [Between 1885 and 1900]

From: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916 :Maori portraits and artifacts

Reference: PAColl-1893-10

Description: The junction of the Waikato and Waipa rivers at Ngaruawahia, photographed in the 1880s by Josiah Martin of Auckland. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - J Martin, Auckland, NZ [blind stamp] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.2 x 20.4 cm

Date: 1880 - 1885

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-025

Description: Ngaruawahia on the left with the Waikato stretching into the distance towards hlls Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash sketch 110 x 190 mm

Date: 11 May-16 Jun 1847

By: Gisborne, William, 1825-1898

Reference: qMS-0844

Description: Gisborne and Petre went by sea to Coromandel and then by land, first up to Thames and travelling up the river, passing through pa, including Opita, then to Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Lake Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana. They returned to Auckland by way of the Waikato River, passing through Maungatautari and Waipa. The journal includes interesting descriptions of Maori life and Gisborne meet the Revs Brown, Spencer, Chapman and Ashville [sic] and various prominent Maori. Variations in title - Binder's title: Gisborne journal The journal is loose in a cover with a typescript and index in an envelope at the back Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages, 30 leaves)). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (32 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook. Mainly Northland scenes] 1864

Reference: E-125-061

Description: Shows Pirongia Mountain above the Waipa River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper 135 x 180 mm in album

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Mayne, Barbara, active 1996

Reference: A-113-002

Description: Shows camp in a flat basin, with horse exercise yard and flagpole in left foreground, and other square fenced yards further off. In middle distance are the main barracks, and scattered buildings of a small town behind. The Waipa River may be visible at left before it flows behind central rise separating foreground from background. Pirongia Mountain may be the hill at right, although Pirongia Mountain is supposed to be twin-coned. Alexandra is the old name for Pirongia. Members of the 2nd Waikato Regiment built a strong redoubt on a hill at the west side of the town, in about 1864. Other Titles - Alexandra - Waikato Military camp, Maori Wars, ca 1864 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy of a watercolour, 450 x 179 mm

Date: 1912 - 1973

By: Wright, Frank, 1860-1923; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-020

Description: The rivers merging with low banks and some bush on both sides. On the right bank are two Maori women, one with a small girl, the other carrying a baby, descending to a canoe and a rowboat at the water's edge Reproduced from original watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 355 x 533 mm, on sheet 522 x 636 mm

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-004-1

Description: Group of Maori beside a pataka or food storehouse situated on a hillside overlooking the Waipa River Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 44, Jan 1864, p.105 by George French Angas Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 235 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1910]

Reference: PA4-1475

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of the junction of Waikato and Waipa Rivers at Ngaruawhia, taken from the top of the ranges by an unidentified photographer. Shows Te Aroha ranges in the distance. Handwritten note on back reads: Junction of Waikato & Waipa Rivers at Ngaruawhia, - from top of the ranges. `Who says you can't take distant views for the stereoscopic. The Te Aroha ranges in the distance are about forty miles away! - (Bad plane! full of air bubbles). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: n d

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-054

Description: Contains a draft copy of the book which has biographies, regional, iwi and hapu histories of people and places mostly in the Tainui - Waikato region; also contains many genre Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescript

Date: Between 1915 and 1926

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Sherriff, D J, active 1901-1931

Reference: PA1-q-102

Description: Album of photographs chiefly taken by Albert Percy Godber, relating to his family, his work and his interests. Family photographs include portraits of his wife (Laura) and two children (William and Phyllis), and scenes of their home in Whiteman's Valley Road, Silverstream; views of the Hutt Valley including large numbers of cars travelling to Trentham Racecourse, and the Hutt River. Another group of images relate to a holiday at the Mendip Hills Homestead in Canterbury, with scenes of farm life, including haymaking, merino sheep, and farm buildings. During their stay in the South Island Godber also took photographs of Dunedin (including the Ross Reservoir, Otago Boys' High School, Seacliff Mental Hospital, the 1926 Dunedin Exhibition, and the Hillside Railway Workshops); Invercargill (including the Invercargill Railway Workshops); Stewart Island, Moeraki, Tuatapere, Waiau River, Oamaru and Port Chalmers. Various railway stations in Canterbury and Otago, the Burnside Iron Mills, and the Rosslyn Mills. Godber was a volunteer fireman with the Petone Fire Brigade with the album including views of the building, groups of firemen, fire engines and other fire fighting equipment, and a building in Petone damaged by fire. In his work with New Zealand Railways, mainly at the Petone Railway Workshops, he took interior photographs of various buildings, including the Machine Shop and finishing benches, the engine room, lathes, boilers, and fitting shops. He also took photographs of many of the steam engines that were built and worked on at the workshops. One scene shows a group of men watching a fight. Many images show his interest in logging railways, particularly in the Piha, Karekare, Anawhata area. Scenes of logging camps, various methods of transporting logs including bullock teams, logging trains, and dams created and then tripped to send logs down by river, and timber mills. Other topics covered in Godber's photographs are scenes at Maori marae and meeting houses, with some of the people identified; Maori carving and rafter designs; beekeeping, and gold mining. Other Titles - Title printed on spine - Godber album 109 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 38.0 x 26.5 cm (257 p.)

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-021

Description: Three drawings on one page. 'The Waipa' is an extensive landscape view with the river in the foreground, a hill, two small whare to the left, a Maori family and a waka being paddled on the river. 'Seated Maori' is a small picture of a man wrapped in his cloak. 'Kaikatea shows a tall kahikatea with epiphytes, growing among other trees Other Titles - kahikitea Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of three drawings

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-020

Description: Two drawings on one page. A landscape showing a pa spread across a flat hilltop, with mountains in the background. A young woman, seated, possibly on kete. She wears a European shirt and a fringed tag cloak. She has chin moko Other Titles - Otawhao Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink and of pencil drawings

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-028

Description: Six drawings on one page. 'Ohinemutu', a pen and ink drawing, shows one end of the surrounding palisade, with carved gateway. 'Waipa' shows a hill in the background, a small fenced structure in the right foreground and toetoe framing the view on both sides. 'Kuripopo' is a pencil drawing of a seated young woman wearing a smock. [Challenge with spear] shows one man threatening a seated figure, watched by a crowd. 'A native house ... Maketu' shows the front porch of a carved whare with door and one window. (These two drawings were copied by G F Angas for his 1847 publication). 'Otawao Pah, Waipa' shows Otawhao Pa in the distance with a foreground of dead tree trunks. Other Titles - Otawhao pa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink, pencil and watercolour drawings

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-017

Description: A view of a volcanic peak near the head of the Waipa River. In the foreground a Maori man and a dog pursue a pig. Three further Maori walk in the middle distance. Two tall trees frame the view on the right, with one on the left towering above either the roof of a whare or a tent Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-078

Description: Five drawings on one page. At the top, two landscapes, the left a view of a small thermal lake, the right a stream winding through a hilly landscape. In the centre, a head and shoulders portrait of Maketu, while he was in prison awaiting his death sentence for a Bay of Islands murder. Below, two small landscapes showing hills and trees. On back, the lower half of a drawing of a European man's suit, cut through at the waist. Compare two further versions of the portrait of Maketu in the Library's Hobson Album, E-216-f-011 and -141 There is a larger version of the view of Rotokawa further on in the album, at folio 98 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of five drawings, various media

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-079

Description: Four drawings on one page. At the top, two landscapes, the left, 'Wai Papa' showing a bend in the Waikato River between hills; the right 'Waipa' a broad landscape with rollling hills, a cluster of tall trees in the centre. Centre, 'Kaniwa' shows a young woman (?) in a rain cape, leaning on a table or cupboard. There is a separate study of her bare feet below on the left. [Maori youth] is a standing portrait of a young naked man, a taiaha in his right hand Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings, various media

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1008-F

Description: Panoramic image of the junction of the Waipa and Waikato Rivers at Ngaruawahia. A man and woman are sitting on the bank looking over the rivers. There is a bridge on the right, and buildings on the far right partially hidden by a tree in foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1924. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] "Junction of Waipa & Waikato Rivers. Ngaruawahia. 99"; Photographer's title on negative - "Junction of Waipa & Waikato Rivers. Ngaruawahia 1924. No. 99" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.6 cm

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-048

Description: A view across a stream towards a mission station and church on the opposite bank. The vicarage is within a fenced garden. A low bridge crosses the Mangapiko Stream, and three Maori paddle a canoe towards the bridge Other Titles - Otawhao Waiho Waipa Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink and wash drawing

Date: [1864-1869]

From: Creator unknown: New Zealand album

Reference: E-972-q-4

Description: The British military camp at Ngāruawāhia (showing the confluence of the Waikato and Waipa rivers). Numerous tents and some simple buildings, and a flagstaff sporting a British ensign. Title: Ngaruawahia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title inscribed in ink; Recto - bottom left - N.S. [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) mounted in ink-drawn frame. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on paper, 139 x 227 mm