Port Underwood

Date: 1 Sep 1839, 1963

By: White, Ta, active 1839

Reference: MS-Papers-3476

Description: Between Ta White, chief, and John Guard, whaler. Typed list of other land purchases in the area (Information supplied by Marlborough Historical Society, 1963) - Purchases made by N J Rodgerson; J N Flood; George Jackson; John O'Brien; John Davis; Michael Aldridge; Edward Harris; George Moore; Charles Guard; William Budge; Henry Davis. Accompanying material - Letter from Chief Archivist, Naitonal Archives, describing provenance of items Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-380

Description: Shows views of Maori buildings in Papawai and Te Ore Ore (Masterton area), the homesteads of A. Hutt and A. Hawdon at Underwood (possibly Port Underwood), Picton, Wanganui, Canterbury Plains (including Mt Peel, Rangitata), Feilding (including Lord Ranfurly's arrival there), Wairarapa, Levin (a Maori house), W. Maunsel's house in Masterton, the home of H. Nixon at Sedgebrook, and the Church Mission house at Waimate (Bay of Islands). This last is by Richard Taylor (Mary Medley's father), as is a view of St Sampson Church, Guernsey. At the back are loose sketches with copies of Edward Lear's illustrated limericks. Cranleigh Barton is a grandson of the artist. Inscriptions: (Inside front cover, inscribed by Cranleigh Barton) 15 Mary Medley's sketchbook.; Some works inscribed with title beneath image. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 24 pencil sketches, 43 watercolour and pencil works, in sketchbook 165 x 230 mm. Finding Aids: Shelf-list/inventory available - copy housed with sketchbook..

Date: 1923-1985

From: Cordery, Eric Leofwin, b 1910 : Papers

Reference: MSY-4396

Description: Scrapbook containing correspondence and research notes on the history of Ocean Bay School. Also includes copies of Eric Cordery's school reports and photographs of pupils of the school. Ocean Bay School, a school for boys, operated between 1909-1924. Eric Cordery was a pupil from October 1923-Dec 1924 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1864

By: New Zealand. Seat of Government Commission

Reference: qMS-1554

Description: Comprises copies of letters from the Premier, Sir George Grey, to the Governor concerning the appointments of the commissioners (Ronald Campbell Gunn from Tasmania, Sir Francis Murphy from Victoria and Sir Joseph Docker from New South Wales), official appointments of the three and their travel arrangements, the official proclamation establishing the Commission, a memorandum on the factors to be taken into consideration, minutes of the Commission on their meetings in the various towns, along with summarised submissions from local representatives and advocates, and a draft report of their findings. Also includes an expense claim for Sir Joseph Docker. Source of title - Supplied by Library In 1864, following representations from the southern provinces, the Governor, Thomas Gore Browne, established a Commission to propose a more central seat of government to replace the existing capital, Auckland. For neutrality three commissioners from the neighbouring colonies of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales were appointed. They were given a brief to nominate a new site near Cook Strait, with consideration to be given to communications (principally seaborne), defensibility and the presence of an agricultural hinterland to support the new capital. The Commission visited the towns of Wanganui, Picton, Blenheim, Nelson and Wellington and considered the submissions of these candidates. The full printed report may be found in the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1864 Session I, D-02. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (57 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (34 cm; brown cloth) Provenance: Originally from the Gunn family, Tasmania, 1907. In 1907 newspapers reported that the family of the Tasmanian Commissioner, Ronald Campbell Gunn, either sold or gave his papers relating to the Commission to "a well-known private collector of New Zealand literature", who has since been identified as Walter Godfrey Mantell. (New Zealand Herald, Vol XLIV, Issue 13544, 16 September 1907, page 7; See also Paperspast)

Date: Between 1912 and 1933

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-263

Description: Photograph album created by Charles John Lindsay, containing scenes of various holiday yachting cruises, usually at Christmas and Easter (between 1925 and 1933), to the Marlborough Sounds and Kapiti Island. Crew members are identified with initials and surnames. The yachts they crewed on were the Viking, Iolanthe, Wairere (I), and Rawene. Many other yachts seen while sailing are also named. Picnic parties including men and women are shown in group portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

Date: 27 Nov 1997

By: Morgan, A J, 1910?-

Reference: OHColl-0447-01

Description: Interview with retired boat builder Jack Morgan of Morgan's Boatyard, The Wharf, Picton. Notes his apprenticeship began in 1925. Discusses various boats and their owners and describes Picton and Port Underwood earlier this century. Notable boats constructed were Masport Cup winners Pelorus Jack and Redhead, the first police launch Lady Elizabeth and numerous whale boats, fishing boats and launches. Interviewer(s) - Carol Dawber Accompanying material - List of boats built at Morgan's Boatyard, The Wharf, Picton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007114 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1741 (2 folders).

Date: [1860s?- 1900]

From: Stout family: Photographs

By: Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919; Johnston, Alexander, 1839-1896; Gaul, John, active 1986; McGregor, John, -1894; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-10493-2

Description: Studio portraits of people associated with the Stout family, circa 1860s to 1880s. Taken by a range of photographers. Most of the portraits are of unidentified men, women, children, and family groups. One photograph is identified as Elizabeth Warren (nee Holmes). Identified photographers are Morris (Dunedin), J M McGregor, J Gaul, Burton Brothers, Ross & Pringle, A Johnston, Hemus & Hanna, Clifford, and Herrmann. There is one amateur photograph, taken by an unidentified photographer, of a group at Underwood, circa 1900. Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1879

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-004

Description: Two yellow celmisias, one on the left from Mt Arthur, Nelson, with clusters of small round flowers; the second, on the right, from Port Underwood, Marlborough, with brownish-yellow silken grass-like flowers and leaves. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title underlined in ink; also title in ink upper left, pencilled title lower right and pencilled signature lower left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 242 x 187 mm

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-083

Description: Looking north east down the Wairau River valley with the foothills of the Richmond Range to the left with 'Ward's Pass' marked on the far left, and two marks in the distance indicating hills that may mark the south head of Port Underwood and the area of the artist's second traverse Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink in the hand of T. B. Collinson. Further annotations top left and in the sky area top centre and top right indicating passes and distant features Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 161 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1994

By: Davies, George Neville, 1921-2010

Reference: MSY-3842

Description: `Not beyond Redemption' by George Davies is a biography of Captain John Guard describing his early life in London, time in Newgate prison, work as a convict transportee, sealer, sea-captain and whaler based at Kakapo Bay in Port Underwood working between New Zealand and Sydney. John and Betty Guard and their two children were onboard the Harriet when it was wrecked off the Taranaki coast in 1834 and the biography details the subsequent experiences of the Guard family and the role the Alligator played in this incident, finishing with the subsequent farming career of John Guard at Kakapo Bay. The biography contains photographs and copies of illustrations of people and places mentioned. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (some photocopies)

Date: 1988

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7040

Description: Photographs of the West Coast and Queen Charlotte Sound taken on a trip to the South Island in 1988 by John Ingle. Views include white rata; the Centennial Memorial at Canvastown (1864-1964); Runanga Beach, and a prickly plant on the beach; views from Port Underwood Road including Robin Hood Bay, and White's Bay, and a euphrasia plant by the road; Picton from Queen Charlotte Road; Queen Charlotte Sound; and Anakiwa. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1938 - 1837 - 1952

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-1/2/5-Acc.35922

Description: Shows bays and coves around Port Underwood and Cloudy Bay - Oyster Cove; Kames Bay; Harriet Cove; Kakapo Cove; Guard's Cove; Fergusson's Cove and White's Bay. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale indeterminable. 48 x 31.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: May 1939-Oct 1940

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-006

Description: Correspondence and notes about whaling and sealing, and whaling stations throughout the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Considerable correspondence relating to Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and Peraki whaling activities. Some notes about Kapiti and surrounding districts. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1836

Reference: MapColl-834.2aj/[1836]/Acc.3050

Description: Hydrographic chart of Cloudy Bay and Port Underwood showing depths and two coastal profiles of the east entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound and the land surrounding White Cliffs. Annotations relate to the appearance of the land, the location of wood and water, and areas of the coastline prone to rough seas. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Positive photocopy, paper with linen backing, scale [1:90 000], 43 x 55 cm.

Date: 1899

From: Maps of Marlborough Province and Māori Nomenclature

By: Greenfield, Francis Edmund, 1862-1941

Reference: MapColl-834.2ee/[1903]/Acc.57228

Description: Published lithograph map of the Gore Survey District, drawn by Francis Edmund Greenfield for the Department of Lands and Survey, lithographed in December 1899. Shows land blocks, geographical features, boundaries and place names in both reo Māori and English. Annotated by an unidentified person with reo Māori places names. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Arrived at library within a bound volume. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph map, 41.4 x 54.0 cm Processing information: Item disbound for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1848

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Wairau Plain. Jan. 1848

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-004-1

Description: The hills of Port Underwood in the distance, looking along the beachline of the Wairau Plain. The right-hand section of a two-part panorama On the face of the painting, at the top, is No. 273 (added at a later date), with the N Z Company stamp which is dated 14 July 1848. The title which is prefixed by "No 6" is taken from the verso of the painting. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 209 x 524 mm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull's collection, purchased London, 1915, from Francis Edwards, as part of the New Zealand Company collection Processing information: This work is in two parts, formerly separate, joined in the 1990s. It is stored with F-sized material.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-153

Description: A view of Opihi Bay, at the head of Port Underwood, identifying the property of Mr Jenkins Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Aug 17 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: Jan 1809-Jun 1843

By: Heberley, James, 1809-1899; Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962

Reference: MS-0971

Description: The early section of the diary recounts Heberley's experiences as a captain's apprentice and cabin boy on vessels sailing out of London to many destinations including Hamburg, Sydney and the West Indies. Much of the later narrative describes whaling and the life of a whaler in Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. Also describes life with local Maori which includes comments on Maori tribal wars, his experiences with Te Rauparaha, the taking of slaves and conflict with Europeans. In 1831 Heberley took as his wife a Maori woman at Port Underwood (later married by Samuel Ironside in 1840). Heberley purchased land in Port Nicholson before the arrival of the New Zealand Company. He piloted the Tory into Port Nicholson, and round the coast to Wanganui and Taranaki. While she was at Kaipara he climbed Mount Egmont with Dieffenbach (Dec 1839). Diary ends in June 1843 as Heberley gives up his role as a pilot operating in Worser Bay and moves into Port Nicholson to start fishing and returns to whaling. Diary probably transcribed by an unknown hand, with further annotations added, giving proper Māori spellings for words used in the original manuscript. Heberley was a whaler who became a pilot in Wellington. He was also known as `Worser' and Worser Bay is named after him. His brother's name, 'John Hebley', appears at the top of the first page. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: MS (20cm; blue binding case)

Date: 1847

From: [Greenwood, John Danforth] 1803-1890 :[Sketchbook] 1822 [1825], 1847.

By: Greenwood, John Danforth, 1803-1890

Reference: E-150-q-059

Description: Looking down on the river mouth and north along the coast towards Port Underwood Other Titles - View in the Nelson region (former title) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 128 x 210 mm

Date: 1849

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-034

Description: A moonlit or early evening view showing a rocky headland with an arched rock, and a Maori canoe with a sail in the left foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Pt. Underwood N.Z. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 155 x 260 mm