Te Kao

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: ca 1913

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6565

Description: Three views of Te Kao School, one showing the school and the children outside doing keep fit; one captioned "Te Kao native school boys who are walking from the North Cape to the Auckland Exhibition November 1913" with some of them in an acrobatic formation; and another of a teacher and some of the boys doing acrobatics. Photographer for the captioned image is Northwood. Arrangement: Negatives housed at: 1/4-015200 to 015202 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 25 January - 5 February 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-3738

Description: Northland post offices closed in 1988 Arrangement: Negatives housed at 10x8-1859 to 1885 Quantity: 27 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives 8 x 10 inches

Date: January 1988

By: Aberhart, Laurence, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-1298

Description: Photographs of post offices and post office agencies, scheduled to be closed in the 1988 Post office restructuring, photographed in January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Source of title - Title supplied by Library In 1988 the Alexander Turnbull Library commissioned eight New Zealand professional photographers to make a documentary record of some of the Post Offices that closed that year. Laurence Aberhart was one of these photographers. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 26 January 1988

From: Aberhart, Laurence :Photographs of Northland post offices

Reference: 10x8-1877-F

Description: Entrance to Te Kao store and post office, photographed 26 January 1988 by Laurence Aberhart. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 8 x 10 inches

Date: [1950-1961]

From: Pedersen, Doris Taur, 1907-2001 : Papers relating to her career in nursing

Reference: MS-Papers-7072-5

Description: The story of a young nurse who nursed in Te Kao in 1945 and a talk by Pedersen, `Present day health problems of the Maori and the effect on public health nurses' work' (1961); also `Ronga Maori', giving Maori health remedies and practices using local plants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1910s

Reference: PAColl-5286

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015200 to 015202 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: [14 September 1975]

From: Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March

Reference: 35mm-87491-F

Description: Scenes of participants in Maori Land March, taken circa 14 September 1975 by Christian Heinegg between Te Hapua and Te Kao. Includes the march leaving Te Reo Mihi Marae, Whina Cooper with others on the road, and two people on a beach. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 35mm

Date: 17 Oct 1990

From: Maori Women's Welfare League: Interviews

By: Karena, Rangitaupua Wiki, 1906-1995; Szaszy, Mira, 1921-2001

Reference: OHInt-0602-26

Description: Rangi Karena, born 1906. Talks about her life, including experiences as a member of the Maori Women's Welfare League. Recalls living in Te Kao. Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 35 Minutes Duration. Search dates: 1990

Date: 1 Nov 2003 - 01 Nov 2003

From: Tying the knot with the tangata whenua

By: Kite, Ronald Percival James, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0758/02

Description: Interview with Ronald Kite, born London, 15 May 1928. Talks about his childhood in Islington, London during the Depression, living in poverty with extended family and how this background helped him to fit into a rural Maori family. Mentions starting work when he was 14 during World War II, first in a munitions factory and later going to sea in the merchant service. Talks about coming to New Zealand in 1952 and staying, although he went back to sea later because he could not settle ashore. Refers to meeting his wife Waiheke Heta (Te Aupouri) who had grown up in Te Kao (Northland) in poverty in a large family, and had not learnt English until she went to school. Comments that she married early but left her abusive husband after having two children. Mentions they met at the hotel where Waiheke was working and moved in to her sister-in-law's house in New Lynn when Waiheke was pregnant. Refers to the fact that this was at the time when Maori migration to the cities was increasing. Discusses the fraught relationship he had with his wife's family although he got on well with her iwi. Describes allowing his children to be baptised in the Ratana church of their mother. Mentions his wife was buried at Te Kao after she was killed in an accident, and the family said he would be buried next to her. Mentions he picked up Te Reo and learnt Maori customs by trial and error. Refers to friendships with other Pakeha men who were in relationships with Maori women. Comments on racial discrimination in accommodation and services in the 1950s and 1960s. Discusses Waiheke's participation in the Maori land march led by Whena Cooper. Comments that he feels relations between Maori and Pakeha have deteriorated since the early 1950s and refers to the dignity of elderly Maori he met up north at that time. Interviewer(s) - Jane Reeves Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014009 - OHC-014010 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-5008, transcript only. 2 C60 cassette(s). 1. 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Search dates: 1928 - 2003

Date: 13-17 September 1975

From: Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March

Reference: 35mm-87489

Description: Scenes of participants in Maori Land March, taken between 13 to 17 September 1975 by Christian Heinegg between Te Hapua and Te Kao. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 35mm

Date: 13-17 September 1975

From: Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March

Reference: 35mm-87490

Description: Scenes of participants in Maori Land March, taken between 13 to 17 September 1975 by Christian Heinegg between Te Hapua and Te Kao. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 35mm

Date: 13-17 September 1975

From: Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March

Reference: 35mm-87488

Description: Scenes of participants in Maori Land March, taken between 13 to 17 September 1975 by Christian Heinegg between Te Hapua and Te Kao, including Mangamuka. Includes a woman walking into the Te Reo Powhiri Ratana Church at Te Hapua; Hone Tuwhare and two other people standing outsidee the Ratana Church; and a man riding a horse. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 35mm

Date: [13-17 September 1975]

From: Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March

Reference: 35mm-87492

Description: Scenes of participants in Maori Land March, taken circa 14 September 1975 by Christian Heinegg between Te Hapua and Te Kao. Source of descriptive information - Notes on negative envelope Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) strip with 4 images. Physical Description: Dye coupler negative 35mm

Date: 1963-1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-841

Description: Towns and localities of northern Northland in 1972. Children of the region and a junior Colf Club competition at Towai. The country Library Service's Bookvan features in many of the photographs. There is also a small group of photographs taken at Cape Reinga in 1963. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1848-1961

From: Church of England in New Zealand Auckland Diocese : Church registers

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-12

Description: Registers of St Mark's, Paparoa, 1874-1927; Whakapirau, Paparoa, 1848-1928; Paparoa Parish, Maungawai, Hakarau, Kaiwaka, Tara, 1871-1933; Paparoa, Kaiwaka, Hakwara, Maungawai, 1954-1961; Parengarena, Te Kao (incl Oriwa), 1868-1924; Peria Mangonui (maori), 1867-1924; Public Institutions, Rev E C Budd, 1915-1928 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1900-1919]

From: Northwood brothers :Photographs of Northland

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PAColl-7219

Description: Postcards of a Maori chief from Whangape in a feathered cloak with moko and carrying a taiaha; mail coaches leaving Ohaeawai; sheep mustering on McKenzie's Estate, Herekino where the sheep are being herded into a field next to a beach; two of the second oldest church in New Zealand at Waimate North; Bedgood's Mill at Waimate North; Bedgood's mill waterwheel; a horse and cart heading to the Waimate Show in the distance; Te Paki Cattle Station; Houhora Hotel and harbour; Mount Camel and heads, Houhora harbour; moonlight on Houhora harbour; Herekino settlement; Herekino harbour overlooking Keay's with Manukau in the distance; Kerikeri Falls; Kohukohu showing the hotel and other buildings on the waterfront; two boats on the Waihopo River; a girl talking to a boy on a horse with the staff quarters of the Kaitaia Wireless Station behind them; three views of the Kaitai Radio Station (in operation 1912-1929); two men on rope slings gathering gum from a kauri tree; view of Kaikohe; Government Buildings, Kaikohe; Kaikohe Hotel with two men on ponies outside; two men on bicycles with the Kaitaia Post Office behind them; view of Mangonui; a man boating in Mangamuka Gorge; the Mangamuka River; sheep being driven along a road in Marangai, looking west; two views of Marangai looking east; a view of Kerikeri from the river showing the Stone Store and Kemp House; the bathing pool at Ngawha Springs; the Black Lake, Ngawha Springs; Ngataki Lake, Waihopo; boys from Te Kao North Cape Native School doing a haka; Ohaeawai Hotel; the Church of England, Ohaeawai (with additional photography by Radcliffe); the pier in Parengarenga Harbour; sheep on the road at Ohaeawai; a loaded horse-drawn cart on the main street in Ohaeawai, looking west; a steam locomotive pulling kauri logs at Puketi; and a kauri tree in a forest with a hut behind it. Photographer was Northwood Brothers. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002254, 002392, 002395, 002741, 002742, 002744 to 002746, 002748 to 002750, 002788 to 002795, 002809 to 002811, 002825, 002826, 002828, 002881, 002882, 002889, 002909 to 002911, 003123, 003156 to 003159, 003187, 003260 (additional copy at 1/2-021628), 003499 to 003503, 003543, 026804, 002998 to 003000, 032360 Quantity: 48 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: January 1961, 1964

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7582

Description: Transparencies of Puketu Forest, Te Kao, and distant view of Hen and Chickens Islands, taken January 1961 and 1964 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1877, 1901

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0932

Description: Candidates came from Lake Rotoiti, Taumarere (Bay of Islands), Tokomaru Bay, Te Kao, Rapaki, Te Aute College, St Stephen's School (Parnell), Tokaanu, Ranana School (Rotorua), Rangitukia Native School Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Oct 1920-22 Feb 1934

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-002

Description: Contains a copy of an undated submission to the Minister of Maori Affairs by a group of Whanganui leaders calling for a review of Maori land administration, requesting reserves and the establishment of a secondary school, and asking that Maori be given access to farminng assistance Also contains letters and telegrams about land issues, Nga Moteatea, whakapapa and the impact of the Ratana movement in the Far North Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.