Waiohine River

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-050

Description: A view towards hills across a broad river. A small house or whare is visible on the opposite bank Other Titles - Gorge of Waiohine Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: [1920s?]

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-234

Description: Scenes of a group of men tramping in the central North Island. Views include a number of tramping huts, mountain scenes, and a few with the group identified by surname only. Names include Von Haast, Hoggard, Morrison, Maitland, Major Wyman, Beaglehole, Jerram and T A H (Thomas Alexander Hunter). Most photographs probably taken by Thomas Alexander Hunter. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Outer cover of dark cream buckram, 28 x 22 cm; with small coverless album inside, 17 x 21 cm

Date: 1968

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington and Patoka sketchbook.] February-June 1968

Reference: E-463-f-004

Description: View of river and riverbank at point where there are rapids Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 320 x 385 mm

Date: 1990-[ca 2002]

From: Macnamara, Galvan, 1941-2004 :Family photographs, travels in the USA, friends and collegues, and the work of New Zealand artists

Reference: PAColl-8714-03

Description: Aerial photographs of the Waiohine river and adjacent land, including the block collectivly purchased by Galvan Macnamara and a group of friends. There are images of Galvan and co-owners with friends during meals and other social events. Domestic scenes on the land such as meals being prepared in a caravan, men seated under awnings and at tables. Photographs of Galvan's dog Puka, and of Galvin with Puka and another of him holding a baby. The Waiohine River in flood. Galvan's parents. A sequence of images recording moving a small house onto the Wairarapa land, and views of the land from ground level. Quantity: 56 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: [1865-?]

Reference: MapColl-832.45a/[1865-?]/Acc.43714

Description: Sketch map showing topographical features of an area of land in the Wairarapa from the Tauherenikau River at the bottom of the map to the Taratahi Plain at the top of the map. The left side shows the Moroa Plain and the Waiohine River and the right side shows the Wangaehu [Whangaehu] River. The Ruamahanga River is shown running from the top to the bottom of the map. The locations of the townships of Carterton and Greyton [Greytown] are identified and two areas named as Kaikoka [Ahikouka] and Papawai. Morrison's farm [possibly Morison's Bush] is also identified. Two spot heights are named as Haldon Hill and Warleigh Hill. Red lines suggest possible roads as one is identified as "new line of road". An annotation written at the top right corner of the map where six dots point to a river dividing into two, states "Hence [indecipherable word] junction of the Waingawa & Ruamahanga is 1.3/4 miles". The farm identified as "Morison's farm" was a farm station initially called Hakeke, later Glenmorven, located near Greytown, Wairarapa. From 1846 it was run by Hugh Morrison (1782-1872) and Anne, nee Turner (1800?-1844). The area is known as Morison's Bush or Morrison's Bush. Two branches of the Morison/ Morrison family spell their name differently. The family at Greytown use “Morison” – those at Blairlogie, near Masterton use the double ‘r’. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper glued to linen backing, coloured. Scale not given, 36.9 cm x 49 cm. Processing information: Record updated 4 November 2023 to add information about Hakeke station.

Date: [ca 1875]

Reference: 1/1-132922

Description: Part of a 2 part panorama showing ford over the Waiohine River, ca 1875. A horse-drawn vehicle, a man on horseback and dwelling houses can be seen across the stream. There is a pile of drift wood on the riverbed. Image of other part of this panorama to be found at Neg. no., G. EP. 1/2-1491 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 27 March 1976

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/1091-F

Description: Jeff Sayer of Masterton manouvers his Air Contracts 300 helicopter during a search and rescue excercise in the eastern Tararua Range. The purpose of this excercise is to pick up a mountaineering club member from a rock in the Waiohine River. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer 27 March 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: 30 December 1982

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-

Reference: EP/1982/5075

Description: Bulldozer making channels in shingle deposits in the Waiohine River, near Greytown, Wairarapa. The deposits have caused the river to diverge and flood surrounding farmland. Photographed 30 December 1982 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-049

Description: Hills probably near Waikanae River or Waiohine Gorge Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1900

By: Bianchi, Francis Otho, -1947; Calcinai, J M (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: G-304

Description: Shows part of Tararua Range in background, with the Waiohine in flood in the foreground, a cabbage tree to the left on a bank. Similar in style to the work of F. O. Bianchi. He usually signed his work F O B September 2016: The Library holds a more highly-finished studio painting of almost he same scene, by William George Baker (1864-1929), at G-105. Other Titles - Bianchi, Francis Otho Inscriptions: Signature indecipherable; may be Trapp. [Information from catalogue card. Location of signature unknown. Possibly beneath frame]. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 252 x 360 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs J M Calcinai, Strathmore Park, Wellington, 11 May 1972

Date: 1845 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Trapp, H H, active 1983

Reference: B-062-021

Description: Shows three figures tramping across a plain, with flax bushes and cabbage trees. In the background, the landscape is probably Waiohine Gorge with Mounts Isabelle and Holdsworth (Identified by A G Bagnall, 4/7/1983) The background landscape was identified by A G Bagnall, at the time of donation, personal communication to Curator, 4 July 1983 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; visible image 195 x 312 mm on sheet 310 x 430 mm

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Manawatu sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-172-009

Description: View from bush-clad hills looking down at the Waiohine River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sketchbook page, 138 x 260 mm

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: 1/1-000793-F

Description: Part 1 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River and two horse drawn carriages. Pieces of driftwood in the foreground may be the debris from a flood which occured on December 12-13 1875. Trees, a power pole and a house are also visible. Photograph taken by James Bragge. Panorana published in `Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa: images of a city and its provinces from he 1860's to the 1890's as recorded by photographer James Bragge 1833-1908' by William Main, 1974, pages 50-51. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 12 May 1965

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-64492-F

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Manawatu sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-172-010

Description: Looking across the Waiohine River towards the opposite bank with gravel layers, calcareous rock, and herringbone shale layers marked. Large trees on the top of the bank Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sketchbook page, 132 x 230 mm

Date: 1904

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: Drummond, Thomas McKay, 1846-1934

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/1905/Acc.27417

Description: Cadastral map of numbered land blocks in Hūpēnui, Pūrākau, Powhatu, Pāpāwai, Uruokakiti North and Kaitara. Includes the Mahunoa and Tewaipakiaka Streams, the Ruamahanga and Waiohine Rivers. Roads are marked, including Papawai Road. College Reserve is marked. Includes the names Burch and Tapere. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on dressed linen, 31.6 x 27 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - From the Fran Te Whaiti papers, MS-Group-0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.

Date: 13-19 February 1909

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-008-26

Description: View into the valley of the Waiohine River, Tararua Range. Photographed by George Leslie Adkin between 13-19 February 1909. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Fig 26. The Waiohine-iti Valley, also U shaped at its upper end. Lower down, this valley has the normal V-shaped cross-section of stream erosion. Waiohine-iti Pinnacles on left. This photograph was taken during the first crossing of the Tararua Range from Levin to Masterton, 13-19 February 1909. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.7 x 9.5 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: April 1915

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: 1/2-029399-F

Description: Photograph of a group at Bassett's Hut, Waiohine Valley, Tararua Ranges, taken Easter 1915 by Surveyor Hubert Earle Girdlestone. Group consists of Girdlestone's tramping companions Cyril Woods and George Moir, and two deer stalkers who had stayed with them in the hut on the previous night. Pack horse and gig in photograph belong to the stalkers. Tramping party was on two day trip from Greytown to Otaki via the Mount Hector track. Note on back of file print reads: "Basset's [sic] Hut with spur up which track commences (above the chimney)" Photographer Hubert Earle Girdlestone, Cyril Woods and George Moir undertook a tramp on the Mount Hector track in Easter 1915. See his account, this photograph and others in "A Trip Across the Tararua Ranges From Greytown to Otaki" in the Department of Lands and Survey Annual Report 1915, Appendix to the House of Representatives 1915 Session, C-1A Appendix V (pgs 26-31), and see Evening Post 8 April 1915 pg.2). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Date and persons identified by Library clients. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: 1/1-000794-F

Description: Part 2 of a 2 part panorama showing a ford over the Waiohine River with the settlement of Greytown in the background. Pieces of driftwood in the middle ground may be the debris from a flood which occured on December 12-13 1875. Photograph taken by James Bragge. Panorana published in `Bragge's Wellington and the Wairarapa: images of a city and its provinces from he 1860's to the 1890's as recorded by photographer James Bragge 1833-1908' by William Main, 1974, pages 50-51. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 25 June 1942

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-123915-G

Description: Shows the damage to the Waiohine bridge after the Masterton earthquake in 1942. A soldier is standing guard on the bridge. Photograph taken 25 June 1942 by unidentified Evening Post photographer. Arrangement: Print available in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at EP-Earthquakes 1940s-1950s (14/4) The Masterton approach to the Waiohine bridge sank badly during the June 1942 earthquake, compelling traffic to seek a deviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).