Matahiwi

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-045

Description: View looking towards the hills with a farm fence and cleared land in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: October 1954

By: Smart, Maxwell James Grant, 1898-1972

Reference: PAColl-6617

Description: Photographs of three sites discovered the the Wanganui Museum: the shed housing the Kawana flour mill at Matahiwi showing the top of the 18 foot waterwheel; traces of the flour mill at Operiki, near Koriniti; and the waterwheel that powered the mill at Pipiriki. Photographer unidentified, but it was probably Maxwell Smart, the director of Wanganui Museum. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-018173 to 018174 and 028677 to 028684 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1978, 1981-1982, 1992, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-11671

Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Most slides are not dated. Arrangement: The second of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1937, 1939, nd

From: Daniell, Frederick Charles, 1879-1953 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3763-4/5/3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1979-1985]

From: Einhorn family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1094

Description: Travel photograph album of New Zealand trips ca 1979-1985. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 320 x 300 mm

Date: 1856, 1888.

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-346-2

Description: Views of Teneriffe, Rio, Mount Peel, Orari, Lyttelton, Wanganui, Tarawera before the eruption, Wellington region, Cape Horn. Attributed when first catalogued to Laura Harper, the donor's grandmother, then to M. G. C. Lysaght on the basis of style and contents. However the handwriting, subject-matter and style match those of work in other sketchbooks by Mary Medley, who was the donor, Cranleigh Barton's, great-aunt. The Library has been given other Mary Medley sketchbooks by Cranleigh Barton. There was no known reason why Cranleigh Barton might possess a sketchbook by Mary Lysaght, other than a possibility that Mary Lysaght was a friend of Cranleigh Barton's mother. (A niece of Mary Lysaght's, Mrs Mary Watt, can recall a Mrs Barton, who was a friend of "Aunt Mary's") Other Titles - Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline. Harper, Laura. [Former attributions] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 24 drawing(s) pencil. 31 watercolour(s) several spread across two sheets. Physical Description: Pencil & pencil & watercolour on 102 pages 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-047

Description: A farmhouse amongst partially cleared bush, looking towards hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 9 Jan 1871

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0695A-07

Description: Letter with contemporary translation regarding building a house Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 2 leaves).

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0417-F

Description: Images show scenes from [Matahiwi?], Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes from a local school. Children can be seen attending a sewing class, also shown are children playing on the monkey bars in the playground. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0416-F

Description: Images show scenes from [Matahiwi?], Whanganui River, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show scenes from a local school. Children can be seen doing school work, raising their hands to answer questions and sewing by hand. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 6 April 1955

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-37645-F

Description: Aerial view of the Whanganui River and surrounding countryside. Matahiwi Village is in the middle foreground, and beyond the village is Moutere Island. Photograph taken 6 April 1955 by Whites Aviation. Library client identified Matahiwi and Moutere Island in this photograph, March 2011. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, 13 x 14 cm

Date: 1 Mar 1871

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0695B-01

Description: Contemporary translation only regarding a house being built by Nepia Taratoa Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).

Date: 1872

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0696H-12

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: [ca 1917]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 3

Reference: PAColl-5671-41

Description: Unidentified man on a horse, outside Tanewai meeting house in Matahiwi, circa 1917. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 19 Jul 1865

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0689G-09

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 6 May 1870

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0694B-10

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (4 pages on 1 leaf).

Date: 2 [?] Jan 1862

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0686A-02

Description: Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).