Mangakāhia

Date: 19 Jan 1844-8 Apr 1846

From: Marist Fathers. Archives : Papers relating to the Catholic Mission in New Zealand

Reference: Micro-MS-0669-01

Description: This reel contains the journals when he was stationed at Mangakahia on the Northern Wairoa. The entries are continuous throughout the period, apart for a few missing pages. The journals are written in a series of books. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Index to Volume 1 in inventory. See inventory for a summary of the contents (pp 12-17).

Date: 1985-1996

By: New Zealand Country Women's Institutes. Pakōtai Branch

Reference: MSX-4893-4901

Description: Includes a number of individual school projects which cover the local history of the Mangakahia Valley, in the Whangarei district. Subjects vary from the local stores, school, river and roads to individual biographies of local people and family members. Source of title - The awards were set up by the New Zealand Country Women's Institute - Pakotai Branch. In 1985 the Pakotai Country Women's Institute set up a Pioneer Award to be competed for between Pakotai and Parakao Schools. The major purpose of the award is to record the local history of the area. Many of these original projects have had notes added to them by Mrs Margaret Hunter. Quantity: 9 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: [ca 1890-1936]

By: Abernethy, William, 1865-1930?; Allen, (Miss), active 1910s; Blencowe, James Rasdell, 1871-1945; Carberry, M V, active 1910s; Churton, C E, active 1904; Ellerbeck Studio; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Le Grice, Edward, 1881-1959; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940; Peter Pan Studio; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Raphael Tuck & Sons (Firm); Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Taylor, T E, active 1899; Walker, George Allen, -1915; William Beattie & Company; Wilson, William Thompson, 1882-1917

Reference: PAColl-0718

Description: A collection of postcards and printed views (possibly from a magazine) of New Zealand scenes primarily of towns and cities rather than scenic views. They include one of two Maori women washing clothes at Rotorua, another of the Royal visit in 1927 and a family group of seven men and three women possibly taken in Belfast. A number of the postcards have been used. Also included are five original photographs which have been captioned with the family connections: a soldier in uniform, possibly named Ralph Ferguson; Uncle Henry Babe's wedding photograph; cousin Violet Bradford in America; Albert and Elizabeth (Eliza) Babe (brother and sister) and four others; Thomas and Fanny Babe (grandpa and grandma) with Eliza, Harold, Albert, Olivia, Queenie and Gladys. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 55 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1856-1968

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-08

Description: Registers of St George's (Arch Hill) Kingsland, 1915-1968; Magakahia, 1886-1937; St James', Mangere, 1874-1924; St Saviours', Mangere, 1918-1936; St James', Mangee (Maori), 1932-1948; Mangonui 1868-1922; Mauku, Pukekohe, 1887-1914; St Luke's, Mt Albert, 1872-1901; St Jude's, new Lynn, 1872-1931; St John the Baptist Church, Northcote, 1856-1921 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 26 Feb 2008

From: Maori Linemen oral history project

By: Matthews, William, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0889-02

Description: Interview with Bill (William) Matthews, born in Auckland in 1949. Refers to being adopted with his twin brother to the Matthews family in the Mangakahia Valley, Pakotai, who were relatives. Refers to his father Teuri Matthews having been wounded at Monte Casino while in the 28th Maori Batallion, and his mother Queenie leaving the family when he was a child. Discusses the small community in the valley, the communal vegetable gardens, fishing, pig hunting, and timber milling (kauri). Talks about attending the Pakotai Maori School, frienships made and playing rugby. Comments on living with various people when he attended Titoki District High and hand milking cows before and after school. Refers to his birth mother making contact with his brother when they were 47, visiting her in Rotorua and meeting their half brothers and sisters. Refers to working as a fencing contractor and scrub-cutter before moving to Auckland to work at the Otahuhu substation. Talks about moving to Clyde with a group of 20 to work on the line between Roxburgh and Cromwell, and staying in the area for over 20 years installing pylons and high tension lines. Comments on moving into maintenance work later, moving to the Marlborough area in the mid 1970s, and running a line with a 6 man crew up Wairau Valley. Discusses the upheavals of the restructuring into SOEs (state owned enterprises) in the late 1980s, with linemen being given severance then having to rehire them. Talks about having contract training work with Transpower, including live line training, at Omaka, Indonesia and Australia. Reflects on superiors who influenced him, and that he would like to have known more about engineering. Comments on life in the work camps, the whanau atmosphere, playing rugby, socialising in pubs, hunting and fishing. Discusses meeting his wife, a trainee nurse from Haast, in Clyde. Mentions that his wife encouraged their children to speak Maori. Talks about being diagnosed with cancer in 1992 and having bone marrow transplants and chemotherapy. Mentions the stresses from his career lifestyle, and their children's careers. Interviewer(s) - David Young Venue - Recorded in the TransPower Omaka Training Centre, Blenheim Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-000175 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.52 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Digital sound recording - wave audio; Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5932, OHDL-001512. Search dates: 1949 - 2008

Date: 1842

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-039-3

Description: Shows a raised house with ladder access, in a fenced enclosure which separates it from a group of pigs and a goose or hen in the foreground. Other Titles - View of my lodging house for a week at Kaingunopipe, Mangakahia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Probably shows a pa near the Mangakahia River, Northland. Taylor was based at the Waimate Mission Station in 1842. The Mangakahia River was the common route from the Bay of Islands to the Kaipara and was used by other missionaries at the time, including Walter Buller and Father Garin. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 85 x 150 mm.

Date: 1845 - 1850

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-039-2

Description: Shows the interior of a raupo hut with provisions or sleeping blankets piled along the wall at the right. There is a figure seated in the doorway. Mangakahia is a remote settlement to the west of Whangarei Other Titles - Interior of the provisions house Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and sepia, 75 x 95 mm.