Te Kohanga

Date: 1968, 1990, 200-

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8897-55

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1845-1972

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-19-15

Description: Registers for Parish of Takapuna, 1954-1966; St Peter's Church, Takapuna, 1966-1972; St John's College Chapel, Tamaki West, 1845-1968; Te Kohanga and Mercer (Tuakau), 1886-1921; Thames, Hauraki, Waiheke,1886-1921; Waikato District, 1837-1904; Lower Waikato, 1908-1928 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: See inventory for fuller details.

Date: 1858, 1905

By: Stack, Eliza Rachel Jane, 1829-1919

Reference: MS-2042

Description: The journal begins in March 1858 and ends in November 1858. A note, 24 years later, describes her revisit to Kohanga and gives a brief historical summary. The journal describes life in Auckland, a voyage to Tauranga on the cutter `Hope', and visits to mission stations there and at Maketu, a trip through the thermal area and back to Auckland through Thames, the Waikato and Taupiri. Eliza Jones describes Maori life and conditions, flora and fauna as well as many of the people she met on her journey, including Archeacon Brown, Rev Volkner, John Kinder and Thomas Chapman, whose poem `The rats' lament', about the Maketu rats, is given in full. The journal has been copy edited, probably by A H Reed This journey described in `Further Maoriland Adventures of J W and E Stack', (Dunedin: Reed, 1938) Source of title - Title page Variations in title - Spine title: New Zealand 1858 Eliza Jones visited New Zealand in 1857 and married the missionary, Rev James West Stack in 1861. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (187 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) (27 cm; black boards) Photographs, reproductions from published items, and two original watercolour sketches presumably done by Eliza Jones, one of Kohanga Mission Station on the Waikato River and another of a river scene

Date: 1853

By: Hagan, P, active 1853

Reference: MapColl-832.14eke/1853/Acc.8314

Description: Survey map depicting Te Kohanga alongside the Waikato River, between Patumahoe survey point and Tikorangi Hill, South Auckland. Shows Kohanga [Anglican] Mission Station, school, site for church, Te Kohanga landing place, Tikirahi landing place, and Kakenga Pa beside large green bush. Depicts surveyed cadastral land, lot number 2 and 3, granted to the Bishop of New Zealand of over 470 acres, of which 144 are swamp, for a school. Right bottom corner of map reads (unsigned): This is not a land claim, 18.10.67. Bottom right hand corner reads: Surveyed by P.?. Hagan, 7th Dec, 1853. Other faint annotations: 'not being a land claim', and that land granted in trust for Raglan School, 'R.A. ?f.d. 319'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale [ca.1:7920], 40 x 53 cm.

Date: [ca 1861]

From: Stack, Eliza Rachel Jane, 1829-1919 : Jottings from my New Zealand journal / E R J J[ones]

Reference: MS-2042-154a

Description: Sketch by Eliza Stack, showing the CMS mission station at Te Kohanga on the Waikato River. Detail includes "Dr Maunsell's house and Girls School nearest to the river and Boys School the furthest from the river" and features the church. Watercolour has been mounted on the verso of p 154 of the typescript. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil 140 x 228 mm