Pipitea

Date: 1840-1855, 1934

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington

Reference: fMS-Papers-1432

Description: Contemporary copy of register of marriages (1840-1845), burials (1840-1845), and baptisms (1840-1844), of original register in St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. Lists of Maori confirmations at Pipitea, Wainui and Waikanae in 1855 and 1856; list of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in Kapiti parish (1845-1846), compiled by Rev O Hadfield for census of the Ngatiawa tribe; Wanganui church return for 1844. Includes a canticle by Robert Parker. Note, the names appended are indicative only. Researchers should refer to the contents as there are too many names to list. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: [1906]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-176

Description: Various documents including correspondence, notes and receipts; identified persons entered under Name. Includes some documents in Maori; letter, E J Riddiford re re due by Hoeta [?] Uinini; application re restrictions, [?] Ngarongoa Tamati; letter, Stafford & Treadwell re Hinakitaka and natives to Eglinton, telegram from Seddon re petition of prisoner, Mahikai; accounts of Ngarongoa, Puke, Thomas Hay, [?] Longa, Tamihana te Karu and Jerry Edwin; part of letter, Field to Postmaster, Martinborough re tracing of Watarauiki Te Paki; receipt, James Fox and Heremaia [?] Eruini; letter re Pollhill Gully and Hana Te Awhitu; letter re sale of Ngarara West C; letter re payment to Te Rei re Opau; letter re Matai [?] Paroi of Porirua; letter re Ropata, Hawe and Watson. Language - Many documents in Maori (untranslated) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 4 Jan 1840

From: Treadwells : Legal documents

Reference: MSI-Papers-8243-2

Description: Arrangement: The item in this folder has been flattened, refoldered and assigned a new reference number. Previous reference number was MS-Papers-2634-1/12 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for description of contents of this folder.

Date: [ca 1927]

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

Reference: PA6-344A

Description: Panoramic view of Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, showing the SS 'Mataroa', taken ca 1927 by R P Moore Arrangement: Original negative at Pan-2037 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-038

Description: Shows Pipitea Point, looking north along the beachline, with Pipitea Pa and settlers' houses on the left, a group of Maori by a rowboat on the right, and two canoes in the background, on the beach. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet, 85 x 130 mm 365 x 261

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: 1842

By: New Zealand. Land Claims Commission; Archives New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Th/1842/Acc.16002

Description: Map of a section adjoining Mulgrave Street, Wellington showing sites of houses and a store with some boundary measurements and an acreage. Amended boundaries are shown as dashed lines. A store and coupers fence are marked on Mulgrave Street. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Case 229. The plan referred to in the example evidence given before the Court this [date] day of July 1842. Willm. Spa... [Signature difficult to decipher], Commissioner Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 41.9 x 29.8 cm.

Date: 1975-1989

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-167

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1920s]

Reference: PAColl-6886

Description: 22 images: 18 are copy negatives of images in books of Old Wellington in the 1860s many of which are captioned; two are of people milling around in front of the Cathedral in Christchurch; one is of the ship Marama ca 1920s; and one is probably an original negative of two older children and a baby in a garden. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044160 to 044181 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate copy negatives

Date: 1924

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PAColl-6686

Description: Views of Wellington Harbour Board sheds. These are shed 35, and shed 37 which stood on Pipitea Wharf, and was the largest cargo handeling shed on the Wellington waterfront. Photographs taken by Frank G Barker of Wellington. The photographs belonged to the firm C A Wilkinson Ltd of Napier who had supplied the corrugated fibrolite roofing for the sheds. Shed 37 on Pipitea Wharf was built 1923-1924. The contract was entered into between the Harbour Board and the contractors, Swanson and Ashton, on 21 February, 1923. The completion date in the contract was 30 November, 1924. (info-Wellington harbour Board annual reports). Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchased from Brewster's Rare Books, September 2001.

Date: 1898

From: Swan family : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0109-061

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1845

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-015-017

Description: An interior view of the Pa, looking out towards Wellington Harbour. Includes houses (whare) and storehouses (pataka) as well as seated groups of people Another copy in Pearse, T Album (ATL-E-455-f), p. 42 Extended Title - Published in: Wakefield, E J Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. Pl. 5. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, b&w and sepia, 248 x 177 mm on sheet 361 x 279 mm

Date: 1845

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MSZ-0082

Description: Contains a census of Maori males affiliated with the Anglican Church in the Porirua area, with occasional notes about some of the people listed Arrangement: Boxed together with MSZ-0080, MSZ-0081, MSZ-0083, MSZ-0084, MSZ-0085 and MSZ-0085A-C (folders) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1927 - 1940

By: Hankins, Melville Earl, 1884?-1961

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-External-Hankins

Description: Includes: 1927: Capt N A Sulivan ... will give a farewell invitation dance ... on board HMS Renown at Pipitea Wharf Wellington, 18 March 1927. [Invitation card to Mr Hankins] 1932: The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by Their Majesties to invite Mr M E Hankins to an afternoon party in the garden of Buckingham Palace, 21 July 1932 [Invitation card, in envelope] 1940: The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress request the company of Mr M E Hankins and Mrs G Schaab at an afternoon reception at the mansion House on New Zealand Day , 6 February [1940. Invitation card] 1940: SS "Duchess of Atholl". United States landing card. Sheet No C, line no 18. Name Hankins, Melville E [22 September 1940] 1940: Canadian Pacific Railway, from Toronto, Ont to Vancouver. Lower berth ticket, 28 September 1940. Undated: The appeal of Iona, St Columba's isle [Booklet. 1940s?] Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, offset printing on pamphlets, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1927]

From: Various photographers :Prints from panorama negatives

Reference: PA6-344B

Description: Panoramic view of Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, showing the SS 'Mataroa', taken ca 1927 by R P Moore Arrangement: Original negative at Pan-2037 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print

Date: 11 August 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2232-F

Description: Panoramic view of U.S.S. Pennsylvania at Pipitea Wharf in August 1925, during the visit of the American Fleet to New Zealand. There are several dignitaries on two small landing boats at the stern. Mount Victoria is visible in the background on the right. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - U.S.S. Pennsylvania at piptea Wharf, Wellington, N.Z., 11.8.25; Marginal notes on negative - Pennsylvania 1925 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 106.2 cm

Date: May 1930

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

Reference: EP-4996-1/4-G

Description: British Lions rugby team on tour in Wellington. Photograph taken May 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: May 1930

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

Reference: EP-5005-1/4-G

Description: British Lions rugby team on tour in Wellington. Photograph taken May 1930 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [Circa 1927]

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2037-F

Description: Panoramic view of the SS Mataroa moored at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, circa 1927. Shed no. 35 is on the right. A steam engine towing a large goods van is on the wharf to the right of the ship. A small tugboat is drawn up alongside the Mataroa on the sea side. Cranes on the wharf. Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria are seen across Wellington Harbour in the distance on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "S.S." Mataroa Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 102.6 cm

Date: [ca 1900, ca 1920s-1940s]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: PA-Group-00795

Description: Glass negatives of a range of subjects taken by an unidentified photographer chiefly circa 1920s and circa 1940s, but also two taken circa 1900s. Images fall into three broad groups: - Unidentified portraits (including the two taken circa 1900s) - Staff and factory floor images taken at suit manufacturer J A Wilkinson & Son Ltd, possibly in Wellington circa 1940s - Scenes in Wellington, and scenes and buildings in Auckland and Wellington Specific items show a table of wedding gifts, the ship 'TSS Wahine' with a damaged bow at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, in June 1936, a group outside a meeting house circa 1920s, an unidentified building decorated with ships wheel motifs, a significant ceremony outside an unidentified building under construction circa 1920s, Auckland University clock tower circa 1920s, Auckland Railway Station, and Oriental Bay marina, Wellington. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 28 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negatives, 4.75 x 6.5 inches, and 6.5 x 8.5 inches Provenance: Negatives were found in a Wellington house, possibly in Karori.