Otakanini

Date: 21 Oct 1994

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Nicholls, Hector Richard, 1914-2002

Reference: OHInt-0430/07

Description: Hec Nicholls was born in 1914. Describes the family's move to the Otakanini Block, previously Maori land, which was subdivided in 1910. Describes how the milking herd was built up. Discusses the return of the land to Ngati Whatua, efforts to gain compensation and the opposition of Judge Acheson. Mentions the Croslands estate was next door. Describes being in the Navy in World War II and buying land after the war from George Lowe. Discusses the South Head area settled by the Young family and its use for beef grazing. Talks about Francis Fenton, the first judge of the Maori Land Court, who farmed in the area and married a local Maori woman. Discusses rehabilitation land offered in the area after both world wars. Mentions the South Head area after World War I and the Ototoa and Kawau blocks after World War II. Mentions that Alfred Buckland was compelled to sell land for rehabilitation. Talks about the Kaipara Dairy Company, the planting of pine trees and some deer farming. Mentions that deer were liberated off Sir George Grey's Kawau estate. Describes the cost of a block of rehab land, management of rehabilitation land by John Harmer, the improvement in the roads as a result of rehabilitation and the nature of the new rehab community. Describes the establishment of a school at Waioneke and its use for dances, meetings, cards and tennis. Mentions the building of a hall at South Head. Describes local personalitites the Bishop brothers, Mrs Shine, Bobby Waddell and Mate. Mentions gum digging. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3329.

Date: 1928-1930

By: Kelly, Leslie George, 1906-1959

Reference: PA1-o-1887

Description: Photograph album of Maori pa and battle sites in the North Island, presumed to have been created by Leslie George Kelly in circa 1928-1930. Comprises photographs taken 1928-1930, probably by Kelly, and five hand drawn maps and one other drawing, presumably drawn by Kelly at a similar time. The photographs are captioned and dated, and connections made between the photographs and the maps. The captions include some historical and contextual information. - Includes photographs of Otakanini Pa, and Oparuparu Pa in the Kaipara District. The images of the Oparuparu include rock carvings that Kelly has also drawn. Other pa include Mokoia Pa (Panmure), Te Horo Pa (Helensville), Te Makiri Pa (Awaroa River), Matakitaki Pa, Taura Kohia (Pirongia), Paterangi Pa, Orakau Pa, Pukeokoiwiriki Pa (aka Paritaiuru, in Papakura), a pa site in Kawhia (not named in the album), and Te Arawi Pa (Kawhia) and sites of Te Kohia Pa (Waitara) and Mahoetahi Pa (Taranaki). - Also includes images of the site of "Maori whare burned by troops 1864, Rangiaowhia" and photographs of the Anglican and Catholic Churches at Rangiaowhia. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Contains many captions detailing places, pa names and vantage points that the photographs were taken from. Inscription on inside front cover "Leslie G Kelly 1929-30". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).