Te Ahuahu

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-035

Description: View across rolling countryside, with fenced fields, a road passing into the distance on the left, with several figures walking along it. Houses can be seen in the distance on the skyline among trees Title from a very similar view by John Williams (A-079-018) The reference to 'Poka Noi' is to the volcanic cone Puke Nui, now known as Te Ahuahu. It is barely visible in the middle distance The reference to 'Waka' is to Tamati Waka Nene Other Titles - Waimate Puke Nui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 243 mm

From: Cleave, Laurel Dawn, 1930-1998: Voices from the heartland of the Treaty - Maori and Pakeha Playcentre pioneers remember oral history project

Reference: OHA-7830

Description: A typewritten transcript of excerpts from interviews for Chapter 6 of the 'Good clean fun: New Zealand's Playcentre movement' publication, titled: 'Voices from the heartland of the Treaty: Maori and Pakeha Playcentre pioneers remember'. It includes interviewee's reminiscences about the history of their involvement with Northland Playcentres. Interviewees include: Mabel Waititi (Motatau Playcentre), Mene Murray (Motatau and Matawaia Playcentres), Lois Hohaia (Te Ahu Ahu/Waimate North Playcentre), Vivienne Body (Utakura Playcentre), Pat Cook (Waimate North Playcentre), Jill Westerman (Moerewa Playcentre), Maisie Taylor (Utakura Playcentre) and Maureen Tamou (Moerewa Playcentre). At the end of the transcript it says 'These interviews and statements were compiled by Laurel Cleave and Beverley Deverell'. Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 1912-1915 - 2016

By: Stokes, Prudence Mary, 1929-

Reference: ATL-Group-00200

Description: Collection comprises holograph correspondence from Amy Caroline Watling to her family in England. The letters begin as Mrs Watling, her husband and her two youngest children travelled out from England to New Zealand aboard the steam ship 'Remuera' (1912). The letters continue for a period after their arrival in New Zealand, detailing their initial travels within the country and their family life (1912-1913). The original letters continue until June 1913. There is also a partial typescript of these letters with a running commentary. The transcripts include other letters not in the manuscript collection and continue up until May 1915. There is also a biographical history of the Watling family, a family tree and two scanned photographs. Title supplied by Library Arrangement: The donor, Prudence Stokes, arranged the collection and provided further transcripts and an account of the Watling family before donating it to the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2017. May Caroline Watling and her family travelled from England to New Zealand on the SS Remuera in 1912 and lived with relatives at Te Ahu Ahu, Ōhaeawai and Auckland before returning to England in 1920. Prue Stokes collected and arranged the letters of her grandmother, provided a partial transcript and added a commentary, as well as a biographical history of the Watling family, a family tree and two scanned photographs. Quantity: 4 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts and typescripts

Date: [ca 1970-1983]

From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection

By: Ross, Ruth Miriam, 1920-1982; Smithyman, William Kendrick, 1922-1995

Reference: PAColl-9920

Description: Items originally in a box Binney labelled 'Prophet photos' Chiefly photographs of Maori grave markers in the Far North district (but also some in Otaki, Onehunga, Matata and Whangara) taken in 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1983 by Kendrick Smithyman. Many show the symbols of the heart, diamond, club and spade and some, or all, of these, may be the work of carver Nutana Mapi. Also a few Pakeha graves. Also includes photographs of other subjects taken by Smithyman: a drawing by Eric Lee-Johnson of a carved wooden grave marker at Rangiahua; a clock tower at Rangiahua; a clock tower at Otago University; a carved wooden altar piece in a church at Motukaraka. Also includes a photograph of Penetana Papahurihia's grave marker taken by historian Ruth Miriam Ross in 1972, and an accompanying letter from Ross to Judith, dated about 1976, noting the inscription on the stone and further details. Also a photograph of a grave marker labelled "ex R S Oppenheim A 'House of the Lord', late (1950s) in a Ratana context, Matauri Bay" Also includes a photograph of the exterior of the Ratana Church at Mangamuka, Far North, taken by Binney in circa 1970s. The Smithyman photographs comprise grave markers at: -Omanaia including 'the soldiers grave', [Harawa? Haramia?], Penetana Papahurihia -Utakura Valley -Opononi including markers for Rangitira Moetara, George Nimmo, Wirimu Waka, Rawiri -Te Ahuahu -Whirinaki -Waimate including markers for John Ingate, William Stewart and Mat Hodgkins -Whangara -Whangaroa -Herekino -Rangiahua comprising markers for William Shelford and Makoare Taonui -Onehunga including markers for Charles B Haslewood, Griffiths and Perry -Panguru including markers for Raiha Tipene and Ruera Tipene -Mangamuka including a marker for Makene Moka -Otaki including a marker for Ropata Teao -Motukaraka -Rahiri -Ahipara -Matata including a mausoleum -Waima Valley Accompanying information - Letter accompanying Ruth Ross's photograph Source of descriptive information - Information about Nutana Mapi was provided by a Library user who alerted us to this site, accessed August 2015: http://wrhpc.org.nz/library/20130301nzhpt.htm Quantity: 149 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints and dye coupler prints

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: October 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-012

Description: A road in the foreground, fences and paddocks, cows grazing and further grazing animals in the middle distance. In the centre, a church, with a two-storied house (the Waimate Mission Station) and other smaller buildings to its left. Two small houses beyond a clump of bush to the right. In the background, a steep hill (Pukenui or Puke Nui) with either cultivated land or a pa on one side A copy of Cyprian Bridge's watercolour of the same scene, held at A-079-036 Identification: the hill referred to by the artist as Poka Mie is a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, now known as Te Ahuahu Other Titles - Pukenui Puke Nui Waimate North Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and watercolour, 252 x 364 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-036

Description: Low scrub in the foreground, with a drive leading to fenced fields, where cattle are grazing. The Waimate North Mission Station is on the skyline in the centre background, and a distinctive volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Te Ahuahu, is on the right, beyond other buildings Probably the original for an engraving by J. W. Whymper in A. S. Thomson's 'The story of New Zealand' (London, 1853), vol 1 p. 330 (Photograph in photo files as negative 119205 1/2) Title from a sepia copy of the same work by John Williams, dated October 1845 (A-079-012). Other Titles - Puke Nui, Te Ahuahu, Waimate Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 241 mm

Date: 11 Mar 1856

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0151-01-04

Description: Quantity: 1 leaf (3 pages). Physical Description: Ms

Date: [1847?]

From: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878 : Letters from Bishop Selwyn and others

Reference: qMS-1776-434

Description: Photograph depicts map of the Waimate district and legend. Separate on the page is a typescript copy of the legend which lists 29 places and includes their locations on the map. Entries on page 434 of volume. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Page includes sepia photograph with accompanying typescript legend

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0297-F

Description: Images show children attending a Playcentre, Te Ahuahu, Northland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children at a Playcentre in Northland. The children are shown painting and playing, includes a group of children giving a baby doll a bath and then putting it to bed. 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

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0299-F

Description: Images show scenes from Te Ahuahu, Northland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show a Mr Les Grey and local mothers having a discussion in the Te Ahu Ahu Playcentre, formerly the community hall. Also shown is a woman, sitting outside, holding an infant, and another woman, pushing a girl on a tyre swing. Playcentre identified from article in Te Ao Hou, June 1963, page 25-26. 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-0298-F

Description: Images show children attending a Playcentre, Te Ahuahu, Northland, taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Images show children eating lunch at a Playcentre in Northland. 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