Places

Date: 1853

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[1853?]/Acc.8105

Description: Topographic map of the area from Cape Palliser and Cape Turakirai [sic], the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges, to Taumatawanga and the Warehana River. Shows land blocks taken up by various runholders, lands not purchased, and includes various Maori names for natural features. Rivers and streams are named. Names include G. Scott, M.A. Buxton, R. Collins, F. Burton, J. Paine, E. Meredith, G. Moore, M. Hill, S.M. Scroogs, H. Donald, Masters, Smith and Rerans, J.H. Northwood, C. Hales, G. Murch, G.P. Bidwell, A. Gillies, Cameron, D. Riddiford, P. Hume, J. Kelly, R. Russel [i.e. Russell], R. Barton. Title supplied by cataloguer Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 1853 - presumed date Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured wash on brown paper, linen backed, mounted on stiff card, 61.4 x 49.1 cm.

Date: [ca 1889-1898]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020472-G

Description: Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, circa 1889-1898, with Sir George Grey's country residence on the right. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Note on back of file print reads "Possibly Cobar at wharf". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-1

Description: View looking north along the Hutt Road, with the harbour and Somes Island to the right. A canoe is drawing in close to the road and a Maori man is walking towards the viewer along the road. The road appears pitted and muddy. Other Titles - Braithwaite Ngauranga Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 159 x 258 mm

Date: 1872

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919; Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4395enc/1872/Acc.9766

Description: Map of the Telegraph Hotel, Otaki, next to the telegraph office, shown as situated on the corner of an unnamed intersection. The diagram shows the hotel property as comprising four buildings, the hotel itself and three smaller buildings (of varying sizes). The plan states the property is owned by Mr F. Martin. The hotel section and land behind it is highlighted pink. Contains a pencil annotated drawing of the two-storeyed hotel, a cottage beside it and cottages behind it. 'Messers Wyles & Buck Licensed surveyors Wellington 1872'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 72.4 x 69 cm.

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Swainson, Marion, active 1980s; Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: A-188-058

Description: Shows first Methodist Church built near the old Wesleyan cemetery on western bank of Hutt River (now Aglionby Street), opened on 5th November 1845. Title from ink inscription, in artist's hand, below image. Folder contains details: Painting comes from Mrs Marion Swainson, Reid's Line, Feilding. / Dunbar Slone [sic] is a relative of the Swainson's [sic]. ...(see custodial note). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wesleyan Chapel Aglionby. River Hutt. / in 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, image 100 x 165 mm, on sheet 175 x 229 mm. Provenance: Donated to Laings Road Methodist Church by Mrs Marion Swainson, Reid's Line, Feilding.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Jessie H, active 1935-1947

Reference: B-031-004

Description: Sea to the right, with a beach, with two women and a man on horseback. Low bushes in the centre right foreground, in the centre a Maori man in a flax cloak pointing twoards the sea and in conversation with a Pakeha man; two Maori walking away in a red and a black cloak; another man, apparently aiming a slingshot; and two other Maori figures, seated on the ground. Beyond the figures is an undulating plain, probably sandhills. In the distance are several ranks of higher hills. Identification of the location suggested by the strong similarity of the line of hills in the background to those depicted in B-031-030, which Brees has titled Mana Pokerua [i.e. Mana Island and Pukerua] Other Titles - Pokarua Mana Pukerua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - POKARUA. MANA. [Conjectured title. Only the PO then the M are visible] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 343 mm

Date: 1879

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919; Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/1879/Acc.10346

Description: A surveyed, cadastral map of part section number 25, Lower Hutt, bounded by the intersection of Waiwhetu Road and the old Main Road from Wellington to Wairarapa. The highlighted part section is over 15 perches and built on it is a bank and a small dwelling. It is bounded by property owned by R Cleland (including a store) and H Brandt. The Whitewood's Hotel is opposite. An unsigned handwritten note of length on the map states that the intention is to bring the section boundaries under the provision of the Land Transfer Act, 1870. Includes numerical annotations in pencil. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 52 x 51 cm.

Date: 1873

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/[ca.1873]/Acc.36471

Description: Map of Petone in ca. 1873 showing the subdivision of George Elliott Barton's land, roads, land blocks, railway station. Back of file print states "Information from Susan Butterworth, 1987" Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: File print

Date: 1862

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1862/Acc.14103

Description: Cadastral map showing part surveyed, numbered sections for sale on Customhouse Quay, Lambton Quay, and Harbour Street, Lambton Harbour, Wellington, highlighting sections already sold, as well as reserves for Customs and Post Office, Society of Oddfellows building, government reserve, Scotch Kirk, 'Noah's ark' in red. Note under title reads: For upset prices and further particulars, see Government Gazette of Nov 21st, 1862. See also accompanying photocopies (3 pages) of: sheet from New Zealand Government Gazette, Nov 21, 1862 (giving prices); report of claim by J Plimmer Committee, 1862; and copy of manuscript map of block comprising new street (Hunter Street), Lambton and Customhouse quays, showing 'Noah's Ark' (near Plimmer's Wharf). See also similar map held at MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1962/Acc.7792 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on ink and paper, 32 x 41 cm

Date: 1873

By: Wilkinson, John Stuart, 1831-1903

Reference: MapColl-832.47bje/1873/Acc.1415

Description: Topographic map of Mana Island. Includes a low water mark, shingle areas, named rocks, swamps, gullies, un-named streams, karaka grove, a spring, cliffs, undulating tableland and hachures. The paddock adjacent to the landing stage includes a stream, drain, old and new fencelines, a stockyard and government storehouse. The area adjacent to the paddock includes the sites of houses, manager's dwelling house, boathouse, woolshed and gardens. A road leads to a lighthouse and dwelling house, situated at the north-west corner of the island. Sites of three huts are marked. Pencilled additions adjacent to the landing stage include: 10 acres: also 1 chain sand above beach Pencilled notes refer to the acreages of the grass area, the shingle area and the landing place reserve Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, mounted on card, linen backed, coloured, 95.8 x 63.1 cm.

Date: 1882

By: Greville, Reginald Palmer, 1862-1923; Brodie, J W, active 1990s

Reference: MapColl-832.47gmbd/1882/Acc.26556

Description: Topographic map of the area from Albion Reef to Ohau Bay to Makara Stream. Shows: Track to Golden Crown workings; Siedge track to bay; Present Bridle Track Main Ridge; Track from Snowden Saddle to Makara Road; South Makara former Road (from Mr Siever's house to Junction): Makara Road; Deans Old Track, Mr Snowden's Road to Ohau Bay; Ohau Bay and Te Kaminaru Bay. Also shows a note which reads: C. L. Mr A Mackay States J.W.A.M. 15.8.83. Includes roads, the gradients of which are referred to in a key. The site of a a church is marked Names include Lowry, Trotter and D. Ashdown. Map is a tracing of a photocopy of the original which was possibly roll plan 407 in Wellington Survey Office. Traced by draughtsman on behalf of Mr Brodie. Reduction from original means that scale on map is incorrect. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on parchment paper, coloured, 41 x 46.1 cm.

Date: Christmas 1881

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/2-140359-G

Description: Te Ikaamaru Bay and surrounding landscape, with William William's camp site, Christmas, 1881. Photograph taken by William Williams. Note on back of file print reads "from lantern slide: Terawhiti. Wgton. Xmas 1881. No 4 Te Ikaamaru Bay. W.W." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-4

Description: View looking south east from the Ngauranga Gorge, with Wellington in the distance to the right. A road is carved out of steep bush-clad hills and two Maori are walking along it. Ships in the harbour in the background Other Titles - Braithwaite Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 158 x 257 mm

Date: 1877

By: Saxton, Henry Waring, 1848-1919; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: A-253-036

Description: Shows a profile of Somes Island seen from the region of Seacliff. Shows a large complex of two-storied buildings (newly-built immigration barracks) on the top centre of island, a surveying trig on highest point, and a few small buildings on shoreline. In the left distance, Pencarrow Head lighthouse is visible. The Immigration Barracks are shown in a photograph of Somes Island ca 1878 in the J. E. Fitzgerald Album in the Photographic Archive. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - H.W.S. 1877; Recto - beneath image - (on backing paper): So named in memory of Joseph Somes, M.P. Dartmouth, Governor of New Zealand Shipping Co.; Verso - top centre - late) Revd C.W. Saxton D.D. / The Elms / Shrewsbury The artist was the brother-in-law of Joseph Somes, after whom the island was named. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 120 x 198 mm.

Date: 1897

By: Thomson & Brown (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/1897/Acc.14340

Description: Incomplete cadastral, surveyed map showing subdivision of Sections I-XII, Worser and Karaka Bay, Miramar. Sections are between Crawford (Nevay) Road and Karaka Bay Road. Names of properties include: Pilot Station, Marshall, Slater, Townsend & Paul, Browne, Overton Park Reserve and Military Fortification Reserve. Part of Section VI, Lot 13 is highlighted pink. Sections are numbered, with acreage; some show price in pounds sterling. A wharf and a proposed wharf are shown. The road to Wellington is marked. Includes pencil and ink notes written or drawn on map. Stamped Thomson & Brown 'Litho Brown & Thomson, 1897' handwritten on corner Last 2 letters of surveyor's name written on left side of map Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 25.5 x 73 cm

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-100567-G

Description: Photograph taken in the 1890s by an unknown photographer showing an unidentified group in front of the Jubilee Pole which commemorates 40 years of the Christian mission on the Kapiti Coast, and is a wooden column with a cross on top and dates ranging from 1840-1880 around the sides. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1885

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4796gbbd/1885/Acc.6391

Description: Survey map of land belonging to Maori near the Pito-one (Petone) railway station, Lower Hutt City, 1885. Shows land blocks belonging to Komene Paipa, Ngapaki, Hapurona Hamama, Oriwia Atiraukawa, adjoining the Petone station. Note on reverse of map states that the land was taken by the railway. Also shows several pencil annotations including the site of a brewery, a Maori cemetery (urupa), buildings, the Station, and several survey calculations. Other Titles - [Pito-one Station, Taari Waitara & Others, division & land taken by railway]. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 68.7 x 101.8 cm.

Date: 1885

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1885/Acc.9693

Description: Surveyed, cadastral map of Stokes Valley, Wellington, 1885, showing numbered sections with acreage, Belmont Survey District. Sections include 67, 72, 73, 74, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237 and are bounded by sections 56-63. Includes many survey calculation annotations in pencil. Shows a public road and includes several pencil references to C Russell. Reference to Rimutaka Survey District on map (in pencil). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 67 x 52 cm.

Date: 1840 - 1849

From: Bidwill, Brian Carne, 1923-2009: Maps

By: Dennan, James John, 1834-1892

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[184-?]/Acc.39363

Description: Cadastral map with topographical features showing Pihautea Estate and surrounding Maori land in south Wairarapa occupied by Charles R Bidwill. Freehold and native land are referred to in a key. Identifies land blocks with Maori names and unnamed land blocks, both with acreages. Ruamahanga River, Te Maire Creek, Jury's Island and the Road to Kahautara are shown. Other bordering settler properties are named as G Goodrick, W Bicknell, B.W.O. and B Williams, W. Nichol, G. Hunter, Yule Maori land blocks include Maramamau. C.R. Bidwill's station is called Pihautea Station Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on card, linen backed, coloured, 87.8 x 66.9 on sheet 99.96 x 72.4 cm.