Places

Date: [1936]

By: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936

Reference: MapColl-830gmfw/1935/Acc.1439

Description: Map of North Island, South Island, Stewart Island of New Zealand with numerous named small islands. Rivers, settlements, cities and towns are named, as are coastal features such as bays, capes, points, heads, rocks, sounds, inlets. Principal lighthouses are marked. Lit lighthouses are also recorded. Points of shipwrecks are marked with the name and type of ship, the date of shipwreck and lives lost. Insets include lists of shipwrecks with references to places and points of shipwreck. Dates range from September 1795 - 2 March 1936. Date changed from [1935?] to [1936] based on the fact that the map includes a ship wreck from March 1936 and Halse died in 1936. 21 October 2016. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, linen backed, 90.9 x 66.1 cm.

Date: 1911

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Map collection

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: MapColl-832.17gbbg/[ca.1911]/Acc.46385

Description: Sketch plan of National Park and surrounding areas. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, black and white, 38 x 35 cm.

Date: 1907

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47hkcmf/[ca.1907]/Acc.9770

Description: Surveying map of defence works adjacent to the Ngauranga Stream. Includes sites of N.C.O.'s cottage, a stable, engine shed and shed. The site of an hotel is marked. A note refers to an old peg in fence (Climie) opposite Clapham's Hotel. Topographic features are described and include details of a hill and edge of a cliff. The Wellington & Napier Railway line is named. The second surveying map in the top right corner is of section 8 and includes the site of a peg in fence opposite the Clapham Hotel. A pencilled note refers to the Ngauranga Hotel which has been overwritten with the name of Clapham's Hotel. An area of Native Reserve and the site of the Main Road are marked. Includes the name I. H. Luscombe. Other Titles - Land taken for construction of defence works at Ngauranga in Block XII, Belmont Survey District, Wellington Road District, being part of section 8 Harbour District Note on catalogue card states: Surveyed by William S. Buck, Lower Hutt, ca. 1907? Note on verso states: Std. 139 from Ngauranga [Trig] to Mt. Vic 197'20'43' Title pencilled at top left of map Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, 29.9 x 78.8 cm.

Date: 1927 - 1920 - 1928

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Kh/1927?/Acc.14607

Description: Cadastral map, unfinished, of the Cashmere Estate from Ranui Terrace to Onslow Road adjoining the Main Hutt Road. The completed part of the map includes numbered sections with acreages and boundary measurements. Streets are named, Deed Plan numbers are noted. Additions to this map include values in pounds sterling and dates between 1920 to 1928. Khandallah substation is named, Centennial Park and the Village Area School. A gully is marked. A pencilled note refers to land given to the Wellington City Council in exchange for roads and other considerations. The incomplete part of the map includes un-named roads and un-numbered sections, some with approximate measurements. Two areas of land, with acreages, are noted as 'useless for building'. A right of way is marked. Written on reverse: Cashmere Est. Title supplied by cataloguer from information on verso Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on dressed linen, 78.6 x 75.7 cm.

Date: [ca 1925]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Fitzgerald, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888; New Zealand Company; New Zealand. General Assembly Library; Ward, Louis Ernest, 1866-1938

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/1840-1916/Acc.16123

Description: Comprised of three cadastral maps and one sketch of Port Nicholson, drawn by Louis Ward, copied from earlier surveyor maps. The main, central map shows the original sections sold by ballot in London by the New Zealand Company. Streets are named and sections numbered, with the owner's name. Subsequent owners, until approximately 1925 are written in brackets. The map also shows Native reserves and Te Aro Pa, Pipitea Pa, and Te Waikaka pa sites, and subsequent land reclamation around the harbour from Lambton and Clyde quays, to Queens and Pipitea wharves. Shows Government House; market, emigration and Roman Catholic reserves, and the proposed canal and basin reserve. This map is copied from Fitzgerald's survey map, and includes the names Lt Colonel WA McCleverty and W Wakefield (as principal agent to the New Zealand Company). The three inset maps are as follows: 'Sketch map from H G Mason's compilation (1893) of Port Nicholson. Louis Ward (del), scale indeterminable, 17.5 x 16.2 cm. Names several small wharves, between the Pipitea Pa, Te Aro Pa, Moena Pa, and Pa Ngakumu Kunui, and shows Native gardens and the Thorndon Baths. The second map, from "Grave yard Road on Thomson's map 1888 (Vol W4 p. 40)", scale indeterminable, 10 x 9 cm, and includes copy of signature of Sam Chas Brees, Principal Surveyor, June 1844, shows the Mount Street Cemetery, and the Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian residences alongside each other on Clerical Road (McKenzie Terrace). The third map, from "Map showing reserves & Tod's claim, surveyed by S C Brees for the N.Z. Company June 1844,", 17.5 x 9.8 cm, from Pipitea Pa southwards to the Jewish Synagogue in Aurora Terrace, shows Church of England reserves, Pipitea Pa, Government House site, and Tod's claim, on the corner of Pipitea Street and Mulgrave Street. A small map segment to the right shows a small piece of Buckle Street showing the site of the Oddfellows Hall (number 17) and the Temperance Hall (18). Signed by Major Richmond. Written on catalogue card: These manuscript maps compiled from earlier manuscript maps, with added information; date of situation from internal evidence. All edges have been cropped for framing. 'True copy of plan attached to Crown grant 1848' Includes some pencilled words on map recto. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 4 map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 44.6 x 32.5 cm.

Date: 1926

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

Reference: EP-0095-1/2-G

Description: Photograph of a street map for the suburb of Kelburn in Wellington, 1926. Copy taken by an unidentified photographer. From box containing EP-0083 to 0101 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1800 - 1948 - 1860

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

By: Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1853]/Acc.229

Description: Tracing of part of the Castle Point block, Masterton District, from the Akitio River to the Puketoi Range, including Wahatuara, Te Komata, Pakehou, Ratau Puhipuhi, Otuarehua, Mangahewa, Wakaroro, Piaha and the Waimata River. Handwritten note at bottom of map states: From a plan in McLean Papers in Turnbull Library, entitled "Castle Point Block, taken from plan attached to Castle Point Deed". Unsigned, undated. Traced JDHB 30/5/48. Complete map at MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1853]/Acc.2737 contains more detailed information. Title assigned by cataloguer Other Titles - Tracing of part of the Castlepoint Block Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, 34 x 15 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean papers Group 0032.

Date: 1958

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gmbd/1958/Acc.6205

Description: Plan of Avalon and part of Taita, Lower Hutt, showing road layout between Stellin, High, Burcham streets and Taita Drive (now Harcourt Werry Drive), part of the Hutt River and the reserves between them. Government housing units on Frederick Street and Garden, Harcourt Werry, Mabey and Holyoake roads are highlighted. The Taita Rugby Gymnasium, recreation reserve and Fraser Park are indicated. Written on top of map: Taita Drive, 5/cx, SP/Wm Fri. 5 col for Friday pm Dom Written on map: J.E.E., 15.10.[19]58 Written on reverse of map: Published 17/10/[19]58. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on tracing paper, 23.6 x 46.9 cm

Date: 1906

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/1906/Acc.14343

Description: Cadastral map of sections in Alicetown, bounded by Victoria Street, Whites Lane, Public Road to Hutt and Montague Street, including Cuba, West, East and Fitzherbert streets and Central Terrace. All sections are numbered, some have survey measurements and acreage. Two have values in pounds sterling. Sections 51, 52 and 53 Whites Lane are highlighted in red. Written on map: Return to WGS. Includes location map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on dressed linen, 50 x 67 cm.

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Is/[ca.1910]/Acc.14444

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map showing subdivision on Milne Terrace and Knoll Street, Island Bay, Wellington, with numbered sections and acreage. Some sections show price, some are marked sold (in pencil or ink). Also marked is Brook, Beach and Derwent Street. Two names written on map in pencil - not decipherable Title supplied by cataloguer Base map: Fragment of unidentified published map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo photoprint, encapsulated in transparent paper, 53.2 x 62 cm

Date: 1932

By: W. E. C. (Cartographer), active 1932

Reference: MapColl-832.19gbbh/[1932?]/Acc.8304

Description: Map of Waikaremoana, Wairaumoana and Waikareiti Lakes with the adjacent land blocks named with acreages. Forest, Government, Crown and Native Reserves and a Lake Shore Reserve are outlined and named as well as areas vested in Tourism Dept. and Wairoa County Council. Includes roads, rivers and streams and the name W. Neal as a lessee. A roadman's whare is marked and an area where opossums may not be taken. W.E.C. '32 handwritten next to title 128 is handwritten on top right corner Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, 71.5 x 71.1 cm.

Date: 1908

By: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976; Davis, John William, 1848-1919; Carpenter, Ken, active 1995

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1908/Acc.39811

Description: A base map of the Manawatu River, from MacGregor's Bend to the sea, includes county and district boundary lines. The Moutere and Mt. Robinson Survey Districts are named. Includes areas marked as Reserved for Harbour Board purposes, Papangaio Native Reserve and Signal Station Reserve, all with acreages. The mouth of the river is marked as at 1923. Includes the sites of the pilot station and flgstaffs. Names include Te Awa, Whaiangi, N.W. Park. The area marked as Harbour Board endowment and part of the reserve for Harbour Board purposes has been hilighted on this base map Extended Title - Scheme plan of proposed subdivision of part Pukewa 4C3, Block III Puketi survey district Note at top left of map states: Pursuant to section 120 (3) of the Reserves Disposal etc. Act 1924, the Crown Land accretion coloured green hereon is vested as an endowment in the Foxton Harbour Board. C.T. 518/188. See file 8/362 Initials of surveyors at bottom left of map are indecipherable. Dates include 2/7/07 and 11/7/08 Stamp at bottom left includes the number 25360 Stamp of approval and signature at bottom right includes the name of J.W. Davis for the Chief Surveyor Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on diazo print, coloured, 45.7 x 44.8 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0358.

Date: 1915 - 1925

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1920]/Acc.14373

Description: Cadastral map of surveyed, numbered sections, bound by Nikau Street and Muritai Road, Eastbourne, showing acreage. Permanent reserve and the sea are shown. Written on map: No. 803. Annotation showing site of state school. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 34.4 x 24.8 cm.

Date: 1911

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Map collection

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: MapColl-832.4cbum/[ca.1911]/Acc.46382

Description: Topographic map of the southern part of the Rimutaka Ranges and part of the Wairarapa south of Lake Wairarapa. Shows tracks. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, colour, 44 x 64 cm.

Date: 1924 - 1979

From: Bagnall :Selection of published and manuscript maps

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.45edf/[1970-9]/Acc.53422

Description: Land & Survey printed base map with pencil annotations, indicating Maori place names of coastal features. Printed map issued as sheet no. 20 in the New Zealand four-mile series, also known as NZMS 10. Author's source of Maori place names unknown. Probably part of his research for his publications on the Wairarapa. Other Titles - [Cape Palliser = Te Kawakawa - Maori coastal place names] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed with pencil annotations, 44 x 65 cm.

Date: 1859 - 1948

By: Furkert, Frederick William, 1876-1949; Auckland Harbour Board; Engineering New Zealand Te Ao Rangahau; Christie, John Hellard, 1897-1985

Reference: MapColl-832.1291gmfs/1859-1948/Acc.29594

Description: Shows reclamations along the Auckland Harbour front, including Pt Fisher, afterwards, Acheron Pt.; Freeman's Bay; Nelson St; Pt Stanley, afterwards Smales Pt; Commercial Bay; Mechanics Bay; Pt Dunlop, afterwards St Barnabas Pt.; St Georges Bay and Campbell's Pt. Some annotations included, indicating part of reclamation in progress, and date change. Handwritten in ink: 10A page 42, right bottom corner. See also separate list of dates and extent of reclamations, in same folder (MapColl-832.1291gmfs/1859-1948/Acc.29595) Possibly produced by the Auckland Harbour Board for the book 'Early New Zealand Engineers' by Furkert, F.W; revised and edited by W.L. Newnham. (Wellington; AH & AW Reed, 1953). Annotated change to date from 1859-1926 to 1859-1948. Base map: Auckland Harbour Board Reclamations 1859-1926 (subject to correction) [s.l.], [s.n.], [s.d.]. Extended Title - Reclamations on the foreshores of the city of Auckland, 1859-1948 to accompany Appendix IX. Quantity: 1 map(s). 1 accompanying sheet. Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil, 17.7 x 30.4 cm, Provenance: Given by Mr Newnham to J H Christie (Ministry of Works), and by him to the NZ Institute of Engineers. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - NZ Institute of Engineers :Photographs used in F W Furkert's publication Early New Zealand Engineers (PAColl-0077).

Date: [ca 1944]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.45eg/[ca.1944]/Acc.27666

Description: Map of the area from a section called Pukaroro, Rerewhakaaitu river, Tokorakau Reef, Kairingaringa, Pahaoa River, Te Piki o Tamahineatanui, Te Umunonga, Okapu, the Waiuru, Waiohaere and Waihingaia Rivers to a lighthouse, believed to be the Honeycombe Light. Includes some un-numbered and unnamed sections. Includes the names of Don Cameron and Hales. Three reference keys refer to the various locations of Pahaua, Glendhu and Glenburn. Hut sites, stone circles, pits, camps, cultivations, flints and hangi, midden, adzes and fish-hooks, limestone boundaries, moa bones, terraces with hut sites are marked. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, 37.2 x 106.8 cm. and smaller, on backing card 82.4 x 11.9 cm. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: 1906

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1906/Acc.22973

Description: Surveyed cadastral map of lots 88 and 89 on the corner of Montague and the Cuba Street extension, Alicetown, Lower Hutt, showing three subdivisions prepared by Buck for Mr W Aubery. The three subdivisions consist of part 88 (divided twice) and 89, each with an acreage of 20 perches (or slightly more). Note on map: 'Surveyed and pegged on the ground for Mr W Aubery as shown on this plan and coloured green - William S Buck, Lower Hutt, Jan 1906'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, and watercolour on dressed linen, 29.8 x 27.5 cm.

Date: 1905

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library; Rawson, Alfred Pearson, 1848-1911

Reference: MapColl-832.4595gbbd/1905/Acc.36602

Description: Cadastral map showing sections 1-10, of the estate of Jepson, between Worksop Road and Hessy Street, Masterton, with measurements in feet which are referred to in a note. Includes sites of two houses. The map has an inset locality plan of the area from Renall, Chapel, Hall, Church, Miriam Streets and Worksop Road. Streets are named as are some buildings as follows: Queens Hotel, Pragnalls Buildings, Presbyterian Church, Central Hotel, Bank of New South Wales, W.E.G.A [W.F.C.A]., Prince of Wales Hotel, Bank of New Zealand, Lyttle, Club Hotel, English Church, Y.M.C.A. building, Daily, Age, Post Office, Bank of Australia, Donald, Hecksher, Implement Company, Levin, Court House, County Office, Public Institute, Wesleyan Church. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on card, linen backed, 57.9 x 71.5 cm.

Date: 1925 - 1935

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Wa/[ca.1930]/Acc.14630

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map highlighting subdivision of property belonging to H V Wilson, bounded by Wadestown Road and Sefton Street, Wadestown, Wellington. Sections are numbered (with qualifier 1st, 2nd or 3rd), and show acreage. DP 8291 is shown in pencil. Shows site of former tennis court, neighbouring sections, site of house and tramway. Written on map are pencil and ink jottings and amendments. Written on reverse: Sefton St & Wadestown Rd Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, paper backed, 37.7 x 45 cm