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Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: 1932

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-009-44

Description: Photographs by George Leslie Adkin. Top left photograph (PA1-f-009-44-272) The Waikanae River, so called by the tohunga, Hau. The name is said to refer to "glancing eyes" (kanae - to stare wildly). Photographed on the 24th of July 1932. Top right photograph (PA1-f-009-44-273) The mouth of the Waikanae River,and Kapiti Island showing the site of the former Kuititanga Pa. Photographed on the 24th of July 1932 Centre left photograph (PA1-f-009-44-274) Arapawaiti, on the south bank of the Waikanae River. The old hotel of coaching days can be seen. Photographed on the 24th of July 1932. Centre photograph (PA1-f-009-44-275) The kauri tree on the site of the late Wi Parata's Pa, Tukurakau, at Waikanae. Photographed on the 24th of July 1932. Bottom left photograph (PA1-f-009-44-277) Midden No.4 on the Horowhenua dune belt. Photographed on the 11th of September 1932. Centre right photograph (PA1-f-009-44-276) Model of a Kaka, the old time scoop net on a long handle, used to collect the kakahi shell fish in Lake Horowhenua. Photographed on the 9th of August 1932 Bottom right photograph (PA1-f-009-44-278) Typical cluster of old broken Hangi stones so frequently seen on the broken dunes of the Horowhenua aeolian belt. Photographed on the 11 th of September 1932. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1901

By: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: D-007-002

Description: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society, on his retirement from the position of Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands, in 1901. The painted testimonial features a list of the names of the officers of the District Lands and Survey branches, and vignettes showing a Māori chief, the landing place of Tainui at Kawhia, Mount Tarawera after the eruption of 1886, and a surveyor's camp and settlement 'at the Kermadecs'. In addition there is a view of the Southern Alps, a Taranaki scene, a surveyors' camp, road-making through dense bush, a pastoral scene with a farmhouse in the distance, a section of kauri forest, and a mining scene at Thames (Grahamstown Goldfield) with working mines, mine machinery and houses. The whole is surrounded and divided into sections by painted Maori carvings, with kowhai, a theodolite, a tree-fern, native clematis, a nikau palm and flax. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. N. Sturtevant fecit MCMI Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm.

Date: 1911

By: Boscawen, Hugh Townshend, 1882-1917

Reference: MS-Papers-2890

Description: Report made to Lands and Survey Department Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, watercolour sketch Watercolour sketch of former buried kauri tree

Date: Between 1860 and 1870

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-039

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, both North and South Islands, taken by Daniel Mundy between 1860 and 1870. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in Mundy Album III, p. 51). The views include a number in the Thames goldfields, with scenes of gold batteries, miners' huts, and a tramway. Mundy includes two rivers which are now differently named, the Tekihe River [i.e. Taheke River], and Tiremakau River [i.e. Taramakau River]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover; spine title "New Zealand scenery, 1860-80. Mundy. 4638-4685"