Places

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-033

Description: View from Porirua across low hills and water towards Pautahanui Inlet. A road curves around in the right foreground Note on back: 12 miles N.W. of Wellington. Porirua Harbour, part of. Other Titles - Porirua towards Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also in pencil, below and to the right of the ink title: Porirua 16 Mar 50 looking towards Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 104 x 159 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-031-036

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton and Pukerua districts with Mana Island. Location of several pa sites indicated: Wairaka Pa near Pukerua Bay; Taupo Pa (built 1844) at Plimmerton, Warakoua Pa on Porirua Harbour's North shore, and a pa at Titahi Bay. Also shows location of Jackson's Hotel, Thom's hotel and whaling station, Maori gardens beyond Taupo pa and Maori path to Pukerua Bay. Subdivisions of land are indicated around Porirua Harbour. Attributed to Charles Heaphy until 1993, because sketches referred to in title were thought to be Heaphy's. Reattribution to Brees because 1. Brees was Principal surveyor for the N.Z.Company and the map shows land subdivisions. 2. Handwriting very similar to Brees' on MS map held by the Admiralty (photo held by Cartographic Collection (823 at / 1844-5 / acc 855) 3. Indications of points of view of sketches can mostly be linked with known originals by Brees. The following list gives the numbers on this map followed by titles and plate numbers of the matching illustration from Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847). No.21 [i.e. no. 1 or 2?] = Porirua Harbour no. 35, described as looking towards the north from near Jackson's towards Thom's. No.3. Thom's whaling station, Porerua, no.14. No.4. Porerua Harbour no. 29; also Porirua Harbour, ATL's watercolour (B-031-006), looking south towards Thom's and Paramata Pa. No.5. Paramata Pa, Porerua, no.52. No.6 Porerua Bay, no.12. Taken from the native path towards Pukerua, showing the "native potatoe gardens". No.7 Island of Mana. No.8. No parallel image traced. No.9 Pokaroa and the Island of Kapiti, no.37. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title. Other place names and geographical features elsewhere. "Portfolio D. Marked &c by Mrs Allom" inscribed above title by the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & Watercolour 319 x 409 mm on laid paper, watermarked 1840 Provenance: New Zealand Company; purchased by A.H.Turnbull in 1915.

Date: [ca 1898]

From: McIntosh album 5

Reference: PA1-o-289-439

Description: St Alban's Anglican Church, Pauatahanui, Porirua, Wellington region. The foreground includes the cemetery, each grave picket fenced. Probably photographed by George William Barltrop in about 1898. Source of descriptive information - Notes from file print heading, and album page Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Pahautanui Architect Frederick de Jersey Clere (1856-1952) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.1 x 10.5 cm, on album page

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-031/032

Description: View from Porirua, looking across the harbour towards Pauatahanui, with several houses shown near the water's edge, and the entrance to Horokiri Valley noted to the left. The house to the right above the road is likely to be that of William Bromley Other Titles - Pautahanui Horokiri Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title with additonal notes to the left and centre Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 136 x 436 mm (double spread). Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1846

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 :Collection of photographs

Reference: PAColl-3033-1-39

Description: Photograph of an ink drawing depicting a ground plan of Rangihaeata's pa at the head of Pauatahanui inlet, with references and a sketch of the outer palisades, drawn by an unidentified artist. Other - A similar image appears in James Cowan's "New Zealand wars", volume 1, page 121. Source of descriptive information - Notes on item. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 14.7 x 15.7 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Boulton, Joe, 1912-1997 :Photographs of the Pauatahanui area

Reference: 1/2-082681-F

Description: Shows Pauatahanui [spelt Pahautanui in this image] Hotel, ca 1900. There are two women standing on the second floor verandah and two men with three children are standing outside the front door. The man on the left is the proprietor, Mat Moynihan and Johnny Mulhearn is holding a bicycle. The hotel was built in 1877 by Henry Hillen. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1852

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry 1802-1864 :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / R.H.W. - 1852.

Reference: A-081-027

Description: A group of single-storey buildings surrounded by a fence on a raised area of land at the edge of Pauatahanui Inlet, with a single small building in front at the water's edge. Hills in the distance and the estuary to the right Probably shows Te Rangihaeata's pa Matai Taua, on the rise now occupied by St Alban's church, Pauatahanui. The pa, built in the mid-1840s was not used defensively. Rangihaeata withdrew from this pa in 1846 and made a stand against the British soldiers at Battle Hill, further up the Horokiwi Valley Other Titles - Pauatahanui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash and ink, 200 x 250 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-007

Description: Shows a Maori man walking on the near shore to the right, and a pa on top of a low hill across the water. The Pa is Rangihaeata's Matai Taua Pa Copy of pencil drawing (115 x 185 mm) copied by Mary Marshall from original by W. Swainson. Matai Taua Pa, built ca 1845, was abandoned by Rangihaeata in 1846 when he withdrew with his men to Battle Hill to face British soldiers. He later moved north to Horowhenua Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-033/034

Description: The house of James London, postmaster and storekeeper at Porirua in the foreground, with the road known as The Cutting running across the view to the right (the Paramata Crescent area today), looking across the harbour, with Whitirea Peninsula in the left background and the entrance to Porirua Harbour noted. The area shown is close to the roundabout and bridge, just before Mana. London ran a ferry service at the entrance to Porirua Harbour and Paremata Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title with additonal notes in the background and to the right. 'Sand' and 'water' are noted as appropriate. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 136 x 436 mm (double spread). Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-078-7

Description: Two small buildings with fences and flax bushes close to the shore, with a view looking across the bay towards hills Other Titles - Boulton public house Inscriptions: Verso - At Porirua - opposite Bolton's [in ink]; also on album page, in ink: Opposite "BOLTONS" well known way side "publick", PORIRUA Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 75 x 125 mm

Date: 1823 - 1846

Reference: A-178-016

Description: Shows Rangihaeata's stockade, built and captured 1846, at Pauatahanui; pickets; a military tent with a figure in red in the foreground. The terrain appears to be misrepresented; compare R H Wynyard's Old stockade at Pahatanui [1852] Title from verso; initials and date indistinct Date (apparently 1823) is wrong. More likely to be 1846 or later. The stockade was built and captured by British troops in 1846. The pa was located at Pauatahanui on the low hill that is now the site of St Albans Church Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour on paper 179 x 254 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-015

Description: A road to the right skirting a hill, bushy hills in the background and the waters of Pauatahanui Inlet, with a boat on shore and several men Similar to watercolour at B-006-015. Other Titles - Pauatahanui Inlet Horokiri Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - C. D. B. [in ink on backing sheet lower right]; Recto - bottom right - C. D. B. [in brushpoint, on image]; Album page - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash with Chinese white 96 x 153 mm glued to album page

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-006-015

Description: A view looking along the road beside the Pauatahanui Inlet, a cliff to the right, and a boat pulled up at the water's edge, bush-clad hills in the background. Identified from E-297-015 which appears to be a sepia copy of B-006-015. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 255 x 365 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-049/050

Description: A bridge over a stream to the right, with the stream curving round towards a mill building in the centre left. On the far left is a small church on top of a promontory. Dense bush in the background The view is taken from the village end of the Pauatahanui Bridge. The church on the left is on the site of St Alban's Church The church is the original interdenomination chapel at Pauatahanui, later the site of St Alban's church Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, double-page spread, in sketchbook 185 x 530 mm

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-027

Description: A Pakeha male and two Maori walking on a rocky beach with cliffs and low scrub to their right, looking towards Palliser Bay and Wellington in the distance. Both Maori are in cloaks and are carrying taiaha. This work was given the title Turakirae Head by Library staff, possibly in the 1950s, 60s or early 1970s. Close inspection in January 1996 revealed a previously unnoticed title. Cape Palliser is a considerable distance from Turakirae Head, although along the same stretch of coastline. Modern photographs confirm that the site is Cape Palliser, and that the topography as recorded by Brees is accurate. The only modern change is a (probably man-made) pool half-way between the high tide mark and the cliffs. A copy of modern photographs of the same scene is with the watercolour. On verso: section of a manuscript map of Pauatahanui and Porirua Harbour, presumably by Brees. Pauatahanui is called Pawai Tang[inui? - paper trimmed]. Other Titles - Turakirae Head, Palliser Bay coast ca 1843 Inscriptions: Recto - lower centre over a sandy patch between the foreground rock outcrop and the closest Maori and rocks; in brushpoint and very faint and illegible in parts: Cape Palliser towards the Wairarapa. 1844. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 173 x 372 mm

Date: 1900 - 1895

By: Swan, John Sydney, 1874-1936; Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0772

Description: Plan, south, west and east elevations, section looking east, and longitudinal section with details of buttresses. The drawing is signed in ink Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond, Diocesan Architects per J S S and dated 28 August 1898. It also bears the stamp of F de J Clere and initialled J. S. S. (John Sidney Swan) 5 March 1900. St Albans Church, located at the corner of State Highway 58 and the Paekakariki Hill Road, was begun in 1896 and consecrated in 1898. See also Plans-80-1010 for details of windows Other Titles - St Albans Church, Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on linen, hand-coloured, 436 x 625 mm

Date: [Between 1887-1910]

Reference: 1/2-002320-F

Description: The undenominational chapel at Pauatahanui, Porirua, Wellington, with the public burial ground around it. Probably taken between 1887-1910. Photographer unidentified. The Chapel was built in 1857 on land at the junction of Haywards Road and the Main Road given by Thomas Hollis Stace. It was intended for Protestants of all denominations. Any land remaining after the erection of the chapel was to be used as a public burial ground. The chapel also served as a schoolroom. Repairs eventually became too costly and it fell into disuse in 1887. It was demolished in 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [circa 1880s-1930s]

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

Reference: 1/4-055462-G

Description: Probably Riverton. Photograph taken by William Williams Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative