Places

Date: 1896

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Crompton-Smith, Elsie Marian, 1901-1996

Reference: B-072-006

Description: Looking past large trees towards Pauatahanui Inlet Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - On paper label, glued to mount, in ink: Pauatahanui M C Smith 1 [guinea]. On verso: title, signature and price in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 355 mm

Date: 1890

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton 1864-1953 :[Sketchbook ca 1890]

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-390-005

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil, 176 x 253 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-015

Description: The harbour ringed with hills, looking across to the Gear homestead on the opposite bank Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993.

Date: [Circa 1890s?]

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-199

Description: Album of photographs in the Godber collection, taken by unidentified photographers. None of the people in photographs are identified. Photographs include scenes in the Nelson area, and particularly New Plymouth, with a number of the Domain at New Plymouth. Two photographs are linked with the Star Boating Club in Wellington, one with a rowing group in a whaler, and one showing a number of rowing prizes won by Jack Hume. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 112 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with brown buckram cover; 27.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1896

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-011

Description: Looking along a towards a low bridge at the Pauatahanui Inlet. Low hills in the background Copied in oils, 1942 - see A-174-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 355 x 255 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1900s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-289

Description: Photographs of New Zealand circa 1890s, probably taken by George William Barltrop. They cover two areas, the first is in the Canterbury region, including a series of views of the Avon River, the road to New Brighton, New Brighton itself, Timaru (including the Timaru Breakwater, and the Timaru Lighthouse), and Mr Prudhoe's house in Christchurch. The other region is around Wellington, including Wadestown, St Thomas' Church in Newtown (views of the church, and several scenes of a bazaar held near the church; some with children wearing fancy dress). Out of Wellington views include Plimmerton, Mana Island and Pauatahanui. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographic views'; `McIntosh V' lettered in gold on spine; 17.5 x 24.0 cm

Date: [ca 1840s-1900s]

Reference: PAColl-7761

Description: Comprises engravings of Bishop Pompallier and Peter Chanel; plans of pa, including Rangihaeata's at Pauatahanui; page entitled "Ako marama o te Hahi Katorika Romana ko te pou me te unga o te pono"; scenes of the hut erected by Captain Scott and its surroundings in Antarctica, taken 1967; Alberton house, Mount Albert, Auckland, taken 1973; a printing press, possibly at Pompallier; and the interior of an identified house, taken 1970. Other - A number of these photographs were provided by Alexander Turnbull Library and Auckland Institute and Museum. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Reference MSZ-1298 (A2002-382).

Date: 1842-1964

From: Beard, James Albert, 1924- :Architectural and town planning photographs

Reference: PAColl-9938-12

Description: This collection contains the contents of two albums. First album group relates to Pauatahanui, Porirua. Includes - Unidentified house. Grave stone of Len Walker who died in 1897 aged 100 years. View of St Adan's Anglican Church. View of St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Views of an overgrown cemetery. Second album is mostly views of the Government centre and environs, Wellington. Most of this material dates from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and includes - The wooden Government building (now Law School). The Centotaph. Turnbull House (then the Alexander Turnbull Library). Wellington Railway Station. Bowen House. Magistrates Court. Bowen Street. Lambton Quay. Bunny Street. Molesworth Street. Government Printing Office. Parliament buildings and grounds. The old High Court building. Brick store on Waterloo Quay (now apartments). Hotel Waterloo. Defence Department building, Bunny Street (demolished about 1994). Other Wellington photographs taken by the Evening Post in November 1964 include a view of Manners Street, and two photographs of Wellington traffic. There is one photograph of houses and gardens in Regent Street, Newtown, dated 9 August 1962. This is part of a group of views of a site for Wellington City Council housing taken before demolition for that project began. Earlier photographs include - View of Kaikoura, ca 1910. Houses in Auckland, Christchurch, and the Stratford area, 1890s-1910. Taylor-Stace house, Pauatahanui. Photograph of a drawing of a coach outside an inn in Christchurch, 1866. Unidentified derelict cobb built house in overgrown garden. Views of the bridge of an unidentified ship. Barrett's Hotel, Wellington, by Samuel Brees, ca 1842. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: All of these prints were originally in an album. They were removed because the plastic enclosures had become degraded and sticky, and were bonding with the prints. The photographs have been kept in the sequence that they were in, when the album was received by the Library.

Date: [ca 1860-1914]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: PAColl-0341

Description: Photographs of various scenes: two of the convoy in Wellington Harbour in October 1914 (one from Field album VIII); the Field children outside a dilapidated house in Waikanae; a photographed captioned "mother and Peter" of two women, four children and a man in the mouth of Karori tunnel; a train passing through Te Aroha (Field album V); Auckland from the north shore (Field Album V); Sir George Grey's house at Momona Bay, Kawau (Field album IX); an excursion train meeting a river boat (Field Album XV); a house next to a small lake captioned New Plymouth (Field album IX); two of the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901 (one from Field Album VI); Mrs Edward and her mother on the verandah of their house in Khandallah; a post card of the station at Manakau; farm horses in harness eating at a trough (Field Album XV); Maori men, women and children around a meeting house for a tangi in Manaia, Coromandel - above the door is written Rahera Titia (Field Album V); Hot Springs Hotel beside the lake at Waiwera (Field Album V); looking down the Waimakariri from what is now Glacier Hotel at an old homestead and two of Mitre Peak and Milford Sound (stuck to the same piece of card Field Album IX); large two storey house (Field Album XVIII); and a panorama of Dunedin showing Rattray Street in the foreground and the wharves behind (Field Album VIII). Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-115913 to 115936 Quantity: 42 b&w original negative(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1847 - 1853 - 1975 - 1985

By: Tilly, Grant Leonard Ridgway, 1937-2012; Hatherly, Leone Rosemary Lucille, 1938-2012

Reference: B-051-067

Description: A small cottage, seen from the side Other Titles - Pahatahanui = Pauatahanui Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Lee, thank you so much. Suspect, Feb 1990. Grant Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 287 x 408 mm on sheet 300 x 420 mm Provenance: Given by the artist to fellow actor Lee Hatherly during the play "Suspect"

Date: 1894

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Crompton-Smith, Elsie Marian, 1901-1996

Reference: C-053-004

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 280 x 465 mm

Date: 1896

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

Reference: Plans-80-1010

Description: Details of the leadlight windows (excluding the glass and its decoration) for the chancel, the side walls and the west end of the nave of St Albans Church, corner State Highway 58 and Paekakariki Hill Road. Other Titles - St Albans Church, Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 515 x 685 mm

Date: [Between about 1879 and 1899]

From: Bothamley family: Papers and photographs

By: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936

Reference: PA1-q-192

Description: Photographs taken by Henry Wright in the Wellington Region between about 1879 and 1899. In the album there is one photograph (p 33), of the Pink Terraces which was possibly taken by the Burton brothers. They include two photographs (on p 1, 36) of his wife (probably his second wife Mary Jane (nee Woolman), as it is likely they were taken between 1886 and 1890, dated from the style of her dress, and he didn't marry his third wife, Elizabeth Hughes Hallett, until 1907) Many were taken around the Wellington coast, including views of the Wellington Heads; two views of Maori whare at Karaka Bay (circa 1879)(p 13) and one with a Maori chief in front of a whare (p 15); and three photographs of a bay near Karaka Bay showing torpedo sheds (p 20), a naval camp (p 30), and the explosion of a torpedo in the sea (p 31). Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, decorated with gold patterns, central section with red, white and green inserts with the Scottish thistle, English rose and Irish clover (one section, presumably the Welsh one missing). Entitled `Photographic scrap album'; 28.5 x 24.5 cm

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: 1969 - 1840 - 1855

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-7510-001

Description: A plan view of Pauatahanui Inlet and surrounding flat land, hills in contours and roads. Numbers indicate the location of Maori and Pakeha settlements and other features, including churches and military buildings Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting paper, 746 x 507 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803.

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).