Places

Date: 1873

By: Lyndon, Edward, active 1860s-1890s

Reference: MapColl-832.395gbbd/1873/Acc.3017

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 47 x 34 cm. No scale

Date: 1867-1933

By: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933

Reference: ATL-Group-00435

Description: Notebooks, correspondence, and papers relating to the history, geology and geography of the Napier-Taupo-Kaingaroa region, notes on Maori canoes, art and history, the moa, education, hydro-electricity, the Shakespearean controversy, his political beliefs, and other subjects. There are also land deeds and papers of W Howard Hill and William Colenso. Notebooks, correspondence, and papers on the history, geology, and geography of the Napier-Taupo-Kaingaroa region, notes on moa, Captain St George's diary, Shakespearean controversy, and other topics. Papers include notes and papers on geology, history of the Kaingaroa-Taupo area, Te Kooti campaign, and early history of New Zealand; correspondence from W Colenso to Mrs E Hill. Also journal for 1897 which deals largely with school inspecting in Hawke's Bay. Henry Thomas Hill was the Inspector for Schools for Hawke's Bay and the East Coast. He joined the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute in 1884 and became President in 1891 and managed the Colenso Bequest for the Institute. Quantity: 159 folder(s). 1.16 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available - see backfile.. Transfers: MS-Papers-0153 (Series C) Inventory notes the transfer of 9 photographs to the Photo Section, 18 September 1960.. Processing information: ATL-Group-00435 formed in 2019, merged previously separated collections - MS-Papers-0004 (Series A), MS-Papers-0146 (Series B), MS-Papers-0153 (Series C) and MS-Papers-0172 (Series D) - of the same provenance. NOTE: Series numbering by staff, 18 June 1987.

Date: 1885

By: Rochfort, James, 1840-1924

Reference: MapColl-832.395a/1885/Acc.1964

Description: Map of the the Ahuriri Harbour and Napier area, including Scinde Island, Gough Island, Tutaekuri River, Te Whare o Maraenui, the eastern and western spits, Ahuriri Lagoon and harbour, areas of salt marsh and mud flats and Taradale Rd. Shows Napier township, and the railway line from Gough Island, around Scinde Island and along the southern coast. Pencil and ink annotations on map. Title written in pencil on map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 32 x 26 cm.

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.395/bje/[ca. 1870]/Acc.31231

Description: Drawn on a published map, the annotated red line depict the electoral boundary and follows the border of the whole of Scinde Island, Napier, up the eastern coastline, Hardinge Rd, to the tip of the Eastern Spit, across the harbour to the western point of Maori Island, southwards to Pandora Point, around Hyderbad Road (Corunna and Goa Bay) to Wellesley Road, south of Sale Street. Base map: 'Plan of the town of Napier, Hawke's Bay', (Napier: James Wood, [s.d]). Stamped signature on map (difficult to decipher). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, linen backed, scale [ca.1:3 600], 44 x 63 cm.

Date: 1898

By: Kennedy Brothers (Hawke's Bay, N.Z.); New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.3gmfs/1898/Acc.25389

Description: Manuscript copy of a map of proposed works in the Whare o Maraenui Block, Napier, 1898, including Napier township and major roads, the Tukaekuri River, Meeanee, the Roman Catholic Mission at Meeanee, Jervoistown, the Waverley Hotel, Napier Park, Purinui Creek, the Ahuriri Harbour and the Western Spit from Petane. Depicts 200 acres of land to be reclaimed and sold, 30 acres reserved for the Napier Borough Council, 1525 acres to be leased and the proposed channel reserves. Note reads 'To accompany letter to Chairman of Harbor [Harbour] Board Committee dated 8.12.[18]98'. Other Titles - Whare o Maraenui Stamped 'General Assembly Library'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, [1:15 840], 61 x 59 cm.

Date: 1862

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

Reference: MapColl-832.395gbbd/1862/Acc.3240

Description: Map of part of Napier Terrace and Milton Road on Napier Hill, highlighting two sections; no. 407 Napier Terrace and lot A, no. 34 Milton Rd. Glued beside the map are notes about the highlighted sections, regarding scheduled costs for 21 year leasing arrangements from 1 October 1862. Includes note 'Kunop has been asked to sell block containing 1a 3r 0p'. Note on map in pencil 'McLean (traced by GDHB? May 1948). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, card backed, part coloured, 19 x 49 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: 1868

By: Lyndon, Edward, active 1860s-1890s

Reference: MapColl-832.395gbbd/1868/Acc.4026

Description: Plan of part of Shakespeare Rd, Napier, lots 86 and 87, showing the Union Bank of Australia, sections with acreage, sections with buildings and associated surnames, namely Wright, Nelson, Edwards, Miller, Holder, Garry. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 34 x 41 cm.

Date: 1899

By: Kennedy, Arthur Angus, 1866-1931; New Zealand. General Assembly Library

Reference: MapColl-832.3gmfs/1899/Acc.25388

Description: Manuscript map of the Borough of Napier as at 1899 including the Tutae o Mahu Block and the Pukeroa Block, Tareha's [Maori] Reserve, Tareha's bridge, the Tutaekuri River, mud flats and the Napier-Taradale Road. The Spit Railway Station and the Napier Railway Station are shown. Land edged in red is the land described in the third schedule to the Napier Harbour Board Amendment and Endowment Improvement Act of 1897 and refered to in the Bill. Land edged in green is land described in the fourth schedule to the Act of 1887 and referred to in the bill. The land coloured yellow is the land described in the schedule to the above bill. Accompanying note is a three page document regarding the Bill. Stamped 'General Assembly Library'. 'Approved Eric L Gold Smith, 27.6.99'. Signed 'Arthur A Kennedy, Authorised Surveyor Napier.' Signature 'S Mathias, Clerk of Board of Napier July 1899', and annotated note certifying the plan's deposit with the Bill. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 1 accompanying note. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 42 x 31 cm.

Date: 1859

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Andersen, E, active 1859; Buchanan, John Duncan Henry, 1902-1961; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/1859/Acc.230;1947

Description: Cadastral map of northern to central Hawke's Bay, including Mohaka southwards to Napier, Hastings, Waipawa and Waipukurau, as at 1859. It depicts land acquired by the government, boundaries of runs (farms) including settler names, boundaries of purchases and land ownership, Maori reserves, Maori geographical place names, pa sites, Maori tracks, roads and rivers, as indicated on the map's reference key. The Mohaka block includes names associated with land titles, namely Riddle, Anderson; pa sites including Kotokakarunga and Waipapa (beside the Mohaka) and Towitikoko and Waikare (beside the Waikare River). Several geographical places, Maori villages and streams are named. Block lot numbers 1-27 are indicated. The Ahuriri and Napier district blocks include the settler names A Alexander, JGS Garker, William Villers, Cockburn, Munro & Blair, Marshall, HB Sealy, W Ogilvy, M Hill, Dyson, William Gouper Jnr, Gray, Imrie. Named pa sites include Pia Pa Awatoto; named bush areas include Pohui and Puketitiri. The Te Mata and Kidnapper blocks include the names J Chambers, G Moore, A St. Hill, Rhodes. Note on map reads 'Karinema's [Karenema's] reserve under offer' (Havelock North area). Pa site indicated at Marae Totora (Maraetotora) and north and south of Whakatu, Heretaunga, along the Ngaruroro River. Waimarama block is noted as 'in treaty for'. Waimarama and Arana blocks include the names W Gouper, J Montieth; Hapuku's block Chapman, Hargrove and Gouper, HS Tiffen, ES Gurling, E Collins. The Waipawa block includes the names FJ Abbott, Tanner, Worgan, RJ Duncan, R Pharazyn; Maraekakaho includes Mason, Ormond, D[onald] McLean; the Aorangi block includes Oliver, Tuke, Domett and the Otaranga J Alexander and James Williams. The Aorangi Reserve is depicted in Maraetotora beside the 'old pa Native reserve'. Sketched roads and settlement areas are indicated around the port of Napier, Aorangi and east of the Ngaruroro River between Clive (Waipurehu) and Te Awanga. On the second smaller sheet, the Porangahau and Ruahine blocks include the settler names JN Northwood, D Gollan, KR Russell, TP Russell, Tully, Henton, A Grant, Ormond's, Wallaces, Herberts. Includes Waipukurau, Maori reserves, 'areas in treaty for'. 'Traced from the original in HB Museum, March 1947. JDHB'. Settler name annotations were added to map before it was traced See also second diazo copy MapColl-832.3gbbd/1859/Acc.231;1948 Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:126 720], 74 x 100 cm and 60 x 65 cm.

Date: 1880

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

Reference: MapColl-832.395a/[ca.1880]/Acc.1975

Description: Sketch plan of Hooker Terrace and Banks St, Napier, and two unnamed roads, small numbered sections (one belonging to J Kelly), and three larger sections belonging to Dr Hitchings, 'Bp N.Z.' and Donald McLean. Believed to be a tracing of a subdivision of William Colenso's (Note his house marked "W.C." in centre right). Colenso refers to a tracing in his letter to McLean on April 22 (see MS-Papers-0032-0221). "A few days ago I gave you a Nat. news; promising you a tracing of the Land I am getting laid out at Napier, which I now enclose: the tracing is rather rough, but correct; the Land will not be opened for sale for 2 or 3 weeks (depending on the Surveyor), so that if you care to have any of the best sections (all 1/4 ac.), you will be in time. I consider the situation the best in the island, while it is retired & in the heart of Town. And as I (& Dr. H. and others) wish it to be respectable, I have planned it so as to have no thoroughfare, & given for a belt of Trees, &c.- 'Banks'- after Sir Jos. B. who came with Cook, & published (&, indeed, brought out Draughtsmen with him at his own expense!) & 'Hooker', after our N.Z. Flora Botanist." Historic information supplied by Ian St. George. Includes notes under sketch plan concerning future plans for the area. Title written on map in pencil. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, 20 x 26 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: 1887

By: Bristed, Richard Bower, 1856-1947; Harcourt, Charles James Stanton, 1877-1965

Reference: MapColl-832.395gbbd/1887/Acc.8124

Description: From the Stanton Harcourt Estate Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, 99 x 66 cm.

Date: 1876

By: Meek, James McKain, 1815-1899; New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department

Reference: F-009

Description: Shows a kauri tree with historical facts recorded on the trunk, as well as in panels and tables surrounding it. Also shows maps of the North and South Islands, of Australasia and of the World. Includes small photographic inserts, the photographs covering the main centres in New Zealand, from each of the then existing provinces. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Designed and written with pen-and-ink by James McKain Meek aged 62 years at the Wai Wera hot springs New Zealand. Commenced writing Monday July 24th 1876. Finished Saturday Decr 30th, 1876. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on wove paper, with albumen print photographs attached, 2250 x 1500 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1870

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

Reference: MapColl-832.3gmbd/[186-?]/Acc.1946

Description: Manuscript map covering the Ruahine and Kaweka ranges to the Mohaka River, eastward to the coast at Napier and southwards to Cape Kidnappers, Te Aute and the Ruataniwha plains. Depicts settler properties and land ownership, roads, rivers, settlements, Maori placenames, tracks and a pa sites named Pa Whakairo and 'Hapuku's Pa'. Some settler names include Rev Williams in Te Aute, James Williams, Tippen, Herrick, Carlyon, Mason, Smith, Oliver, McLean, Chambers, Rhodes, Lowry, Speedy, Whitmore and McNiels [McNeils] runs. Identifies an area of land between the Rivers Ngaruroro and Tutaekuri as Maori land. Map originally folded into eight. Title added to linen mount of map in pencil with square brackets. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, linen backed, 25 x 20 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: 1837 - 1841

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-1/5/60/Acc.54746

Description: Photostat negative facsimile copy of a hydrographic chart originally prepared by Thomas Wing of the Schooner Trent in August 1837. This copy annotated as "Copied from a rough tracing belonging to Mr Wyld - May 12th 1841" and stamped Hydrographic Office 13 May 1841. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photostat negative facsimile copy on paper, 45 x 55 cm

Date: 1865

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-1/5/58/ACC.54744

Description: Survey plan of Napier 'Plan of the town of Napier, Hawke's Bay', drawn by August Koch, lithographed by Lloyd & Wylie, Wellington, and published by James Wood, Herald Office, Napier. Dated circa 1865. Annotations on original plan "Area granted to Supt. H.B. edged red" [area of land granted to the Provincial Superintendent of Napier], and "Area vested in N. Harbour Board coloured red", with an additional annotation a double section of land on Hardinge Road as "granted to Sup[erintenden]t". Map shows sections, government reserves, educational reserves, battery reserve, barrack reserve, and reserve for Botanical Gardens. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photostat negative copy on paper, 43 x 62 cm.