Places

Date: 1843 - 1939

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372

Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller

Date: 1877 - 1889

By: Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906; Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/1877-89/Acc.10637

Description: Cadastral map of Evans Bay to Kilbirnie, also to Constable and Owen streets, Newtown, Wellington. The area includes the coastline with Patent Slip and proposed jetties near Belvedere Road to Rodrigo Road, Kilbirnie. Numbered sections include acreages and some sites of houses. Roads are named and a stream with a bridge is marked. A note states 'right to water' at Busaco Road. A track to Lyell [sic] Bay is noted, as is a road to the Pilot Station. The town belt is marked. The lithographer is named as Lyon & Blair. Additions to the map are prominently marked sections at Evans Bay with various dates and names of Short, Williams, Ferguson, Harcourt, B. Smith, Rhodes, Rae, McCarthy, Boon, Earl, Knowles, Barber, Tait, White, Edw. Barton. The name of Lyon is marked in sections at Kilbirnie. Coloured sections are listed in key and refer to sections transferred by Mr. Pearce to various purchasers, which include Lot numbers, names and dates. Names include Sarah Ann Rhodes, W. Kemp, Ann Compton, McCarthy, Easby, McLennan, P. Farr, Moody & Smith, Adams, Jens Peter Jorgeson, Jane Compton, Geo. Zannin, M. Alexander, William Hayman, Ellen Stafford, Whitcombe, Church Trustees, T. Ladd, H. Green, Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Salmon, Wm. Salmon, E. O. Gibbs, Keasbury, Margaret Price, E. H. Hurst, W. J. L. Travers, Marion Orr, Andrew Orr, C. L. Zohrab, John Earl, J Lockhead, A. J. Bredahl, Baker, J. B. Harcourt, W. K. Williams, Lyon, J. Bradbury, H. Alexander, McAllister, Travers, W. M. Muir, H. J. Whircher, Brandon & Sons, McDermott, Mary Love, J. Dransfield, Ella Rollison, E. W. Lowe, Pedgen, Crease, J. Wagg, J. Knowles, Cath Rae, J. Mills, J. Higginbottom, Murray, John Vine, Richardson, Short. Scale of original: [1:3 168] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured pencil on duplicate plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 71 x 50.1 cm.

Date: 1890

Reference: MapColl-832.3bj/[ca.1890]/Acc.28694

Description: Survey map showing subdivisions of Pt. 3c, Akura Block, Block IV Tiffen, situated 3 km north of Masterton, Southern Wairarapa, between Waiopoua and Waingawa rivers. Shows the first subdivisions into 3c 1, 3c 2, 3c 4. 3c is shown bounded by 3b to the left and 3a, d and b to the left and 5 1 below. Akura no.2 is to the right. The name Akura means 'entrance to a fortified pa'. Shows two roads, Akura Road and Kibblewhite Road. Part 3c specifies the location of the urupa (17) or cemetery on the roadside of Kibblewhite Road. Also specifies five subdivisions or lots of land on Pt 3c 4 (1100 each) belonging to members of the Karaitiana family: Waha o te Rangi Karaitiana, Ote ne Kuku Karaitiana, Arawhita Karaitiana and Te Ouai Karaitiana. Shows some measurement 'by old surveyors'. Inset of part of the Kibblewhite Rd's centre showing cement blocks, probably added at a later date. Under title is written "M.O. Ckd. H.R." Other Titles - Subdivisions Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, coloured, scale indeterminable, 41 x 31 cm.

Date: 1800 - 1900

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.16gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.36914

Description: Cadastral map showing area 9 miles south of Tauranga, from the Ruahihi Bridge bordering the Kumi Kumi land blocks on the west and the Kaimai and the Tauwharawhara on the east. The Mangapapa River is shown, along with the Mangakarengorengo, Ngaumuwahine and Manga Hurengorengo Streams. Most of the land blocks indicate their acreage. In the Whaitikuranui no. 6b block, diagram and text which reads 'Thames Valley Co. Station Homestead'. The road or track from Cambridge (Okoroire) to Tauranga is shown to be 31 miles. A pencil annotation shows the Ongaonga no. 2 block and the Kumi Kumi no. 1 block (up to the Ngaumuwahine Stream) subdivided. The map has pencil and some ink annotations. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour and pencil on dressed linen, scale [1:5 088 800], 11.5 x 9 cm.

Date: 1856 - 1866

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Stone, (Mr), active 1953

Reference: MapColl-832.3991a/[ca. 1861]/Acc.333

Description: Drawn on a base map of the Waipawa Borough, the annotations depict properties with block number, acreage, Crown grant reference numbers and names of purchasers. The properties vary in size from 10 to 30 acres, and are made up of several streets of suburban sized sections. The names are Robert Mixer Skeet, James Fougere, Thomas Dawson Triphook and Edward George Wright, Louis Noel Du Noyer, William Fannin, Frederick Sedgwick Abbott, Christopher Lockyer, Thomas Gill, Allan MacMaster, Algernon Gray Tollemache. See accompanying one page note entitled 'Schedule of persons who purchased from the Crown the lands comprised in the township of Waipawa'. Patangata Crown Grant District.' Lists block number, purchaser, purchase date, Crown Grant reference, and includes annotated note regarding donor and annotated corrections. Base map: 'Plan of Borough of Waipawa' ([s.l], Lands and Survey Department, [s.d]). Stamp on top right hand corner of map: 'L&S' Series 25, no. 214. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:4 752], 76 x 97 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Stone, Lands and Survey Department, 28.8.1953.

Date: 1875

By: Duncan, George Smith, 1852?-1930

Reference: MapColl-834.5292gbbd/1875/Acc.42698

Description: Cadastral map showing surveyed sections between Bay View and Oxford roads, Dunedin. Gives section numbers and dimensions of sections. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, scale [1:792], 54.6 x 46.4 cm. Provenance: Purchased from Plumbly's Auction House, Dunedin, 2003

Date: Between 1871 and 1881 - 1870

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

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbe/1871/Acc.27669-70

Description: Copy of an 1870 cadastral map of land blocks within the Manawatū-Wairarapa Block, from the Tararua Ranges eastwards to the Puketoi Range and Castle Point Block. Blocks indicate name, number and acreage, and include Kaihinu, Pahiatua, Te Pukahu, Mongorongo, Eketāhuna, Ngatapu, Ihuraua, Manawatū, Mangahauo, Puketoi, Tautane, Makure. Two blocks include note 'not passed the [Native Land] Court' (Kaihanga, Mangahao no. 3; 7,000 acres and Puketoi no. 6; 3,200 acres). Includes annotations such as the addition of Mangakao no. 2 block in 1881. Includes names of rivers, streams. Note on map reads: 'Produced before the N[ative] L[and] Court at Masterton Wairarapa September 7th 1871'. [Signed] J Rogan'. Note on map reads 'This ? does not conflict with Crown Lands' Judge (signature indeciferable) 'Oct 23 '[18]71' Written on map, bottom left: '897', '2387' Written under map 'This plan is now numbered 88B'. Some annotated text and signatures difficult to decipher (such as map compiler and surveyor). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 61 x 50 cm. Provenance: Copied from map W49 part of Head Office Collection of maps and plans. Dept. of Lands and Survey. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: 1879

By: Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/1879/Acc. 8980

Description: Plan of the subdivision of section 56 of the Opaki block, showing lands for sale; also shows the property of Te Rophia (sic Te Ropiha) to the southeast of the lands for sale Extended Title - Wellington: J.H. Bethune & Co., 1879 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Friday, 19th December, 1879. Important sale of Small Farm Allotments, Opaki Plains, Masterton. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. Have been favored with instructions from the Executors of the late Henry Bannister, Esq., to sell by public auction, at their rooms, corner of Featherston and Brandon streets on FRIDAY, 19th December, at 2 o'clock- The Opaki Estate, consisting of 1,178 acres of valuable agricultural land subdivided into 24 small farm allotments, varying from 40 to 122 acres each ... Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 46 x 49 cm. Scale 1:7 920

Date: 1896

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47993gbbd/1896/Acc.10338

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map, highlighting a land block of over 103 acres, in parts of Sections 17-18 Lowry Bay District and 25-27 Harbour District, Wainuiomata a survey for ? Meut, D Dick and Glover. Shows part of a public road. The text, 'Wainui o mata Dist[ric]t' has been written on the map in large print, but then crossed out in pencil. Several pencilled notes are written over map, but are difficult to decipher. Written on reverse: No. 18-17 Lowry Bay District and 25-27 Harbour Dist Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, pencil and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale [1:2 376], 52 x 68 cm

Date: 1897

By: Kelly, F V, active 1897

Reference: MapColl-832.15enc/1897/Acc.10340

Description: Drawn on a New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey template, depicts residence site for A B Kelly at Tokatea of Hauraki, Harataunga (sic) W. no 7, beside the road to Cabbage Bay. Property acreage is 0:1:6 and shows dwelling. Written on map:'Lic no. 2493, 12/5/97'. In bottom right corner '44'. Written on back of published map is 'Sub-division of land' declaration. Template map: 'For subdivision of Land under the 'Land Transfer Act'', Department of Lands and Survey, 18--. Received at the Land Transfer Survey Office. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale [1:792], 38 x 26 cm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Morgan, J H, active 1880-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[ca.1874]/Acc.35989

Description: Cadastral map depicting small farms allotted to members of the Woodville Small Farms Association off the Woodville Main South Road in Seventy Mile Bush. Larger blocks are allocated to individuals and include names, block numbers and acreage; smaller blocks list number only. Three unnamed streams are indicated. Blocks are allotted to A Peebles, David Hughes, Elijah Mills, William Hope, George Smith, Henry Cox, Edward Groves, George Gregory, James Morgan, W Anderson, T Pithams, J Drinkwater, William Harper, Sam Kingdom, Edward Rendall, Henry Hawken, J Lovedale, Henry Giles, H Thomas, Fred Hollins, Joseph Sowry, Edward Harding, J Murray, John Pinfold, W G Crawford, G Millin, William Massey, William Martin, George Perfect, J Williams, G Buckingham, J de Lackey, Hamblin, J Lloyd. Other Titles - showing Other Titles - 70 Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - 'Mr J Morgan'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [1:15 840], 33 x 50 cm. Provenance: Signed by Mr J Morgan

Date: 1897

By: Philips, John I, active 1897

Reference: MapColl-832.15enc/1897/Acc.10341

Description: Drawn on a Department of Lands and Survey template, depicts residence site for J C Fraser at Hauraki Associated Gold Reefs, II Coromandel survey district. Property area is 0:2:00 acres, and identified as 'F'. 'Date of appeal Feb 9th 1897; Miner's Right no. 6106 Jan 20, 1897; granted 12.5.97'. Map signed by surveyor 26.1.97. Marked '145/97 C'. Marked '2492, 12.5.97'. Marked '24' in lower right corner. Template map: [Survey plan map], Department Lands and Survey, 18--. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, scale [1: 792], 39 x 25 cm.

Date: 1896

By: Garrett, Samuel Roland, -1919; Stephenson & Turner Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4199gbbd/1896/Acc.36734

Description: A base map of Block V, Westmere S.D. has been used to detail the town section 103 to be developed by John T. Williams. The plan for the section includes a cottage, stable and two sheds. The orchard, garden, passage and yard are named, include measurements in feet and inches, and notes about a 'crooked delanidated picket fence' and 'buried in dense growth of trees and shrubs'. The adjacent section No. 102, includes the names W.J. Vowles and J.A.S. McDonald, owner and occupier, while section No. 104 has the names Mrs. M.V. Soulby, owner, and Williams, occupier. The section to the rear has the name Mrs. Ellen Cullinane, owner and occupier. A note written on bottom right of map gives information about survey posts, pegs and no excess claimed for this section. Base map: Block V. Westmere S.D. General Survey department of New Zealand. A further note states: Recieved at the Land Transfer Office, this day ... of ... 18-- Handwritten on top left: I consent to this plan, W.J. Vowles [signature] owner of part Section 102 abutting on Park Place. Witness, W. Treadwell [signature], solicitor, Wanganui. I consent to this plan, James McDonald [signature], owner of other part of section 102. Witness, Griffin Marshall, solicitor, Wanganui. Handwritten on top right: Application 2558. A/643 Handwritten on top right: I consent to and approve of this plan, John T. Williams [signature]. Witness, Griffin Marshall [signature], solicitor, Wanganui. Handwritten bottom right corner: Approved, ... [initials indecipherable] Keogh, assistant surveyor, Napier. Date 10th April 1896 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:317], 43 x 43.4 cm. on sheet 45.4 x 51.6 cm. Provenance: Donated by Stephenson and Turner

Date: 1888

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ka/1888/Acc.14441

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map, showing Karori subdivision of Section 34, bounded by MacDonald Street (now Messines Road), Karori Road, Vera Street, and Duthie Street. Numbered lots show acreage, and some owners, including Riddiford's land (to later become site of Marsden College), McBell's property, Chas Johnston's property, some annotations difficult to decipher. Some sections are marked sold. Pencilled note on map: 'For subdivision of this block see plan 109'. Another reads 'See plan 66' and 'See 649' Measurements in links Marks a brick store and a church Title in square brackets supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured on paper, encapsulated in transparent paper, scale indeterminable, 50.2 x 66 cm

Date: 1890

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

Reference: MapColl-r832.3ee/[ca.1890]/Acc.27661

Description: Cadastral map, maker not identified. Shows the coastline and country inland of southern Hawkes Bay, between the Pōrangahau River and the Whangaehu River on the coast, bounded by the edge of the Tautane land block in the south and inland to the Mangaorapa Stream in the west. Numbered land blocks are shown along the Pōrangahau River from the coastline and inland, including the outlined Pōrangahau township. Shows acres in numerical format, some river names and place names and numerous Māori names. Broken and unbroken black lines indicate boundary lines of land blocks and the land area is marked with numerical and alphabetical figures in black, red and blue ink. A red line is marked on the map in a south to north direction, near the name Kohu.o.tu in the south and Waioheke in the north. Circles in red ink with numbers next to them are also shown. Annotations have been made in pencil with no indcation of the date of the annotations. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, colour, scale [1:15 840], 154 x 95cm. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: 1886 - 1887

By: Wyles, Henry Foord, 1841-1893; Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Kh/1886/Acc.6355

Description: Survey map of sections along the Wellington to Porirua road at Khandallah. The sum total of the acreages of the roads is included in a note. Part of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway is marked. Sections are numbered, include acreages and measurements. Adjacent sections include Native Reserves, also the names of Mrs. White and Mr. Izard. Surveying details include Kaiwhara East trig Statement of certification handwritten on bottom left of map is signed by H. Foord Wyles and E. W. Mills, and includes New Zealand stamp duty and the stamp of the Survey Office, Wellington Handwritten note on verso states: Khandallah Handwritten note on bottom left of map states: 10/76 Mrs White, Porirua Other Titles - Plan of subdivisions of Part Section numbers No. 1 & 2, Porirua District, 1886 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, scale [1:2 376], 50.7 x 50.7 cm.

Date: 1862 - 1895

By: Raven, John (Rev), 1821-1886; Wilson, F C, active 1895; Raven family

Reference: MapColl-834.4492gbbd/1862-1895/Acc.39353

Description: Cadastral map of numbered sections with some acreages, boundary measurements bounded by roads named Rangiora, Woodend and North, in Christchurch. Includes details of some sections marked as mill allotment, school allotment and a church. Other notes on the photocopy are indecipherable. Title supplied by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 43.9 x 37.2 cm. on sheet 61 x 46 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Raven family papers 1862-1895 MS Group 27.

Date: 1885

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Be/[ca.1885]/Acc.14377

Description: Cadastral map showing numbered sections, with boundary measurements, between Adelaide Road, Lavaud Street and South Road (now Rintoul). Blythe Road, Pitt (now Chatham) and Dawson streets are named. Includes a school reserve. Similar to DP 787, Wellington Land District, held by Land Information New Zealand Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, backed, scale not given, 25.8 x 21.9 cm.

Date: 1890

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1890/Acc.6384

Description: Survey map with cadastral information, of part section 9, Block 12, Belmont Survey District, (Porirua County District), which was designated a Native (Maori) reserve. The section runs east of the old Porirua Road, southeast of Johnsonville and includes part of the old course of the Upper Ngauranga River. A road runs through the middle of the section. A long thin area of 29 acres running across the middle of the section is highlighted, with the name 'Enoka Hohepa and others (including roads)' written on it. This area has been skewed slightly (the previous highlight is faintly shown). North of the highlighted area is named part section number 9, 'Mere Pawa and others'. The remaining part of the section below the highlighted area bears no name. The faintly highlighted area includes the note: subdivision number 3 of section numbers 7 and 9. Government trigs and government blocks are identified in the survey. Stamped Survey Office Wellington 4793/7; 24 February 1890. Note on map states map meets regulations of the Survey of Native lands, and that the map has been forwarded to the Chief Surveyor, Wellington. Map examined and signed by Edward Briscoe, authorised surveyor. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [ca. 1:7 920], 45 x 41 cm.

Date: 1881

By: Matthews, Alfred Forde, 1851-1926; Putaawha, Pauro, active 1880s

Reference: MapColl-832.41ee/1881/Acc.226

Description: Map of Okahu Block, bordered by the Turakina, Pokoko, Okatarau and Koukoupo streams, in the Rangitikei District. Includes over 40 Maori placenames on the borders of the block, and some pa sites such as Waipa Pa. Map is signed under title 'RLB'. The text 'Okehu [signature] RL Blake 13 August 1881' has transferred in reverse onto the top front of the map during copying. Map title and compiler's name written on verso of map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 42 x 32 cm.