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Date: 1836, 17 Jan 1908

By: Chapman, Frederick Revans (Sir), 1849-1936

Reference: MS-Papers-8468

Description: A typescript of `The story of Puoho' which details the raids of Te Puoho-o-te-rangi in the South Island of New Zealand. The account was copied by Chapman from the visitor's book in an hotel in Pembroke, Taranaki. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Copied from the visitor's book in Mrs Russell's hotel at Pembroke, Taranaki in 1908 by Chapman. Copy was originally donated to the Palmerston North Library. The original book was later lost in a fire.

Date: [1851-1911]

From: McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Further papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-7445

Description: Unbound scrapbook of articles, maps etc on a variety of Maori-related topics Language - Some material is in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1937

From: Wild, Geoff V, fl 1920s-1950s : Scrapbooks

Reference: MS-Papers-11217-4

Description: Newspaper articles relating to the history of Riverton, Southland's first settlement, founded in 1837 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: [ca 1940-1950]

By: Moyes, Charles, active 1940-1950

Reference: Micro-MS-0512

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (ca 130 pages).

Date: 1934

By: Carrington, Arthur Hugh, 1895-1947

Reference: MS-0470

Description: Title continues:`...of New Zealand by the descendants of Tahu-potiki. Collected and written by A H Carrington.' Typescript, with author's corrections, of an unpublished work and foreword by M Gilfedder. Publication - Published as `Ngai Tahu: a migration history; The Carrington text' (ed) Te Maire Tau and Atholl Anderson, Bridget William Books, Wellington 2008 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 219 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; ¼ blue morocco, blue buckram) Finding Aids: Includes index.

Date: [Between ca 1878-1897]

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: fMS-247

Description: Comprises one scrapbook compiled by Alexander Turnbull between circa 1878 and 1896, possibly not completed. Material collected by Turnbull dates from 1846 to 1897 and largely relates to te ao Māori, some is written in reo Māori with English translations. Letters, notes, envelopes and also bank cheques have been pasted into the volume, some also attached by pins. Includes: - various letters and waiata transcribed by G H Davies. - Māori to English word lists as well as whakatauki, waiata and karakia, some with English interpretations. - whakapapa relating to Ngāpuhi (p001 and p009) and Te Arawa hapū (p068) - manuscript titled 'Ko nga whakapapa o Nga Tupuna on Nga Ture of Niu Tireni' and translation 'The Genealogy of the Ancestors of the Law of New Zealand' (p003). - information and illustrations recorded by Timi Waata Rimini, about the Maketū-Ōpōtiki area, in particular the pā at Pukuhina, Oreiwhata and Poutuia (p016). - letter from a Mr Walsh dated 1896 to Mr Smith with a large splinter of wood attached. Text in the letter reads: "fragment from the remains of the flagstaff cut down by Hone Heke at Kororareka" (p078). - Māori divisions of time and naming of planets and stars (p086-p089). - manuscript relating to the death of Tukino Te Marae, a tohunga accused of causing deaths by mākutu, shot by Himiona Te Rua, near Te Teko in 1875 (p095-p112). - a list titled 'Scale of Rations' detailing food issued to prisoners, including those serving hard labour (p116). - typescript translation of a campaign speech given by Tamati Tangihia (p114). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s) approximately 120 leaves. Physical Description: Volume containing letters, manuscripts and typescripts (46 cm; ¼ red calf, purple boards) Processing information: Description updated March 2024 following digitisation. Kāore i tāruatia ngā whārangi puare | Blank pages not copied.