Places

Date: 1929

By: McCaw, John, 1849-1930

Reference: MS-1164

Description: Includes brief description of the voyage to Otago on board the `Oamaru' arriving Feb 1875 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (18 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue linen)

Date: 1881-1901

By: McNeill, Alexander Richard, 1881-

Reference: MS-Papers-3541

Description: Describes Coromandel and the Upper Township, including individual residents from ca 1881 to 1901. Plan includes key to location of various buildings and dwellings. Also include life of McNeill and his family background. Accompanying material - Plan of Upper Township, Coromandel Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1974

By: O'Donnell, Ewart, 1890-

Reference: MS-Papers-2197

Description: Unpublished book describing pioneer farming near Eketahuna, in the Waikato and in the King country Quantity: 3 folder(s) (218 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [1888-1940s]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Sinclair, J C, active 1891; Speight, Robert, 1867-1949; Bartlett & Andrew Ltd; Stewart, (Mr?), active 1897?

Reference: PAColl-10460-16

Description: Photographic portraits taken by various photographers including the Tanner Brothers, J. C. Sinclair, J. Russel and Sons, E. D. Burt, and Steele Photography, taken circa 1888-1940s. Comprises images of Māori men, the Mair brothers, women, landscapes, sites, and flowers. Includes: - Two images of Paora Tuhaere (wearing a kaitaka style cloak), one is a postcard from the "Tanner Brothers Ltd Photographic Series". - An image of Sidney (Hirini) Taiwhanga (standing), and Hare Te [Kaihu?] (dressed in a kaitaka), taken by the New Zealand Tourist Department. - Nakora and Hare Hongi, taken in 1898, by J. C. Sinclair of New Plymouth. This has inscriptions on the back written by Henry Stowell (Hare Hongi), including "Taranaki Hawera" and "Nakora Te Manukarioi - ? 1889" - Four prints of 'Pieces of eight' - A clipping of an image of a painting of Eruera Maihi Patuone, a postcard of "Montreal - Big John and party shooting the Lachine Rapids", a postcard of "The Real South Africa" showing a photograph of a woman preparing locusts and children eating them. The postcard includes part of a letter [to James Cowan?] from Henry [Cowan]. An image of Samuel Butler (by J. Russell and Sons), and two copies of an image of Samuel Butler's homestead "at Mesopotamia, on the foothills of the Southern Alps" taken by Professor Speight, Canterbury University College. - A Real Photo Postcard of Hongi's Track, Rotorua. - An image of King Tawhiao, taken in 1888 at Napier, and four men on horses, including Gilbert Mair[?] and three Māori men, relating to "Urewera chapter". - Lake Tamaiti-o-Waikareiti, taken by E. D. Burt, two images of a church (one is the Roman Catholic Church at Rangiaowhia), and one of a car behind a tree. - Two images of flowers [lillies, and bottle brush?]. - A hand-coloured image of S. Percy Smith, taken by Bartlett and Andrew. - A series of photographs of "The Mair brothers" including Gilbert Mair on a horse, one of him in an army uniform taken in 1920 by Stewart (a photographer in Rotorua), and one includes Mair sitting at a table outside of a wharenui, next to Apirana Ngata. Also includes an image of Mokoia Island, and an unidentified Māori man dressed in a kahu kiwi and a short woven korowai around his waist. - A clipping of a photograph of Gilbert Mair, a card with notes about "Captain Mair at Ngahuinga, Harehare, 1920" and two postcards of Parnell Rose Gardens in Auckland, showing Rangitoto Island, and The Mission Church, Wairoa, before the Tarawera Eruption. - A portrait of Eileen Cowan's sister Mary Mollie Stowell[?] taken by Steele Photography circa 1940s. - A portrait of a woman in Victorian clothing with a lace collar and cameo broach. The photograph is on a backing board which is cracked at the top (image is also damaged). On the back of the board are the words "love everlasting" in pencil. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 envelopes. Processing information: The frame for PAColl-10460-16-38 was removed and disposed of, during processing.

Date: [ca 1950]

By: Allen, Charles Ernest Hanson, 1866-1953

Reference: MS-Papers-1206

Description: Reminiscences of his childhood in Wanganui, of surveying in Mangamahu and inland high country behind Wanganui, and of farming near Matamata, Hamilton and Tauranga Quantity: 1 folder(s) (78 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (copy)

Date: 1834-1910

By: Fairburn, Edwin, 1827-1911

Reference: qMS-0710

Description: Reminiscences of the Bay of Islands, 1830s-1840s; letter from Fairburn's sister, Esther Hickson (1908); and extract on Hongi Hika from Carleton's life of Henry Williams. Records an early amputation of an infected leg carried out by William Williams, assisted by E T Fairburn, at Paihia, on a Mr Gray, a blacksmith, ca 1832. Mention of "first game of cricket in New Zealand" at Paihia, ca 1832 or 1833. Also contains detailed instructions for snaring birds including korimako (bell-bird) and sea gull Source of title - Title page Edwin Fairburn was the son of the CMS missionary, William Fairburn. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (54 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 1880-1920

By: McIndoe, M R, 1890-

Reference: MS-Papers-3806

Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1880 to 1920. He concentrates on his childhood in Te Aroha, describing his life there as the gold fields were being opened up and comment on local Maori. McIndoe also comments briefly on his experiences in Auckland and his early years at Rewiti. Source of title - Supplied title Variations in title - Title on title page - Te Aroha Goldfields opened 1880 McIndoe grew up in Te Aroha and after leaving school he worked briefly for a law firm in Auckland before taking up farming at Rewiti. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1876 - 1975

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-022

Description: Shows a Maori family beside a pitched tent and campfire in the foreground with the lake behind. Similar to watercolour at C-007-008, from a slightly different angle, and showing pakeha campers. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph 312 x 534 mm on sheet 521 x 636 mm

Date: [1866-1950]

By: Allen, Charles Ernest Hanson, 1866-1953

Reference: qMS-0054

Description: Reminiscences of childhood in Wanganui, surveying at Mangamahu and of farming at Matamata, Hamilton and Tauranga Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Eighty years in New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s) (78 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (36 cm, brown buckram)