Places

Date: 1888-1957

By: Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Convention of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-2202

Description: Contains miscellaneous material removed from Lutheran Church records (see MS-Papers-2200) held by the Library. Includes essays and papers of Pastor Christopher Gaustad, correspondence of the Convention, minute book for the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Dannevirke, newspaper cutting and pamphlets on religious topics Relationship complexity - For main collection of Convention records see Ries family papers (MS-Papers-2272). See 84-237 for translations from Danish to English of items in these papers Convention formed in 1890 as a result of expansion of Danish Lutheran Church in Hawkes Bay area Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: 1898-1933

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-072

Description: Contains Ngati Kahungunu and other whakapapa for Mere Mohi and related hapu written in an unknown hand, together with some waiata in the same hand; also contains whakapapa for the Te Whaiti family from Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Toa, written by Henare Te Whaiti; also contains whakapapa contributred by Poihaere Hue; also contains information about Ngati Kahungunu, including the conflict and subsequent peacemaking between Wairarapa Maori and Te Ati Awa in the 1830s and the death of Nga-oko-i-te-rangi at an earlier time Also contains notes in Maori about the signs of the Zodiac

Date: 1898-1921 (1982?)

By: Bedingfield, Henry Derisley, 1898-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-4352

Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1898-1921 and contain an account of Bedingfield's early life in southern Hawke's Bay. Bedingfield grew up on a farm at Matamau and attended school at nearby Makotuku. After leaving school in 1914 he worked briefly as a labourer before becoming a clerk at the Waipawa and Waipukurau branches of the Bank of New Zealand. He transferred to New Plymouth in 1921. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-047

Description: Anne Humphries is the central figure of the essay but an account is also given of her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, husbands and children from the time they came to New Zealand until Anne's death Includes four generation family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1888-1909

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4809

Description: Contains farm accounts from the Wairoa (Otene and Tuehu Pomare) and Hawke's Bay districts (Te Akonga Mohi); also contains Ngati Kahungunu whakapapa from these districts

Date: 1864-1920

By: Sinclair, William, 1855-1922

Reference: MS-Papers-0003

Description: Papers of a practice centred largely in Blenheim and Wellington Quantity: 27 folder(s) (217 pieces). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1878 - 1925

By: W B Chennells & Company; Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-Collection-Chennells

Description: Contains both published and unpublished maps, mostly land subdivision plans and mainly of the Wairarapa area but a number of the plans relate to Wellington, Wanganui, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Horowhenua, Tauranga, Rotorua, Taumarunui, Pahiatua, Ohuka, Auckland and Motueka Quantity: 84 manuscript map(s). 91 map(s) published. Physical Description: Lithographs and works on paper Finding Aids: Some of the published maps are catalogued on National Library Catalogue; the rest are still awaiting cataloguing - contact staff for details. Processing information: Maps were originally held in a folio

Date: 1892-1964

By: Sunderland, Richard, 1880-1964

Reference: Micro-MS-0761

Description: Biography (3 pages) of his life, written in 1964. Also reminiscences (entitled Logbook) of his life up to 1916 as a sheep farmer on Mangateretere Station under John Lane for Nelson Bros Ltd, as manager of Hukanui and other Hawkes Bay sheep stations, and at Te Apiti. Description of 1897 floods and of people he worked with or met. Farm records, mainly of sheep and wool, at Swarthmoor, 1892-1894, made by Andrew Graham for Sunderland's father. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 72 pages). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1910

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0811

Description: Description of his life, with emphasis on his term as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands 1899-1909 (entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence, 1898-1909'); some details of the New Zealand wars, Maori genealogies. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Pages 242 and 247 appear on the microfilm between pages 219 and 220. Page 220 shows as a reversed (mirror) image. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 250 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1846?-1856?], 1958

From: Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Journals and correspondence

Reference: 91-169-2/6

Description: Contains letters from Maori to Colenso about the activities and plans of Maori teachers, parishioners and others, reports of deaths and illnesses, requests for religious texts, medicine and other items, discussions about Colenso's conflicts with Maori leaders, details about land tenure and transactions, conflicts within communities and information about chapel building Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1857-1957

By: Hunter family

Reference: MS-Papers-0049

Description: The papers include an almost complete sequence of 450 letters dealing minutely with David Hunter's management of Porangahau Station (1859-1877); business correspondence of the firm of Bethune and Hunter; George Ernest Hunter's letters which formed the basis of his travel book `Round and about'; genealogies, obituaries and much miscellaneous data, some original, on the streets and social and business institutions of Wellington Other Titles - Round and about Relationship complexity - See also Robert Henry Hunter. Notebooks recording comments and criticisms of G E Hunter's `Round and about', ca 1939 [MS-1056-1059, Acc 97,810-3]; Robert Henry Hunter. Account book, 1912-1950 [qMS-1027, Acc 97,809]; and Dorothy Hunter. Notes on holdings of stocks and shares [qMS-1026, Acc 97,808] Quantity: 176 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial piece-level inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Medals, camera, tin of pumonas and a writing-pad transferred to Curios.

Date: 1953

By: Franklin, James Robert, 1883-1963

Reference: MSX-3470

Description: Franklin describes his life, from childhood in the Herbertville/Wimbledon areas, giving details of his family and other pioneer families in the district, farming practices and day to day events in these communities and on his families farm at Bloomfield. He comments on local personalities and developments, political events and describes his introduction of aircraft to the district. A photograph of Franklin is attached to one of the first pages of the manuscript. Source of title - cover title Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

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: 1807-1954

By: Tiffen, Frederick John, 1828-1911

Reference: MS-Papers-1348

Description: Journals and other records of farming activities in Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay after arrival in Wellington on the `Louisa Campbell' in 1845; land transactions in Hawke's Bay; records of Elmshill Station, purchased 1859. Also `Frederick John Tiffen...' compiled by A M Andersen, 1959; genealogical material on Tiffen and Monteith families. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 34 folder(s). 0.34 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1857-1901]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1020

Description: The papers relate to Donald McLean, R D D Maclean and other members of the McLean family and include a prospectus for the High School of Edinburgh; Napier School Trust proposed resolutions (1869); pamphlet on the Royal Castle of Dunstaffnage; circular, West Coast Frontier Relief Association; membership, visiting, invitation and gift cards; sketch plan and notes re Donald McLean cottage; notes and memos re jobs; hints on sheep washing; sketch re building block house; advertising card for Cater's, photographer of Auckland; typescript of letters from Charles Brown, bricklayer, to the Hon A Tollemache, Surrey (Wellington, 10 Oct 1842) and from Mr R Stokes (Wellington, 3 Oct 1842) describing conditions in Wellington, relations with Maori, the Agricultural Society and matters horticultural Also includes memorandum between Alexander McLean and G M Gray re land boundaries (1856); statement re cargo storage on the `Uncas' by William Crawley of the `Moffatt' and David [?] of the `Thalia' at the request of Captain McLean (Gibraltar, 9 Jul 1857); letter, John McLean to his brother Alexander (Melbourne, 28 Aug 1857); statement re Graham Orbell's military appointments (Wellington, 27 Jul 1869); letter, H A Wilson, Calpe Cottage, New Plymouth to Donald McLean (24 Feb 1870); BNZ shareholder letter to Messrs D McLean and W M Bannatyne (17 May 1870); circular business letter, John Bourne, engineers, ship builders and contractors (London, Jan 1871); business letter, G B Worgan, licensed surveyor and interpreter, Napier, 12 May 1871; medical certificate for H J Clarke (9 May 1870); particulars of balance, Messrs McLean & Middleton, Rakaia and Ashburton (31 Mar 1873); memo re these accounts, W K McLean (17 Sep 1873); notes re horse pedigrees, Ballarat (6 Jul 1874); Donald McLean's candidacy for the IOGT (1875); letter, Annabella C Conway to her cousin Douglas (Worleston, 21 Apr 1878) Two Norfolk Winter Assizes, grand jury summons to Algernon Charles Fountaine of Narford (1901); and translation of article from the `Tromso posten' about the visit of the `Pallas' which visited Spitzbergen and the conduct of the German, Norwegian and English passengers on board, and their dissatisfaction with the service, particularly in relation to the advertisement for the voyage Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1871-1918

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: MSX-8836-8839

Description: Bishop Williams' working copy of T F Cheeseman's Manual of the New Zealand flora (Wellington, 1906) presented by the author; accompanied by notes, photos and specimens; notebook listing Maori names of plants; and letters from Cheeseman and J D Hooker, on museum-related as well as botanical topics Source of title - Supplied Other Titles - Manual of the New Zealand flora Arrangement: MS-2444-2447 are boxed together Quantity: 2 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, printed matter (27cm, illustrated, in red box)

Date: ca 1880-1910

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-4472

Description: A house with a small verandah and two women and two men outside (in Mauriceville according to the negative register); a pre-1931 map of the Hawke's Bay Region from Porongahau to Wairoa; Mauriceville school picnic ca 1909; and a large crowd outside Gilmer's Hotel in Greymouth listening to an address being given by a man on the balcony early 1880s (taken by James Ring). Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: Individual negative yet to be described.

Date: 1931

By: Haydon, Ernest St. Claire, 1885-1946

Reference: MS-Papers-5283

Description: The account was written shortly after the Napier earthquake and Haydon describes his experiences during and after it. Background information to Ernest Haydon and the Haydon family is supplied. The collection now comprises the original transcript (Accession 95-143), and in Accession 95-184, a second copy of this, and one of the six original "flimsies" made by Haydon. Accompanying material - One page of documentation about family members mentioned in the account and background information about Haydon Quantity: 1 folder(s) (27 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1896-1935

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-069

Description: Contains farm records for Maori farms in Hawke's Bay and associated financial records; also contains popular English language songs, sketches and plans for the Te Whaiti homestead at Waimarama, and an explanation of the meaning of the name Waipukurau by Ihaia Hutana in 1935; also contains notes from a `case of scandal' involving Morehu Keha and Reko Waiuku

Date: 1893, 1901-1910

By: Harding, Robert Coupland, 1849-1916

Reference: MS-0933

Description: Letters of Mr Turnbull referring to fragments printed at the first Wanganui press (in pocket at the back) and to early history of Hawkes Bay herald and Hawkes Bay times Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 items). Physical Description: Ms and typescript (26 cm; blue cloth)