Places

Date: 1848

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: New Zealand Company; National Archives (Great Britain); Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1848/Acc.46989

Description: Shows Purakanui Bay and inlet and the boundaries of the Maori reserve adjoining these. Gives topographic details such as 'fine beach', 'sandy flat', 'wooded land'. Several areas are marked as 'native gardens' and a pa site and burial grounds are shown. Some Maori placenames are noted. The estimated acreage of the reserve is given. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - New Zealand Company Jan .. 7..50 [stamp] Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca.1:7 920], 52 x 40.5 cm. Provenance: Original stamped 'New Zealand Company'. Handed over to the Colonial Office upon the surrendering of the Company's charter in 1850. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1839

By: Bradey, Francis, 1793-1864; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.47961gbbd/[1839?]/Acc.37915

Description: Survey and cadastral map showing original numbered sections with measurements and acreages of land subdivisions along the north-east part of Porirua Harbour and at Pahautanui. Includes the road along the inlet. Owners' names include V.A.J. Eyre, L. Lowndes, A. de B. Brandon, John Viney, G. Sharp, W. Bromley, F. Bradey, C. Todman, T.F. Wilson, J. Little, W. Bennet, S. Hawtry, A. Todman, W.W.J. Spreat, Bishop of Wellington, and E. Carter with sections at Porirua Harbour and Pahautanui Title supplied by cataloguer Note on right side of map reads: Photostat from survey map of New Zealand Land Company - showing original sections of land bought in London in 1839 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photostatic copy, scale [ca.1:9 504], 44.7 x 62 cm. on sheet 45.5 x 65.5 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Papers 0063.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Great Britain. Admiralty; Brown, (Mr), active 1841

Reference: MapColl-834.1atc/1841/Acc.1373

Description: Topographic map of Motueka River, from its mouth at Tasman Bay, and showing the intended site of Nelson, inland from Kaiteriteri Harbour, as explored by Brown and Heaphy for the New Zealand Company. Shows area explored by Mr F G Moore, valley of the Rewai-eka, topographical features with comments, areas of timber and fern, and pa sites near the mouth of the Motueka River. Text on map is very hard to decipher. The number 2 is written on the map. Other Titles - Plan of the course of an expedition up the valley of the Motueka River, Tasman's Gulf. Written on map: Portfolio D, New Zealand, 15. Signed by Charles Heaphy Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed by Charles Heaphy; top left - Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 38.6 x 28.2 cm

Date: 1851

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: Micro-MS-0770

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 18 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Tiffen, Henry Stokes, 1816-1896; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832at/1844-1845/Acc.855

Description: Chart of most of North Island (excluding North of North Island) highlighting detail of Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui District, Manukau and the Hauraki Gulf. East Cape and inland East Coast show very little or no detail. Insets of Port Nicholson, Kawhia, Tauranga, Waitemata, Manukau and Whangaroa harbours. Extended Title - Compiled by Tiffen from the Government and New Zealand Company's surveys and reconnaisances, from sketches by Messrs. Symonds, D. Bett, R. Harrison, - Richards, J. Thomas, - Murant, and from Native information, 1844-5. I am Chas. Brees, principal surveyor, New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale 1:800,000, 84 x 64 cm.

Date: 1842

From: Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Album. 1851-1856]

By: Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873; New Zealand Company; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: E-455-f-015/016-1

Description: A printed map of New Zealand after John Arrowsmith published for the New Zealand Company 1842. It shows the North and South Islands and Stewart Island as New Ulster, New Munster and New Leinster. It includes manuscript annotations marking the positions of Auckland, New Plymouth, Napier, Wanganui, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury Settlement, Otago and Port of Otago. The New Zealand Company crest is at upper right, a world map at lower right. Page is between pages 15 and 16, but was not numbered in the original numbering of the album. It has been assigned the number -015/016 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured 410 x 344 mm

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-012-003

Description: Shows "Heyward's Point, Tairoa's Head [Taiaroa Head] and Custom House" Inscriptions: top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, date "June 26 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "298" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 295 x 550 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915. Part of the New Zealand Company Collection

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-002

Description: View looking down into Commercial Bay, with Shortland Street leading up the hill to St Paul's on the skyline (along the ridge now featuring Albert Park and the University). The Britomart Barracks is on the headland left of centre and Wood's Hotel is to the right along the skyline from St Paul's. Outlines of houses and commercial buildings shown clearly. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title , date, signature; Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 25 1850. No. 343 inscribed to right of stamp. Ink identification of features along the top = left to right: the old barracks, ... Church of England, Shortland Street, Woods New Hotel, There is a related watercolour in the Hocken Library 'Auckland, 1849' (acc 12,881) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touch of wash 181 x 535 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards & Co, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection, London, 1915.

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Bradey, Francis, 1793-1864; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.47961gbbd/[185-?]/Acc.37916

Description: Survey and cadastral map showing original numbered sections with measurements and acreages of land subdivisions along the north-east part of Porirua Harbour and at Pahautanui. Includes the road along the inlet. Includes pencilled names of Tu Kapu District and S. Horokiwi District. Henry London's subdivision includes the name of New London. Owners' names include N. Luscombe, J.H. Luscombe, Henry London, R. Jenkins, V.A.J. Eyre, L. Lowndes, A. de B. Brandon, John Viney, Francis Bradey, W. Bromley, R. Jillett, T.H. Stace, G. Palmer, Sir M. Seymour, E. Carter, C. Todman, T.F. Wilson, J. Little, W. Bennet, S. Hawtry, W. Bowler. Attributed to New Zealand Land Company - see second Francis Bradey donation Title supplied by cataloguer Pencilled note on map states: Photostat from map after 1850 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photostatic copy, scale not given, 45 x 59.6 cm. on sheet 45.5 x 67.1 cm. Provenance: Note on right side of map reads: Photostat of map after 1850 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Papers 0063.

Date: 1839

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: MSO-Papers-3730

Description: Source of title - Supplied Map connected to Deed in Cartographic Section (830gbbd/1842-Acc 133) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (72 x 63 cm)

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/1843/Acc.37837

Description: Cadastral map of part of the Roll Plan 544 held by the District's Office, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington. Shows the Hutt District and part of the Harbour District and the Lowry Bay District. Each district is divided into numbered 100-acre blocks, listing owner's names, including: Molesworth, Watt, Child, Capt. Daniell, Hanson, Hunter, Wicksteed, Capt. Smith, Catchpool, Dr Evans, Kettle, St. Hill, Alzdorf, Riddiford, Stokes, Bidwell, Duppa, G Robins, J Forbes, W Tod, E Dunlop, D Grant, A Tennant, Hart, Partridge, Wieford, Parke, Bevans, Col. Wakefield, Jackson, T Wallace, Bevan. Shows over 20 Native (Maori) reserves. The map was surveyed by S.C. Brees, who was the principal surveyor for the New Zealand Company. The map shows the original 100 acre blocks as they were surveyed and sold. See also similar copies of same section of map, shelved at Acc.7921-2, donated by Lance Hall. See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which is the entire map on several sheets. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 60.2 x 44.5 cm. Processing information: Map call number corrected to the right Boggs & Lewis area code for Hutt Valley [Igor, 01/11/2022].

Date: 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-009

Description: Panorama in two halves.Shows profile of coastline with entrance to a bay at centre of right half. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - (on both sides): [New Zealand Company stamp] 21 Sep 1848. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings 55 x 260 mm, 78 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased London, 1915, by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, part of the New Zealand Company Collection. Alexander Turnbull has written a note on the mount.

Date: 1843

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: qMS-1460

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (15 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue pamphlet case) Includes tables

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Fitzgerald, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1844/Acc.15653

Description: Cadastral map showing the boundaries of the Port Nicholson Purchase, or the 'first purchase of the New Zealand Company, as laid down by Mr Thomas Fitzgerald, assistant surveyor attached to the Land Claims Commissioner and by the officers of the New Zealand Company's surveying staff'. Land involved includes over one hundred 100-acre land blocks in the Wellington Region, namely in Upper and Lower Hutt, Lowry Bay, the Miramar Peninsular, coastal land on the eastern coast of the harbour, Orongo rongo, Petone, Pakuratahi, the Wainuiomata Valley, Tawa, and some blocks of land westwards of Tawa, Johnsonville, and Karori. The map names the following districts: Terawhiti, Kinapora, Makara, Kaiwara, Ohiro, Horokiwi Road, Karori, Town, Ohariu, Harbour, Evan's Bay, Lowry Bay, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt. Valley of Wainuiomata, Pakuratahi, Petone, and each district is divided into numbered blocks. Several sites have Maori or English names. 'Pa Rangi rau' is indicated near Barings Head. Some topographical detail is shown. Miramar is named 'Watt's Peninsular' and includes a large lake called 'Burnham Water'. The map does not include the central business district of Wellington. Before copying, map was signed 'No 12, Case 374, Plan of the Port Nicholson District referred to in my final report [signed] Will[ia]m Spain, Commissioner'. The original map colour coding referred to government, Native (Maori) and public (town) belt reserves, not visible on this black and white copy. See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which shows the names of purchasers of many of the 100-acre blocks. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 78.8 x 57 cm.

Date: 1842

By: New Zealand Company; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1842/Acc.7598

Description: Cadastral map of country sections bordering the Orewenua and Manawatu Districts between the Manawatu River and Lake Orewenua, highlighting in yellow 36 Maori reserves on numbered sections (15, 33-4, 38-9, 54-5, 60-3, 75-8, 82-6, 106-117, 176-181). Also depicts 12 'potato grounds', primarily concentrated along the Manawatu River in the Manawatu District highlighted green, from Tahumataroa southwards to Purikawau (sections 3-4, 6-7, 12, 17-18, 20, 24-7, 32-3, 35-7). One is also depicted in the Orewenua District over sections 54-5 and 77. Map has been copied and the coloured highlighted areas added, as on the original map. Several pa sites are indicated on the original map along the Manawatu River (such as Pa Taitara, Pa Taha). Names on sections include Wotenui's Place, Ara-Tangata, Porikawau, Kuti Kuti Rau, Te Paiaka, Te Kari Kari, Koputorua, Te Rotorua, Tokomaru, Tahumataroa. Note on map shows that Te Kari Kari is the headquarters for the surveying staff. Several handwritten notes on original map are illegible on this copy. Map marked '37' and signed 'Sam Chas Brees, principal surveyor'. Includes some comments on river and road access. Surveyed for the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy with coloured pencil, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 62.4 x 72.5 cm.

Date: 1841

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; New Zealand Company; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-080-011

Description: The right-hand section of a two-part panorama looking from the sea towards the site of New Plymouth shortly before settlement by the New Zealand Company. Shows a Maori canoe in the foreground and in the distance a Maori pa and Richard Barrett's accommodation barracks and hotel Right portion only. Copies of the full panorama are held at A-220-005 (black and white, in one section, rolled) and at C-029-005 (hand-coloured, in two sections) Other Titles - Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 182 x 725 mm

Date: 1843

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.); Hall, Lance, 1899-1985

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.7922

Description: Cadastral map of part of the Roll Plan 544 held by the District's Office, Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington. Shows the Hutt District and part of the Harbour District and the Lowry Bay District. Each district is divided into numbered 100-acre blocks, listing owner's names, including: Molesworth, Watt, Child, Capt. Daniell, Hanson, Hunter, Wickstead, Capt. Smith, Catchpool, Dr Evans, Kettle, St. Hill, Alzdorf, Riddiford, Stokes, Bidwell, Duppa, G Robins, J Forbes, W Tod, E Dunlop, D Grant, A Tennant, Hart, Partridge, Wieford, Parke, ?Revans, Col. Wakefield, Jackson, Wallace. The map was surveyed by S.C. Brees, who was the principal surveyor for the New Zealand Company. The map shows the original 100 acre blocks as they were surveyed and sold. See also second copy of map (positive photographic copy, shelved at Acc.7921). Written on this map (before copying): '50. 544. 2nd Jan, 1843'. Written on map verso: 'Hutt Valley 2nd Jan. 1843. S.C. Brees RP 544.' Written on recto: 'R[oll] P[lan] 544, By Sam Chas Brees, Principal surveyor NZ Company, 2nd Jany 1843.' 'Please return Lance Hall.' See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which is the entire map on several sheets. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 59 x 44.5 cm.

Date: 1846 - 1847

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Brunner, Thomas, 1821?-1874; New Zealand Company; Great Britain. Admiralty

Reference: MapColl-834.1at/1846/Acc.1374

Description: Topographical map of the southwest of the Nelson district, showing rivers, bush and mountains. Rivers include Mangles, Barkley, Motuaka, Buller, Motu Piho. Lakes include Rotoiti and Rotorua. The edge of the Aglionby District is marked. Written on map: 2. N. Zealand no. 11/13 Stamped on map: New Zealand Company, 19 Feb 1847 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 55 x 46 cm

Date: 1848

By: New Zealand Company; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Great Britain. Admiralty

Reference: MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.25967-8

Description: Topographical, exploratory map of the western part of the North Island from Taranaki southwards to Wellington, Cook Stait, and the northern part of the South Island, to Hokitika and Banks Peninsula. Shows the Taranaki, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson and Marlborough regions, with placenames, contours, coloured shading and some nautical information. Includes detailed notes about the exploration at the bottom of the map, however this text is not legible. Includes 14 aerial insets on the map, including the harbour of Otago, Port Nicholson, Nelson Haven, Waitohi Bay, D'Urville Harbour, ?West Harbour, Victoria Haven (some illegible), and 14 cross-section insets of coastline areas. See also second copy of map, MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.116 (photographic copy, 34.8 x 42.7 cm), of the middle third of the map only, from Wellington to the Tasman and Marlborough Districts only, with accompanying typed notes entitled 'Key to 1848 exploration of the Nelson District'. Other Titles - Chart of Cook Strait and the recent exploratory routes at the northern end of the Middle Island, New Zealand Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, coloured, scale indeterminable, 31 x 21.5 cm on sheets 17 x 25.2 cm

Date: 19 Jul 1840

By: Thompson, William, active 1840; New Zealand Company

Reference: MS-Papers-3430

Description: Letter from Alderman Thompson to B Montifiore concerning his failure to be elected as a director of the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph