Places

Date: 1855-1866

By: Wainuiomata Board of Wardens

Reference: qMS-2089

Description: The schedule of owners of land in the Wainui-o-mata District include some of the earliest settlers in Wellington region; among the owners in 1854 were William Swainson, William Fitzherbert and Edward Jerningham Wakefield. The main task of the road board was to push on with the road down the valley to the sea at Orongorongo, and the progress made during the 11 years was not particularly speedy, one of the reasons being that the settlers were not satisfied with the provisions of the provincial Road Act which provided for local taxing for local improvements and vested the administration in local boards Accompanying material - Includes newspaper cutting from Dominion 1937 re the donation of the Minute Book Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms (37 cm; ½ brown velvet calf)

Date: 1858

By: Nelson City Board of Works

Reference: Micro-MS-0515

Description: Annual report describing state of streets Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (10 frames).

Date: 1852

By: Pinnager, T W, active 1852; Wellington Provincial Survey Office

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gmbd/1852/Acc.37636

Description: Surveying maps of roads in the Lower Hutt area, include some surveying annotations. Includes parts of two rivers, one of which is the Hutt River, both of which are un-named. Roads and sites of buildings are marked. The section of George Augustus Selwyn includes the site of a spired English church. A hedge, being the boundary line of Mr Hare, is marked. Signature underneath title: T.W. Pinnager, Sept. 1852 Notes on the original are: 41/11 Plan, Sept 1852. The stamp of Provincial Survey Office, Wellington is stamped on top right corner. Lower Hutt country sheet No. 2 is handwritten on top right corner C 17 is stamped above the title and 16 is stamped in the margin Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:1 584], 41 x 46.7 cm. on sheet 45.5 x 54.7 cm.

Date: 1892 - 1852

By: Wilkin, James Clunie, 1843-1907; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Lyttelton Times Company Ltd; Canterbury times (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: B-055-013

Description: Two reproductions of earlier images of pioneer Canterbury. The upper view, after Alfred Charles Barker, shows the Avon River near the the Worcester St bridge, looking towards the Port Hills, with a cluster of houses in the middle distance across the river. The lower view, after William Fox, is of passengers by the Cressy landing, looking down into Lyttelton Harbour with the first four ships in port, immigration barracks and other houses, and passengers walking up the hill to cross the Bridle Track to Christchurch Supplement to: Canterbury times, 14 Jan., 1892. Other Titles - Alfred Charles Barker; William Fox Extended Title - Christchurch ; J.C. Wilkin for Lyttelton Times Co., 1892. From sketch by A.C. Barker after his own photo., c.f. A-032-021, A-163-017 and C-032-012; and from engraving by T. Allom after drawing by Fox, showing Sumner Road, immigration barracks, J.R. Godley's house, and the ships. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, monochrome, 463 x 321 mm

Date: 1856

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: C-031-005

Description: A horse and male rider standing at Petone where the Hutt road begins along the cliff-face, with sea and bush clad hills beyond Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 305 x 381 mm

Date: 1848 - 1850

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-009

Description: Road in left foreground with stumps at its edge, a tall tree and lower bushes with the harbour and hills visible in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: [between 1858-1887]

Reference: PAColl-6114

Description: Comprises: Hutt Road in 1868; Queen's Wharf ca 1860s; Wellington circa 1887; Thorndon circa 1860s; St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, 1858. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016071, 1/2-075008 and 1/2-091405 Quantity: 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1838-1853

By: Bedggood family

Reference: Micro-MS-0157

Description: Contains deeds : leasing CMS mill at Waimate to John and John Thomas Bedggood; land sale by William Richard Wade to William Williams, Sep 1839; land sale in Maori to J Bedggood, Oct 1839; land sale in Maori to J Bedggood, James and William Davis and others, undated; land transfer from George Clarke to William Richard Wade, Jun 1838; and subscription list to raise 50 pounds... for road and bridge to connect Kawa Kawa Coal mines with highroad to Waimate, Pakaraka and Hokianga Language - Some text in Maori Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1854

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

Reference: E-455-f-072-2

Description: The bush-clad Rimutaka Hill Road at its base, with a Maori family in traditional clothing (or blankets) seated in a clearing, trees cleared by the road, and heavy bush all around it. A flax bush is on the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 155 x 255 mm

Date: 1859

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-012

Description: Grafton Road with houses in bush in the foreground, curving down towards further houses, Parnell, and Waitemata Harbour. Ships on the harbour. North Head, Mount Victoria, Rangitoto and other islands of the Gulf in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & date with the words 'is this' crossed out. Martha King was an early Wanganui settler. See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1990, Vol I for biographical details. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 235 x 293 mm

Date: 1848 - 1851

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-030-001

Description: Shows Maori launching a canoe; a horse and cart are on the road to the right, at the base of a cliff Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030/002. Both slips removed in the course of conservation and no longer present. There is a faint pencil drawing of a bush scene on the verso. The backing of the work has been partially removed and the drawing is hard to see. This work was attributed by the Library to Cuthbert Clarke until 2008. However Clarke is not known to have visited the Wellington region and the style appears closer to that of R. A. Oliver, who was based in Wellington and visited the Hutt Valley on more than one occasion. One watercolour of the Hutt by Oliver is dated March 1848, another September 30th, with no year. Compare the articulation of the figure dragging the canoe at the right, with a figure in the same position, dragging a canoe at Wahapu, Bay of Islands, in Oliver's watercolour at C-001-011 Other Titles - Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863. 1848-1851 Inscriptions: Recto - 'Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030-002' according to catalogue card. Neither hand-written slip has been retained. The wording of the title suggests a later attribution, not the artist's own title. For location of this view compare with Charles Barraud's "[River valley] 1856" at B-084-005; and with G Swainson's "Road round the second gorge", lithograph in British Library - see file print of this at E-143-067. Several of Swainson's lithographs are after originals by other artists. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 327 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

Reference: E-455-f-088-2

Description: A steep road cut out of hills with valleys and surrounding bush. Possibly part of the Paekakariki Hill Road Other Titles - Waikanae Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 120 x 74 mm

Date: 1856

By: Davy, Edwin, 1826-1869

Reference: MapColl-832.14gmbd/[1856]/Acc.227

Description: Shows some sections owners and dwellings Rough tracing by J E Aubin of Govt. survey plan no. 943 of Raglan. Original in Survey Office, Auckland Quantity: 1 map(s) photocopy. Physical Description: Part coloured, 85 x 120 cm. Scale not given

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023-1

Description: 'Kai Warra Warra Hutt Road near Wellington'. View looking north along the waterfront towards Petone, with a low bridge in the foreground and the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings viewed from across the stream. The Hutt Road continues in the distance. There are groups of Maori seated and standing in the foreground. The view probably predates January 1855, when the land in this area was uplifted by the earthquake Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 160 x 258 mm

Date: 1855

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-AT3

Description: Shows numbered land sections from Whau River to what is now Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. Also shows named roads. Contains three insets one which is a locality map, one a table showing provincial, school and religious land reserves with size and lot number and the other a schedule of land allotments and 'upset' prices in pounds sterling. Difficult to determine if map is ms or published or has been overlaid with published schedules. Insets as follows: 'Plan shewing the relative position of the Whau Township with the city of Auckland'; 'Schedule of reserves'; 'Schedule of allotments' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Daniel A Tole Draftsman Waste Land Office Auckland Quantity: 1 map(s) on 4 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [1: 7 920], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Date: 1856

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-005

Description: Shows a curve in a river, possibly the Rangitikei, or the Upper Hutt river. There is a road at the right, with two horsemen riding along on a more distant stretch. There are two distinctive branches sticking up out of the river bed in the foreground. See resemblance to Barraud's "Rangitikei River 1861" There are also similarities to Cuthbert Clarke's "[Upper Hutt River in the early 1850s]", and to G. Swainson's "Road around the second gorge" - British Library - see file print in E-143-067. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 385 mm

Date: 1840 - 1972 - 1850

From: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 :Five early views of the Hutt and Wairarapa. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1972.

Reference: C-028-036

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tree fern, with a river to the left. More likely to be the Hutt road, somewhere between Petone and the Taita Gorge, during the making of the road in 1842, than the Karori or Porirua possibilities. For original watercolour see B-009-013 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 234 x 328 mm on sheet 510 x 330 mm

Date: 1856

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-189-022

Description: Kaiwharawhara Valley, Wellington, looking out towards the harbour, with a single-storied gabled house with an out-building, the whole surrounded by a fence and one or two trees, on the flat. The house was the first Wellington residence of Mary Marshall, nee Swainson, sister of the artist. The hills are shown newly denuded of bush, with some erosion. On the left is the old coach road towards Porirua. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Signed: G F Swainson Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photostat of pencil drawing

Date: Jan 1850

By: Tinline, John, 1821-1907

Reference: Micro-MS-0789

Description: Journal describes expedition with John Barnicoat to find a suitable land route between Nelson and the Wairau Valley Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (34 pages).

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-009-004

Description: A large two to three storied watermill in the Ngaio Gorge, with its water wheel on the left and water rushing through. The roofs of two other houses with smoke rising from the brick chimney of one, visible in front and a path to the right. A dam and a small lake can be seen behind the mill. Attribution on stylistic grounds The mill was built in Ngaio Gorge, in the 1840s and 1850s, where the Mobil petrol tanks are now located, about half way up the Gorge. Other Titles - Schultze's mill, Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on card 248 x 339 mm