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Greer family: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Wars

Date: ca 1860s

By: Greer family; Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PAColl-7806

Description: Photographs collected by Henry Harpur Greer and his family. The collection comprises: Carte-de-visite portraits of Maori Views of Gate Pa and Maketu Pa The cemetery and officers' mess in Tauranga with officers of the 68th Regiment An unidentified military camp, possibly at Tauranga Quantity: 8 album leaves with 24 albumen prints. Provenance: Donated by Mr Dottridge of England in February 2003 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Reference MS-Papers-7663 - Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives.

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Notebook relating to New Zealand Wars

Date: [1919-1920]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MSX-9076

Description: Notebook relating to the New Zealand Wars focussing on the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty region. Also includes notes about Taranaki and drawings of Mount Taranaki. The first main entry in the notebook says 'Rotorua: Te Kapenga fight 1870' and inside front cover includes Cowan's itinerary from November 18, 1918 to January 6, 1919, the various places he visited and sometimes who he interviewed there. Language - Contains some Maori content, particularly place names. Arrangement: 53 in original listing Quantity: 1 volume(s). Sketches drawn in pencil including several of Mount Taranaki from various angles, drawn from different towns.

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[Creator unknown] :[Sketch map of country around Waihi Estuary and Maketu Pa] [ms map]....

Date: 1870 - 1879

Reference: MapColl-832.16a/[187-?]/Acc.1848

Description: Topographical map of the area around the Maketu Pa, including the Kaituna River and Waihi Estuary. Okurei Point, Pukemiro Redoubt, Wharekahu Mission Buildings and Tapsell's store are named, as is the first old road to Waihi and Rotorua. The sites of the cemetery, a house and an English church are marked as is the palisade surrounding the pa. An extensive key details historic notes about the area. Title taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date Pencilled title of map is written along the top left [Sketch map of country around Waihi Estuary ... 1870] believed to have been added at a later date. The reference key is as follows:- A - Maketu Pa - palisade facing Te Tumu B - Tapsell's store on flat & whare on edge of cliff. A ti-palm marks spot of house now C - Pukemiro Redoubt - first Maori fort. Later 1845-1870 - British garrison D - Remains of old road graded by Maoris to Waihi & Rotorua E - Remains of trenches - 10ft. deep in places F - Last resting place of Arawa Canoe & grove of angiongi trees G - Pipi's chopping block H - Wharekahu Mission property - first police station in Bay of Plenty - bought from Tohi-te-Ururangi for a saw. Cemetery beyond where Hans Tapsell was buried I - palisaded fighting pa of Nagatierangi on sandhills at Te Tumo Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on paper, linen backed, 19.7 x 25 cm.

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