Places

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

Date: ca1890-ca1914

By: National Archives of New Zealand

Reference: PAColl-1969

Description: Scenes of Fijian village life and buildings in Suva and Levuka Training College in Auckland Post Office and The Strand in Tauranga Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-280-012-a-4

Description: Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal portrait of fully-tattooed Maori chief Tomika te Mutu From M. S. papers 16 See also: "Moko", p. 22, fig. 15. Photographs of another version of E-280-012 This version is placed centrally on the postcard. The other versions at A-280-012 are placed on the left side of the card Inscriptions: Verso - in ink 'Tomika te Mutu, finely tattooed chief of Tauranga. A photograph of a sketch taken from life by General Gordon Robley in 1865'. Below are crossed out notes: 'When our present King and Queen met 7000 Maoris at P. O. on June 18. 14. 5. 1906 [sic] the Artist sent it in an enlarged painting in rem' [crossed out note ends abruptly] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-038

Description: Several drawings on one page. In the top section is a pencil drawing of a yacht and tall sheds or containers. The next drawing down the page is also pencil, a view of a plain with hills, titled Gate Pah. Below that are sketches of houses and a waterfront. At the bottom right of the page is a watercolour titled Rio Grand Schooner Gisborne, 1882 Other Titles - Gate Pa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-084-1

Description: A bush scene on the Ohinemutu-Tauranga Road Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A bush scene on the Ohinemutu-Tauranga Road Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 202 mm

Date: 1845-1846

By: Chapman, Thomas, 1792-1876

Reference: MS-0498-0499

Description: Chapman was a CMS missionary stationed at Rotorua. For some part of 1845 he was also relieving at Tauranga Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (20 cm; ¼ fawn morocco, fawn linen)

Date: [ca 1843]-2007

By: Ryan, Gwendoline Elsie, 1916-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-8822

Description: Account of the life of Henry Ryan, a Methodist minister, his wife, Beatrice, their descendants and the Sturton family, as recalled by Gwendoline Ryan, the daughter of Henry. Detailed account of their upbringing in England, their arrival in New Zealand in 1914, and life in the family of a Methodist minister in parishes at Tauranga, Hokitika, Tua Marina, Springston, Papanui, Remuera, Dunedin, Riccarton, Rangiora and Cambridge. Includes genealogical charts. Source of title - Transcribed from item Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Ms Gwen Ryan, 2007

Date: 1866

From: Illustrated London news :Various scenes of early New Zealand published in the Illustrated London News. 1860s

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-070-012-2

Description: Shows a crowd (including soldiers) on the foreshore in the foreground watching a canoe race. The race is possibly in the Tauranga area. Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 48, Apr 28 1866, page 417 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1880-1881

By: Galbraith, John W Cameron, 1860-

Reference: qMS-0819

Description: Letters to his family in Glasgow, describing living conditions, climate, development of the district, cost of living and the establishment of the Pioneer Store at Te Puke Source of title - Supplied Galbraith settled in the Tauranga/Te Puke district Quantity: 1 volume(s) (15 letters). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (34 cm, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1865 - 1869

From: Various artists :[Reproductions by Tauranga District Libraries. 1 Horatio Gordon Robley. Canoe race Tauranga Christmas 1865; 2. Three watercolours by an unknown soldier at Gate Pa; 3. Two watercolours by Emma Mary Vogan. Reproduced 1990s?]

Reference: A-426-082

Description: Shows a view of a small cemetery surrounded by a white picket fence. The location is under a stand of trees, and overlooks the harbour. Mount Maunganui can be seen in the distance at the left. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 70 x 117 mm, on sheet 115 x 155 mm. Provenance: Dr P M Barclay of Middlesborough England donated this and two other works to Tauranga District Libraries in 1989; he had inherited the work from his grandfather who was surgeon to the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry Regiment, although the surgeon himself did not serve in New Zealand.

Date: 21 Mar 1835-10 Apr 1850

By: Brown, Alfred Nesbit (Archdeacon), 1803-1884

Reference: qMS-0277-0278a

Description: Comprises typescript copy of Brown's diary (1835-1846); and microfilm printout (1847-1850). A journal kept while Brown was a missionary for the Church Missionary Society at Matamata, Tauranga and the Bay of Islands. He describes conversion and education of Maori, inter-tribal war while at Matamata and his journey on HMS `Rattlesnake' with James Busby and Samuel Marsden from the Bay of Islands to Queen Charlotte Sound (1837). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and microfilm printout (35 cm; red buckram & phase box)

Date: 1875 - 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-035

Description: Shows two scenes: along the bottom Tauranga 1875, showing houses along the beach front (this forms the right-hand side of a two-page panorama with E-044-q-1-034); at the top, Mt Maunganui and the beach The Tauranga scene starts in the previous page E-044-q-1-034, forming a double-page spread Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1873-1876

From: Parliamentary Library: Photograph albums

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-f-174

Description: Photographs, mainly of Auckland, but including some good views of Tauranga and one of Oamaru, taken between 1873 and 1876 by Herbert Deveril of Wellington. Also includes major bridges in Canturbury and Otago, government buildings and one native school. Deveril came to New Zealand in 1873. These photographs were displayed at the Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition in 1876. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1864 - 1900

From: [Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Waka Taua. Maori war canoes, Tauranga Harbour. Christmas Day, 1864. ca 1900]

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: E-280-059-6

Description: Shows one waka near the shore with another in pursuit close behind. Possibly in Tauranga Harbour and the man in the centre is possibly Hikaturia Te Mea Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 83 x 140 mm Provenance: Donne/Fuller

Date: 1875

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-034

Description: Shows two ships at Tauranga Harbour and part of the waterfront with two houses, forming the left side of a double-page spread view of Tauranga, with E-044-q-1-035; above that are pencil drawings of tree-ferns, leaves and tree trunks. Part of this painting carries over to next page, E-044-q-1-035 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1864 - 1900

From: [Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Waka Taua. Maori war canoes, Tauranga Harbour. Christmas Day, 1864. ca 1900]

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: E-280-059-5

Description: Shows one waka near the shore with another in pursuit close behind. Possibly in Tauranga Harbour and the man in the centre is possibly Hikaturia Te Mea Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 140 mm Provenance: Donne/Fuller

Date: 1864

From: Speer, William Henry d 1867 :[Speer album] 1860-1867

By: Sydney morning herald (Newspaper)

Reference: E-395-003

Description: An account of the presentation in Sydney of the Victoria Cross to Samuel Mitchell, an able seaman of H. M. S. Curacao, for bravery at Gate Pa, Tauranga, April 1864. Spread across to the right-hand page, from which a photograph or drawing has been clipped above the newspaper article Quantity: 1 newsclipping. Physical Description: Newsclipping

Date: [19--]

From: Rogers, Lawrence Moter (Rev), 1898-1984 : Research papers relating to the Williams family

Reference: 85-049-4/15

Description: Includes `Life in early Tauranga 1840-1873', a paper read to the Tauranga Historical Society, 16 Jun 1953 by Miss E D Graham; `What NZ owes to Marsden' (notes); facsimile of Treaty of Waitangi; mimeograph copies of various Williams letters; newspaper clippings Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1976 - 1840 - 1880

By: Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Standidge & Company; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Townsend, Mary, 1822-1869; Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Gouldsmith, Edmund Thomas, 1852-1932; Owens Group (Firm); Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866

Reference: C-058-013/018-a

Description: Contents: Sabatier, L J B Mouillage de Kororareka, from a drawing by LeBreton. Standidge & Co. View of the lower harbour of Otago... from a drawing by Mary Townsend. Standidge & Co. Auckland, New Zealand... 1852, from a drawing by Hogan. Heaphy, C. View of a part of the town of Wellington... 1841. Gouldsmith, E T Tauranga, 1886. Offprints from Owens Group's 1977 calendar. Same as C-058-013/018 & ....018b Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs, each 207 x 280 mm on sheets 245 x 305 mm