Places

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: 1863-1926

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-35

Description: Research papers relating to Cowan's writing. Includes research notes and clippings (annotated) relating to:`Two men on Suwarrow' from the `Tales of bush and ocean' series, `The peach grove' set in Waipa in the Waikato War, 1864. `The cutting-off of the Borealis' about the siege of a brig in the Solomon Islands in 1880, and papers relating to `McGillivray's dream' a story and associated poem by Thomas Bracken, set in the Waikato War during the Mauku church stockade, 1863. Printed matter relating to `The Raupatu case' 1927, consists of a statement from the Maori land confiscation commission. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca1865

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PA2-1480

Description: View of the cemetery and memorial at Tauranga, to the soldiers of the Forty Third Regiment killed at Gate Pa. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top centre - Obelisk erected in memory of those who fell at the Gate Pa; Backing board verso - centre - Photographed by H Webster Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.3 x 5.8 cm on mount 10.5 x 6.4 cm

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-6

Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

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.

Date: 1861 - 1864

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-040/041

Description: Two drawings on one sheet. Puke Hina Hine Redoubt in the distance at the top of a hill. A fortified ditch leading to a higher point with the redoubt in the distance Other Titles - Gate Pa Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil works, on sheet 305 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmbd/[ca.187-]/Acc.3324

Description: Hand drawn map of the area from Te Papa, Tauranga Harbour to Te Roto. Otanewaiuku mountain is drawn. Pa sites are named. Includes rivers, of which the Waimapu and Waioroa Rivers are named, and routes of two proposed roads, of which one is named Cameron Road, and another is already under construction. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, linen backed, coloured, 65 x 92.8 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032. Processing information: Pencilled title of map has been copied and added to the top right corner, believed to be at a later date, possibly by curator.

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-033-007

Description: View of the trenches at Gate Pa, Tauranga, looking east, the front of the pa to the left, the rear to the right, after its capture by British forces in April 1864. European soldiers standing guard, two carrying a stretcher in the background, a rifle and parts of the broken palisade lying in the foreground, and wounded and dead Maori men visible in the trenches, including Reweti, in a trench to the right, facing the viewer. A tunnel on the left is marked as a covered way, and a tall pole in the background, on a slant is the flagpole. A low land formation in the background to the left is noted as Maungatapu cliffs with cemetery. Tauranga Harbour can be seen in the background Very similar to A-033-009. Robley made many copies of this view Another such view in Cowan's New Zealand Wars has Robley's additional explanatory text around the outside (neg 10985 1/2). The section along the left, to the left of the trench and inside the palisade is a covered passage leading to rifle pits. The figure lying in the left trench is described as 'dead Maori on blanket'. The figure in the right-hand trench is described as 'bearded wounded Maori' and 'Sticks knocked from the palisade' and 'sticks of palisade scathed by shot', '68th sentry on the higher part of the Pa', as well as 'fallen flagstaff in rear' are noted. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title]; Recto - bottom left - Front; Recto - bottom right - Rear; Verso - Disposition of fortifications and other features explained in notes on back of sketch, including the following: Looking east. The flagstaff. Maungatapu cliffs [with] cemetery. A covered way. Reweti wounded and another. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash drawing 180 x 255 mm

Date: 29 April 1864

From: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-3396-1

Description: General Duncan Alexander Cameron (fifth from right, leaning on wheel of gun carriage) with a group of officers and non-commissioned officers of the Colonial Defence Force. Photograph taken 29 April 1864 at sunrise, on the morning of the attack on Gate Pa. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 17.3 x 25.3 cm, on mount

Date: [ca 1864]

Reference: 1/2-022640-F

Description: View of Tauranga taken by an unidentified photographer, circa the time of the battle of Gate Pa in 1864. The note on the back of the file print reads: "From the right ... the cemetery (with the Mount in the background); Monmouth redoubt; residence of Capt Sellars of coasting steamer Tauranga; school; field H. Q, Durham redoubt," Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1844-1927]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-141

Description: A handwritten account by Heni Pore of her upbringing and involvement in the New Zealand wars including her part in the Waikato Wars, Gate Pa and the Battle of Orakau. The document appears to be in at least two parts [numbered sequences] but with some pages missing. Has a MS inscription on a page near the back which appears to be written much later by Heni Pore [Jane Foley] saying 'more rubbish to burn for you to burn'. Also an envelope labelled by Cowan 'Jane Foley's Life (Heni Pore) Wairoa fighting 1863'. Arrangement: 29 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1902-1928

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-114

Description: Letters relating to Heni Te Kiri Karamu [aka Jane Foley and Heni Pore] who played a part in the battle of Gate Pa in 1864. 1. Letter from Lieutenant Colville to Heni Pore dated 22 August 1902, thanking her for 'the interesting account and the noble part [she] took in the fight at Gate Pa...'. 2. Letter written in Maori to Gilbert Mair, headed 'Kia Tawa' [Tawa was a shortened version of his Maori name] from Heni Pore. She mentions some whakatauki. It is dated 25 February 1923 and written from Rotorua. 3. A letter in Maori from Gilbert Mair to Heni Pore, addressed 'Ki toku tuahine e arohatia nei e au' which suggests they were very close. He wrote the letter from Tauranga on May 19 1922. 4. Another letter from Gilbert Mair to Heni Pore dated 1 March 1923, written in Maori in which he urges her to write to James Cowan about her experiences of Gate Pa. 5. A letter from Heni Pore to James Cowan [mostly in English] speaking of his article he had written about her in the Auckland Star, dated 2 February 1926. The letter is incomplete and not signed but there is another page, labelled page 3 that may also be a part of this letter. 6. A letter written in an unknown hand but signed by Heni Pore. She writes mainly about a flag that she made which at that time [7 July 1927] hung in the entrance of the Auckland Public Library. She also mentions her maiden name of Jane Russell. 7. A letter from Heni Pore to Cowan, dated 8 November 1927, she mentions his ill health and her own poor health as well as her upcoming 88th birthday on 14 November. Is written partly in English and partly in Maori. 8. Another letter by Heni Pore to Cowan [undated] speaking of details about her experiences during the New Zealand Wars. 9. A letter dated 23 August 1927 from Heni Pore to Cowan speaking of some older writings and her ill health. 10. A note from Heni Pore to Cowan. 11. A letter from Mr Gordon [possibly William Francis Gordon] to Jane Foley about a letter he borrowed from her that Gilbert Mair had written referring to Booth's memories of a Maori woman giving him water after Gate Pa. He had misplaced the letter but thinks it may have been in papers given to the Dominion Museum. He wrote from New Plymouth on 1 October 1927. 12. A letter from Heni Pore to Cowan dated 12 October 1927. She mentions on the back that she enclosed the reply to her letter by Gordon and another letter by Lieutenant Colville. 13. A letter by Heni Pore to Cowan, dated 14 May 1928 which she talks about her husband and children and the Graham family of of Wairakei and Waiatarua. Written in English on both sides of the page. Arrangement: Lieutenant Colville letter was item 30 and the rest 28 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1863-1864

From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-046

Description: Album compiled by Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl when he was serving with the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry during the New Zealand wars. The photographs were chiefly taken by John Kinder and by Daniel Manders Beere, in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas. Many of the views have no captions, but can be identified in comparison with images known to have been taken by these photographers. Views identified include Mr. Ashwell's church at Taupiri (Rev. Benjamin Yate Ashwell); thatched buildings; flagstaff at Ngaruawahia; the monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; a carved stern-post of a waka; and a group of Maori men. Some, but not all, photos taken by Kinder. Inscriptions: Album page - `S.P.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut-Col), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled blue cover, brown leather spine with gold bands; 35 x 42 cm