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Date: [ca 1869-1879]

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA7-57-14

Description: Photograph looking down the gorge to buildings at Kaiwharawhara in the distance. There are two children sitting in a paddock in the foreground surrounded by thistles. Photograph taken by James Bragge ca 1869-1879 The Market Hall was erected in 1865 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print (hand-coloured), 21.5 x 29 cm on mount

Date: 1848 - 1849

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

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-017

Description: A road winding down towards the harbour beside a valley and through steep bush-clad hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & sepia wash on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993.

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-033-a

Description: Shows the saw mill in a clearing in the bush. In the centre foreground a group of five men, some Maori and some pakeha, stand or sit together, holding axes. At the right a man works at a bullock wagon. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-010

Description: Several Maori and European men with axes resting by sawn logs in the foreground. A sawmill building on lower ground in the middle distance in a bush clearing. To the right, a bullock cart with large logs loaded From: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, no. 48, text p 29. Brees notes: "This mill is situated on a tributary of the Kaiwarra-warra, and upon a section belonging to Captain Daniell. ... The works were completed in the month of October 1842 ... It consists of a water wheel placed athwart the stream, which works several circular saws, and the water is dammed up above ..." Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand. London, 1849 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 117 x 168 mm

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

Date: 1848 - 1849

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

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-011

Description: A small house and fence on the left bank, the stream, and Old Porirua Road running along the flat land on the right bank, looking into the hills of the Ngaio Gorge. There are two people faintly sketched on the left bank, so the area shown may be the ford. A horse and cart are moving along Porirua Road. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1842 - 1847 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-02-2

Description: View from the north side of the Ngaio Gorge looking towards Wellington City, with Kaiwharawhara in the middle distance showing the Kaiwharawhara Hotel, a ship at a wharf and several small buildings. The entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are in the background. Two men are chopping trees in the foreground Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 91 x 189 mm

Date: [1850s?]

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-009-005

Description: Attributed to William Howard Homes on stylistic grounds. Shows Mathieson and Schultze's flourmill to the right with a red-cloaked man leading a horse along Old Porirua Road on the left. Wellington Harbour can be seen in the distance, the building on the near-side of the harbour is possibly the Rainbow Hotel. Matiu / Somes Island and Wellington City are also shown. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - The Harbour from Keiwara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on card Processing information: Description updates 5 April 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: 1847

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington, 47 ; Kai Warra Warra saw mill, 48 ; The Bank, Wellington. 49. Engraved by Henry Melville drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-033

Description: Kaiwharawhara mill amidst native forest In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, Hand-coloured 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1881

By: Park, Robert George, active 1881; Levin & Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ng/1881/Acc.6349

Description: Cadastral, part surveyed map showing the subdivision of the Trelissick Estate, Ngaio, Wellington, highlighting Sections 4, 5 and 9 and identifying Sections 6, 7, 8 and 10, and a Native (Maori) Reserve. Shows Old Porirua Road, part of the Wellington to Wairarapa Railway, and part of the Kaiwharawhara Stream. Parts of Section 5 have been subdivided, and names of owners of those properties are: Crofton, Bartlett, Chew and Aplin. Shows proposed roads. Trelissick Estate was developed by Captain Edward Daniell, in 1843, who named the property after his family home in Cornwall, England. Daniell died in 1866, the property was subdivided in the 1880's by Major & Mrs Deane. Gorge Road was upgraded in 1898. (Onslow Historian, v3 (3) 1973, p.4-13) Other Titles - Plan showing subdivisions in the estate of Trelissick Written on reverse: Major Deane Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 65 x 55 cm.

Date: 1839 - 1845

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: NON-ATL-P-0004

Description: Palisades of the pa at Kaiwharawhara, at the water's edge, with raupo houses, with verandahs and tree-trunk columns in the foreground, with one Maori man reclining in the left foreground and a woman and child seated by one of the whare. Two canoes, with Maori chapel of raupo beyond them in the middle ground and a European yacht beyond that. On the background hill to the right, the whalers' lookout "Tutaewera", aand on the central hill, a zig-zag Maori path running up the Ngaio Gorge area. The background range shows British Peak on the left and Mount Kaukau on the right. The file print during 1970s and 80s attributed to John Pearse and titled "Wellington". However, it pre-dates Pearse's time in Wellington during the 1850s. Other Titles - Wellington. John Pearse. See article about this picture in Kapa-Mana News 20 August 1980, by William Secker. The painting is pre-1845, since the Hutt Road is not yet formed. The architecture of the raupo huts on the left shows the whalers' influence, with the tree-trunk verandah posts. If the attribution to Robert Park is correct, the work could be as early as 1840. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: [Photograph of] watercolour, size unknown