Places

Date: 1878-1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: 81-295

Description: Records include ledgers, staff records, cash books, letter books (1900-1910), various documents (letters, insurance policies, reminiscences, deeds, and mortgages), Board of Directors' records (1962-1975), records of subsidiary and related companies, legal correspondence, killing records, newspaper clippings (1907-1969), share registers and share records (including indexes), and records of the Fellmongery Department (including staff, stock and cash) Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also 78-047, 87-080, 91-256 Petone meat processing plant Quantity: 7 folder(s). 118 volume(s). 47 box(es). 15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans - To Ephemera Collection - 1 box - To Photographic Archive - 3 boxes - To Serials Collection - MIRINZ bulletin (refrigeration) No 2, 1974; Thomson news No 4 May 1972 - To Book Collections - Associated North Island freezing companies of NZ. General report, 1912; Petone Borough Council dairy regulation by-law, 1911; Petone Borough Council heavy traffic by-law, 1905; Petone Borough Council waterworks by-law, 1904; Petone Borough Council drainage & sanitary by-law, 1911.

Date: 4, 8, 15 July and 1 and 30 August 2011 - 04 Jul 2011 - 30 Aug 2011

By: Ngan Kwok Guy, 1926-2017; Oldham, Philippa Jane, 1957-

Reference: OHColl-1053-01

Description: Interview with New Zealand artist and former director of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Guy Ngan, conducted from July - August 2011. 'Guy Ngan was born in Wellington in 1926, the son of a Chinese New Zealand businessman and his second wife who herself became a successful businesswoman and family matriarch. Guy was taken back to China as a 2 year old and would likely have stayed in the Guangzhou area there had it not been for the Japanese invasion in 1938. When Guangzhou was bombed Guy's father made hasty arrangements for Guy and his elder brother Albert to leave. The two boys travelled unaccompanied to New Zealand by ship. They lived initially in Newtown but Guy, unhappy at Newtown School, quickly struck out on his own arranging to stay with relatives in Miramar. This was the beginning of an independent way of life and thinking that Guy has continued to pursue.' (information provided by interviewer). The interview discusses his early life, education, experiences abroad, and his art career in New Zealand. Abstracted by - Pip Oldham Interviewer(s) - Pip Oldham Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7665. 1 interview(s). 13.31 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Liz Ngan, Wellington, May 2012 Search dates: 1872 - 2011

Date: [ca 1874-1944] (1953)]

By: Major, John Edwin, 1859-1954

Reference: qMS-1232

Description: Accounts of life in Wellington, Manawatu, Gisborne and Taranaki, and many political recollections and comments. There is a chapter on old-time racing, including the days before the book-maker was banned. There are also references to visiting celebrities, among them Mark Twain, Frank Bullen and Paderewski, and memories of many theatrical shows. Included is a summary of the career of the late Henry Hayward, a pioneer in cinema entertainment in NZ. Source of title - Transcribed He was a store-keeper, law clerk and land agent; member of Parliament for Hawera for six years; mayor of Hawera for thirteen years and member of other local bodies in Taranaki. He was a noted runner; played Rugby football for these provinces; and as owner and spectator was keenly interested in horse-riding. He was one of the founders of a number of clubs and societies, including the Philatelic Society and the Polynesian Society. He was also a friend of the Maori and a student of his culture Quantity: 1 volume(s) (273 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26 cm; blue linen)

Date: 1877 - 1889

By: Beere, Edward Holroyd, 1843-1906; Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ki/1877-89/Acc.10637

Description: Cadastral map of Evans Bay to Kilbirnie, also to Constable and Owen streets, Newtown, Wellington. The area includes the coastline with Patent Slip and proposed jetties near Belvedere Road to Rodrigo Road, Kilbirnie. Numbered sections include acreages and some sites of houses. Roads are named and a stream with a bridge is marked. A note states 'right to water' at Busaco Road. A track to Lyell [sic] Bay is noted, as is a road to the Pilot Station. The town belt is marked. The lithographer is named as Lyon & Blair. Additions to the map are prominently marked sections at Evans Bay with various dates and names of Short, Williams, Ferguson, Harcourt, B. Smith, Rhodes, Rae, McCarthy, Boon, Earl, Knowles, Barber, Tait, White, Edw. Barton. The name of Lyon is marked in sections at Kilbirnie. Coloured sections are listed in key and refer to sections transferred by Mr. Pearce to various purchasers, which include Lot numbers, names and dates. Names include Sarah Ann Rhodes, W. Kemp, Ann Compton, McCarthy, Easby, McLennan, P. Farr, Moody & Smith, Adams, Jens Peter Jorgeson, Jane Compton, Geo. Zannin, M. Alexander, William Hayman, Ellen Stafford, Whitcombe, Church Trustees, T. Ladd, H. Green, Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Salmon, Wm. Salmon, E. O. Gibbs, Keasbury, Margaret Price, E. H. Hurst, W. J. L. Travers, Marion Orr, Andrew Orr, C. L. Zohrab, John Earl, J Lockhead, A. J. Bredahl, Baker, J. B. Harcourt, W. K. Williams, Lyon, J. Bradbury, H. Alexander, McAllister, Travers, W. M. Muir, H. J. Whircher, Brandon & Sons, McDermott, Mary Love, J. Dransfield, Ella Rollison, E. W. Lowe, Pedgen, Crease, J. Wagg, J. Knowles, Cath Rae, J. Mills, J. Higginbottom, Murray, John Vine, Richardson, Short. Scale of original: [1:3 168] Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and coloured pencil on duplicate plan, coloured, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 71 x 50.1 cm.

Date: 1861-1867, 1876

By: Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876

Reference: Micro-MS-0841

Description: Journeys around the Wanganui district ministering to Maori; records of baptisms, marriages and burials; military engagement at Moturoa 15 May 1864; meeting near Taumarunui between Wanganui, Waikato and Taupo Maori Feb 1876; observations on Maori customs, flora and fauna and nature of country traversed; Maori vocabulary; sketches Source of title - Supplied title Rev Basil Taylor was the son of Rev Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 170 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1866-1878

By: Bennett family

Reference: MS-Papers-1274

Description: The collection comprises information regarding the donor's grandparents; family letters from Joseph Bennett, Otahouao Station, describing farming conditions in the Wairarapa (1866-1868); lieutenant's commission in the Wairarapa Volunteer Cavalry. Also papers of James Daniel Baird, 1840-1908; testimonials re service as Provincial Engineer, Wellington (1864-1876), and letter of appointment as Chief Engineer to the Corporation of Wellington (1877) (photocopies). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: [1920]

From: Lee, Robert, 1837-1922 : Memoirs of an early educator

Reference: MS-Papers-5618-2

Description: Includes: Chapter 7 - Inspection of schools around Wellington, 1874-1877; Chapter 8 - Inspector of Schools, Wairarapa, 1874-1877; Chapter 9 - Inspector of Schools, Manawatu and Rangitikei, 1874-1877; Chapter 10 - Inspector of Schools, Wanganui and beyond, 1874-1877; Chapter 11 - Inspector of Schools, Marlborough, 1874-1877 and Inspector of Schools and Secretary (Wellington), 1878-1886 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1873-1902

Reference: Micro-MS-0895

Description: Comprises diaries of William, John and Alexander Golder Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1874-1950

By: Johnsonville (N.Z.). Town Board; Carman, Arthur Herbert, 1902-1982

Reference: MS-Papers-2166

Description: Minute books, 1874-1883, 1896-1900 (with contracts for work, 1897-1900); rate book, 1874-1876?, 1898-1899; results of Board elections, 1874-1950 Source of title - Supplied title Johnsonville Local Board was constituted 1874; became Town Board, ca 1881; amalgamated with Wellington, 1953 Quantity: 4 folder(s) (3 volumes, 22 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: [ca 1870-1885]

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-05

Description: Papers re election matters with electoral roll for Otaraia riding (1882-1883) and draft memo re Bunny and Buchanan; draft letters to the editor and notes re the Californian mail service; accounts; note re Maori land between Ohinemutu and Thames owned by H C Young; notes re drama; Onehunga land; list of Phillips' land ownership and contracts; notes on election speeches; Martin's land purchase; Bolingbroke; National Mortgage Agency accounts; correspondence with `Daily southern cross'; saleyard circular; drawing of mantelpiece and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 1877-1908

By: Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909

Reference: MS-Papers-2089

Description: Letters concerning land purchases and court hearings at Thames, Paeora, Te Aroha, Feilding, Greytown, Wakapuaka and Nelson; schedules of Maori rents in Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland Source of title - Supplied title Commissioner of Native Reserves; judge of Native Land Court, 1884-1901 Quantity: 4 folder(s) (ca 36 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts

Date: 1879 (1951)

By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952

Reference: qMS-0479

Description: Includes an account of the establishment of the first churches in & around Feilding, and the involvement of some well-known Feilding residents Quantity: 1 volume(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (35 cm; blue buckram)

Date: Sep 1877-Dec 1879

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barraud, Laura Cottam, 1859-1935

Reference: MS-Papers-7767

Description: Barraud records part of the return voyage to Wellington with her family on the `Zealandia', 12 Sep-26 Oct 1877, ending with two weeks quarantine on Somes Island after a smallpox outbreak. From Apr-Dec 1879 Laura resumed her diary describing family and social life in Wellington. Daughter of the artist Charles Barraud. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1876-1919

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-11

Description: The collection includes many transfers of hotel licenses administered by the Wairarapa Licensing Trust, Waipawa County Permanent Building & Investment Society and Magistrate's certificates and accounts/receipts, some to the Court Marquis of Normanby Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1877-1890

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 79-027-07

Description: Papers on various topics including the starch factory at Greytown, dam building, treeplanting, Maori vocabulary, ploughing, harrowing, farm estimates, wool shipments and carpentry (1877-1879); letters (1879); invoices; `Spithead review' (1890); plans for work bench; advice on the use of jacks; Capt James Stevens' account of his shipwreck in 1875; article on England as a third rate power (1881) Also handbill `Replies to slanders from "Star" Office in paper called "Something further"' on a political debate about the merits of Buchanan and the demerits of Bunny Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: [ca 1880]

From: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district

By: Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901

Reference: PA7-12-24

Description: View of the Government Building and Supreme Court on Lambton Quay, and ships in Wellington Harbour taken from the Bolton Street Cemetery by W H W Davis in 1880s. Government House is on the left and St-Andrews-on-the-Terrace on the right. In the immediate foreground are headstones (inscriptions unable to be deciphered). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: Between 1871 and 1881 - 1870

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbe/1871/Acc.27669-70

Description: Copy of an 1870 cadastral map of land blocks within the Manawatū-Wairarapa Block, from the Tararua Ranges eastwards to the Puketoi Range and Castle Point Block. Blocks indicate name, number and acreage, and include Kaihinu, Pahiatua, Te Pukahu, Mongorongo, Eketāhuna, Ngatapu, Ihuraua, Manawatū, Mangahauo, Puketoi, Tautane, Makure. Two blocks include note 'not passed the [Native Land] Court' (Kaihanga, Mangahao no. 3; 7,000 acres and Puketoi no. 6; 3,200 acres). Includes annotations such as the addition of Mangakao no. 2 block in 1881. Includes names of rivers, streams. Note on map reads: 'Produced before the N[ative] L[and] Court at Masterton Wairarapa September 7th 1871'. [Signed] J Rogan'. Note on map reads 'This ? does not conflict with Crown Lands' Judge (signature indeciferable) 'Oct 23 '[18]71' Written on map, bottom left: '897', '2387' Written under map 'This plan is now numbered 88B'. Some annotated text and signatures difficult to decipher (such as map compiler and surveyor). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 61 x 50 cm. Provenance: Copied from map W49 part of Head Office Collection of maps and plans. Dept. of Lands and Survey. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: [ca 1875]

By: Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917

Reference: PA7-51-02

Description: View taken from Sydney Street West looking towards Bolton Street and south-east towards Te Aro and Mount Victoria. Wellington College can be seen on the extreme right in the far distance. The Colonial Museum in Museum Street is in the foreground to the left. Photograph taken by E S Richards in the 1870s Copy negative at 1/2-021636-F. File print available at PFP-030465. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Looking towards Bolton Street from above Sydney Street West. Colonial Museum in Museum Street on left foreground. Lion Foundry in Waring Taylor Street in background, c 1875 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 18.5 x 28.8 cm

Date: 1879

By: Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/1879/Acc. 8980

Description: Plan of the subdivision of section 56 of the Opaki block, showing lands for sale; also shows the property of Te Rophia (sic Te Ropiha) to the southeast of the lands for sale Extended Title - Wellington: J.H. Bethune & Co., 1879 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Friday, 19th December, 1879. Important sale of Small Farm Allotments, Opaki Plains, Masterton. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. Have been favored with instructions from the Executors of the late Henry Bannister, Esq., to sell by public auction, at their rooms, corner of Featherston and Brandon streets on FRIDAY, 19th December, at 2 o'clock- The Opaki Estate, consisting of 1,178 acres of valuable agricultural land subdivided into 24 small farm allotments, varying from 40 to 122 acres each ... Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 46 x 49 cm. Scale 1:7 920

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection