Places

Date: 1818-1968

By: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-1003

Description: Papers include correspondence concerning history and exploration of the Tararua Ranges, correspondence of tramping clubs in the areas, files on huts and wildlife in the Tararuas and printed material (mainly newspaper cuttings) There are also notes on the history of Wilson's (NZ), Portland Cement Ltd and family history. Further papers relating to the Federated Mountain Clubs, Tararua Tramping Club and John Pascoe; sample files are Nomenclature - Tararua District; Meetings - AGMs of other clubs; Pascoe - Tararua tramping; FMC newsletters; Huts and tracks - Waerenga; Easter 1933 - Hill & Co search; Accidents; Search parties (various names, including Philip Temple); and other topics Source of title - Supplied title Wilson was long-standing member of Tararua Tramping Club. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 0.58 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 4 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1868

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-061

Description: A bend in the Ruamahanga River, with flax bushes at the river's edge, beech trees to the right, and forest to the left. Smoke rising from a farmhouse amongst bush in the distance, and the Tararua Range in the background. The original for a chromolithograph 'Opaki Plain, 1875' reproduced in Barraud's 'New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive' (London, 1877). opp. p. 4. The chromolithograph has the addition of two Maori in a canoe on the river and cows on the plain in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 260 x 380 mm

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-052

Description: View from a high point looking down to a flat valley among hills, with several farm buildings, a river and tracks John Varnham was manager of Bowlands Station and a partner in the estate with C E & W N Luxford, Ben Ling & W C Mace. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph was reproduced from the original "[View of Wellington. 1861]" held at ATL G-670. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1967

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :The Barraud prints 1967

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-011-c

Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tall tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Other Titles - View of Wellington, 1861. Extended Title - Wellington: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1967. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861.; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This print was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board.; Recto - bottom right - Print no. 4 / Serial 10: 1967 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 310 x 510 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1879

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-832.4bf/[187-?]/Acc.37116

Description: Topographical map of part of the Tararua Ranges with triangulation points between Mount Rimutaka, Mount Wainui, Mount Waitohu. Mounts Mauganui, Kakapanui and Hector are named. On verso: Neg. register 912 Maps Tararua Ranges On verso: From LINZ survey plan? see- On verso: Smaller file print has neg. no. 75607 1/2 Handwritten on verso: 26687 Possibly the work of M. Carkeek Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale not given, 38.5 x 30.4 cm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-034

Description: Shows two farmhouses and their outbuildings in a fenced paddock with a backdrop of trees and snow-capped Tararua Range. There are haystacks alongside the nearer house Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: ?-1854

From: Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898: Maori manuscripts

Reference: MSY-2086

Description: Mss in Grey's, Te Rangikahehe's and others' writing. Mainly poems. Includes an oreore (kaioraora) or chant to incite, probably by Topeora, to induce Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata to seek revenge for some transgression - relates to events in the Horowhenua. Also includes a slightly different version of the haka "Ka Mate" from "Ki ki ki, Ka ka ka". Quantity: 1 volume(s) (40 leaves, numbered 239-329). Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-036

Description: A rural scene in Masterton showing three houses with a backdrop of trees, hills and the snow-capped Tararua Range in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Hills beyond Masterton. Wairarapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 (page size)

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-074

Description: A broad river valley backed by hills and mountains. Other Titles - Waingawa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

Date: 1881

By: Smith, Llewellyn, active 1881; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: MapColl-832.4cba/1881/Acc.26508

Description: Topographical map of part of the Tararua ranges of Waiohine District, Waiohine Stream, Carterton Bush, Popes Hill, Kaitangata, Mangatariri and Hinaki stream. Land features are described. Tracks are marked and notes refer to times taken to walk from one place to another. Photocopy appears to be reduced Signature of Llewellyn Smith and partially obscured date are written below the title. Signature and initials adjacent to the title are difficult to decipher. Dates are 7.4.81. 8.9.81. 8.2.82. Stamped on map: 11785 Huangarua District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale not given, 41.7 x 59.8 cm.

Date: 1879

By: Baber, James, 1853-; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: MapColl-832.4cba/1879/Acc.26507

Description: Topographic map of the area of the Tararua ranges from the Otaki Riverto Mount Waiopehu to Lake Horwhenua including Waitohu District, Mt. Robinson, Arawara District and Wairarapa Circuit. Includes named streams and rivers, lines of roads and descriptions of types of land. Photocopy appears to be reduced which affects the scale. No. on map 11456 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [ca.1:31 680], 41.9 x 41.5 cm.

Date: [1955]-1977

From: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010: Papers

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: 77-089

Description: Comprises reference cards and notes; photocopies from ATL Elsdon Best manuscript collection; photocopies from the `NZ gazette' re Tararuas; file of miscellaneous papers including newsletter of the Brisbane Bush Walkers and correspondence with the Appalachian Mountain Club from Tararua Tramping Club; file of extracts re surveying in the Tararuas; file of reports and notes re Tararuas; file, `Early history of the Tararua Ranges'; file, `Extracts from G L Adkin's `Annals of the Tararuas' and text of address; file `Maori travel and trails, Tararua Ranges' by Barton; and file labelled `Tararua misc' which includes photographs of tramping huts and trampers Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1853

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-009-011

Description: Looking up the Hutt River near a curve in the river towards the Tararua Range. Two Maori are pulling a canoe ashore on the right bank close to two tree ferns. A flax bush is in flower in the foreground on the near bank Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title, date and signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 317 mm

Date: 1878 - 1888

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-007-003

Description: A view over Te Aro. Compare the chromolithograph of the same scene in Barraud and Travers' New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive, published London, 1877. The watercolour appears to be a copy by another artist of Barraud's chromolithograph, rather than an original watercolour by Barraud. The Library holds the original watercolour by C D Barraud on which the chromolithograph and this copy were based. See B-159-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 333 x 573 mm Provenance: Copy made by an unknown copyist from the chromolithograph based on Barraud's original.

Date: [190-?]

By: Smith, William Walter, 1852-1942; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931

Reference: PAColl-9825

Description: Photographs of New Zealand scenery, taken by photographers including A E Winzenberg and Josiah Martin, collected ca 1900s by William Walter Smith in the course of his work with the Scenery Preservation Commission. Photographs comprise: Great Wairua Falls Sunrise on the Ruamahanga River Native bush and Tararua Range Red deer in forest Paranui Pa, Whanganui River Source of title - Title supplied by Library Accompanying material - MSS contents list on verso of Department of Tourist and Health Resorts letterhead Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Lindsay Garlinge, Port MacQuarie, Australia, in 2010

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1880 - 1884

By: Climie, James Daniel, 1849-1928; Snowden, W, active 1884; Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: MapColl-832.4cba/1884/Acc.26504

Description: Topographic maps F1 and F2 of Akatarawa, Paekakariki, Kapiti, Kaitawa which overlap at Emerald Hill with maps F3 and F4 of Remutaka [sic] and Belmont. Includes tracks, railway lines, named settlements, district boundaries. Signature on bottom right corner: J.D. Climie, D. surveyor, Aug 3rd. 1884 Stamps on maps: F1, F2, F3, F4 and No. 12296 Quantity: 2 map(s) on four sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, scale [ca.1:125 000], sheets 41.9 x 59.8 cm.

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Halcombe, Edith Stanway (Swainson) 1844-1903 :Sketchbook [1890s?]

Reference: E-335-q-009

Description: Looking towards the Tararua Ranges beyond Otaki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 164 x 228 mm