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Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: 1859 - 1958

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Messenger, William Bazire, 1834-1922

Reference: A-173-002

Description: Shows felled timber and cleared land in the background, with pioneer women in the foreground. A copy of an earlier sketch by W B Messenger. Described on donation as by A H Messenger from originals by W B Messenger. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch, 204 x 178 mm

Date: 1881 - 1958 - 1959

From: Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003 :[Illustrations for Heroes of peace and war by A. H. Reed. 1958 or 1959]

By: Scales, Sydney Ernest, 1916-2003

Reference: A-060-002

Description: Shows Tawhaio surrendering to W G Mair at Alexandra (Pirongia) on 11 July 1881 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 349 x 283 mm

Date: 1863 - 1956 - 1885 - 1866 - 1957 - 1886

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-009

Description: A six-panelled account of the deaths of 7 surveyors in Canterbury in the 1860s and 1885. They were Henry Whitcombe (mistakenly called George by the artist) who drowned while crossing the Teremakau River with Jacob Louper (correctly Lauper) in 1863; Carleton (correctly Charlton) Howitt and two others (Robert Little and Henry Miller) drowned in Lake Brunner in 1863, their packs found by the sole survivor, James Belgrave Hammett; Charles Townshend (correctly Townsend), drowned while crossing the Grey River in 1863; George Dobson, shot by the Maungatapu murderers in 1866; and Edward Lake Paske, who died in a snowstorm in the Clarence Valley in 1885 (correctly 1886), followed by another member of his party, Hugh Thompson who died in similar circumstances on the same trip. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.

Date: 1816 - 1956 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-014

Description: Six-panelled account of the capture of John Rutherford by Maori at Tokomaru Bay in 1816, his being tattooed, taking two chief's daughters as his wives, living amongst Maori for 10 years then escaping on another European ship to go back to England, exhibiting himself in fairs as the Tattooed Englishman These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1950

From: [Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, festivals and entertainment. 1950-1969].

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-CONCERT-1950-01-cover

Description: Shows Barraud's view of the interior of the Rangiatea church, with an arrangement of the title text at the bottom of the page. Extended Title - from, Ngati Poneke tribe's Maori entertainment ... souvenir programme ... 1950. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 249 x 157 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1958

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Messenger, William Bazire, 1834-1922

Reference: A-173-001

Description: Shows the Taranaki stockade with a soldier on horseback in the foreground Described on donation as by A H Messenger, from originals by W B Messenger. Extended Title - From a sketch by Lieut. W B Messenger, 1870, [1858 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing, 203 x 178 mm

Date: 1882 - 1954

By: Mallitte, Howard Leon, 1910-1979

Reference: A-017-004

Description: Shows the 'Dunedin' at right, and the wharf at the left, with people waving the boat off. A building of the Shaw Savill Line is seen at the left. A reproduction of a watercolour dated 1953. The ship's colours shown here (a grey and black hull with white-painted ports) are incorrect. The hull should be black with pink boot-topping. At the time the Dunedin sailed from Dunedin, she was owned by the Albion Line of Glasgow. It was not until late in 1882 that the Albion Line merged with Shaw Savill to form the Shaw Savill & Albion Company, when the new colour scheme of grey hull and white painted ports was adopted. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 205 x 331 mm Transfers: Transferred from Gear Meat Co. collection, MS acc. 81-295..

Date: [ca 1896-1958]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-46352

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation on 22 May 1958. Photographer of original unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative