Places

Date: 1843 - 1939 - 1847 - 1945

Reference: MapColl-832.47p/[197-?]/Acc.23130

Description: Map showing old military installations from the New Zealand Wars, 1843-7 and the home guard sites of New Zealand Army in World War II. Sites from the New Zealand War include Te Rangihaeata's stronghold (1846), the site of a chapel and the colonial cemetery at Pauatahanui, military trenches (one named McKillops), the barracks of the 65th regiment, the officer's quarters, the Boulton's Hotel of 1847, Troopers Hill, isolated Maori grave along Paekakariki Hill Road, the landing stage of the 58th and 65th regiments, Tandy's constablulary's post and the Waitaha Maori at Ration Point. Sites during World War II include the home guard headquarters of 1941 at Jones Deviation, the 1939 New Zealand Army Unit and United States Marines 2nd division near Kakaho Stream, as well as the Duck Creek saw mill at Bradey's Bay. Shows J Walker's homestead. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 34.2 x 36.6 cm.

Date: 1921

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-042

Description: A Maori woman walking away from a hill. Also shows cross with inscription in Maori at Mahoetahi and a map of the site of the battle at Waitara For related maps from the Cowan collection see MapColl--q832hkcmf/1845-1871/Acc.5122-8;46793-813 Extended Title - Published in The New Zealand Wars, vol. 1, p. 190 by J Cowan Inscriptions: Signed: A.H. Messenger Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, 215 x 160 mm Processing information: transferred from Photo Section, 1974

Date: 1960 - 1961

Reference: MapColl-832.2hkcmf/[186-?]/Acc.25400

Description: Manuscript sketchmap containing military information relating to the battle of Huirangi near Waitara during the first New Zealand War, Taranaki, depicting rifle pits, a peach grove, bush, the first redoubt with 100 men, the second redoubt with 100 men and guns, the Hairau Camp (spelt Hairoa, two and a half miles in a direct line from the Waitara Camp) and the signal station Matarikoriko with 100 men. Written on reverse: 'Maori wars - general. Neg 1/2 29378, Battle of Hurangi? - Taranaki' in pencil. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale indeterminable, 20 x 12 cm.

Date: 1860 - 1920

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: MapColl-832.2hkm/1860/Acc.5106

Description: Manuscript map depicting the position of Mahoetahi pa, and old pa Otarahua site during the Taranaki Wars when it was taken by the British Forces. Shows the position of the volunteer soldiers, the reserve, the swamp, the Waitara party, the Ngapuketurua Bush, the Waiongona Stream, as well as the roads Devon, Kairau, and Mahoetahi (to Puwhata). Map states that New Plymouth is seven and a half miles away. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, on card, scale [ca. 1:3 960], 27 x 40 cm.

Date: 1869 - 1920

By: Gordon, William Francis Robert, 1846-1936

Reference: MapColl-832.2hkm/1869/Acc.5107

Description: Map of White Cliffs promontory, called Picquet Hill, bordered by the Waikaramarama River, on the coast between Pukearuhe and Tongarpurutu, Taranaki region. The track to the beach, the new road with gradients, and the path between what were two pa sites, is drawn. Sites of a redoubt with its blockhouse and gate and including measurements, mens' and officers' whares, a store, a stockyard, parapets, trenches, sunken terraces and gardens are drawn. Crosses mark the areas where Rev. J. Whiteley, Milne and Richards and the Gascoigne family were killed on February 1869. Estimated date of drawing - 1920, taken from cataloguing card. Title has been printed on a strip of paper and pasted at the top of the map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, backed with card, 30 x 35.7 cm.