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Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: PA1-o-168

Description: Album of photographs of the Otago region, and sketches of the area by William Mathews Hodgkins. Sketches include one ink sketch of a man ploughing behind two horses; The rest of the sketches are in pencil, many with colour notes. They include [Pond and hills]; Sketch for a wet day on a west coast. OAS [Otago Art Society] Exhib ... 1894, sold this to Watson Sherman? 44 pounds (?) Dec '94; [Ducks] about 40 feet; and [Ducks on a river]; The Spit, Waikouaiti taken on the route to Moeraki Nov 94; [Beach scene]; [Wharf, possibly at Moeraki?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; Irekehu [Ireketui?] track [near coast]; Puketihi [Puketiti?]. The bay is Matukiki; [Maori woman carrying a baby on her back]; [Turbaned man]; [Figure]; [Men working on a boat in a boatshed]; Miss Edwards House [house with small tower]; Outline of hills beyond the Clutha seen from Lovells Flat. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Loose-leaf album with string tie, dark maroon cover, label attached reads `Taieri, Maori [...?], Moeraki, Saddle Hill, Balclutha [...?]'. Album 15.0 x 28.5 cm

Date: n d

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-021

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 27 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Te Tau, Katarina, 1899-1998

Reference: OHInt-0015-05

Description: Kuini Te Tau describes her family background, her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters; her tribe - Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu. She recalls her childhood at Waikouaiti in the South Island:- the story of Parihaka as told to her by her grandfather; her father as a farmer; Sir James Owen; the family house; cooking; music; meals; butter making; swaggers (tramps); the Te Whao Family; the thrashing mills; her father and the Maori Land Courts; whakapapa; speaking Maori; dances; punishment; pocket money; doctors; alcohol; the Otago Hussars; home medicines; birthdays; lollies; influenza epidemic; visiting the mental hospital; school - Waikouaiti Native School; religion; Sundays; the era that Grandfather Parata was in politics; the effect of World War I on her family; horses; attitudes to sex; 'Maori matches' - marriage between two families for land. Discusses meeting her future husband; his family background; leaving the South to live at Masterton; polo ponies; the 'old Maori' on the Pa; the homeguard; joining the Red Cross; Kitty Cameron and John Bunny; World War II; American soldiers; the Featherston Prisoner of War Camp; Maori Affairs Housing; sport; the meeting house, Nga Tau E Waru and her role; her job in the war for Manpower and becoming the first Welfare Officer for Maori Affairs based in Wellington; the elderly Maoris; meals on wheels; Maori budgeting; respect for elders; Mrs Paku who lived at Whakataki; Mrs Rimene; Rose Brian; Maori attitude towards Pakeha; the Historic Trust; school visiting; Joe Paku and his story of how Wairarapa and its rivers got their names; the Maori Anglican Church; the Depression; the Costello Family. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gordon Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004417 - OHC-004419 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 886. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Kuini Te Tau, undated. Rewi Tamahau Tamihana, Kuini Te Tau; Richard Tahuora Himona, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 30/10/1976. Kuini Te Tau, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 1983 Search dates: 1899 - 1983