Places

Date: 1940

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0028

Description: Contains lsit of Ngapuhi, Ngati Whatua, Ngati Kahu and Te Rarawa Pa Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: May-Nov 1907

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-24

Description: Contains numerous letters from Keys to friends and family members that provide detailed information about his travels through the lower North Island, and through the Far North; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside which Keys travels through, and discussions of people that he meets; there are also discussions of Maori customs and practicees that he experiences and his impressions of them; there are also some comments about the work that Keys undertakes in the Maori Land Courts Page 86 has been removed from the letterbook Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1990

Reference: Ms-Papers-9662

Description: Whakapapa relating to Otiria Marae contains minutes from Te Roopu Rawakore o aotearoa 1987. includes accounts and list of correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1997

From: Park, Geoffrey Nicholls, 1946-2009 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9392-006

Description: Survey undertaken by Dr Charles Johnston for the James Henare Research Centre on various communities in the North Hokianga Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 5 April 1997 - 05 Apr 1997

From: Te Roroa Maori life stories project

By: Tane, Whitiki, 1924-2000

Reference: OHInt-0568/07

Description: Wally Tane was born 1924 in Waikara, Waipoua, South Hokianga. Talks about his father Mekene Tane Hohaia and his mother Tureiti Iraia. Discusses his father's work as a gumdigger and refers to Nick and Te Miringa Yakas. Describes schooling at Katui and Donnellys Crossing Schools, speaking Maori, racist attitudes and the effect of being educated in English only. Mentions Waikara and Waimamaku kaumatua and discusses land grievances. Talks about joining ATC, enlisting with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, training, resentment towards Americans in New Zealand, overseas service as a gunner in 14 Ventura Squadron, jungle training, being based at American camps in the Philippines and Japanese bombing raids. Gives his impressions of American servicemen, recalls the segregation of black and white servicemen. Talks about events in Auckland. Mentions rape. Reflects on returning to Wellington and Waikura. Talks abut employment with the New Zealand Forest Service and working at Waipoua Forest. Refers to planting of Te Roroa wahi tapu with pine trees. Describes meeting and eventual marriage to Margaret Yelash, life at the old family home in Waikara and of the problems of moving back to Dargaville. Talks about employment with the Hobson County Council, post-retirement job as a school bus driver and successfully tendering for the bus run. Explains the significance of the name Waikara given by the tupuna Tohe and lists the hills Tohe named. Interviewer(s) - Garry Hooker Accompanying material - Ngati Ruanui, Tai Tokerau whakapapa and Te Roroa whakapapa of Whitiki (Wally) Tane included with the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2624.

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1986 - 1987

By: NZ Forest Products Ltd; First Light Pictures (Inc)

Reference: Eph-D-CALENDAR-1987-01

Description: Each page is a calendar for one month, and shows an image from the Whare Hui of the Motuti Marae. Images are of Te Reinga, Kahu-hunuhunu, Waetahi, Ngati Porou-Ngapuhi, Te Ao, Rangihiimamao-Hinerangi, Waikato, Parekura, Waiariki, Ngapuhi-Taranaki, Tarutaru. Quantity: 12 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) as calendar.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on 12 spiral-bound pages 700 x 500 mm.

Date: Oct 1920-22 Feb 1934

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-002

Description: Contains a copy of an undated submission to the Minister of Maori Affairs by a group of Whanganui leaders calling for a review of Maori land administration, requesting reserves and the establishment of a secondary school, and asking that Maori be given access to farminng assistance Also contains letters and telegrams about land issues, Nga Moteatea, whakapapa and the impact of the Ratana movement in the Far North Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1899-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-67

Description: Includes clippings on Maori history, iwi, geology, geography, wharenui, whakaairo, whakapapa of Te Rarawa and Queen Elizabeth II, astrology, `Racial superiority', `War economy' and the settlement of Wellington by Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: [1873-1940]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-64

Description: Newspaper clippings and research papers relating to New Zealand history and Maori-Pakeha relations, and carbon copies of Frederick Edward Maning's letters to Spencer von Sturmer of Hokianga ordered by Cowan from the Alexander Turnbull Library.. Other - Originals likely to be held in MS-Papers-0247 or qMS-1234-1238. Arrangement: A part of 65 in original listing. The letters follow several number sequences and are not in date order. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1873-1939]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-65

Description: Carbon copies of letters from Frederick Edward Maning to Spencer von Sturmer of Hokianga. These are copies ordered by Cowan from the Alexander Turnbull Library. Other - Originals likely to be held in MS-Papers-0247 or qMS-1234-1238 Arrangement: A part of 65 in original listing. The letters follow several number sequences and are not in date order. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1989

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Robertson, William Alexander, 1937-; New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-1/3/27/Acc.54713

Description: Terrainmap of North Cape, including Three Kings Islands (Info map 262-1), in Far North District. Map features extensive numbered pencil annotations along coastline indicating Iwi affiliations with localities. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed in colour on paper, scale 1:250,000, 65.5 x 94.5 cm