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Date: 1840-1855, 1934

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington

Reference: fMS-Papers-1432

Description: Contemporary copy of register of marriages (1840-1845), burials (1840-1845), and baptisms (1840-1844), of original register in St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington. Lists of Maori confirmations at Pipitea, Wainui and Waikanae in 1855 and 1856; list of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths in Kapiti parish (1845-1846), compiled by Rev O Hadfield for census of the Ngatiawa tribe; Wanganui church return for 1844. Includes a canticle by Robert Parker. Note, the names appended are indicative only. Researchers should refer to the contents as there are too many names to list. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: [1900-1940]

By: Baker, Matenga, 1902-1988

Reference: MS-Group-1009

Description: The collection comprises seven volumes of waiata and whakapapa (1) Matenga Baker, waiata, whakapapa, personal records; (2) Haana Wineera (nee Cootes) for Matenga Baker, whakapapa of the Ngati Toa and related tribes; (3) Ropata Te Ao Maori notebook, Ngati Raukawa collection monies for land court and Rangiatea church, whakapapa; (4) Hema Ropata Te Ao Maori notebook, waiata, history; and (5) Maori notebook, Ngati Raukawa whakapapa; (6) Tiria Te Wiata - whakapapa and waiata notebook; (7) whakapapa book of Tiria Te Waiata Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 6 volume(s). 0.12 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: These books were entrusted to Matenga Baker by the original creators during his lifetime. Baker was closely related to Haana Wineera, Hema Te Ao and Tiria Te Wiata. After Baker's death in 1988 his children continued to care for the volumes. Processing information: Use Conditions updated 5 September 2022.

Date: 1908-1909

By: White, William Bertram, 1821-1910

Reference: MS-Papers-4542

Description: The reminiscences mainly concentrate on the period 1842 to 1878 and were dictated to members of his family during the latter part of 1908 and beginning of 1909. They give details of White's mothers family and his father's career as a midshipman. They then go on to describe White's career in New Zealand first as a surveyor in the Horokiwi and Wellington areas, a farmer at Mohunoa (Kapiti) and Wainuiomata, in the volunteer forces which fought against Te Rangiatea, his visits to Auckland and then his later career in Mongonui [Mangonui] holding various government posts including work for the Land Commissioner. The reminiscences give White's impressions of relations between Maori and settler especially in the greater Wellington/Kapiti and Maunganui districts and recount many incidents involving such people as Te Rauparaha, Governor Grey, Fitzroy, McLean, Hadfield and many others. Source of title - title page Quantity: 1 folder(s) (49 leaves). 0 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1978

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-3/23/6A-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale ca 1: 5000, 103 x 77 cm.

Date: Oct 1956

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-449

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1979

From: New Zealand National Party : Further records

Reference: 89-075-138/12

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1913

By: Porteous, John Stewart, 1881?-1964; Raumati Estate Company; Davis, Geoffrey Harold, -1946

Reference: MapColl-832.47962gbbd/1913/Acc.7812

Description: Surveyed cadastral map of coastal sections in Raumati, between the old coach road and the main coach road from Wellington to Foxton, including Matai Road. The sections are bounded by the Wellington Manawatu Railway and the sea. Sections are numbered with acreage. Several small residential sections have been subdivided along the foreshore, while the remainder of sections are over 28 acres each. Includes survey trig measurements. Map includes a validity statement by the surveyor, and includes his name in pencil, but is unsigned. Includes several pencil annotations. According to annotations, some of the land is owned by Bowman and Phillips by 1914. Includes inset of part of the Wharemauku Stream, between Raumati and Matatua roads. Other Titles - Plan of subdivision of Sections 5, 6, 7 and Part Sections 21, 22, 3, 4, 26, 17, 57, and 59. Blocks I, II Paekakariki Survey District [ms map]. Wainui Registration District. Surveyed for the Raumati Estate Company by Davis and Porteous, October 1913. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, linen backed, scale [ca 1:7 920], 70 x 71.5 cm.

Date: 1978

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-3/23/6E-Acc.

Description: Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale ca 1: 5000, 103 x 77 cm.

Date: 1981 - 1984

By: Markham, Philip, 1941-

Reference: Eph-E-NZ-LABOUR-1981-03

Description: Election poster shows a stylised landscape of the Kapiti Coast, with Kapiti Island in the distance. The colouring is dominantly green, with pale blue and yellow. The Labour Party logo with a capital L in a red circle, is at lower right. No 240 of a print run of 450. Dated on the grounds of similarity to an election poster in blue tones. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 830 x 595 mm.

Date: 1964-1968

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: 84-223-006/0/4C

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1949-1953

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-34/09

Description: Correspondence, mostly from Selwyn Simcox, to Adkin about the history, Maori and European, and geology of Kapiti and Horowhenua districts. Includes information about Simcox's desire to write a brief history of Rangiatea Maori church, the Wellington-Manawatu Railway line, and the Hadfield family (with some geneaology). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 18 May 1987

From: New Zealand National Party : Further records

Reference: 89-075-137/31

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [Circa 1937]

Reference: PA1-f-054

Description: Publicity photographs taken for New Zealand Railways between 1937 and 1938 by unidentified photographers. Photographs in the North Island include tours between Stratford and Ongarue; Ngaruawahia celebrations in 1938 (including views of King Koroki's house which was built in 1938); Rotorua and six lakes trip; and opening ceremonies for the Hutt Railway. In the South Island views include Caroline Bay with events at the soundshell; in Timaru, views of a two-storied clubhouse and men playing bowls, a person practising croquet, and several games of tennis on a series of tennis courts; areas in Queen Charlotte Sound, Portage, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds and Blenheim Aerodrome; Tasman and Franz Josef Glaciers; Milford Sound; Punakaiki; and Cromwell. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, dark green spine, entitled `Tours 5'; 40 x 60 cm

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R7/27A-Acc.

Description: Shows urban subdivisions NZMS maps 92/31A & 92/31B Quantity: 2 map(s) [with annotations] on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink on white paper. Scale [ca 1: 50 000 & 1: 25 000] 47 x 89 cm.

Date: 1981

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: Gabites, Alington & Edmondson (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-WRC-R7/24-No 20-Acc.

Description: Stats sheet 265 Quantity: 1 map(s) [with annotations]. Physical Description: Ink on cream paper. Scale [ca 1: 5000] 101 x 78 cm.

Date: [1890-1943]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: Series-2239

Date: 1960-1964

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0600-12

Description: Notes on Adkin's original Maori oral history research which focuses on tribal histories, settlements, and historic sites. Adkin's interviewed Paeroa Wineera and her son Tutuira Wineera (1963) who gave him information on Ngati Toa whakapapa as well as the original Maori place-names for Taupo Pa (ie. Turi-Karewa) and other landmarks around Takapuwahia Pa. Includes notes on Adkin's archeological expeditions in the Mana-Kapiti Coast, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa-Palliser Bay districts. Also comprises notes on the Whitireia and Mana Island archeological sites. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: March 1929

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-3039-1-030

Description: View from the back of four overturned carriages of the New Plymouth Mail train, derailed near Paekakariki in March 1929. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber. Arrangement: Original negative at APG-2013-1/2 Original negative at APG-2013-1/2 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939 - 1940

By: Cochrane, Andrew, active 1939

Reference: F-092

Description: Shows a landscape design for an L-shaped area with lawn, vegetable gardens, and formal garden in front of a house, the footprint of which is shown at the left. A space for a tennis court is shown at the right, as is a long lawn running beside an entrance driveway. The driveway turns left towards the house and ends in a circle around a formal garden. Pencil annotations indicate the amount of soil needed to build up the planting beds and lawns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 970 x 870 mm (irreg.) Provenance: The tubes in which the plan was packed were sent to Andrew Cochrane of "Boscombe Villa" of Paraparaumu (1939), and R Duncan of Manuka Street, Otaki Beach (1940). One of these may have been the owner of the property depicted.

Date: [ca 1930], 1946-1960

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-175

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, ca 1946-1959 Kapiti coastline (including view looking north from Paekakariki); Lower Hutt - St James' Church; council buildings; Riddiford Baths; library; St Stephen's Presbyterian Church; aerial view of southern end of Lower Hutt (over Moera); elevated view of Naenae (showing Rata Street School in foreground). Rimutaka Hill Road; Kaitoke, 1948 (shows swing bridge); filtration plant site (Hutt River) re Kaitoke Waterworks construction; bridge at Pakutatahi; Akatarawa Valley road (with Morris Minor at roadside); house in Akatarawa Valley; Hutt Valley Pony Club members with their ponys on Akatarawa Road; Kapiti coast looking north from Paekakariki. Middle Run, Gladstone in Wairarapa - Daffodils in paddocks at Middle Run (owned by Mrs W H Booth), and view of homestead Elevated view of Miramar looking south-west; Lambton Quay with Kirkcaldie & Stains on left; Pigeon Park; Wellington Botanic Garden and tulip beds; view from Mount Victoria looking towards the Basin Reserve, Mount Cook and Brooklyn, with houses in Mount Victoria in foreground (taken ca 1930). Demonstration house at Karori designed and built by The Architectural Centre, 1949 Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints