Places

Date: 1934

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0018B

Description: Correspondence regarding the building of the Tuhoe Meeting House in Ruatoki including detailed lists of materials. contains letter from the Builder and contractor, R.J. Wills in regard to the Waitangi Treaty House and the Takitimu house in Wairoa. Language - English translations Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1934-1936

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0216

Description: Contains correspondence and other papers mainly concerning the proposed Carroll Memorial Meeting House at Wairoa Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1934-1936

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0217

Description: Contains correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed Carroll Memorial Meeting House, the Takitimu Carved House, and a Tuhoe wharenui Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1940-1949

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7575-033

Description: Contains letters and papers to Ngata relating to politics, Maori education and employment, development schemes and the Cook Islands Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1904

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSX-5157

Description: Whakapapa book written by Te Iriwhiro, from the Urewera district, for Te Whatahoro Jury; the whakapapa seems to relate to Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Ruapani, Te Aitanga a Mahaki and Tuhoe

Date: 1940

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-146

Description: Contains notes compiled by Ngata from published sources and manuscripts about Maori placenames in the East Coast district, and derivations of the names

Date: [18--]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-196

Description: Volume by Pango Te Whareauahi on the story of the migration of Kahuhunu (ie Kahungunu, ancestor of Ngati Kahungunu) from Tauranga to the East Coast, Kahungunu's courtship of Rongomaiwahine, notes about Tupurupuru's death and the subsequent migration of Rakaihikuroa; also includes other traditional history and genealogical notes relating to Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Raukawa. See JPS v14 p 67-95. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [19--]

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

Reference: MSI-Papers-0261-10/18A

Description: Maps and tracings of land features and various archaeological finds, including numerous Maori artefacts (usually made from either bone or wood, but includes some human remains), from around NZ but mostly from the Horowhenua district. Examples are a whale club (patu paraoa) found at Horowhenua, and a whale bone comb (heru paraoa) found at Waikanae.

Date: 1888-1909

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4809

Description: Contains farm accounts from the Wairoa (Otene and Tuehu Pomare) and Hawke's Bay districts (Te Akonga Mohi); also contains Ngati Kahungunu whakapapa from these districts

Date: 1903-1930s

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-63

Description: Includes material on Maori history, geography, science, health, language, placenames, prose, poetry, waiata, New Zealand flora and fauna, the transpacific migration of the Maori, personalities, `Problems of the Maori', `Should Maori have equal rights like Europeans?', religion, Maori artifactual preservation, land claims and Maori art Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter (some with holograph annotations)

Date: 1929

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0380

Description: File 175 - Contains letters regarding these land development schemes and blocks Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: [19--]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0261-35/2

Description: Notes taken from published and manuscript sources mainly concerning pre-history, Horowhenua, Waikaremoana, Kapiti (Otaki), and Wairoa districts. Includes extracts from Otaki Land Court minute books, Old Wairoa, Horowhenua Commission, and the Polynesian Society Journal. Also includes whakapapa copied from Mitchell's "Takitimu", with some notes; and extracts from the report of Charles H Kettle (assistant surveyor to the New Zealand Co.) regarding the Manawatu, Wairarapa and Hutt Vally districts. Kettle was guided by the Ngati Raukawa chief Te Ahukaramu. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 vol).

Date: 1925-1926

From: Atkinson, Arthur Richmond, 1863-1935 : Papers

Reference: MSX-5162

Description: Published volume with some annotations, with Atkinson's name; also loose papers at MS-Papers-0204-23 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1940-1945]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-19

Description: Contents comprise notes on adze types for Mairua area, Lake Horowhenua; adzes type VIC, VIB and IIC from Wairoa, Hawke's Bay; Waipukurau-Te-Aute to coast area of Hawke's Bay showing site of Patangata skull and Maori place-names; diagrams of Patangata skull per J M Wright; Waikaremoana with Maori place names (after Best); environs of Waikaremoana with Maori place names and site of adzes, pounders, etc per J M Wright; and Puketoi Range and vicinity with sites of Maori material, per J M Wright, and Maori place names Arrangement: Notebook no 18 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1965-1967

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 82-213-21

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1860s-1890s]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0938

Description: Includes carte d'visite of Sir Donald McLean, undated; United Grand Lodge certificate, 1877; menu for luncheon hosted by New Zealand Insurance Company held at Auckland and attended by Hon D McLean, Captain of the `Nevada' etc; detention lines written by Douglas Maclean while at Temple Grove, East Sheen, Jan 1867; assortment of visiting cards; verses printed on cards; postcards of North Island tourist attractions; phrenological reading of Douglas Maclean, London, 1878; dance cards including one for Ball held at Government House, undated; petition to Minister of Lands from settlers of the outlying portion of Clyde Riding of the Wairoa County wishing to have a portion of the Turiroa Educational Reserve set aside as a landing reserve, 1897; small notebook with diary entry for 16th Sunday describing arrival by ship into Wellington Harbour (with 6 pencil sketches of landmarks), nd Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: n d

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-079

Description: Contains notes on whakapapa from Tainui, Aotea, Te Arawa from the creation of the universe from Te Kore through to Te Po, Nga Rangi through to prominent ancestors; also includes an essay entitled `The House of Te Heuheu' which describes the Ariki of Ngati Tuwharetoa; also waiata and haka; map of the Tainui - Waikato region Enclosures - a map of the Waikato area Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-028

Description: The essay is written in diary form from the point of view of two emigrant women, Elizabeth Jane and Sarah Sheppard, both English. They landed in Napier within a few months of each other. Related are the two voyages out and the tragedy, hope, suffering that followed. It is the story of how these two women progress and their families become one to continue life during the period 1875-1916 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: [ca 1867-1897]

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1046

Description: The papers in this folder relate to Donald and R D D Maclean and include valuation of Quarantine Island and correspondence relating to this; financial matters; letter re Maclean's requirement to keep one more term with the Middle Temple; reply to advertisement to locate Alexander McLean, Esq, J.P.,Pennycross House, Ross of Mull, Lockbury, or his son Archibald John McLean Esq; membership of clubs, receipt for duty paid on Donald McLean's estate, farming matters; letter from W S Grahame mentioning Maori of Kaipara allowing survey of forests (1874); letter to Sir Julius Vogel re Lt Col Gorton requiring samples of military arms for the Colonial forces of NZ and their despatch (1872); and draft article in response to one in the `Evening post' of 8 Jan 1872, probably by Donald McLean and related to dealing with Maori affairs (identified persons entered under name) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Sotheby's in 1969

Date: 1947-1950

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0357

Description: File 153 - Contains materials regarding to the committees all over New Zealand Includes programme for a memorial service for those from Whanau a Apanui who served in the Boer War, World War 1 and World War 2. Includes list of Tribal Executive committee's, 1950. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts