Places

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-164

Description: Sketch map of the coast from an unidentified river south of Orowaiti (River) extending as far north as Kongahu Point Island. Other features marked on the map (south to north) are: Wareatia (River); Waimangaroa (River); Ngakuwaho (Ngakawau River) with mussel beds; Mokinui (Mokihinui River); mussel beds; Kongahu Point Island. On the mainland near to the island a `good camp' and `caves' are marked. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 90 x 230 mm

Date: 1880-1968

By: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd; Porter, Winton Gore, 1894?-1975

Reference: MapColl-Collection-Gore Porter-Consolidated Gold Fields

Description: Plans and longitudinal sections from surface of mines. Geographically referenced. Gore Porter was the Secretary for the Consolidated Goldfields Company when the company was liquidated. He purchased the company building and contents which included company plans and records. Quantity: 362 map(s) Mine plans. Physical Description: Manuscript plans. Sizes vary and some fragile. Finding Aids: Catalogue created by John Barry and John Taylor.. Provenance: John Barry was a student at the Otago Mines School and specialised in mining plans. He contacted Mr Porter who had the plans stored in his backyard coalshed. Mr Porter gave them to John Barry who brought them to the Hocken Library around 1968.

Date: 1870 - 1879

Reference: MapColl-834.1gmbd/187-?/Acc.7678

Description: Plan of Charleston, with cadastral and topographic information, showing named roads, creeks, bays, powder magazine, cemeteries, schools, churches. Shows land belonging to the Crown, John Warne, Brook, Coghlin, Cronin, E Drennan, Nile, Small. Shows hotel (Mary Smith), Lavery's Pit, Sweeney's Pit, Powell's coal pit, McCarthy's Hotel, Hall's Racecourse Hotel. Note on map: The sections numbered are in Square 137 of Nelson Land District. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 39.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1860 - 1869

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-163

Description: Sketch map of the coast in the vicinity of Little Wanganui River and Karamea. At the far southend of the map is an area marked `Otahu hills'; to the north of which is a river `Turipohu [?]'. Further north is the [Little] Wanganui River, and Karamea and Oparara, both surrounded by mud flats. At the north end of the map is an area marked `mussels'. Inland tracks are indicated at Otahu hills and around the mud flats to the south of Karamea, at the end of which is a whare. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 90 x 230 mm

Date: 1846

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Brunner, Thomas, 1821?-1874

Reference: MapColl-834.1atc/[1846]/Acc.46954-9

Description: Copy of manuscript map showing the second part of Thomas Brunner and Charles Heaphy's trip down the west coast of the South Island. This map shows the section from the Waimangaroa River to just past the Arahura River. Has some place names and commentary on the rocks and vegetation of the surrounding land. Title taken from the catalogue of the National Archives, United Kingdom Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 6 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca. 1: 126 720], 120 x 69 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.