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: 1860 - 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-126

Description: 360 degree panoramic view. Geographical features named (left to right): Gorge of Inangahua; Buller hills (NW); a space of Paparoha omitted; Omeka Flat; Inangahua; south of Buller; gorge of Kawerau; small river; high snowy mountain; gorge of Waitu. Other Titles - Sketch of Mr Rochforts panoramic from the Inanghahua. Round. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on pages glued together to make sheet 97 x 1620 mm

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-068

Description: Native trees, two drawings scribbled out Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, page size 105 x 180 mm.

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-096

Description: Profile of the mountain range five miles south of the Wanganui River. Compass bearings added Language - Titles Other Titles - Ansicht von Otahuhill 5 Meile sud von Wanganui River. 5 August 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - Ansicht von Otahuhill 5 Miele sud von Wanganui River. 5 August 1860; Verso - centre - Otahuhill Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pages glued together to form sheet 110 x 990 mm

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-095

Description: Profile of the mountain range and coast south and east of the Karamea River, with compass bearings indicated. Language - Titles Other Titles - Ansicht nach Osten & Suden Otumahana Dune Meeresufer. 7 August 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - Ansicht nach Osten & Suden Otumahana Dune Meeresufer. 7 August 1860; Verso - centre - Otumahana. 1 1/2 Miele ... der Karamea Mundung Dune Meeresufer. 7 August 1860 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, pages glued together to form sheet 110 x 1400 mm

Date: [ca 1885-1949]

By: Moloney, Daniel Laurence, 1875-1949

Reference: MS-Papers-0094

Description: Westport Labour Union documents 1898-1918, Federation of Labour pamphlets, newspaper clippings of Moloney's verse, other clippings on Westport and Buller history. Quantity: 26 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-104

Description: View from Mount William showing Grey Valley, Black Hill, Pyramid Mountain, and Paparoha (Mt Rochfort)/Papahaua. Also latitudes of the various peaks. Language - Titles Other Titles - Ansicht nach dem Grey Fluss von Mount William. 11 Juli 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ansicht nach dem Grey Fluss von Mount William. 11 Juli 1860. [And further indeciperable German text] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, on sheet 110 x 325 mm

Date: [19--]

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PA7-49-27

Description: Photograph of the premises of the Westport Coal Co Ltd. Photograph taken by Muir & MacKinlay, date unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 20 x 15 cm on card 30 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-072

Description: A study of a tall native tree with extensive epiphytes in its lower sections Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on part of page of sketchbook, image size 147 x 105 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: [ca 1967]

From: Denniston Coal Miners Industrial Union of Workers : Miscellaneous records

Reference: MS-Papers-0541-5

Description: History of Westport and the Buller area; Buller District - brief notes for one day airway excursion from Westport; Coal Mines National Agreement [1967] Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pieces). Physical Description: Typescript (copy) and printed matter Processing information: Access restrictions removed April 2023.

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-091

Description: The essay gives an account of the life of Janet Lawson Brown who left her native Scotland as a young girl with her parents and other family members to immigrate to Australia. In 1865 she followed her fiance George May Bannan to New Zealand from Melbourne and married ten days later. They stayed in Auckland only a short time before going to the South Island where they opened a store at Little Grey Junction on the West Coast. The essay also traces the lives of Janet and George's children Quantity: 1 folder(s). 44 pages. Finding Aids: Published guide available. Photographs of Janet Lawson Bannan, George May Bannan, and Blackwater

Date: [ca 1895-1949]

By: Moloney, Daniel Laurence, 1875-1949

Reference: qMS-1374

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (26 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; fawn wraps, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1875

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875

Reference: E-401-067

Description: A list of photographs taken around the Buller area, from Westport to Inangahua, Reefton and south of Charleston It is not certain whether the photographs referred to were taken by Hodgkins himself or not, although there is no evidence in the sketchbook of his visiting areas like Inangahua and Reefton. It seems more probable that he purchased photographs of the area, while in Westport. He refers in an earlier drawing in this sketchbook to a photograph of Fiordland taken by the Burton Brothers The first photograph mentioned may be a copy of the photograph 'Gold claim, Addison's Flat' reference number PA1-q-069-02-2 Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, page size 105 x 180 mm.

Date: 3 August 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: D-001-040

Description: View of the coast half a mile north from Kongahu. Karamea and compass bearings marked. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ansicht nach Norden 1/2 Miele Nord von Konhagu Insel. 3 August 1860; Verso - centre - Kongahu Insel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper watermarked "Whatman 1850", 110 x 600 mm.

Date: 1860-1869

By: Burnett, James, 1826-1872

Reference: Micro-MS-0806

Description: Letters to his wife, Jane, mostly written from the West Coast coalfields; full description of an expedition with von Haast to make a geographical and topographical examination of the area 1860; application for a lease for coal mining in Buller Reserve 1866; report on coal in the Whangarei district. Includes typed transcripts of some letters. Whangarei and Nelson settler, Nelson Provincial Engineer, 1858 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 100 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

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: 1850-1969

By: Denniston Coal Miners' Industrial Union of Workers; Miller, Bill, active 1960-1977

Reference: MS-Papers-0541

Description: Union agreements, allowances and rules, letter book 1967-1968, charts, photographs, notes relating to the development of mining and unionism in the Buller region and the development of Westport. Includes information on the railway strike of 1950-1951. Quantity: 8 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed and photocopied material Finding Aids: Inventory available. Processing information: Access restrictions removed April 2023.

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-127

Description: Coastal view from the Buller River north to the Heaphy River, showing the mountains. Named features: Wakapoai; Otahu; Mokinui. Peaks numbered 40 to 65. Page removed from sketch book Language - Titles Other Titles - Kuste von Buller - Heaphy River Inscriptions: Verso - centre right - Inscription in German; Recto - right of image - Aussicht der Mount .. nordlich der Buller ... licker Ufer. 15 Juni 1860 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, pages glued together to make sheet 115 x 1517 mm