Places

Date: 1849-1870 (1909)

By: Orbell, Macleod Clement, 1838-1914

Reference: MS-1731-1732

Description: Includes description of voyage to New Zealand on the `Mariner' in 1849 Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; brown calf)

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-098-3

Description: Several rocky islets close to the coast. Two or three houses and (possibly) people can be seen on shore The details are extremely small and the 'people' may be bushes The image appears in the lower half of the Library's photograph and digital copy of W. B. D. Mantell's drawing 'Looking down Waitaki from the Runanga ...' (C-103-098-2). Other Titles - Waikouaiti Inscriptions: Recto - SDNM [i.e. Southern District, New Munster, now known as Otago, South Island] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 114 x 180 mm

Date: 1840 - 1843

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-5/11/25-28-Acc.38157-60

Description: Identifies mission stations in the lower South Island Quantity: 4 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Ink drawings on cream paper, one on black paper. Scale indeterminable. 45.5 x 71 cm. and 45,5 x 61.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Gibbs, James Joseph, fl 1963 :Photographs of New Zealand towns and cities

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-38

Description: View of woolshed and sheep pens and the plains north of Dunedin at Waikouaiti. There is a horse and covered wagon in the foreground. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril in 1870s-1880s. Another print at PA7-46-06 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cargill's sheep muster, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 24 x 33 cm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Campbell, Eve, fl 1976 :Stereographs

Reference: PA4-0693

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene near Waikouaiti, Dunedin, showing the railway track and a steam train, taken by an unidentified photographer Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Near Waikouaiti Dunedin; Recto - right of image - New Zealand Graphic Series Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print Provenance: Donated by Mrs E Campbell, July 1976

Date: 1850

By: Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm); Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Reference: Curios-013-004-a

Description: Bank or company's promissory note with ornate border incorporating John Jones' name and places where the company did business. At the top centre is a hanging sheep, flanked by two allegorical seated female figures, one with ears of grain and a cornucopia and one with a spindle and beehive. See the Dictionary of New Zealand vol 1 (1990), page 213, about John Jones' issuing of such promissory notes. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on promissory note. Physical Description: Engraving on paper note, 125 x 188 mm.

Date: 1894

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1893, 1894]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-495-q-051

Description: Beach and coastline, looking south-west Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 150 x 227 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1864, one 1893]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-014-q-1-033

Description: View near the mouth of the Waikouaiti River, looking east out to sea, with two whaleboats on shore in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 148 x 342 mm (folded)

Date: [Between 1890s and 1900s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: PA1-o-168

Description: Album of photographs of the Otago region, and sketches of the area by William Mathews Hodgkins. Sketches include one ink sketch of a man ploughing behind two horses; The rest of the sketches are in pencil, many with colour notes. They include [Pond and hills]; Sketch for a wet day on a west coast. OAS [Otago Art Society] Exhib ... 1894, sold this to Watson Sherman? 44 pounds (?) Dec '94; [Ducks] about 40 feet; and [Ducks on a river]; The Spit, Waikouaiti taken on the route to Moeraki Nov 94; [Beach scene]; [Wharf, possibly at Moeraki?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; [Boats, possibly at Moeraki, or Dunedin?]; Irekehu [Ireketui?] track [near coast]; Puketihi [Puketiti?]. The bay is Matukiki; [Maori woman carrying a baby on her back]; [Turbaned man]; [Figure]; [Men working on a boat in a boatshed]; Miss Edwards House [house with small tower]; Outline of hills beyond the Clutha seen from Lovells Flat. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Loose-leaf album with string tie, dark maroon cover, label attached reads `Taieri, Maori [...?], Moeraki, Saddle Hill, Balclutha [...?]'. Album 15.0 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1845

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

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852; Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1845/Acc.46962-5

Description: Copy of hand-drawn map of the Waikouaiti area, Otago, from the Waikouaiti to Pleasant Rivers showing natural features and highlighting 3 blocks of land selected by John Jones from his claim at Waikaouaiti in 1845. Map signed by Alfred Wills, surveyor New Zealand Company accompanying [Land] Commissioner; W B Mantell, Commissioner; and John Jones 1 section of the map copied at smaller than original scale Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 4 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca. 1: 253 440], 61 x 85 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1875

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-006

Description: Looking out to sea with Waikouaiti Bay on the left, a road, a few houses and a tent on flat land with a headland to the right. In: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 Other Titles - Kaik, Kainga Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 430 mm

Date: 1875 - 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1875, 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-015-037/038

Description: A sweeping view of Waikouaiti Beach and its hinterland, looking north, with several houses sketched in Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 132 x 412 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-020

Description: View from the bay looking out to Matainaka Head, with a sailing ship in the bay to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 85 x 230 mm Provenance: From Mantell papers, possibly originally inside one of his sketchbooks

Date: 1830-1882

By: Watkin, James (Rev), 1805-1886

Reference: fMS-254-255

Description: The journal for 1830-1839 includes Watkin's mission in Tonga and two years on the Sydney circuit of the Methodist Church. Entries 1 May 1840-24 May 1844 concern the mission at Waikouaiti, established at the behest of J Jones, difficulties of mission work compounded by the proximity of a whaling and trading settlement. Entries 28 May 1844-1 Nov 1847 cover his years in Wellington, pastoral work with Maori and Europeans. Mar 1850 concerns Watkin's work as a Methodist minister in Sydney. Entries vary from three or more per week to monthly. (No entries for period Nov 1847-Mar 1855. Quantity: 2 volume(s) (633 leaves). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (39 cm & 43 cm; black buckram)

Date: n d

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-021

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1 May 1840-30 Dec 1844

By: Watkin, James (Rev), 1805-1886

Reference: qMS-2123

Description: Describes his work as Methodist missionary at Waikouaiti; includes a description of the whaling settlement there; also includes journeys to other parts of Otago and Southland; and very brief references to Wellington 1844 Variations in title - Spine title : Diary Quantity: 1 volume(s) (90 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; red linen)

Date: 1850

By: Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm); Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Reference: Curios-013-004

Description: Bank or company's promissory note with ornate border incorporating John Jones' name and places where the company did business. At the top centre is a hanging sheep, flanked by two allegorical seated female figures, one with ears of grain and a cornucopia and one with a spindle and beehive. See the Dictionary of New Zealand vol 1 (1990), page 213, about John Jones' issuing of such promissory notes. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on promissory note. Physical Description: Engraving on paper note, 125 x 188 mm.

Date: 27 Jan 1983

From: Masterton South Rotary Club Oral History Project.

By: Te Tau, Katarina, 1899-1998

Reference: OHInt-0015-05

Description: Kuini Te Tau describes her family background, her parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters; her tribe - Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu. She recalls her childhood at Waikouaiti in the South Island:- the story of Parihaka as told to her by her grandfather; her father as a farmer; Sir James Owen; the family house; cooking; music; meals; butter making; swaggers (tramps); the Te Whao Family; the thrashing mills; her father and the Maori Land Courts; whakapapa; speaking Maori; dances; punishment; pocket money; doctors; alcohol; the Otago Hussars; home medicines; birthdays; lollies; influenza epidemic; visiting the mental hospital; school - Waikouaiti Native School; religion; Sundays; the era that Grandfather Parata was in politics; the effect of World War I on her family; horses; attitudes to sex; 'Maori matches' - marriage between two families for land. Discusses meeting her future husband; his family background; leaving the South to live at Masterton; polo ponies; the 'old Maori' on the Pa; the homeguard; joining the Red Cross; Kitty Cameron and John Bunny; World War II; American soldiers; the Featherston Prisoner of War Camp; Maori Affairs Housing; sport; the meeting house, Nga Tau E Waru and her role; her job in the war for Manpower and becoming the first Welfare Officer for Maori Affairs based in Wellington; the elderly Maoris; meals on wheels; Maori budgeting; respect for elders; Mrs Paku who lived at Whakataki; Mrs Rimene; Rose Brian; Maori attitude towards Pakeha; the Historic Trust; school visiting; Joe Paku and his story of how Wairarapa and its rivers got their names; the Maori Anglican Church; the Depression; the Costello Family. Venue - Masterton Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Gordon Street, Masterton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004417 - OHC-004419 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 886. Copies of black and white photographs:-. Kuini Te Tau, undated. Rewi Tamahau Tamihana, Kuini Te Tau; Richard Tahuora Himona, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 30/10/1976. Kuini Te Tau, from the Wairarapa Times Age, 1983 Search dates: 1899 - 1983

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-493

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tensfeld circa 1860s-1870s. Title page reads: "New Zealand souvenir, by John Tensfeld, artist, Dunedin. Containing twenty interesting views of the most important places in New Zealand" Photographs as shown: Port Chalmers; Dunedin (view from jetty); Dunedin (Princes Street); Dunedin (view from Bell Hill); Dunedin (view towards bay); Waikouaiti (Otago); Christchurch (Government Building); Christchurch (Council Chambers); Nelson; Nelson (view from cemetery); Hokitika, Westland (Gibson's Quay); Kanieri, Westland (diggings on Hokitika River); Greymouth, Westland (Mawhera Quay); Cobden, West Coast (on Hokitika [i.e. Grey] River); Westport, West Coast (Gladstone Street, Buller); View near Nelson; Dunn Mountains (Province of Nelson); Old Porirua Road (near Wellington); Forest scene (North Island). Album from A H Turnbull's own collection, with his own bookplate inside front cover. The album had the original numbering 3791-3809. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover; 23.5 x 31.0 cm Provenance: From the library of Alexander Turnbull.