Places

Date: 1958

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-02

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Ephemera relating to marching competitions, marching teams and marching girls. 1900-2000s]

Reference: Eph-A-MARCHING-Otaki

Description: Includes: 1950: Annual championship competition. Otaki Domain, 1 April 1950. [Programme] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and offset prints on programmes pamphlets, sizes varying

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: 1957

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-13

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1957

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-09

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1958

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1958].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1958-01

Description: A programme for the puppet theatre performed by Raymond Boyce and Geraldine Kean. Items included: Sabre dancers, The Owl Who Was God, From the Circus, Mowtan the Tartar and the Chinese Princess: The Shadow Theatre; The King Stag, a tragi-comedy form the play by Carlo Gozzi. Front cover shows Mr Punch in a black and red design. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on folded programme 226 x 144 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr I W Parker in 1976.

Date: 1950

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1950-1954].

By: Caxton Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1950-02

Description: Includes the words to be spoken or sung in English and in Maori. Displayed in Gifts to the Nation, National Library Gallery, April-July 2004. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Programme, 25 cm.

Date: 1958

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-10

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1952

Reference: PAColl-2695

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-065919 to 065930

Date: 1950

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

Reference: MS-Papers-7575-036

Description: Contains letters to Ngata relating to political affairs, elections, lands and activities to raise funds and establish memorial dining halls such as kapa haka competitions Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1956

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-11

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants

Date: 1955

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: fMS-Papers-6571-04

Description: Contains reports about the schoolwork and characters of scholarship applicants Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1840-1950

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Heron, George Charles, 1923-1972; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Palmer, Albert Noel, 1920-1972; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PA1-o-1036

Description: Contains photographs and photographic copies of paintings illustrating Te Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, Waitahanui Pa at Lake Taupo, meeting houses at Waihi (Taupo), Wairoa, Te Wairoa (Rotorua), Otaki, Ohinemutu, Morrinsville, Waiomatatini, Pokai, Whakarewarewa, Tokaanu, Koroniti and Thames. Also shown are a gateway at Te Teko and the gateway to a church at Nuhaka. The artists and photographers represented are G F Angas, A P Godber, A N Palmer, William Hall Raine, George Heron, Owen Johnston, E Edwards, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: 1855-1950

By: Field family

Reference: MS-Group-0060

Description: Correspondence and papers of two prominent New Zealand families. The collection centres around W H Field, Waikanae landowner and MP for Otaki, and his wife Isabel Hodgkins, sister of artist, Frances Hodgkins. It amalgamates a number of separately catalogued ms collections of the same provenance, including MS-Papers-0113. * Diary for 1883 missing Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also W H Field papers, 73-128 Quantity: 244 folder(s). 92 volume(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Family trees for Field, Hodgkins and Parker families available in staff back file entitled Field Family listings.. Provenance: Collected by Field family members, 1855-1950 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Accompanying art works - To Photographic Archive - Accompanying photographs. Processing information: Two further boxes still require adding to this group and are at the end of the sequence at MS-Papers-0113-31 and MS-Papers-0113-32; they are papers relating to W H Field and will be added to Series 1 and 16B

Date: [1951-1952]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-2/10D

Description: Miscellaneous papers including some chapters of a book on tangihanga and Maori-Pakeha relations, and some papers relating to the Gisborne Museum "Maori wing" and others relating to Fowler's time as Director of Broadcasting in Samoa. Includes a plan of Raukawa "whare wananga" in Otaki which includes the names of the poupou, drawn by Te Matenga Baker in 1936. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1928-1954

By: Otaki Sanatorium Reunion Committee

Reference: PAColl-5436

Description: Arrangement: Negatives catalogued at 1/2-179772 to 179803 Quantity: 7 photocopy/ies. 31 b&w copy negative(s).

Date: 20 June 2000 - 20 Jun 2000

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Moffatt, Joan Catherine, 1924-; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-04

Description: Joan Moffatt, nee Walker, was born in Wellington in 1924. Her parents moved to a soldier's farm in Te Horo in 1923, where she lived until marriage in 1948. Mentions walking three miles to Te Horo Primary School, segregated playgrounds, games, tennis, and boys tending headmaster's garden. Talks about being left handed. Recalls children's chores, ironing, mother's household tasks, living without electricity, and family pets. Talks about Graeme Walker and his poultry farm which was a major employer, his siblings, and farming being in the blood. Mentions family vegetable gardens, birthday parties, Christmas, attending Wellington Centennial Fair, Te Horo dances. Recalls the Trembarths, Grants, Thorntons and Spiers, the blacksmith and shoemaker, Sunday school, her grandfather. Refers to mother having children at St Helen's Maternity Hospital, Wellington. Talks about meeting husband, Ray Moffatt, a dairy farmer, and farming in the Otaki Gorge. Mentions four brothers in Home Guard, her father's response to brother enlisting for World War II, serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions self and mother knitting socks and baking for Merchant Navy, making Hussifs (needle cases), the Patriotic Society's farewell dances for soldiers, hosting English Merchant Navy sailors, and young women writing to servicemen. Mentions her brother serving in Italy and developing a love of opera. Mentions her father belonging to the Wellington Mounted Rifles, being badly wounded at Gallipoli and in France, being sent back to Britain, and evacuation orders. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11060 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 49 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3871. Photo of Joan in garden; the Walker family; Ray & Joan's wedding photo 1948 Search dates: 1930 - 1950

Date: 11 Oct 2000 - 11 Oct 2002

From: Otaki oral history project

By: Sharp, Cyril Mattias Wilder, 1907-2001; Thorpe, Agnes Anne, 1939-

Reference: OHInt-0673-03

Description: Cyril Sharp, known at Pat Sharp, was born in 1907 in Linton. Talks about grandparents who ran a hotel where there was always music. Talks about father who worked for Rangitikei Milk Company in Bulls for 30 years. Mentions schooling at Levin High School. Mentions briefly working at the Post Office, the Otaki ambulance, the Otaki Maori College. Talks about the Sanitorium, which had 80 patients. Mentions studying to be a plumber at night school in Wellington, but returning to Otaki during the Great Depression. Refers to government housing loans stopping, people doing any work for money, stores having two prices for all goods, sharing jobs. Mentions the importance of the horse stables in early Otaki. Mentions the local Chinese Pakapoo Den and its location. Talks about being a member of fire brigade for 38 years. Talks about being a piano player in a band, and playing at dances, where he met his wife. Mentions playing at the Tobacco Factory Hall during the Second World War. Refers to the Tahiwi sisters who sang. Mentions Inia Te Waiata, the Rikihana family, and Jimmy Sievers the undertaker. Talks about being in a car accident and hospitalised. Talks about working for Laidlaw Leeds. Talks about Otaki personalities, such as Murray Scott who as mayor introduced a sewerage scheme, and retailers Jim Bill, George Gimblett, the Edhouses and the Bakers. Mentions working in Wellington. Talks about his major interests as the fire brigade, rotary and dance clubs. Refers to his children moving away from Otaki, and talks about the old age pension. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Accompanying material - Photocopy of letter dated 1936 inviting a woman to a dance Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-11064 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1.37 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3872. Search dates: 1900 - 1950

Date: 1951 - 1953

By: V P Haughton & Son (Firm); Haughton & McKeon (Firm); Bulleyment Fortune Architects (Firm)

Reference: Plans-97-011-080/082

Description: One plan from 1951, is by architects Haughton & McKeon. Plans include: plans and sections, and details. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Plans, some ink, some diazo, varying sizes.

Date: [1957-1966]

From: Fuller, James Ferris (Brigadier), 1913-2001 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6167-05

Description: Comprises regional files kept by Fuller while at Defence HQ relating to the fluoridation issue (see entry under Place) Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box).