Places

Date: 1909-1911

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-172A

Description: Contains clippings about Maori affairs, and especially land tenure

Date: 1918

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-183

Description: A variant version of the song recorded in `Nga Moteatea' vol 2 as `Po po e tangi ana tama ki te kai mana'. Also written out in verse form in another hand with a note `entered in PN, v III, p401', which refers to S P Smiths `Polynesian notebook' vol 3 (MS-Papers-1187-163A). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Note says `written by Kohiku Titi of Stewart Island and sent to H Beattie, Gore. June 1918'.

Date: 1915-1931

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0208

Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages, the story of Takitimu Waka, Maori Customary Concepts and Tribal Narratives. Includes information on the messianic cults that flourished in the 19C; the battle of Waiorua (Whakapaetai) at Kapiti; Te Rangihaeata's stockade at Paremata; the death of Von Tempsky at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, and expropriated taonga in the British Museum, including Te Rauparaha's mere-pounamu `Papatahi' and Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi's mere-pounamu `Tuhiwai'. Comprises information on Nga Puhi `Atamira', and generic Maori tohunga practices.

Date: 1898 - 1910

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-039108-G

Description: The Tiki, Kaiapoi. Monument erected to commemorate those who died in the attack on Kaiapohia Pa by Te Rauparaha in the 1830s. The monument was erected in 1898 by Canon Stack. This image is a copy negative photographed by Albert Percy Godber from an unidentified publication. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - The Tiki. Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.25 x 3.25 inches

Date: 1910

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: Micro-MS-0811

Description: Description of his life, with emphasis on his term as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands 1899-1909 (entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence, 1898-1909'); some details of the New Zealand wars, Maori genealogies. Source of title - Transcribed Other - Pages 242 and 247 appear on the microfilm between pages 219 and 220. Page 220 shows as a reversed (mirror) image. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 250 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1910]

By: Gudgeon, Walter Edward, 1841-1920

Reference: fMS-079

Description: Autobiography with related documents including many Maori genealogies. Includes description of his time as Resident Commissioner to the Cook Islands, 1899-1909 entitled `A journal of my residence in the South Seas and the causes that led to that residence', (68pp & 3 pp related) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (loose leaves tied between boards). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (photocopies) (loose leaves tied between boards)

Date: [1893-1914]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-049

Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1893. Also loose material including photographs, clippings, and a typescript (annotated) of Ngāi Tahu whakapapa. The volume is annotated by Cowan, and includes notes relating to Ngāi Tahu place names from the Canterbury region. The photographs are in postcard format, and include images of Akaroa and Wainui, by Jessie Buckland. Also a real-photo postcard sent to Cowan by W. A. Taylor, which includes a personal message saying 'To Mr James Cowan, trusting he will have a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year, with a pen ever ready to promote an understanding of the Maori People'. The image on the postcard is of signatures of the Tuahiwi Runanga, 1870. According to Cowan's annotations on the typescript of whakapapa, the information had been supplied by Tame Kirini [Thomas Green], of Tuahiwi, in 1907. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers, photographs, and postcards

Date: 1908-1917

By: Andersen, Johannes Carl, 1873-1962

Reference: MS-0063-0064

Description: Collected notes on Canterbury and the West Coast, with anecdotes based on local events and personalities. Information on the origin of place names in Canterbury with some emphasis on the part played by its Maori population. Includes letter from Toby Green to Mr J Henderson on Maori nomenclature, customs and genealogy, and extracts from Joseph Price's diary with commentary by J C Anderson; also biographical notes about Price. Newspaper clippings in pocket Variations in title - Spine title: Old identities Quantity: 2 volume(s). Finding Aids: Volume 2 is indexed.

Date: 1890-1918

By: Hocken, Thomas Morland, 1836-1910

Reference: MS-Papers-0380

Description: Inward and outward correspondence of Thomas Morland Hocken, also transcripts and an autographed note. 1. South Australia. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery, Adelaide, to Hocken. Dated 22 May 1890. Sending reproductions of old Australian charts. 2. F A Green to Hocken. Dated 23 Oct 1890. Concerning history of Murdering Beach. Reports interview of Kataraina Mape, ca 75 years old, and Hori Te Wahia, ca 90 years old, expressing a different version of the background of the name [Murdering Beach] than Hocken had previously understood. 3. Hocken to W H Triggs. Dated 16 Apr 1908. Concerning Craik's `The New Zealanders'. "...undoubtedly an admirable compilation..." 4. Hocken to Charles Wilson. Dated 14 Sept 1909. In response to Wilson's review of Hocken's bibliography, a copy of which Wilson sent to Hocken. Answers criticisms and discusses Wilson's assessment. A photocopy (negative) and a typewritten transcript of this letter is also included. 5. Hocken. Signed autograph note concerning "Marsden's original manuscript journal which was given to me by his granddaughter, Miss Lizzie Betts of Gladesville, NSW in 1887. 6. Hocken. Photocopy of handwritten transcripts from journal of John Jermyn Symonds, p 321-328, 18 Jun 1849 - 1 Feb 1850. 7. Hocken to Stanley Edwards. Regarding a Maori name for the town of Gore. The place appeared to have no prior place name, but Hocken suggests several Maori words that he deemed suitable names. This is copied from the original which is in the possession of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London, 8 Dec 1976. Other Titles - The New Zealanders Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (some transcripts and photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 24 September 2014 after all information from it was transferred to online finding aid. A copy of the paper inventory is available in the staff backfile.. Processing information: Items 1-6 (see scope and contents note) were transferred June 1969 from Misc MSS N18, 38, 493, 635, 789 and 839.

Date: 1895-1918

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-126

Description: Contains correspondence to Iraia Te Whaiti about the administration of various Maori land blocks in the South Island and in the South Wairarapa district Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1913-1977

From: Royal family : Papers (Te Whanau a Roera Hukiki Te Ahukaramu)

Reference: MS-Papers-4563-2F/03

Description: Contains correspondence, clippings, minutes and the personal papers and documents of Lae Royal. These papers also contain whakapapa for the Royal family, Wineera family, Kawharu family and the Rowland family; all of which are related to the Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Ngati Koata tribes. There is also whakapapa which relates to other sections of these and other tribes. Also includes examples of the Kai Tahu dialect. Also contains typescript notes, in English, about some places around the northern South Island (meanings of names and brief histories), and some brief notes about Ngati Kuia Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1880-1915]

By: Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: 73-155

Description: Comprises papers relating to Buck's career as a surveyor mostly based in Lower Hutt and Wellington and including correspondence, surveying notes, many traverses sheets and related papers. Also includes some letters in Maori, from Moeraki and Otaki, from persons concerned about wrongly sent and received accounts. Also includes five letters in Maori (Kai Tahu dialect) (1) informing the receiver of the arrival of a carpenter's bill, and the writer's intent to pursue the matter with a lawyer; (2) expressing concern about the management and use of land at Otaki; (3) details a court case involving stolen money. Wiles is asked to confirm that he sent £50 to the person from whom it was stolen; (4) reports progress of this case and asks Wiles to attend; and (5) discusses difficulties in attending case because of bereavement and associated costs Language - Four letters from Moeraki in Kai Tahu dialect; one from Otaki (all re accounts problems) and other papers in Maori Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-0540 for letters from Buck Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1916-1919

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0212

Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages; Aotea Waka; Maori Customary Concepts; Maori Cosmology; Tribal Narratives; Paimarire Religion, and Hauhauism. Includes information on Rua Kenana's Rebellion and the Taranaki Wars as well as the Battle of Waiorua (ie. Whakapaetai) 1824 on Kapiti Island and the Battle of Kuititanga 1839 adjacent on the mainland which were the last inter-tribal sea and land battles fought in Aotearoa. Also information on Maori whaling activities at Kapiti; building Rangiatea Church in Otaki 1847; Te Rauparaha's release from HMS Caliope 1848, and Te Rangihaeata's Stockade at Paremata. Includes information on the Maori Pioneer Battalion 1914-18. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: 1891-1916

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-040

Description: Contains whakapapa contributed by various people (Apirana Kaimoana, Te Hooro Hawea, Pou Turei, Urupeni Puhara, Mohi Te Atahikoia, Hoani Te Wanikau) about various iwi; there are also whakapapa by Atanatiu Te Kairangi that have been stamped with the seal of the Rongokako Maori Council (this may mean that the whakapapa was submitted to the Tane-nui-a-rangi whakapapa committee that sat about this time) There are also records of land and financial transactions undertaken by Iraia Te Whaiti, records about the marriages and births of his immediate family, and records about various hui in the South Wairarapa and related gift-giving

Date: [ca 1898-1910]

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-114

Description: Includes account of legend of Tawhaki, letter from Bishop Williams on polygamy, and letters from Elsdon Best and Stephenson Percy Smith, including Best's genealogical table of the Urewera peoples, and from Richard Wilson, re Maori at Murihuku, near Riverton and Colac Bay. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1896-1914

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MSY-4822

Description: Records from the sitting of the Maori Land Court in the South Island (c 1896); record of the Premier's speech about Wairarapa Moana and copies of related correspondence and notes; also contains draft correspondence and notes about land administration in the South Wairarapa (it appears that this information was written by Major H P Tunuiarangi); also contains Te Whaiti family whakapapa prepared by Henare Te Whaiti, and whakapapa and information copied by Henare Te Whaiti from the whakapapa books of Te Whatahoro, Hamuera Potangaroa, Hohepa Aporo, Makere Waito and Major H P Tunuiarangi

Date: 1913-1916

From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers

Reference: qMS-0211

Description: Polynesian/Maori Voyages, Maori Astronomy, Tribal Narratives, the Waikato Wars, Hauhauism and the Paimarire Religion. Includes information on the Taranaki Mauri-Stones (ie. Tupua & Ahurewa), the Maui Maori stones of Whakatu (Nelson) and Tikanga-Muru. Comprises the arrest of Rua Kenana; the early history of the Kaikoura; the exchange of cannons for the Wairau and Port Underwood; the Wairau Incident; Te Kooti's exile and seizure of the schooner Rifleman, and Te Rauparaha's acquiescence to Ngati Apa's sale of the Rangitikei. Finding Aids: Index at qMS-0217.

Date: [1830-1917]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-19

Description: Typescript (carbon copy) draft of `Whales and whale-men. Something about a dying industry. The South Sea fishery. How New Zealanders catch whales in nets' 10 pages. Typescript (carbon copy) draft of `Kapiti Island. The whalers and the Maoris. Some tales of Old Kapiti' with some other miscellaneous pages mixed in with it. 16 pages. Includes an account of the `Elizabeth Affair' involving Captain Stewart, Te Rauparaha and the brig Elizabeth. Arrangement: Papers in this folder were folded into a notebook and were a part of 51 in the preliminary list. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1907-1917]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-11310-95

Description: A copy of The Summit Road : its scenery, botany and geology / by B.E. Baughan, L. Cockayne, and R. Speight (pages missing) and associated clippings about the Port Hills of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. Arrangement: Part of bundle 17 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1915-1941]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-146

Description: Research papers including correspondence, drafts, research notes, photographs and some clippings based around Cowan's book 'Maori folk tales of the Port Hills' published in 1923. They were in an envelope which was annotated with 'Port Hills. Clippings from book on Canterbury, Tikao etc'. Includes correspondence from William A Taylor from 1935 about the Maori history of Canterbury and Otago, also a letter from H Fildes entitled 'Cannibal Gorge' relating to the Ngai Tahu history from the West Coast. There is also a handwritten account [in an unknown hand] about Hinepoupou from Rangitoto Island [D'Urville Island], and a handwritten list of Maori place names from Banks Peninsula, written by Ngai Tahu leader Hone Taare Tikao in 1915. Other research notes and drafts including one about Pelorus Jack, the famous dolphin. Two photographs of Tuawera [Cave Rock, Sumner] and Rapanui [Shag Rock, Sumner] and a photograph of 'Cocksfooters at work, Banks Peninsula...'. Language - Some place names etc in Maori Arrangement: 32 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two photographs of Tuawera/Cave Rock, Sumner and Rapanui/Shag Rock, also a photograph of cocksfooters at work, Banks Peninsula, annotated on the back and signed by Buckland. Also a card with an image on the front of Rapanui/Shag Rock.