Places

Date: 1846

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

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862

Reference: MapColl-834.52aj/1846/Acc.46973-6

Description: Copy of a manuscript map that shows the Otago Harbour from the heads to Sawyers Bay, Port Chalmers. Port Chalmers marked as 'Port town of Dunedin'. Gives detailed soundings and channels and some shoreline features and topography. Includes coastal view of harbour and sailing instructions. Has what looks like a New Zealand Company stamp top left corner Charles Kettle was appointed New Zealand Company surveyor for the Otago Settlement Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 4 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [1:15 840], 94 x 62.5 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Tiffen, Henry Stokes, 1816-1896; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879

Reference: MapColl-832at/[1845?]/Acc.5975

Description: Photocopy of elaborately drawn coloured manuscript map by W.H. Burnand inserted in his copy of the New Zealand Journal, v.5, p. 312, 1845. Includes much text on map e.g. 'The land round this lagoon swampy', "Beautiful valley'. Gives Ahururi Harbour another name, Hauriru, describing 'at the mouth of the river are two islands, little else than sand, no wood or water'. Data from Capt. Rhodes report 1841, and from Col. Wakefield, Mr Tiffen and Capt. Kettle. Shows routes taken by Stokes and Harrison, from Wellington up the East Coast to Hawkes Bay. Scale out of proportion. Note on verso of original : Ahuriri see 5th March 1853 Gaz - see description of Ahuriri in the Nov. 12, 57 NZ Gazette p.801. Turnbull Library Record no. 8 N 1951, p.9 gives title 'Port Nicholson to Hawkes Bay'. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, black and white, 45 x 43cm.