Places

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-018

Description: The life history of William Crush Daldy briefly covering his early life in England, meeting his first wife Frances Harriet Pulham, the voyage to Tasmania and their continuation onto New Zealand. Their life in Auckland is covered in more detail including William's many business ventures. There are extracts from several diaries written by his sister-in-law Eleanor Sarah Combes and also from Daldy's memoirs. His marriage to Amey Smith nee Hamerton and her activities in the suffrage movement are also included Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1863-1907

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-1135

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1864-1907, predominantly dated 1880s-1900s. Homesteads, houses, and churches include: Beauthorne (Kaiapoi), with Wilson family group in garden, including Joseph Lowthian, Thomas, Leonard, and Estelle; Glenmark (interiors and exterior views); Dr Volckman and Dr Weld's Oxford house [including Volckman and Weld, wife, and daughter?] in the garden; Mr John Ingram's residence (Oxford); Eskhead, one image depicting Mr Kennedy with unidentified visitors, and another with the Kennedy family; Kaiapoi Vicarage; St John's Church (Rangiora), and [St Joseph?] Catholic Church, School, and Presbytery in Rangiora. Kaiapoi Woollen Mill, Oxford Public Library, Rangiora Post and Telegraph Office, and the Great Northern Hotel (Waikari) are other buildings of note. Military photographs include Kaiapoi, Rangiora, and Cust Volunteer Rifles, groups of unidentified officers, the performance of various military exercises, and parades (Queen's Jubilee). Other images include training camps at Kaiapoi, Springbank, Hillsborough, Purau, and Oamaru (Redcastle), Canterbury Rifle Volunteers' Challenge Shield, veterans, cadets, South African War departures and victory celebrations. Also image of troops in Bloemfontein, South Africa (1900). Events covered include celebrations surrounding the unveiling of the Ngai Tahu monument at Kaiapohia Pa site (Easter Monday 1899) by Premiere Richard Seddon, various weddings (Ms Winters, Stackwood and [Fear?], Smith and McDowell), the funeral of Mrs Wikitoria Mutu (Tuahiwi), Caledonian Society gatherings (Amberley and St Andrews), picnics, sports days, agricultural shows, Lyttelton Regatta, Brackenfield Hunt Club meeting, the opening of the rowing season on Avon River (Christchurch) and Kaiapoi River, stock sales, Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Kaiapoi, William Hall-Jones turning of the first sod of the Cheviot railway. River scenes include Kaiapoi River (featuring boats 'Rock Lily', 'Huon Belle', and 'Emma Sims'), Grey River, Waimakariri River (road and rail bridge, water supply), Ashley Gorge bridge, and the temporary rail bridge over Patterson's Creek. Rural scenes include livestock (sheep, pigs, ostriches, horses (both farming and military), dogs (Brackenfield hounds) and cattle). Farming scenes feature Whiterock Station and haymaking. Scenic images show Weka Pass and Lake Sumner. Also various copies of early images of North Canterbury and Auckland. Portraits include James Edward Fitzgerald, Mr Self and Lord Lyttelton, Paul Hiskins, E J Paul, Captain Caleb Whiteford, Captain Joseph Lowthian Wilson, Captain Thomas Millar, Surgeon H Compton Parsons, and Captain Williams. Group images include Rangiora Athletic Association Committee (all named), sports teams (men's and women's hockey, football, cricket), St Stephen's Church Choir (Tuahiwi), Kaiapoi Shakespeare Club, and Kaiapoi Brass Band. Also M J Dixon and G E Mannering on glacier during their attempted ascent of Mount Cook. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, 36.8 x 28.8 cm

Date: 16 March 1989 - 16 Mar 1989

From: NZOHA Country Library Service Oral History Project

By: Harsant, Florence Marie, 1891-1994

Reference: OHInt-0058/06

Description: Florence Marie Harsant talks about her childhood as the daughter of a school teacher who taught at native schools, her own education and relationship with Maori, learning to speak Maori, her father's attitude to learning Maori and her reading tastes. Notes difference in dialects around the North Island and refers to her autobiography `They called me Te Maari' and the radio programme produced by Alwyn Owen. Discusses her work with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) as the Maori organiser in the North Island, her personal hatred of alcohol and having to give up this work because of ill health. Describes going to live in Hahei, the horseback and ferry rides necessary to get there, conditions of life in such a remote place, her marriage to Horace Henry Harsant and her life bringing up her children in Hahei. Recalls her history of library membership, writing to the women's pages of various farm magazines, taking a correspondence course in journalism and her subsequent story writing. Describes why and how she came to set up a Country Library Service `B' library in 1952 in her home at Hahei. Gives details of the library systems used, subscriptions, supply of cataloguing cards, selection process, increase in number of books supplied and the changing nature of users and reading tastes over the years. Describes the routine when the book van was there, talks about the first Field Librarian Joe O'Neill and about having the drivers to stay. Discusses the great importance of reading and having access to books when living in such a remote place and the impact the library has had on the community. Explains the continued difficulties of travel in the area, detailing the ferry service and recalling trips out to have children. Details how she looked after other people's children and teaching school in her own home. Describes her husband's accident and its impact on the family. Discusses her favourite book van drivers Joe O'Neill and Jim Sutherland and making friends through the library. Describes the current library service she runs from her home through the National Library Postal Book Service. Talks about the publicity she has received from writing her book and being awarded the Queens Service Medal (QSM). Venue - Whitianga Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Mrs Harsant's home at Whitianga Accompanying material - Printed abstract contains list of publication Relationship complexity - Diary and materials held in Manuscripts & Archives at MS-Group-0246 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002055, OHC-002056, OHC-002057 Tape numbers - OHA CLS 2714, 2715, 2716, 2717, 2718 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0310. Printed abstract contains two portrait photographs of Florence Harsant, one dated ca 1913. Search dates: 1891 - 1989