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McWhannell album 5
Date: 1922-1923
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-o-554
Description: Collection of photographs created and probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell, from the time of her marriage to Frederick McWhannell. The first scene shows them on their honeymoon, at One Tree Hill in Auckland, on 13th November 1922. From there they go to Whangarei, with views of the Whangarei Hospital, men playing tennis, a group of three men and a woman entitled `The foundations of "Fairview" Onerahi', and Whangarei Falls. Following Whangarei are a number of views of Russell, including the jetty and `The Gables', and the yacht `Kitty fraser'. Later in November they reach the Coromandel Peninsula, and photographs include Cyril Cory-Wright in the launch `Eilepa', and a photograph of Mrs Cory-Wright with her children Patsy and Derek; and the Reverend Norrie (minister of the Coromandel Peninsula). The next group of photographs show Mrs Shires, and scenes of sheep mustering at `Oruru', Kaitieke in the King Country. At the front of the album is an envelope with mostly unidentified people, taken much later, most of them being coloured. Also inserted in the album is a newspaper cutting from the Herald (Section 2, Wednesday 13 June 1984), on a young couple (Tony and Sue Clark) who had managed to create a successful farm from very rough hill country on the Kawhautahi Road, near Kaitieke. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cloth cover, entitled `From my camera' in white cursive script; 25 x 30 cm
Miscellaneous material
Date: 1918-1949
From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers
Reference: MS-Papers-4760-8
Description: Assorted material in many different hands. Includes proverbs; chants; notes on Maori lore; notes from an inhabitant of Taupo; notes re the old missionaries, views of marriages between Maori and Pakeha; names of planets, stars etc. Extracts from writings of Reverend Richard Taylor and Kerry Nicholls. Obituary of Mrs Celia Kinder and a booklet from King Koroki and his people to the Prime Minister entitled `A statement relating to the King Country pact'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter
Dossier (volume 1)
Date: 1979-1982
From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki
Reference: MS-Papers-9587-01
Description: This volume explains the outline of the collection and gives the reasoning of why the dossier was put together . This volume gives a brief background on the project. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies
Te Whatahoro - Notebook
Date: 1896
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B059
Description: This notebook contains notes about the proceedings of a political meeting held in 1896 to discuss Maori-Government relations; it also contains whakapapa, lists of names and interests in certain blocks, boundaries of various land blocks in the King Country and Whanganui areas, and a copy of a letter to the Premier about the Ohotu Block; also contains some waiata and Maori vocabulary with shorthand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Black boards, 20 cm Grey phase box Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :King Country landscape / H.C.C. 1982
Date: 1982
From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]
Reference: A-424-086
Description: Shows a panoramic view of a rolling plain with some afforestation. Mt Ngauruhoe is in the left distance and Mt Ruapehu is at the right. Photographed in E-918-q, 366/354a. Listed in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q. Similar to her other views of Mt Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, numbered 83/378a, 265/378b and 221/451. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 123 x 230 mm, on Japanese paper, 240 x 380 mm.
Mead, William Perrett 1889-1980 : The Last kuri
Date: [ca 1970]
By: Mead, William Perrett, 1889-1980
Reference: MS-Papers-0999
Description: Notes on Maori dogs (kuri), now extinct, and reports of sightings around Mount Ruapehu and the King Country late last century Writer and authority on Wanganui River Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Rendell, Emily, fl 1881-1900 : Letters from Frank Coulthard
Date: [1880-1898]
By: Rendell, Emily, active 1880-1900
Reference: MS-Papers-6107
Description: Comprises two letters from Frank Coulthard to Emily Rendell from Ohaupo describing events when he accompanied Major W G Mair to a meeting with the Maori King, probably to begin negotiations for permission to allow construction of the main trunk railway line through the King Country; a typescript of part of the first letter; and a programme for the Mount Eden Shakespearean Society's production of Oscar Wilde's play, `An Ideal husband' Source of title - Supplied Coulthard was Emily Rendell's suitor Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescript and printed matter
Colenso, William, 1811-1899 : Glossarium botanicum Novae Zelandiae
Date: 1838-1841
By: Colenso, William, 1811-1899
Reference: Micro-MS-0173
Description: Compiled on trips to Bay of Plenty, East Coast, Northland and King Country, gives taxonomy, list of locations and Maori terms. Includes index. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 140 pages).
Corkill, Thomas Eustace, 1861-1934: Billy and me in hot water
Date: 1888
By: Corkill, Thomas Eustace, 1861-1934
Reference: qMS-0547
Description: Biographical note on inside front cover Other Titles - Spine title More wanderings through the King Country Quantity: 1 volume(s) (122 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (26 cm; ¼ green roan, purple boards) Map
O'Donnell, Ewart b 1890 : We the settlers
Date: 1974
By: O'Donnell, Ewart, 1890-
Reference: MS-Papers-2197
Description: Unpublished book describing pioneer farming near Eketahuna, in the Waikato and in the King country Quantity: 3 folder(s) (218 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript
Lynskey, Molly E, fl 1920-1950 :A Short history of Taumarunui
Date: [192-]
By: Lynskey, Molly E, active 1920-1950
Reference: MSX-8129
Description: Volume is a handwritten and bound history of Taumarunui written in Indian ink, which includes illustrations in oils and ink, and a panorama photograph of Taumarunui town taken by S C Smith. Text covers the period 1850-1925 and includes the early history of local Maori; settler Alexander Bell and his wife Katarina; Taumarunui railway and the development of the first township. Source of title - Transcribed from item Mary (Molly) Ellen Lynskey, infant teacher in Wellington 1920's-1950's. Volume was created as part of a teacher training course Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph with illustrations and photograph Provenance: Donor, Anne Tuffin, niece of Molly Lynskey. Three ink sketches and an oil drawing. Includes sketches of Taumarunui in 1901 and a Maori dwelling in the King Country (no date). The oil drawing depicts Mount Ngauruhoe.
Craddock album 7
Date: 1930s
From: Craddock, Gerald Rainsford :Assorted photographs including New Zealand locations and Kashmir, India
Reference: PA1-o-117
Description: Album created by George Rainsford Craddock as a record of scouting trips in the King Country and Waikato, which followed ancient Maori trails, and historic quests. Maori legends and history in the form of newspaper cuttings attached to the album pages, which Gerald Craddock wrote himself, are interspersed with quotations from famous writers, and with photographs of the boys in the various areas. Some of the boys are identified, but only with Christian names Inserted in the front of the album is a slip dated October 1941 which mentions three of the boys (again only with Christian names) from his scout group who were killed in the second World War. Joe (an airgunner) came down 200 miles from Malta, in the sea in 1941; Basil (pilot) died when his plane crashed at Lossiemouth, Scotland in 1941; and John was brought down by a sniper's bullet in Iraq just before war broke out. Inscriptions: Album page - "Being an illustrated record of some fifteen scout camps, which I hope will prove an inspiration, and provide a romantic quest for Boy Scouts of the Waikato and King Country to follow. G.R. Craddock, February 1933" Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card-covered album entitled "The land of the faerie, beneath King Country skies. Leaves from a rambler's notebook" (by G.R.C.)
Bromhead, Peter :Sixteen cartoon photocopies published in the Dominion, 1 May 1997 - 15...
Date: 1997 - 1998
From: Bromhead, Peter :Thirty-two cartoon photocopies published in the Dominion, 1 May 1997 - 15 June 1998.
Reference: H-491-017/032
Description: Political cartoons Quantity: 16 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, A4 size.
Wicks, A. J., fl 1928-1936 :Tracing showing that part of the Rohe Potae of Taupo-Nui-A-...
Date: 1933
By: Wicks, Arthur John, 1871?-1942; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey
Reference: MapColl-832.17gbbd/1933/Acc.40298-99
Description: Topographic map of the area from the Wanganui River near Petania, includes parts of the Ongarue River and Main Trunk Line, the Punui and Waikato rivers, Lakes Taupo and Rotoaira. Names of rivers, some mountain ranges and settlements are included. Rohe Potae (i.e. King Country) land, in the Taupo Ruapehu districts, claimed by the Ngati Maniapoto and that awarded to Ngati Tuwharetoa are divided by a boundary line and referred to in key. 'Maniapoto' and 'Tuwharetoa' are written across their respective land. Other Titles - Tracing showing that part of the Rohe Potae of Taupo Nui A Tia awarded by the Court to Ngati Tuwharetoa and that claimed by Ngati Maniapoto Handwritten note on bottom left of map: Plan annexed to the Commission and referred to in the Report of the Commission as Map No. 1 Handwritten at top of map: Tauponuiatia Commission Handwritten at bottom right of map: G. M. No. 180 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signature of A. J. Wicks, Chief draughtsman 8/11/33 Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, scale indeterminable, 51.7 x 22.3 cm. on sheets 33 x 21.5 cm.
Educational reminiscences - Surnames, M-N
Date: [1980s]
From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences
Reference: 88-005-12
Description: Ethel Neal, pupil at Glen Eden School and Pio Pio School, 1915-1923; Florence C Newman re teaching at Panmure School in 1920s; Mary Meads (nee Stokes) re school days at Ohakea School, ca 1905; Eva E Maddox (nee Duthie) re teaching at Matauri Bay School (then Whakarara Native School), 1905-1915; Sister Mary Mella (Gladys E Thompson) re schooling at Tongaporutu & Okau, 1914-1920; K Joan Mirrielees re teaching at Omokoroa Primary School, 1923. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript
Valuation New Zealand: Land settlement plans for parts of the Waikato Region especially...
Date: 1900 - 1935
By: Valuation New Zealand
Reference: MapColl-Collection-ValuationNZ
Description: Contains a group of published sales plans of land blocks mostly around the King Country but in some cases in the middle Waikato area. The maps have been annotated with the names of the owners from about 1900 to 1930s. Quantity: 26 map(s) manuscript or with manuscript annotations. 9 map(s) published. Physical Description: Works on paper; lithographs Finding Aids: Collection contains 9 sales plans that haven't been annotated. These are fully catalogued on National Library Catalogue. The publication details are as follows: 'Wellington Land District No. 489. Rural lands for sale... Hunua and Kaitieke West Taupo Country' Wellington: District Lands Office, 1907, MapColl 832.17gbbd/1907/Acc.35532; 'Wellington Land District No. 490. Retaruke, Kirikau and part North Waimarino blocks' Wellington: Districts Lands Office, 1907, MapColl 832.17gbbd/1907/Acc.35524; 'NZMS 15 Map of Kawhia County' New Zealand Lands and Survey, 1935 (has been used as an index map to some of the annotated maps), MapColl 832.14bje/1935/Acc.35518; 'Auckland Land District No. 1554. Rural lands...' Auckland: District Lands Office, 1933, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1933/Acc.36818; another similar with illegible land district number from 1931, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1931/Acc.36817; 'Auckland Land District No. 1520. Rural lands ... Maungakiekie Block' Auckland: District Lands Office, 1931, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1931/Acc.36816; 'Auckland Land District No. 1508. Rural lands ... Arohena Block' Auckland: District Lands Office, 1930, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1930/Acc.36815; 'Auckland Land District No. 1488. Land for sale by public auction...' Auckland: District Lands Office, 1929, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1929/Acc.36814; 'Auckland Land District No. 1458. Education reserves for lease ...' Auckland: District Lands Office, 1927, MapColl 832.14gbbd/1927/Acc.36813.
Correspondence with Jack Rogers
Date: 1994-1996
From: Megget, Ronald Calverley, 1913-1996 : Papers and sound recordings
Reference: MS-Papers-7655-07
Description: Letter to Megget from Jack Rogers with enclosures relating his experiences in Hautu detnetion camp and other events during World War Two. Also copy of letter from Jean and Jack to Walter and letter from Arthur to Jack focusing particularly on Hautu and the Maori history associated with it. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Notebooks
Date: 1899-1900
From: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0092-59
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 volumes).
Notebooks
Date: 1901-1906
From: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0092-60
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 volumes).
Maori wars : Journal kept by a soldier during the campaign against Te Kooti
Date: 1868-1870
By: Begley, Michael, 1833-
Reference: MS-Papers-1217
Description: The author describes military activities in Tauranga, the King Country, and Napier; includes draft letters and English-Maori vocabularies Note by A G Bagnall indicates this diary was kept by Sgt Begley, an NCO in the Armed Constabulary stationed at Poutu, Tokaanu and Te Haroto, 1869-1871, and that the year of the diary is wrong and should be 1869, not 1868 Language - English-Maori vocabulary notes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 volume, 52 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph