Places

Date: 1869

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Defence Office; Mackay, James, 1831-1912

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/27/349/Acc.55035

Description: Topographical map 'Sketch map of the North Island of New Zealand. Shewing, Approximately the loyal and rebel districts - from the commencement of the Taranaki War to May 1869. Also the propoertion of Natives in each district who have joined in the rebellion. James Mackay, Civil Commissioner. Drawn by T W Palin Defence Office Wellington & on stone by D Henderson. Mills Dick Lister & Co, Lithographers, Dunedin. Reference key to the colouring of the map indicates the following: - Districts within which nearly all the Natives have joined in the rebellion 95/100 - Districts in which the majority have joined in the rebellion Proportion 5/7 - Districts in which the minority have joined in the rebellion Proportion 1/3 - Districts in which nearly all the Natives have not joined in the rebellion Northern District 95/100 have remained at home Southern D[istrict] 85/100 - Districts in which the proportion of loyal & rebels is about equal 1/2 - Some friendly natives located - Disaffected Natives residing within friendly district. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, scale not indicated, 56 x 83 cm

Date: 1911

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Humphries, Thomas, 1841-1928; Mackay, John, 1851-1937

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/27/350/Acc.55036

Description: Map of the North Island of New Zealand showing the state of the public surveys in 1911. Published by the Department of Lands and Survey, under T Humphries, Surveyor General. John Mackay, Government Printer. Inset map - Cook Islands. Inset maps - Kermadec Islands: Raoul or Sunday Island, Macauley Island, Curtis Island, l'Esperance Rock. Map features extensive annotations with place names inscribed in ink, pencil and colour pencil, giving names in English, French, and Maori. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, scale 15 English miles to 1 inch, 92 x 69 cm

Date: 1904

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Mackay, John, 1851-1937; Marchant, John William Allman, 1841-1920; Flanagan, Frederick William, 1856-

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/27/352/Acc.55038

Description: Map of the North Island of New Zealand showing principal waterfalls for electric power, and catchment areas of the principal New Zealand rivers. Published by the Department of Lands and Survey, under J W A Marchant Humphries, Surveyor General. F W Flanagan, Chief Draughtsman. John Mackay, Government Printer. Includes table listing 78 North Island waterfalls. Includes table listing 38 North Island rivers and approximate catchment areas. Map is annotated in pencil as NZMS 48. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, scale 15 English miles to 1 inch, 96 x 72 cm

Date: 1902 - 1903

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Marchant, John William Allman, 1841-1920; Flanagan, Frederick William, 1856-; Mackay, John, 1851-1937

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/27/354/Acc.55040

Description: Map of the North Island of New Zealand showing land tenure for the period 1902 to 1903. Published by the Department of Lands and Survey, under J W A Marchant, Surveyor General. F W Flanagan, Chief Draughtsman, Head Office, Lands and Survey Department, Wellington. John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington. Key to map includes land sold or disposed of, pastoral and small holdings, state forests, crown lands, and native lands. Inset maps - Cook Islands and Kermadec Islands Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, scale 15 English miles to 1 inch, 90.5 x 67 cm

Date: 1957 - 1958

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; New Zealand. Government Printer; R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/27/356/Acc.55042

Description: Map of the North Island of New Zealand showing railway systems. Corrected September 1957. Printed by R E Owen, Government Printer. Includes index to railway stations. Includes references to Government Railways, Railways under construction, Private lines, Roads, and annotated as an addition to the key of the map "Railway Ferry", in conjunction with route of Cook Strait ferry service. Map is annotated in ink concluding with the remark "Similar map for SI [South Island] required." Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on muslin-backed paper, scale 25 miles to 1 inch, 63 x 45.5 cm

Date: 1943

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; E.V. Paul (Firm); Walshe, Harry Edward, 1883-1948

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/29/372/Acc.55058

Description: Index map "North Island New Zealand Index to 1:63360 and 1:25000 Topographical Series Transverse Mercator Projection". Includes index to 169 map sheets covering the North Island of New Zealand. Published by New Zealand Department of Lands and Survey, under H E Walshe, Surveyor General, 1943. Printed by E V Paul, Government Printer, Wellington. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on paper, scale 25 miles to 1 inch, 60 x 43 cm

Date: 1800 - 1939

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/29/376/Acc.55062

Description: Photocopy of a map of the North Island of New Zealand with annotated manuscript heading "Maori Tribal Boundaries, 1800 - Map prepared by Sir Apirana Ngata - 1939". Photocopy by Land Information New Zealand. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on paper, 100 x 71 cm

Date: 1866

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Chapman, George Thomson, 1824-1881

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/30/386/Acc.55072

Description: Map of the North Island "Published by Geo. T. Chapman, Bookseller and Stationer, Auckland, New Zealand". Printed by Evans & Co Lithographers, Fort Street, Auckland. Includes proposed railway line from Auckland to Tuakau. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Facsimile copy on transparency film, 83 x 57.5 cm

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0026390

Description: Cartoon shows a roughly drawn outline of a map of New Zealand titled 'The art of stating (and paying for) the bleeding obvious...'. Other text reads: In case you didn't know... This is the North Island ('cos it's north of the South Island) This is the South Island ('cos it's South of the North Island) below the map is a copyright symbol next to the words 'Land info Ministry'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0026739

Description: Accompanying note from cartoonist states, "When there is only 55 of your species left, there is no room for half measures. Maui's dolphin deserves our all. Comments on the irony of the North Island being renamed Te Ika a Maui when the Maui's dolphin [named after the island] faces near extinction in the face of dubious moves to protect it". Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024253

Description: Shows the North Island of New Zealand being char-grilled on a barbecue. Refers to severe drought in the North Island. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0024494

Description: Shows a map of New Zealand with proposed Maori names for each of the islands. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Clark, Laurence, 1949- :Digital cartoons

By: Northern advocate (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024794

Description: Comprises three frames in which a couple is watching television at home. The man complains about 'rubbish' on tv and panics, wondering "What are we gonna watch?" after the woman tells him that they cannot afford digital television. Refers to upper North Island going to digital transmission of television by 1 December 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0025454

Description: Shows Labour leader David Shearer bound with rope and standing beside a noose. Two men wearing executioner's hoods and an L ribbon for Labour stand beside him. One says to the other, "Ok. So we won the Ikaroa Rawhiti by-election. Don't just stand there. Demand a recount..." Refers to the election of Labour candidate, Meka Whaitiri, for the Parliamentary seat formerly held by Parekura Horomia, who died in April 2013. Whaitiri received over 40 per cent of the vote, over Mana party candidate Te Hamua Nikora, and Maori party candidate Na Raihania. Labour's win in the election prompted Mana party leader, Hone Harawira to renew his call for the Maori Party to join forces with the Mana Party to stop Labour from winning Maori seats. Meanwhile, David Shearer's popularity in the polls has been dropping. (New Zealand Herald, 29 June 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Wyld, James, 1812-1887

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-1/2/12/Acc.54698

Description: Topographical map of the North Island of New Zealand and the top of the South Island. Text reads "The Seat of War in New Zealand" and "The North Island of New Zealand embracing the county round Auckland, Wellington, & New Plymouth by James Wyld, geographer to the Queen...London". Shows ceded lands, native lands, government (native) reserves, tribal districts, localities of disaffected tribes. Both leaves include inset maps; one has a map of New Zealand and the other a world map showing British possessions. Annotation reads "1861?" Map also held at MapColl 832hkm [1861?] 37245 48741 48742 Other Titles - North Island of New Zealand embracing the country round Auckland, Wellington & New Plymouth Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Copy on paper (2 leaves), scale not given, 60 x 42 cm

Date: 2012

From: Smith, Hayden James, 1976-:[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

By: Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020415

Description: A couple walking their dog in Dunedin are thankful to have missed out on the weather bomb that hit the North Island around this time. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018969

Description: Shows a cork in the Beehive. The gasleak in the Maui pipeline in the remote White Cliffs area north of New Plymouth is disrupting more than 2500 businesses, including power providers and steel mills. (NZ Herald November 26 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1908

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Fox (A-313-2), T Ellis - ie Thomas Ellis Glover (A-313-3), J. C. Blomfield (A-313-4) and John McNamara (A-313-11). Also folders of cartoons by various artists published in New Zealand Free Lance (A-313-6), in The Guardian (A-313-7), in Xrays (A-313-8), in the New Zealand Observer (A-313-9), in The Standard (A-313-12) and in various publications (A-313-1).

By: New Zealand free lance (Newspaper); Blomfield, John Collis, 1878-1942

Reference: A-313-4-038

Description: New Zealand Minister of Railways, Hon. William Hall-Jones, is whipping up his snail "horse" on the route from Wellington to Auckland. Extended Title - I am confident that it will be possible to go through by train from Wellington to Auckland by Christmas - Hon. W. Hall-Jones. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy

Date: 1880

Reference: MapColl-832.1gbbd/ca.1880/Acc.3781

Description: This map covers the area from the Mokau River in the Waikato Region, includes Lake Taupo across to Hamoringa in the Gisborne Region and northwards to include the top half of North Island. No colour reference key is given but the map is extensively shaded in grey and green referring to the land ownership. Some dashed lines drawn along the Mokau and Tuhua/ Orgaruhe Rivers. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, coloured, 76.2 x 76.2 cm.

Date: 1903

From: Various artists :Collection of newspaper clippings, photocopies and bromides of cartoons by Hiscocks (A-315-1), T. Lloyd (A-315-2), various artists from the "Ladies' Journal", "The Freelance", "New Zealand Graphic" and "Melbourne Punch" (A-315-3), Nisbet (A-315-4-001/012) and Malcolm Evans (A-315-5).

By: Hiscocks, Eceldowne Frederick, 1879-; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: A-315-1-004

Description: Two old men in a railway carriage, one wearing a hat labelled 'Auckland' and the other wearing one labelled 'Wellington'. Extended Title - Distinguished Auckland nonagenarian (somewhere about the year 1990) - "Yes, sir, I can remember way back in the year 1903 my poor father taking me to hear Hall-Jones promise to have the Main Trunk Railway completed in a year or so. And here we are celebrating the first run at last. Glorious and progressive country!" Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph, image size 200 x 162 mm.