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175 - Wairoa blocks
Date: 1929
From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0380
Description: File 175 - Contains letters regarding these land development schemes and blocks Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Blair, Mary: Photographs taken in the Gisborne area
Date: ca 1920s
By: Blair, Mary Ramsay Ellen, 1875-1963
Reference: PAColl-6513
Description: Photographs of the Gisborne region (taken by Mary Blair ?) including: the old windmill at Waihi Beach, Gisborne; a field of cattle at Whakarau; post office at Wharerata; river scene with bridge at Wairoa; monument to James Carroll next to Makaraka Cemetery. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-009978; 1/2-008016 (both copy negatives); 1/2-018769 to 018772. Possibly also includes 1/2-015678. Quantity: 6 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
Baird, Hamilton Fellowes, b 1898 : The Hawke's Bay earthquake of 3rd February 1931
Date: 1931, 1997
By: Baird, Hamilton Fellowes, 1898-1970
Reference: MS-Papers-6096
Description: Comprises typescript copy of original typescript of report by Baird on his visit to areas affected by the Hawke's Bay Earthquake. He gives the reasons for his visit, describes the people he met and the damage to each place he visited and includes observations on earthquakes in general and in particular. His travels (accompanied by Dr C E Adams, Dominion Astronomer and Seismologist) took him by car from Wellington, over the Rimutakas, through Waipukurau to Napier. From there he visited Hastings, flew over the land from Cape Kidnappers to Wairoa, and again travelled by car to places outside Napier and Hastings. Original carbon typescript was indistinct in places so there are omissions in this version. Source of title - Transcribed title Baird was assistant at the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory in 1931 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with corrections (Photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences per David J Dowrick, Oct 1997
Newspapers - Miscellaneous Maori topics
Date: 1929-1937
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0062-61
Description: Includes Maori history, the effects of colonisation, Maori trans-Pacific migration, Maori and Pakeha internal and external travel, geographical histories, New Zealand flora and fauna, religion, astrology, health, disease, language, place names, poems and volcanology Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (some with holograph annotations)
Aitcheson, Muriel Mavis, fl 1968-1974 : We in our small corner; a brief history of the ...
Date: 1968
By: Aitcheson, Muriel Mavis, 1919-2007
Reference: MS-Papers-1353
Description: Provides an account of Captain William Lewis' whaling activities at Kapiti, Waikopu and Cape Kidnappers; Douglas Mary McKain's account of life on board the `Olympus' in 1841 and her early days in Wellington. Also includes reminiscences of early settlers and settlement in Napier and Wairoa by Mrs Robina Roe (1929). Also copies of family letters (including letter from Thomas and Susannah Barben describing the voyage of the `London' in 1840), extracts from diaries, genealogical material etc. Includes brief biographical notes about Erena Wharekiri, Ngati Porou wife of William Lewis, and their daughter Harata `Charlotte' Torr. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)