Places

Date: 1890

By: Laishley, Richard, 1816-1897

Reference: Micro-MS-0150

Description: Largely an autobiography of Laishley, Congregational minister at Auckland, Melbourne and Thames, with journal of a voyage to England, 1883 via Australia and the Suez Canal, and return voyage to New Zealand in 1884 Relationship complexity - For related drawings and notes see Laishley, R Micro-Art-18 (Drawings and Prints Section) Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) 98 frames.

Date: [Early 1880s?]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912

Reference: PA1-q-153

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers, circa early 1880s. Images include several Maori groups, Maori kainga, meeting houses, carving; a large number of views of mud pools, geysers, hot springs, and in particular views of the Pink and White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption in 1886. Other views show areas of the South Island, including Dunedin City, Oamaru, Christchurch; and the North island including Auckland, Thames District (a number showing aspects of gold mining in the area). The last photograph, of the R.M.S.S. Zealandia was taken by Taber Photo, San Francisco. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with grey blue cover, black corners and spine edged with gold; 30.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1897

By: Holman, Elizabeth Ann, 1824-1917

Reference: qMS-0993

Description: Most of the reminiscences describe life at Whangarei where her husband was mainly engaged in the flax industry. He also spent some time mining and working as a builder at Thames. Elizabeth recalls Hone Heke's sacking of Kororakea in 1845 and subsequent evacuation of Whangarei settlers to Auckland. The Holmans eventually returned to Whangarei where Henry operated a flax mill until the family moved to the Thames goldfields in 1867. A revival of the flax industry saw them once again return to Whangarei. They retired to Auckland where Henry died in 1894 Relationship complexity - Holograph with ms annotations at MS-Papers-3881 Mrs Holman first came out to Hokianga in 1840. In 1841 she married Henry Charles Holman at Kororareka, and they spent some time at the Bay of Islands, and in Auckland where Henry was appointed Superintendent of Public Works. He later bought land at Mimiwhangata in Whangarei County. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (52 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; green linen)

Date: n d

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-079

Description: Contains notes on whakapapa from Tainui, Aotea, Te Arawa from the creation of the universe from Te Kore through to Te Po, Nga Rangi through to prominent ancestors; also includes an essay entitled `The House of Te Heuheu' which describes the Ariki of Ngati Tuwharetoa; also waiata and haka; map of the Tainui - Waikato region Enclosures - a map of the Waikato area Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: Higginson, Harry Pasley, 1838-1900; Tricks, Sarah, active 1999

Reference: A-307-061/067

Description: Includes: Thames Water Supply; cross sections of proposed head works. New Zealand Railways. Rock cutting. Auckland Railways [and] Otago Railways. Picton and Blenheim Railway. Waitohi Bridge. [Details]. Invercargill and Mataura Railway. Bridge over Mataura River. [Plan and details]. Proposed station, Dunedin. [Site plan]. Points and crossings. [Details]. Auckland and Mercer Railway. Auckland Station. [Site plan]. Originals are slightly larger than these copies. Quantity: 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour laser photocopies, sizes varying from 212 x 297 mm to 255 x 420 mm.

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1914-1916

By: Taylor, E (Mr), active 1914-1916; Hyde, M A (Mrs), active 1995

Reference: PA1-q-550

Description: Postcard album containing approximately 402 postcards recording a return voyage from England to Australia and New Zealand made by Mr and Mrs E Taylor in 1914-1915. Includes written information about Mr and Mrs Taylor's family in New Zealand: Albert Taylor of Mount Eden, Auckland; Mrs O'Neill of Grey Lynn, Auckland; and Mrs Bacon of Ponsonby, Auckland; with photographs of those areas and their houses. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - [frontispiece] A Post Card Record of a Trip to Australia & New Zealand, shewing the places of interest enroute & visited by Mr & Mrs E Taylor, Leaving Gloucester on September 24th 1914, by the 2.23PM train on the GWR for London, arrived at Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1871-1872

By: Maconochie, John Allan, active 1871-1872

Reference: Micro-MS-0925

Description: Journal of a Scottish tourist, compiled from copies of letters home to his family. The journey describes the voyage to Melbourne, arrival in New Zealand, visits to Hokitika, Wellington, Wairarapa, an overland journey from Napier to Auckland via Rotorua, his stay at Auckland and a visit to the Thames Goldfields, and his return to England via Sydney and Melbourne. Included are photographs, maps and drawings, and a letter of introduction from Sir Donald McLean addressed to the Arawa tribe. Source of title - Transcribed title Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (104 frames).

Date: 1869-1880

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2652

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests and gold mining. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1869-1881

By: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925

Reference: MS-Papers-6534

Description: Holograph diary and commonplace book kept by Phillips, a young Jewish emigrant in Onehunga, Auckland and Thames, in which he wrote of his coreligionists, his ambition to study law, and life and work as a clerk; notes on his reading; quotes. For 1869-1870 the entries are regular and numerous, thereafter sporadic. Includes three xerox copies. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See TAPUHI for furtehr papers relating to Coleman Phillips Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and photocopies Provenance: It is not known how Dr Phillip came to have the diary.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950: Wellington Racing Club. Summer meeting, first day, 21 January 1950. Official card 1951: Inter-Dominion championship pacing & trotting carnival. Christchurch, 10-24 Feb 1951. Programme booklet 1951: Wairarapa Racing Club autumn meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. Second day, 26 March 1951. Official programme 1952: Wairarapa Racing Club summer meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. First day, 1 January 1952. Official programme 1953: Auckland Racing Club. Programmes for season 1953-1954 [Several programmes in one booklet] 1954: Royal Cup Meeting in the most distinguished presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Trentham Racecourse, Thursday 14 January 1954. [Programme] 1954: 1954-55 racing and trotting meetings, with the compliments of the Auckland Star. [Green folded card] 1955: Masterton Racing Club. Wairarapa Spring meeting. Race tickets (see child record) 1955: Wairarapa Racing Club summer meeting. Tauherenikau Racecourse. First day, 1 January 1955. Official programme 1955: 1955/56 trotting and racing fixtures (folded pink card) 1957: T.A.B. 5th annual ball. Majestic Cabaret, 3 July 1957. [Programme] 1958: Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. Motukarara, 11 October 1958. Official programme 1959: Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. Centwennial banquet - ball. Metropolitan Trotting Club kiosk, Addington, 11 April 1959 [Programme with gold cover, and printed throughout in gilt lettering] 1959: Thames Jockey Club. Ninetieth anniversary meeting, 3 Janaury 1959. Official card [programme] Quantity: 14 items. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying under 200 mm. Provenance: Purchased and donated from various sources.

Date: 08 May 2004

From: Tung Jung oral history project

By: Chan, Janet Lay Jung, 1915-2014; Wong, Yvonne, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0747-01

Description: (i) Interview with Mrs Janet Chan born in Sarng Seng, Guangzhou (Canton), China, in 1929. Describes growing up in China and meeting her husband, Stanley Young Chan who emigrated to New Zealand from China at age of seven and had returned to China to study Chinese. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1939 and helped her husband run his fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Albert, Auckland for 12 years. She describes living among the Chinese community and learning English. In 1945 she moved to Thames where her husband had aquired what became known as SYC Vineyards where they produced wine and table grapes. In the 1970s they retired to Auckland. Mrs Chan describes her life in Thames and retirement in Auckland and compares life in New Zealand with China. (ii) Interview with Mrs Yvonne Wong (daughter of Janet Chan) Yvonne Wong was born in Harkee Village, Canton, 1936 and came to New ealand with her parents in 1939. She describes life living in her parents fruit and vegetable shop in Mt Eden, Auckland and from 1945 working on her parent's vineyard in Thames. In 1960 she married Fred Wong who owned a fruit and vegetable shop in Taihape. She describes her life in Taihape and her sons becoming managers of New World supermarkets in Taihape and Palmerston North. Language - Interview with Janet Chan conducted in Cantonese; interview with Yvonne Wong in Cantonese and English Interviewer(s) - Chang, Kitty Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014089 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). 1.18 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5059. Colour photograph of Yvonne and Janet; B&W [sepia?] photographs of Janet with her family prior to coming to New Zealand, Chan family menfolk and Janet, Stan and family Search dates: 1915 - 2004

Date: 1850, 1875-1909

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2653

Description: Further papers and correspondence of William Mortimer Baines in Auckland from family and friends, mainly concerning his business interests in land, timber and gold mining. Includes shipboard diary of his voyage to New Zealand in the Sir Edward Paget in 1850, reminiscences, a notebook and other papers. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1840-1867

By: Luce, John Proctor, 1827-1869

Reference: Micro-MS-0932

Description: The microfilm comprises six journals (1852-1867), copy of typescript letter (1840) and `Pilgrimage to Jerusalem' by Luce (7-13 Oct 1841) The journals are described as private journals; vols 1-4 covering 1852 to 1863 and Luce's service including Portsmouth, Karatch Bay, Malta, Cape Coast, Sierra Leone and Dahomey Luce writes of his service in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific in volumes 5 and 6. Volume 5 (1864-1866) includes an index of contents, notes and clippings and detailed descriptions of the `Esk' being at Auckland, going to Tauranga, the East Coast and Poverty Bay, Wellington, New Hebrides, Fiji and Sydney, with descriptions of cattle trade, a journey to Wanganui. Also includes lists of letters written and sent, and received, readable books in the ship's library and of `Officers and dates of dining with me'. Volume 6 (1866-1867), which is described as a very rough notebook, includes a photograph of Luce (1865) and clippings and covers the `Esk' being in Auckland, Thames, Norfolk Island, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fiji, Tonga and the Friendly Islands. Includes description of a trip round and up the Waikato River and a cruise from Thames to Wellington. Source of title - Supplied Luce served with the Royal Navy from 1840; these journals cover the period 1852 to 1867 and include time served on the `Esk' in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: The Back file includes a printout of the contents of the microfilm. Provenance: Originals presented to the Royal Anthropolgical Institute in Sep 1970 by Luce's great-grandson, John Reid; this copy was made for the library. Photograph of Luce at beginning of volume 6

Date: [1865-1892]

By: Eliot, H L, active 1865-1892

Reference: MSX-4220

Description: The major account within the notebook is 'Orreri' [sic] which gives a lively description of two years living as a timber labourer at Orere on the Hauraki Gulf, after he had jumped ship in Auckland (pp 26-106). (There is a note that this account was published in 'Vox domi", but this publication has not been traced); Peter Maxwell's prices, ie Auckland prices of goods (p 107); `My first steamboat voyage through the Suez Canal', describes his voyage on the `SS Glenearn' in 1875 through the Mediterranean, the Suez, to the Atlantic and back to England (pp 108-183); an essay on `Space, time and eternity'; a voyage on the `Northern Monarch', 1876 (pp 195-274); a voyage on the `SS Faraday', 1881 (pp 175-288); note on method of finding the exact time; The Aneid of Virgil, pt II; `Icebergs etc' and the cause of the great Ice Age, notes on; and a list of where the writer had spent Xmas Days from 1865-1892 Accompanying material includes three watercolour sketches, two of manuka and one possibly of a banana palm; photocopy from `Shipwrecks, NZ disasters, 1878' re `Northern Monarch'; photocopied pages on Auckland's waterfront; and an article, `Have we finished with cold winters?' by a geologist, 22 Jan 1920 Source of title - Supplied Most of the journal seems to be copied from other material, possibly diaries kept by Eliot on his various voyages and expeditions Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter (case folder) Provenance: Has H L Eliot's name (December 1890) and also that of T McLaughlin, 303 Hastings St S, Hastings, on front end papers

Date: 1867-1868

By: Thornton, Daniel Bateman, 1825-1881

Reference: MS-Papers-3956

Description: Comprises copies of letter sent by Daniel to relatives in St Petersburg, Russia, where the Thornton family ran a milling business. Also included are letters to relatives in England and an acquaintance in Sydney, and a letter dated 19 February 1868 addressed to Major Hay at Te Tapui re land matters. Letters refer to the dull state of business and politics in Auckland, the Thames gold rush, Daniel's purchase of land from the Waikato Maori and family matters. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Genealogical information supplied by the donor The Thornton family emigrated to New Zealand in 1856, settling in Auckland. Daniel started a cornmilling business, Thornton, Smith and Firth, with his brother-in-law, Josiah Firth. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 items). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr M M Thornton, England, 1986

Date: 1834-1910

By: Fairburn, Edwin, 1827-1911

Reference: qMS-0710

Description: Reminiscences of the Bay of Islands, 1830s-1840s; letter from Fairburn's sister, Esther Hickson (1908); and extract on Hongi Hika from Carleton's life of Henry Williams. Records an early amputation of an infected leg carried out by William Williams, assisted by E T Fairburn, at Paihia, on a Mr Gray, a blacksmith, ca 1832. Mention of "first game of cricket in New Zealand" at Paihia, ca 1832 or 1833. Also contains detailed instructions for snaring birds including korimako (bell-bird) and sea gull Source of title - Title page Edwin Fairburn was the son of the CMS missionary, William Fairburn. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (54 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, blue pam case)

Date: 1862-1883

By: Haslam family

Reference: MS-Papers-3895

Description: The papers chiefly comprise letters to the Haslam family in England from Frederick, Lewis, Sarah Ann and Thomas Self. They include descriptions of daily life in Auckland, 1863-1883, Frederick's service in the Auckland militia, 1863-1864 and a visit by Thomas to the Thames gold field in 1870. Also a log kept by Frederick aboard the `Silver Eagle' on the voyage to New Zealand, 1862-1863. Typed transcripts of the letters and log are also included. Papers accompanied by a genealogical chart of the Haslam family dated 1982. Source of title - supplied title Sarah Ann Haslam and her brother Frederick emigrated to Auckland from England in 1862 aboard the `Silver Eagle'. Their brother Lewis joined them in 1865 but was drowned the following year when the `Kiwi' was lost with all hands off the New Zealand coast. In 1863 Sarah Ann married Thomas Self who had been a fellow passenger aboard the `Silver Eagle'. Frederick served with the Auckland militia during 1863-64 and was involved in action against Maori forces in the vicinity of Papakura and Drury in South Auckland. Unable to find suitable employment in New Zealand he returned to England in 1867. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typed transcripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 24 October 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1869 (2012)

By: Whitlock, George Thomas, active 1856-1869; Le Couteur, Tim, active 2012

Reference: MS-Group-2075

Description: Whitlock's journal of his voyage to New Zealand and life in Auckland after arrival. Details food, weather, recreation and general conditions on board, mentions specific fellow passengers, notes Cook's voyages to Cape Town, Tasmanian history (discovery and convicts), describes first impressions of Auckland, Thames goldfields, New Zealand climate, Maori, Land Wars, and land grants and claims. Includes an electronic transcription of journal by Tim Le Couteur. Source of title - Supplied by Library Whitlock travelled to New Zealand in 1869 aboard the `Coulnakyle'. Worked for the New Zealand Herald in Auckland. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: 1920 - 1929

Reference: Eph-A-RELIGION-P-1920s

Description: Includes: 1920s: St Andrews Church. An evening of Scottish songs and story. Readings by Rev A Miller from "The doctor" by Isobel [Isabel] Cameron. Friday 5th June [1920s?]. Pink ticket 1920s: Beneficiary Fund regulations [1920s?] 1923: Knox College Dunedin. Unveiling of war memorial window and brass tablet in Ross Chapel. Anzac Day, 25 April 1923. Order of service 1926: Protestant princples; circular issued by authority of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand 1926?: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Insurance [ca 1926] 1928: Diamond jubilee of St James Presbyterian Church, Thames. Programme of services (2 copies) ca 1928: The children are calling. There are many Sunday schools in the home mission field! The Presbyterian Church of N.Z. Home Mission Committee. Convenor Rev D D Scott; superintendent Rev G Budd. [ca 1928] 1928: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. General Assembly Auckland 1928. Great Missionary Demonstration in Town Hall, 26 November 1928. Order of service. Unity Press Ltd. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.