Places

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1903

By: Bargh, J, active 1903

Reference: MapColl-832.3gcr/1903/Acc.12626

Description: Map showing area of land under bush felling contract on the Orouawharo Estate, being 153 acres of bush near the Waikopiro Stream, Central Hawkes Bay District. Also shows Maori land, a whare, and William Rathbone's property. Other Titles - Esquire Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 51 x 34 cm.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-448-103/124

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the lack of consultion with the Ministry of Women's Affairs regarding National's Code of Social responsibility. East Coast Maori use dubious methods to stamp out intimidation during a land protest. The Broadcasting Minister defends his proposal to introduce ads onto National Radio. The Minister of Energy, Max Bradford defends privatisation of the electricity supply in the face of power blackouts throughout Auckland. Jenny Shipley takes a hard-line against assisting Auckland in the midst of their 7 week power crisis. National Party Ministers run for cover as Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley calls for heads to roll over the Auckland power crisis. Jenny Shipley's image as 'ordinary' housewife and mother is questioned on her trip to Japan. Curator Ian Wedde, defends the 'Virgin in a Condom' exhibit at Te Papa. National's Health Minister, Bill English reassures the public that local surgery is at crisis point. NZ Post end free delivery of Talking Books to the blind. Ruth Richardson announces her intention to stand for ACT in the Taranaki by-election. Comment on the last remaining stands of West Coast Rimu forest. More cracks appear in the Health system. New Zealand's economic position is blamed on the Asian crisis with lower paid workers bearing the brunt of restraints on wage increases. Comment on emergency services failing to get to call-outs within a reasonable time. Comment on another Hurricanes rugby team loss. Jenny Shipley regrets she's unable to make grand gestures like Russian leader, Boris Yeltsin, who recently sacked his entire government. Winston Peters is awarded an Oscar for his best supporting role in a comedy or farce in the coalition government. Comment on the Americans insistance on carrying arms even when it's a child carrying an assault rifle. Paralells drawn between rioting at Paremoremo Prision and Winston Peters rioting within the coalition government. Discussion which shows how the National Party cabinet works. Winston Peters trys to knock the New Zealand economy into shape by the use of threats and violence. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 15 Jul 1996

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part two

By: Tangaroa, William Tamu, 1922-1999

Reference: OHInt-0633/4

Description: William Tangaroa was born in 1922 in Wellington. Gives the origins of Ngati Whatua. Talks about his grandmother Mere Huia Shaw and her marriage for the purpose of holding land. Describes how her grandparents settled at Dairy Flat then Reweti (Rewiti). Describes their original home of nikau and raupo and the home that was built in 1928. Describes the site of the original Reweti marae in the hills. Discusses missionaries Reverend Marsden and Reverend Selwyn and Ngati Whatua. Discusses his father, John Tangaroa, who attended Three Kings Secondary School and Wesley College with Jack Nathan. Gives details of the background of his mother, Emma Smith. Talks about the Depression, the children carting water for the gardens and his grandfather being blinded digging rushes. Describes the selling of produce from the Reweti gardens at the market. Discusses the sacred Reweti mountain, Puketapu, where burials were made. Explains the way people were buried according to their place in society. Notes that Tauwhare Hill was a recovery place for warriors. Mentions the quarry in the area which was closed as a result of lots of accidents. Discusses fishing methods and the catching of eel, koura, toheroa, paua, mussels and other species. Describes drawing the oil from mutton birds. Describes how work was done with horses and mentions the breaking in of brumbies. Mentions how the moving sand buried native bush and the role of marram grass in stabilising sand. Mentions his schooling at Helensville and leaving school and working in a bush camp. Describes the work. Describes planting marram during the Depression and the finding of midden. Describes being manpowered to do farm work in World War II. Mentions marriage. Mentions the South Head forestry settlement. Comments on the continuation of early customs at Reweti including herbal knowledge, forecasting weather and food preparation. Discusses tapu and the identification of tapu places. Mentions the Brynderwyn bus accident and identifying victims. Describes how the sacred mountain, Puketapu, is now planted in pine. Interviewer(s) - Gabrielle Hildreth Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3321.

Date: Sep 1998 to May 1999

By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-

Reference: OHColl-0425

Description: Gives a picture of forestry life in New Zealand including the changes in lifestyle as modern equipment became available. Describes some of the Maori history of what is now Tongariro Forest Park. Examines the development of a strong conservation coalition from an established logging community. Interviews are with Keith Chapple, Paul Green, Ray Mathieson, Ian Glennie, Graeme Dingle, Fred Richards, Sonny Te Hura, Kepa Patena, Kevin Smith, Brian Climo and Colin Anderson. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Accompanying material - Material including photos of the Tongariro Forest while travelling through it with Brian Climo and Colin Anderson, and Tongariro Forest Adventure Map (filed with abstracts) Quantity: 23 C60 cassette(s). 9 printed abstract(s). 9 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1205

Description: The two Nelson farms in this album are "Nga Mahanga" (Hugh Nelson's place), and "Taumata" (Jack Nelson's place). Views show the farm houses, and farm buildings, the farm land and landscape of the Pori area partially cleared of bush. One group of images shows the countryside under snow. There are a series of five images recording the building of a stables and buggy house, also a view of the woolshed and sheep at "Taumata". Scenic views of the area include the Makuri River ford, native forest interiors with pongas, and native forest. Four images show the interior of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are two photographs of local Maori standing beside tents in a bush clearing, one of army volunteers in uniform standing in front of tents, two of soldiers at an unidentified event, many of horses, some of hens, dogs, cats, and cattle. Two prints show one of the Nelson brothers cutting long grass with a scythe and 4 others are views of an unidentified house and its garden at Tiraumea (a distant view of this house surrounded by pinus radiata shelter belts and its surrounding countryside can be seen in album PA1-o-1206, page 7 captioned "Tiraumea"). There are also some images of "Newstead" the Monckton family home at Featherston. There is only one photograph of a Nelson family group. The rest are individual images of adults and children which include: Frederick Monckton, Lucy Miller (who married Frank Nelson), Winifred, [Lornie?], Dorothea, [Frances?], the brothers and the children. Further information and names provided by researcher. Updated 10 November 2016. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1900-1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1207

Description: Views of the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and three farms in that area, "Ruatea", "Taumata", and "Nga Mahanga". Images of snow covered countryside, the ford across the Makuri River at Makuri, native forest with pongas, partly cleared land with the standing trunks of burnt trees, the houses of the three farms, horses, cattle, hens, cats, Jack Nelson with Nan, Dorothea, and Miss Wyatt having a picnic, Maori, cabbage trees, and Hugh Nelson's whare and woolshed. Arrangement: This collection is made up of loose prints from album PA1-o-1206 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [1930-1950]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-039

Description: Diagram of spur pa at Pahaoa, south of the Cameron homestead; note from Paneta Otene re Orongorongo (1945); transcripts from Maori Land Court minute books, including Wanganui (1938 and 1939); `The Maori and the forest' by Elsdon Best; page of galley proof, `The Arawa' by W J Phillips; page of tattooed heads by Robley; `The Development of Maori culture since the advent of the pakeha' by McEwen, a paper read at the Sixth Science Congress of the Royal Society of New Zealand; `Carved stone figure from North Auckland' and `Carved stone head from North Auckland' (same account); `Grotesque figures' (with illustrations); statement of account, probably relating to carving (1933-1935) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs Printed matter Typescripts A sketch of a Maori Pa site, four tattooed Maori heads, carved prow and stern waka carvings.

Date: 1900

From: NZ Parliamentary Library :Two albums. Construction on the Dunedin and Moeraki Railway, and the annexation of the Cook Islands

By: Baynes, Henry Compton Anderson, active 1900; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); May, Percival, active 1900; Muir & Moodie (Firm); T B Banks and Company

Reference: PA1-q-632

Description: Views of annexation ceremonies, of the local people and their leaders, of Lord Ranfurly and his party which included Naval personel from the Mildura who added presence to the occasions and raised flags during the ceremonies. There are photographs of two lepers on Molokani Island in the Penryn group and the Governor on a pearl shell diving boat on Manihiki. On the way back to New Zealand the Mildura stoped at the Kermadec Islands. Photographs were taken of Sunday (Raoul) and Macaulay Islands, and of the crater on Curtis Island. This part of the album ends with the Mildura in Lyttelton Harbour and the Governor coming ashore in a boat. Most of the rest are scenic shots of the Tourist highlights of New Zealand. There are three photographs of women crossing the Tasman Glacier and boiling a billy. The album ends with a group of photographs of the Channel Islands According to a note at the front of the album, all photographs, other than the New Zealand scenic tourist shots, were taken either by Captain Baynes or P M May, Surgeon, both of HMS Mildura. However, this is one of several albums recording the annexation of the Cook Islands held in the Photograph Archive. Many of the same images occur in all of them and a large number of these came from negatives held in the Malcolm Ross Collection. Malcolm Ross was a New Zealand Journalist who as the correspondent for the Times news paper, accompanied Lord Ranfurly's party on the Mildura, and was responsible for photographing the occasion. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: This album was offered to the National Library of New Zealand by Isabel Baynes, probably the widow of Captain Baynes. It was selected with some other items in July 1935 by Dr Scholefield, New Zealand Parliamentary Librarian, during a visit to Hampton Court Palace where Isabel Baynes lived. From 1935 to 1998 the album was housed in the New Zealand Parliamentary Library.

Date: 1900

By: H J W M (Artist), active 1900

Reference: A-357-005

Description: Shows snow-covered Mt Taranaki beyond a foreground stream or inlet, with a fence line and a group of a dozen or more huts in front of native bush. The foreground huts may possibly be Urenui Pa, according to vendor. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mt Egmont / H J W M / 1900 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 256 mm.

Date: [1880s - 1890s?] and [1920s?]

From: Iorns, Bennett, 1883-1977 :Photographs relating to Masterton and the Wairarapa

Reference: PA1-o-244

Description: A pocket inside the front cover of this album contains 23 loose photographs of landscapes in New Zealand, many of them Government Publicity Photos. In the South Island various views show Milford and the Milford Track, Tasman Glacier, Mount Cook, and the Buller Gorge. In the North Island there are several views of a group of fallow deer near Featherston; two of geysers at Whakarewarewa; and two of caves in the Waitomo Cave system, showing the underground river in the Aranui Cave, and stalactites in the Ruakuri cave. The main body of the album contains older photographs, circa 1890s, of townscapes in the Wairarapa. Two scenes show groups of Maori performers, one of a posed group of men and women, some holding taiaha and mere; the other of a group of young girls dancing on a podium. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with imitation crocodile skin cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s, ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Newcomb, Stanley Peter, 1934-2008 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9453-6

Description: Scenic photographs taken for New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department Quantity: 86 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1975

From: Crane, Wendy Vivienne, 1936-: Photographs of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and India

Reference: PA12-1842

Description: Towns, localities and countryside between Tokomaru and Hicks Bay. There are photographs of Maori farmers at work, commercial forestry, and farm machinary. Some buildings; Horoera School, ruins of Hicks Bay Freezing Works, the Ngati Porou Dairy Factory, and an abandoned meeting house. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1927

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Wright, Frank, 1860-1923; Brett's Christmas Annual (Periodical)

Reference: B-185-241

Description: A reproduction of a painting by Frank Wright, show a small group of Maori women approaching around a sunlit patch of curved pathway, with bush and hills in the background. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page, 410 x 305 mm.

Date: 1900s

By: Dunlop, John, -1925; Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm); Tutty, T W, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-5570

Description: Copy negatives of cards published by A D Willis, incorporating Maori motifs and Maori portrait photographs by J Dunlop, Wanganui. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-179862-G to 1/2-179868-G Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [1900-1915]

By: Kendrick, John Harold, 1865-1956; Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013

Reference: PA-Group-00679

Description: Negatives taken ca 1900-1915 by John Harold Kendrick in the Awaroa River Valley, Hauturu area, south Kawhia. They show men splitting roof shingles, splitting fence battons, fencing, using a bottle jack in the bush, clearing and bringing in land, and road building. Also a steamboat on Awaroa River, dugout canoes, Maori buildings, groups of people (Maori and pakeha), woman doing hand washing, and short horn cattle. The house built by John Kendrick and his brother Ernest, the vegetable garden, the hens, the house cow, general views of their land on the Awaroa River, and the two men at work and on horse back. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-230859-F to 1/2-230919-F John Harold Kendrick came to New Zealand from Birmingham, England, as a farm cadet. He was balloted land in the Awaroa Valley near Hauturu where he and his brother settled. He farmed there until his marriage in 1917 to Eileen Mina Austin. Quantity: 60 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negatives Transfers: To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-8533, papers of John Kendrick. Processing information: Archivists notes - Originally arranged and described in 2006. Reference number changed from PAColl-8812 to PA-Group-00679 in 2011.

Date: 1942

From: Centennial Branch Internal Affairs :Tour of Netherlands Delegation and celebration of Abel Tasman's tercentenary

Reference: PAColl-5291-3

Description: Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 8 Dec 1988 - 08 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Henderson, Anthony William, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0159/04

Description: Tony Henderson was born in Rakaia in 1949. Describes growing up and being educated in Christchurch. Talks about working for the NZ Forest Service in the holidays, becoming a ranger trainee in the Ashley Forest in 1968 and training at the Forest Ranger school in Rotorua in 1969. Describes supervising gangs in the Balmoral Forest and then returning to Ashley Forest as a ranger between 1971 and 1976. Talks about getting married and living in the forestry village. Describes the different career structures of rangers and foresters. Notes that there were six conservancies and conservators were usually foresters (usually graduates) rather than rangers. Describes being in charge of the Te Kao subdivision of Aupori Forest and becoming familiar with Maori culture. Talks about planting marram and trees. Describes a two year Foreign Affairs secondment, supervising tree planing in Western Samoa, as a positive family experience. Outlines the rest of his career which included being second in command at Gwavas Forest in Hawkes Bay and at Ashley Forest before becoming Officer in Charge at Geraldine Forest at the time of corporatisation. Comments on voluntary severance, redundancy and the effect of corporatisation at the local level. Mentions his position as Forestry and Logging Mananger for the Aorangi District. Venue - Timaru : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Henderson's home at Timaru Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001902; OHC-001903; OHC-001904 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 299. Search dates: 1949 - 1988

Date: 20 Dec 1988

From: NZOHA New Zealand Forestry Corporation Oral History Project, Stage II

By: Chapman, William Alan, 1936-

Reference: OHInt-0159/05

Description: Alan Chapman was born in Levin in 1936. Gives details of his family background and growing up on a dairy farm in the Horowhenua. Describes being the only child and helping with farm work. Talks about attending Horowhenua College and leaving school to become a clerk with the Public Service Commission in Wellington. Describes living in the Public Service Hostel, his work in the accounts and personnel section and staff of the Commission. Talks about becoming Staff Training Officer with the Commission and then joining the New Zealand Forest Service in this same position. Comments on the positive attitude of the Forestry Service to training and rivalry between foresters and rangers. Describes two years spent as the Private Secretary to the Minister of Forests, Duncan McIntyre. Gives details of his work and recalls their positive working relationship. Comments on the 1969 Forestry Development Conference and the beginnings of lobbying from conservationists. Describes returning to the Forest Service and getting in to administration in the position of Executive Officer for the Rotorua Conservancy. Comments on living in the Kaingaroa village, challenges involved in this and his empathy with Maori culture. Describes the Forest Service as culturally sensitive because of the number of Maori employees and comments on its social role in unemployment schemes. Talks about being Senior Training Officer at Head Office of the Forest Service, developing new forest ranger courses and the closure of the woodsman training scheme. Comments on Directors General of Forestry. Describes becoming Chief Executive Officer and then Corporate Employee Relations Manager in the Forestry Corporation when the Service was restructured. Describes working hard to establish the new organisation and then the shock and betrayal of the 1988 amendment privatising the Corporation. Accompanying material - Photograph of A.W. Chapman in 1960; curriculum vitae Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mayfair House, The Terrace, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001908; OHC-001909; OHC-001910 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 301. Search dates: 1936 - 1988