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Date: 1960

By: Williams, Griffith William Arthur, 1885-1963

Reference: MS-Papers-11015

Description: Account of bushfelling and farming in South Taranaki Accompanying material - Obituary for Griffith Williams Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1940 - 1949

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-001

Description: Shows a decorative view of Mount Taranaki with mountain shapes and foreground trees outlined in ink. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 255 x 355 mm.

Date: 1933

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-719-002

Description: Mature native bush showing effects of wind Surrounding drawings are of the south Taranaki district. The Meremere in the title appears more likely to be the lesser known South Taranaki Meremere, than the better known Raglan district Meremere. In addition, Moore's uncle, Brian C Lysaght, lived at Meremere South Taranaki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sketchbook page, 182 x 257 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-034

Description: Military encampment with tents, cannons, a steam on the river in the distance, looking out to an extensive landscape with low hills. Other Titles - Whangamarino Inscriptions: Verso - title [in ink and pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 148 x 219 mm

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 7 August 1968

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68046-G

Description: Meremere electric power station, the Waikato River, and surrounding countryside. Photographed by Whites Aviation 7 August 1968. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: Print in White Aviation folder Blue 273, Meremere.

Date: 19 January 1976

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-73112-G

Description: Meremere electric power station and township, and surrounding countryside. This includes a view of a bend in the Waikato River. Photographed by Whites Aviation 19 January 1976. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: Print in White Aviation folder Blue 273, Meremere.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-006

Description: Looking down from above at the military camp on the left, the river and low hills beyond. A road lies to the right of the camp, with a figure on horseback and a man walking. Soldiers, tents, gun carriages and supplies can be seen in the camp. Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Meremere, N.Z. [1864]', on p. 18 of the Hocken Library's E. A. Williams' sketchbook (now separately mounted) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 136 x 202 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096090-G

Description: Meremere, on the bank of the Waikato River. The volunteer camp is visible in the distance. Photograph taken in 1864 by Daniels Manders Beere. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 22 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-072

Description: A military tent in the right foreground by the banks of the Waikato River. The roof of another building can be seen below the bank closer to the river, with a further building atop a hill in the background. The river is shown fringed with trees and hills. Meremere was the site of a major battle in the Tauranga-Waikato campaign of the New Zealand wars. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 90 x 174 mm

Date: Jul 1957

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Burns, G (Mr), active 1950s

Reference: 1/2-027349-F

Description: View of the steel and concrete foundation work for the chimneys (foreground) and the No 4 (left) and No 3 boilers above the Turbine Hall, during the construction of the Mercer [Meremere] Power Station. Photograph taken in July 1957, by Mr Burns for the National Publicity Studios. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - A49958 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [ca 1920]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000500-G

Description: Motoring up the Meremere Hill, Tauharepu Kitia. Photograph taken between 1915 and 1930 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Foot of Meremere Hill. Tauharepu Kitia. No 3730 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [192-?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000391-G

Description: Corner on the Meremere hill. Photograph taken by William A Price in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Corner on the Meremere hill. No 3733 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1864 - 1865

From: Fraser, I T[allon?] B :[Scrapbook. 1864-1910].

By: Fraser, I T B, active 1863-1890s

Reference: E-571-q-001

Description: Shows a foreshortened view of a rowboat full of soldiers approaching a stockade or fort, with a fenced group of tents at the top of a hill and other tents pitched to its right and downhill. Extended Title - From his scrapbook, 1864-1925, page 1. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Tallon?] B Fraser / 1st W[aikato?] Regt; Recto - bottom right - Mere Mere. I T B F; Recto - beneath image - Mere Mere Waikato River Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of scrapbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash drawing, 177 x 254 mm, on page 290 x 235 mm.

Date: [1863]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: C-025-011

Description: A view from above Whangamarino Redoubt with three cannons in the foreground. The left one is firing out over river and plain. The river bends at the extreme right, or may join another. The gunboat (Pioneer) is in the river in the centre distance, near a fortification or pa with a flag flying. In a note on the back A W F Fuller quotes G W Rusden's History of NZ 1883, vol. II, page 167: "On the 29th October 1863, General Cameron with Commander Wiseman, reconnoitred Mere-Mere. Two 40 pound Armstrong guns had been previously landed at Whangamarino to command the landing place at Mere Mere. That stronghold was on a low ridge which approached the Waikato river. Traversed rifle-pits occupied the descent of the ridge to the river. Swamps almost encircled the ridge, & the Whangamarino & Maramarua rivers, or creeks, were available to the east for the possible retreat always aimed at by Maoris in their plans of fortification. The swamps were more water-laden than usual. The Maori flag floated in a pah where the ridge was 130 feet high. Every slope & projection from the ridge to the swamps was traversed with rifle-pits..." The mention of the flag appears to mean that the Maori pa is the one with the flag flying in the centre distance. Other Titles - Meremere Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Heaphy; Verso - centre - [Notes by A W F Fuller, 7 May 1941]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 490 x 760 mm

Date: 1863

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-082

Description: Military tents, cannons and palisades in the foreground, looking towards hills with extensive river and swamps in the middle ground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 140 x 226 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-074

Description: Shows a military camp on the bank of the Waikato River. Includes soldiers on foot and on horseback, guns, tents, sheds, and supplies. Trees are at the water's edge, and hills in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 160 mm

Date: 7 August 1968

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-68047-F

Description: Meremere electric power station from the air. Photographed by Whites Aviation 7 August 1968. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches Finding Aids: File print in Whites Aviation folder Blue 273, Meremere.

Date: [192-?]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000397-G

Description: Open tourer parked on a corner at Meremere hill with a man in an overcoat standing beside the car. The area is surrounded by bush. Photograph taken by William A Price in 1920s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Beauty spot. Meremere Hill. No 3727 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 2006

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0002204

Description: A man from the Opposition asks a Corrections official why $1.3 million was spent consulting Maori over a new prison at Meremere. He is told that tea and wine biscuits don't grow on trees. Refers to consultancy fees. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).