Places

Date: 1929

By: McCaw, John, 1849-1930

Reference: MS-1164

Description: Includes brief description of the voyage to Otago on board the `Oamaru' arriving Feb 1875 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (18 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; blue linen)

Date: 1869-1872

By: Gubbins, Arthur Winthrop, 1844-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-3807

Description: The journal covers the period Sept 1869 to March 1872. It describes the breaking in and development of the Gubbins brothers' farm and comments on pioneering life in the Waikato. Part 2, p 17, 18 and part of p 28 are missing. It appears to have been transcribed in 1974 by E McDonald who also provides an introduction to the journal entitled `Mr Gubbins comes to Auckland in 1869 and buys a farm in the Waikato',which gives biographical details about Arthur Gubbins. Publication - Published in Auckland-Waikato Historical journal, nos 24, 25, 27 (Apr, Oct 1974, Oct 1975) Source of title - supplied title Gubbins and his brother Evans emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand and took up land at Ohaupo, south of Hamilton, in 1869. He later returned to Ireland and married Katherine O'Grady. They returned to New Zealand in 1879 and bought land near Morrinsville at Kiwitahi. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (39 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (some carbon copies)

Date: 1911

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918; Daniell, Charles Edward, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-188

Description: Views of the Mangatarera Stream and Mount Holdsworth opens a record of a climb to the summit of Holdsworth. The party consists of six women and about five men. There are views of the stream and the swing bridge leading to the Holdsworth track; several shots of the Mountain House with the climbing party arranged along the veranda, and Mr McGregor's party who had arrived on horseback to fix the water tank; the climbing party grouped in the bush on the way up the mountain and on the open alpine ridges; a surveyors tent in the alpine tussock; the party eating beside the Holdsworth Trig; views of the Tararua Ranges from the summit of Mount Holdsworth. Interspersed among the main image groups are photographs of a trip to Rotorua. This involved a group of people in two motor cars. There are images of the Hamurana Stream and Springs at Rotorua, and of children diving for pennies at Whakarewarewa. Views of mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, the Mangaehuehu Stream, the Crater Lake and the crater on Ngauruhoe, and mountaineers crossing the ice field on Ruapehu and climbing Ngauruhoe. There is a view of Matterhorn Peak the name of which was changed to Girdlestone Peak in 1922. Two images of a surveyors' camp in the Waimarino Bush. The Tern Arch and Little Hawke's Crag on the Buller Gorge road. A view of Lake Tarawerea from the top of Mount Tarawera. The final photograph is a view along the beach to Pencarrow Head, Wellington. Pasted inside the front cover is a cutting from `The Weekly News', Wednesday, December 26, 1945, entitled `New Zealand's highest memorial' by JWG, describing the renaming in 1922, of Matterhorn Peak (Tongariro National Park) to Girdlestone Peak in honour of Hubert Earle Girdlestone after he was killed in action in August 1918. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - To Mr and Mrs Daniell with kindest recollections from a very old friend, Hugh Girdlestone, March 1911 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brownish green cover, 25 x 20 cm Provenance: The album had been presented to Daniell in March 1911 by Hubert Girdlestone.

Date: 1912, 1973 (1973)

By: Sunde, Rudy, 1927-2015

Reference: MS-Papers-1027

Description: Unpublished article. One section deals with the 1912 Waihi miners' strike. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) 24 leaves. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0165

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 1 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 165) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458. Provenance: Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2003-308) Donated by Mrs T Tintner, Canada

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0166

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 2 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 165) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458. Provenance: Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2003-308) Donated by Mrs T Tintner, Canada

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0159

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 2 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 159.) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458. Provenance: Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2003-308) Donated by Mrs T Tintner, Canada

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0161

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 1 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 163.) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458. Provenance: Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2003-308) Donated by Mrs T Tintner, Canada

Date: 1881-1901

By: McNeill, Alexander Richard, 1881-

Reference: MS-Papers-3541

Description: Describes Coromandel and the Upper Township, including individual residents from ca 1881 to 1901. Plan includes key to location of various buildings and dwellings. Also include life of McNeill and his family background. Accompanying material - Plan of Upper Township, Coromandel Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (22 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0158

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 1 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 159.) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education. Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research. Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458.

Date: 1974

By: O'Donnell, Ewart, 1890-

Reference: MS-Papers-2197

Description: Unpublished book describing pioneer farming near Eketahuna, in the Waikato and in the King country Quantity: 3 folder(s) (218 leaves). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1876

By: Cooke, John George, 1819?-1880

Reference: qMS-0542

Description: Family and personal history in England until the settlement in New Plymouth, 1841, with references to Jane Austen and her family (pp. 20,21,34,35). Account of voyage to New Zealand on Amelia Thompson, 1841. General account of the colonisation of the North Island, especially Taranaki, and history of relations with Maori there; also of Wellington, Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Otaki, Manawatu, Wanganui, Waikato, Lakes Tarawera and Rotoaira, 1841-1850 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (90 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (¼ blue morocco, blue buckram; 30 cm)

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0162

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 2 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 163.) Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458. Provenance: Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A2003-308) Donated by Mrs T Tintner, Canada

Date: 1920-1970

By: Hedges, Neville Walter, 1895-1984

Reference: MS-Papers-1226

Description: Scrapbook relating to the Returned Soldiers' Block at Waitakaruru, Hauraki Plains, prepared to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the block. Includes maps showing position of the block, owners and history of the sections, and newspaper clippings from local papers re the celebrations. Source of title - Transcribed Hedges was one of the original settlers on the Block, and was responsible for organising the anniversary celebrations Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr N Hedges, Waitakaruru, 1970 Survey map of the block

Date: 1938

By: Gilbert, Gwenyth Mary, 1916-1987

Reference: MS-0831

Description: Material collected for MA Hons Economics thesis, 1938, but not presented; includes a bibliography. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (109 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; ¼ maroon buckram, green boards) Illustrations and maps

Date: Jun 1834-Dec 1836, 2004

By: Stack, James, 1801-1883

Reference: qMS-1858-1859

Description: A detailed history of the mission at Mangapouri with emphasis on the relations between the Maori and the missionaries in the pre-European settlement period,as seen by a Church Missionary Society missionary. Also included are day-to-day accounts of journeys in the Waikato-Thames Valley area, of thens at Pahia, Puriri (Thames) and Tauranga, and of the wars in 1836 between Maori tribes in the Waikato-Thames Valley and the Rotorua-Bay of Plenty areas Source of title - Supplied title Variations in title - "Stack's Journal" on each section Quantity: 2 volume(s) (122 pages). 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies) (34 cm; blue calf box)

Date: 1980

From: Tintner, Tanya, fl 1980-2002 : Papers

Reference: MSCD-0155

Description: Compact disc of performances at the 34th Cambridge Summer School of Music, 1980. (CD 1 of 2 from University of Auckland tape 155). Recordings made at the Cambridge Summer School of Music run by the University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education. Copy made by the University of Auckland for Tanya Tintner for her research. Quantity: 1 compact disc(s). Finding Aids: Details of works performed and performers at MS-Papers-8458.

Date: 1870 - 1889

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; New Zealand. Department of External Affairs

Reference: Curios-013-005-2

Description: Painting on a shell, showing a section of Lake Taupo with a whare in the right foreground, a waka on the water near the shore, and the Central Plateau peaks behind, with Mt Ngauruhoe steaming. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - JB Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on shell. Physical Description: Gouache? on shell, 155 x 150 mm (irreg) Provenance: Presented through the External Affairs Department; previously on display at a New Zealand House (London) exhibition in 1956.

Date: 1954-1978

By: Richardson, Ralph Cyril Hastings, 1902-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-7296

Description: Reports, correspondence and printed papers on the electric production industry, especially on the construction of the Wairakei geothermal power plant. Also includes report on the electrification of Auckland commuter railways. The reports were authored by Merz and McaLellan. Source of title - Supplied Mr Richardson returned to New Zealand in 1954 as the resident New Zealand civil and electrical engineer for the British consultancy firm of Merz and McLellan on the Wairakei Geothermal Project. He remained as part-time consulting engineer after his retirement. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Mr Richardson's papers were passed on to his son-in-law, the Hon Doug Kidd MP.

Date: 1901

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-019

Description: Printed by Geddis & Blomfield, 1901. Illustrated by Thomas Ryan. Includes some loose drafts and clippings relating to the Bay of Plenty Region, including a Te Arawa whakapapa for 'the Ohinemutu chief Hemi te Tupara'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume and loose papers in a folder