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Te Whatahoro - Notebook
Date: 1896
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B059
Description: This notebook contains notes about the proceedings of a political meeting held in 1896 to discuss Maori-Government relations; it also contains whakapapa, lists of names and interests in certain blocks, boundaries of various land blocks in the King Country and Whanganui areas, and a copy of a letter to the Premier about the Ohotu Block; also contains some waiata and Maori vocabulary with shorthand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Black boards, 20 cm Grey phase box Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
H T Whatahoro Jury - Minute book
Date: 1897
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-127
Description: Contains boundaries of land blocks in the Whanganui area, Whanganui whakapapa, and notes from the Maori Land Court about the ownership of the various blocks (this includes information about historical occupation and use) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
Papers from envelope containing waiata Maori
Date: 1910-1922
From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11310-33
Description: Contains research notes, typewritten and handwritten waiata and newspaper clippings. Includes `A Maori love-song': Whakapukupuke ai au-e! Te roimata i aku kamo...; and an article about `The death leap of Tikawe' with annotations. Also includes `Tangi song' chanted by Takarongi [Takarangi] Mete Kingi and others at the tangihanga ceremony over the late Premier, at Parliament House, Wellington, June 21st, 1906: Whakaronga [whakarongo?] e te rau, tenei te tupuna o te mate, ka iri kia au, i tipu i te Reinga... Another `Tangi song' sung by Wi Pere and other East Coast natives: Haere ra e Koro! Koutou ko matua - unuhia i te rito o te harakeke ka tu i te aroakapa... Also a `Ngai Tahu dirge' sung by Timoti Whiua and Tioti Ropitini [George Robinson] of Wairewa Little River, Canterbury: Pu ma uru, e riringi mai nei-i-e!... Also includes a waiata tangi (mo Te Awaawa, rangatira o Ngati Whakaue mo tona matenga): Ka moe koa Taupiri [Taupori?] o te rewarewa, e tu tai ana ra te Kauika taramea... Also a waiata with translation entitled `Tongakohu's lament. The Maori fairy chief's farewell to Ngongotaha Mount'. Other typewritten and handwritten waiata and extracts. A typewritten chant `The sword chant of Thorstein Raudi' [possibly typed by B Stowell?]. Letter to Cowan by P Buck dated 20th Dec 1922, discusses Cowan having loan of Buck's France diaries and Gallipoli diary. Copy of article from the Akaroa Star about local mountain names and folklore, mentions H T Tikao [Hone Taare Tikao] as having been the source of the story. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Miscellaneous letters, documents and papers - Official and private
Date: 1840
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-106C
Description: Contains official copies of correspondence relating to land claims from Te Tai Tokerau and Pewhairangi (i.e. Bay of Islands, the word is a transliteration), Waikato and Whanganui. Includes various documents relating to Whanganui giving extensive lists of names for the purchase of guns, powder and flint by Whanganui Maori; lists of Whanganui Maori working for the Regional Magistrate and their salaries; census of friendly natives, Whanganui district. The last document is the original of the deed by which Nopera Parakareao and other Te Rarawa chiefs sold the Muriwhenua lands of Te Aupouri to the Rev Richard Taylor, witnessed by William Gilbert Puckey, 20 January 1840. A translation of this in Taylor's hand is in MS-Papers-0075-106E. Written only two weeks before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to secure private property rights for Taylor (before the arrival of Hobson and the signing of the Treaty) but the publication of Gipps's proclamations of 14 January 1840 invalidated the sale. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Police and Native Land Purchase Departments - Letter books
Date: 1846-1852
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: qMS-1206-1212
Description: These volumes contain copies of correspondence recieved and despatched. Includes reports from McLean to Governor Eyre about the return migration of sections of the Te Ati Awa from Waikanae and Arapaoa (South Island) to Taranaki and the Crown's desire to completely extinguish native title; various reports and correspondence about the Rangitikei Block and includes notes by McLean made at one of the land meetings in 1849; list of names of rangatira [24] who have a claim to the 40,000 acre Whanganui land block of the NZ Company. Also includes a report by McLean about the activities (and some agressions) of Te Rangihaeata and his desire to fight continued European encroachment and a copy of a letter by Te Rangihaeata to chiefs in Kawhia seeking their assistance to revenge the capture of Te Rauparaha and their reply refusing to assist him Language - Some in Maori Arrangement: qMS-1206-1212 are boxed together Quantity: 7 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (35 cm; marbled paper, marbled edges, ¼ blue morocco tie case) Finding Aids: Calendar of contents pasted inside front cover of some volumes; indexes.
Apirana Ngata - Whakapapa papers
Date: 1913
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-088
Description: Contains Ngati Tuwharetoa whakapapa, and the voting forms, from an election in the Whanganui district to elect a local representative to attend a national Maori conference at Parliament (on the voting forms, individuals signed their name under the candidate that they supported and listed their hapu)
H T Whatahoro Jury - Wanganui minute book
Date: 1873
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B033
Description: Contains evidence from the hearing of the Native Committee with regard to land at Tuhiariki, in the Wanganui district, including whakapapa, block boundaries, mahinga kai, information about ancestral occupation, and the final judgement of the Committee Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Marbled paper covers, 33 cm., vol numbered 19
H T Whatahoro Jury - Whakapapa book
Date: 1897-1909
From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B045
Description: Contains whakapapa of people with claims to land in the Wanganui area Physical Description: Black boards, 33 cm., vol numbered 29 Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.
Papers relating to the general duties of Resident Magistrate Upper Wanganui
Date: 1863-1874
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-034
Description: Includes a list of native assessors, wardens and police, and a census for Mangawhero, Whanganui. Also includes a printed court order (hamene = summons ?) to appear before a Magistrate or assessor, printed in Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.
Letters in Maori
Date: 1865
From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0075-031C
Description: Maori correspondence mostly from the Whanganui district relating tribal activities, affairs and matters relating to land. Includes lists of names for Maori living at Parewanui; report from a meeting between Governor Grey, Major Kemp (Te Ranghiwinui), and various hapu from Whanganui; a letter about Epiha Patapu, native policeman from Whanganui who gave an oath of allegience to the Queen. Also includes letter from Wikitoa Taringakuri (aka Te Kaeaea) offering to sell large amounts of land in Wellington because of his extreme age and inability to collect the rents of his properties. Arrangement: Previously from 1/1 Official Correspondence series Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level inventory available.