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Date: 1870s-1902

From: Mueller family :Photographs

By: Browne, Charles Pelham, -1916; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4363-1

Description: Photographs of group including Richard Seddon taken by C P Browne; the US transit of Venus observatory at Queenstown; Granny's hut at Bluff Harbour; bridge over the Shotover River at Arthur's Point; a group including Gerhard Mueller; gold miners next to a river at Orepuki; and a group of Land Commisioners taken in 1902 and including Thomas Humphries, Gerhard Mueller, Mackenzie, Major Richardson, D Barron, G J Roberts, F W Bronte, T S Weston, Marchant, Dr Giles, H McCardell, Col N Y A Wales (taken by Wrigglesworth & Binns); a man using surveying equipment; group including Jakob Luper Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints

Date: 19 Apr 1982-3 Feb 1983 - 19 Apr 1982 - 03 Feb 1983

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

By: Cooper, Whina (Dame), 1895-1994

Reference: OHInt-0514/1

Description: This interview took place over a number of months to provide material for Michael King to write the biography of Whina Cooper at her request. Discusses her family background, her father Heremia Te Wake, a Native Land Court assessor and her mother, Kare Pauro Kawatihi. Notes that she was the first child of her father's second marriage. Discusses her father and his attitude to Pakeha,land and mana. Mentions his friend Sir James Carroll and Sir Maui Pomare. Recalls childhood and schooling at Whakarapa Native School and St Joseph's Maori Girls' College in Napier. Describes working in the local store, becoming a teacher trainee at the Pawarenga Native School and then housekeeper at the Catholic presbytery. Recalls considering becoming a nun but changing her mind over a nun's treatment of a child. Talks about her role in fighting for the preservation of the Whakarapa mudflats, being drained by a Pakeha farmer, at the age of eighteen. Describes her interest in land surveyor Richard Gilbert, marriage to him in 1917, living at her parents' home and the birth of a daughter. Describes both parents' deaths and the need for her young family to move. Recalls living on family land at Te Karaka, the birth of another child and assistance from a priest to buy Heremia Te Wake's home and farm and the local store. Describes paying off the loan and building a new shop, post office, community centre and health clinic while husband Richard Gilbert ran the farm and later bought a second farm. Mentions becoming president of a Panguru branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and her role in land development in the Hokianga. Comments on Sir Apirana Ngata and legislation enabling Maori to borrow money to clear, drain, grass and fence land. Mentions the establishment of a programme dividing the Hokianga into development schemes and her supervision of the Panguru and Waihou schemes. Talks about the role of senior land consolidation officer William Cooper and the growth of her relationship with him. Talks about the death of husband Richard Gilbert and her intention to marry William Cooper on his divorce. Comments on reaction to this, moving to Kamo with William Cooper and having four more children. Recalls her fund-raising efforts during the war. Describes the return to Panguru of Whina and Bill Cooper after their marriage. Mentions the attempt to organise the building of a meeting house in Panguru. Talks about the death of husband Bill Cooper and going to Auckland. Discusses the beginning of the Maori Women's Welfare League (MWWL) in 1951, her election as President and travelling the country to establish branches. Discusses the work of the League and her role in it. Talks about the establishment of an Auckland urban marae, Te Unga Waka, in 1966. Talks about her health and attitude to medicines. Discusses her involvement in leading the Maori Land March in 1975 and the organisation Te Ropu o te Matakite. Talks about Kupe's discovery of Hokianga harbour. Discusses Father Becker, Archbishop Liston and other Catholic clergy. Talks about custom, carvings and fishing. Interviewer(s) - Michael King Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 5 C90 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 1898

Reference: 1/2-005146-F

Description: Captioned "Native Lands Meeting Huntly - Henare Kaihau, the Right Hon R J Seddon, King Mahuta, Taigakawa Te Waharoa, Hon J Carroll 8.1.1898 Protected." Photographer possibly Beattie. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: January 1896

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 17

Reference: PAColl-7489-85

Description: The signing over of ownership of Lake Wairarapa from Wairarapa Maori to the Crown, at Papawai Pa. At the centre of the table sits Judge Butler handing a cheque to Purakau. On the judge's right is Sir James Carroll and on his left is Takarangi Meta Kingi with Mr Goffe standing behind him. Tamahau Mahupuku sits on the ground to the left of the table. Many other prominent Wairarapa Maori leaders are also shown. On the reverse of the photograph is a newspaper article about the event which includes further names. Taken by an unknown photographer on January, 1896. Papawai Pa was the seat of the Maori Parliament in the 1890s; it subsequently fell into disrepair following World War One Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 4 Apr 1898

By: Beattie & Sanderson (Firm)

Reference: PA7-01-39

Description: Prime Minister John Seddon (far left of group in foreground), Maori King Mahuta Tawhiao (2nd to right of Seddon), James Carroll (3rd to right of Seddon), and others, during a Maori land meeting at Wahi Pa (also known as Waahi Pa), Waikato. Shows a group in the foreground with a Maori seated behind them. This is a Beattie and Sandersons photograph taken circa 4 April, 1898. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - After the speeches. Native land meetings, Waahi. (Protected, 4.4.98) Beattie & Sanderson, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.8 x 20.1 cm