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Map

[Creator unknown] : Te Kooti's campaigns 1868-1871 [copy of ms map].

Date: 1868 - 1871

Reference: MapColl-832hkm/1868-71/Acc.5976

Description: Map showing the East Cape, Bay of Plenty, Tauranga, Northern Hawkes Bay and just south of Taupo. Shows Te Kooti's approximate route, and direction (arrows on line) and his engagements with the Hauhau people. Stops at certain pa are dated, some added text (before photocopy) e.g. "Final escape to King Country", "Visit to Takangamutu". Key stops included Opape, Tologa Bay, Turanga, Whakatane, Rotorua, Te Pourere, Puketapu. The linking areas for all these points was the Urewera country. Te Kooti was a Rongowhakaata leader, military leader, prophet, religious founder, pursued by colonial forces, eventually took refuge in the King Country where Te Kooti remained until pardoned in 1883. Language - Place names Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:700,000], 26 x 34 cm

Manuscript

General Government Agency Public Meeting : Minutes of a public meeting, Oddfellows Hall...

Date: 1869

By: General Government Agency (N.Z.)

Reference: qMS-0832

Description: The meeting was called `the enable the inhabitants of Napier and its vicinity to express their opinion upon the withdrawal from Mr McLean of the powers heretofore exercised by him as General Government agent...' and discussed was McLean's record of service in Maori/Pakeha negotiations and politics by various residents Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (57 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (27 cm, red buckram)

Map

New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Map shewing ...

Date: 1864 - 1872

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/1/20-Acc.37758

Description: Identifies military operations in the North and East Coast of the North Island, including main routes followed by Te Kooti. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale indeterminable. 74.5 x 110 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Manuscript

Reminiscences of Poverty Bay in 1868

Date: [ca 1941]

From: Blair, Mary Ramsay Ellen, 1875-1963 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0014-09/2

Description: Manuscript by Blair, `The East Coast fort; Fort Turanga, the district of the massacre, 1868' describing her grandmother's experiences during a Hauhau incident at Kaiti in 1868; also covering letter to Mr Taylor re some of her writing in progress (1941) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Image

Armstrong, T J (Miss), fl 1978 :Photograph of Memorial monument in memory of the Povert...

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: PA3-0349

Description: Photograph of a drawing of a monument erected in the Makaraka Cemetery, Gisborne, to commemorate the settlers who were killed by Te Kooti and his followers on 19 March 1868, taken ca 1870s by an unknown photographer. Names are: Major R Biggs and family; Sgt Ladbury; Jane Farrell; Lieut Walsh and family; John McCullock and family; Mary McDonald; John Cadle; Richard Rathbone; Capt J Wilson and family; John Mann and family; Robert and Jane Newham; John Moray; Maria and A E Goldsmith; G N Dodd; and Richard Peppard. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Map

[Map of military operations in Bay of Plenty - East Coast districts, 1864-1871. Unsigne...

Date: 1864 - 1871

Reference: MapColl-832.19hkm/[1864-1871]/Acc.3908

Description: Shows engagement locations, confiscation boundaries, etc. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: 46 x 68 cm. Scale 1:380 160

Map

[Creator unknown]: [Forts from Poverty Bay to Ngatapa] [ms map]. [1869?]

Date: 1869

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-A50

Description: Map shows bush line and a line of forts from Poverty Bay to Ngatapa. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 1 aperture card. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [ca.1: 126 720], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Other

Baker, Charles 1803-1875 : Journals

Date: 1827-1867

By: Baker, Charles (Rev), 1803-1875

Reference: qMS-0109

Description: Describes in detail his career as a missionary in the Bay of Islands, Gisborne, the East Coast, and in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty; covers his missionary work, personal life, Maori and settler life and events such as the war in the Bay of Plenty region Accompanying material - Copy of letter dated 28 Jul 1959 from librarian at Auckland Institute and Museum describing circumstances of the copying Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue linen) Processing information: Copies of the five originals have been bound into one volume

Image

Memorial to the Poverty Bay Massacre

Date: ca 1868

Reference: 1/2-003125-F

Description: Photograph of a drawing of the memorial to the settlers killed by Te Kooti in the Poverty Bay Massacre. Beneath the illustration is the list of names of those killed with their ages. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Manuscript

Miscellaneous

Date: [1960s-1970s]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-5/15

Description: Papers include stories, clippings, whakapapa, research notes and photographs. Includes `Head money: a story of the Maori Wars'; `The soaring war bird and the lonely sparrow' ; (Gorst and the Maori newspapers published during the 1860s); `Po-ranga-hua and the great bird of Puakapanga'; `Place names of the East Coast ; several photographs. Language - Some whakapapa and place names in Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s). Three photographic prints

Manuscript

Duke of Buckingham : Letter from Sir George Bowen

Date: 8 Dec 1868

By: Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, 3rd Duke of, 1823-1889

Reference: MS-Papers-10824

Description: Private letter from Sir George Bowen, Government House, Wellington to accompany an official despatch. Discusses Maori activities on East Coast Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 letter. Physical Description: Holograph, mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Brian Groshinski, 2011

Image

Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :Te Kooti takes utu. [ca 1957].

Date: 1866 - 1956 - 1868 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-013

Description: Six-panelled account of Te Kooti's resistance to European incursions onto his land, his capture, transportation to the Chatham Islands, his revenge killing of the families of Major Biggs and Captain Wilson and Paratene at Poverty Bay in 1868, and his ultimate pardon in 1883 These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Map

[Creator unknown] :Map shewing military operations in the North & East Coast of the Nor...

Date: 1864 - 1872

Reference: MapColl-os832.16hkm/1864-1872/Acc.3907

Description: Military map of the area from Tauranga Harbour to the East Cape and south to Whangawehi Stream, across to Lake Rotoaira. Lakes, rivers, streams, bays, islands and harbours are drawn, some of which are named. Includes hachures. A mission house is marked near Gisborne. Blockhouses, redoubts, engagements, Maori pas, kaingas and confiscation boundaries as gazetted are referred to in a key. A second key is given for marked routes and campaigns of Te Arawa and Ngatiporou. Campaigns against Te Kooti include names of commanding officers, places and dates of battles. Names include Colonel Whitmore, Mair and Preece, Hamlin and Witty, Lambert, Deighton and Herrick. Te Kooti's routes are marked. Other Titles - Military operations in the North and East Coast of the North Island, 1860-1872 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [1:253 440], 78.1 x 116.2 cm.

Map

New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :[Plate layou...

Date: 1863 - 1869

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/3/6-Acc.37795

Description: Identifies Waikato War (1863-1864); Taranaki Wars (1860) (1863-1869); Bay of Islands; Hawkes Bay and Wellington-Porirua, Lower Hutt, Waurau. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on cream paper. Scale [ca 1:500 000] 54 x 68.5 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Map

[Creator unknown] :[Map of military operations in Bay of Plenty - East Coast districts,...

Date: 1864 - 1872

Reference: MapColl-832.16hkm/[1864-1871]/Acc.3908

Description: Hand drawn military map of the area from Tauranga to the Waiapu River, south to Poverty Bay, across to Lake Taupo. Lakes, mountains, rivers, islands, bays, points and harbours are drawn, some of which are named, as are some settlements. Includes tracks, some of which are described as 'Te Kooti's trail' and 'Mair's pursuit of Te Kooti'. Battle sites are prominently marked, named and dated. A note written adjacent to several battle positions state that these cannot accurately be determined. Title handwritten in pencil along the top of the map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, scale [1:380 160], 35.7 x 61.4 cm. Provenance: Includes many pencilled spelling corrections. The scale is written in pencil in the bottom right corner and in ink centrally, under the map.

Manuscript

Bloomer, Peter H E, fl 2004 : Extracts, summaries and indexes relating to Hawke's Bay h...

Date: [2004]

By: Bloomer, Peter H E, active 2004

Reference: MS-Group-1548

Description: Material extracted, abstracted and collated by Bloomer relating to the New Zealand Wars in Mohaka and the Hawke's Bay region, mostly from the `Hawke's Bay herald' from 1858 to 1888; includes topics such as the Chatham Islands escape, deaths, Gudgeon, Hawthorne, Ngatapa and Whitmore; rural grants and Clyde grants; and index to some of the `Hawke's Bay herald' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Compiled by Bloomer in response to TVNZ's programme on the New Zealand wars in the Hawke's Bay and Mohaka regions Quantity: 3 megabyte(s) textual material.

Map

[Creator unknown]: Plan of Ngatapa Pah Poverty Bay taken by Col Whitmore with the Colon...

Date: 1869

From: Statutory Branch. Head Office. Department of Lands and Survey :[Aperture cards of] maps and plans

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-L&S-A50a

Description: Map shows Ngatapa Pa, trenches and disposition of various forces. Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 aperture cards. Physical Description: 35mm microfilm inserted into card, scale [ca.1: 720], copy at same size as original Provenance: Donated by Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, November 1982

Online Image

Captain Westrup's camp, Poverty Bay

Date: 1864

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: PA1-q-193-092-1

Description: Captain Charles Westrup's camp in Poverty Bay. Shows soldiers alongside whare and tents. Photograph taken in 1864, possibly by William Leonard Williams. Note on back of file print reads: Photographer is probably Rev William Leonard Williams. "Leonard visited Westrup's camp on February 9, 1866. It was at a place called Kohangarearea not far from Manutuke". The hill to the left is identical to the hill in F 110528 1/2. Other - Date noted on back of file print is 1866. Inscription in album dates photograph as 1864. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Capt Westrupt's Camp Poverty Bay Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.5 x 14.8 cm, mounted on album page

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Major Westrupp's camp, Poverty Bay

Date: February 1866

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: PA1-q-193-085-1

Description: Major Westrupp's camp at Kohangarearea, near Manutuke, photographed 1865-1866, probably by William Leonard Williams. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Poverty Bay middle district The locality has been identified as Major Westrupp's camp by comparison with PA1-q-193-092-1. Photograph probably taken by William Leonard Williams. Williams visited Westrupp's camp on 9 February 1866. (information from Sheila Robinson, Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre. See AT 13/12/4, 27/8/90) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 101 x 153 mm mounted on album page

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Poho O Rawiri pa, with Turanganui River in the background, Poverty Bay

Date: February 1866

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Williams, William Leonard, 1829-1916

Reference: PA1-q-193-096-2

Description: Scene near Poho O Rawiri, showing the Turanganui river in the background and waka in the foreground. Photograph talen ca February 1866, probably by William Leonard Williams. Photograph taken near Poho O Rawiri. The pa at that time stood much closer to the Turanganui River. Photograph probably taken on Leonard Williams' return to the district in February 1866. (information from Sheila Robinson, Gisborne Museum & Arts Centre. See AT 13/12/4, 27/8/90) Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Turanganui River Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 90 x 145 mm mounted on album page

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