Places

Date: 1843 - 1939

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372

Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller

Date: 1854

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-072-2

Description: The bush-clad Rimutaka Hill Road at its base, with a Maori family in traditional clothing (or blankets) seated in a clearing, trees cleared by the road, and heavy bush all around it. A flax bush is on the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 155 x 255 mm

Date: 1955

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Waikanae Anglican Parish

Reference: MapColl-832.4399gbbd/1955/Acc.29352

Description: Shows land blocks, proposed roads, reserves in the vicinity of Parata, within the boundary of Te Ngarara and Te Moana Roads and the Main Highway. Land blocks are numbered, include acreages and the following names - Tom Parata, Harata, Wihou, Kanawa, Tira, Wewango, Toomey, although the handwriting is difficult to decipher. Includes numbered sections. Similar to MapColl-832.4399gbbd/1955/Acc.29353 (not coloured) Handwritten on bottom right corner: 843 Stamp on reverse of map: Print by Gordon H. Burt Ltd., 160 Lambton Quay, Wellington Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink. pencil and colourwash on paper, coloured, scale [1:3960], 53 x 48 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Waikanae Anglican Parish Records. MS-Group-0893..

Date: 1998

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-539-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Comment on the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand. Soldiers explain why it is humane to cut people's throats once they've been driven from their homes. Jenny Shipley reacts negatively to Jim Bolger's book. Jenny Shipley does a unicycle act on the high/slack wire. She can't look down for fear of falling, and she can't look up for fear of the coalition government she carries on her shoulders. Jack Elder and Tuku Morgan line-up behind Tau Henare in a new political allegiance. The American Republicans are exposed in their determination to impeach President Clinton over sex allegations no matteer what public opinion is. Jenny Shipley announces under National's new housing policy people in sub-standard housing will be assisted to buy their properties rather than rent them. Tim Shadbolt has been re-elected Mayor of Invercargill. Russia backs the bloody regime of Slobodan Milosivic against the Albanians. Jenny Shipley receives a negative reaction from the Dairy Board members over comments they should dig their own graves and make their wills. Jenny Shipley's intention of ending the Producer Board's statutory monopolies is thinnly veiled to avoid farmer backlash prior to the election. The Labour Party surges in the polls although their visibility is low. A paralell is drawn between roading reforms proposals and the manner Warriors' boss comments on players like Matthew Ridge. Commment on telephone electronic cueing messages. Canadian newspapers report that Wellington has the best views in the world. A Wellintonian watches as storms blow uprooted trees, boats, cars and other debris past his window. General Pinochet in jail being interrogated over his part in crimes of terrorism committed against Chilean critics of his Military Junta. Two contenders for the Auckland Blues Rugby coaching job are given a lesson in sportsmanship. Otago win the NPC (National Provincial Championships). Palestinian and Israeli leaders are booed by their supporters for their efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Met. office build an ark as an indication of the weather to come. Tuariki Delamere considers his political future. Tau Henare sums up the essence of his new Mauri Pacific Party. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1870s

By: Cox, Horace A, active 1883

Reference: PA1-o-110

Description: New Zealand scenery photographed circa 1870s. Views include the Pink and White Terraces and Lake Rotomahana; a digger's hut in the Tararua Range; Mercury Bay; carriers changing horses in Oripi bush; a group of Maori holding a runanga at an unidentified meeting house; two views of the new road being created between Lake Coleridge and Hokitika. Inscriptions: Album page - Horace A Cox, from his old schoolfellow Harry [?], Lyttelton, New Zealand, 9 July 1883 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover with gold outline, 22.5 x 31 cm Provenance: Presented to Horace A Cox on 9 July 1883.

Date: 1843-1874

By: Costall, John James Joseph, 1859-1949

Reference: MS-Papers-3540

Description: Material copied from official papers, newspapers, diaries and published material on roads, education, postal affairs, census and other statistics, Wellington market prices, Maori and the formation of a savings bank Source of title - Supplied Material presumably compiled by John Costall Quantity: 1 folder(s) (80 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, ms and printed material contained in grey cardboard folder, labelled `Notes'

Date: 1883

Reference: MapColl-832.47gmbd/1883/Acc.26335

Description: The plan of a new road at Terawhiti, includes a smaller version at a different scale mounted adjacent to the larger version. Sections are numbered, includes un-named streams and a track. The plan of part No. 1 shows the proposed road adjacent to Snowden's Road, from Printer's Creek to the summit which is 688 feet above Printer's Flat. Includes Stony Creek, numbered sections and two areas marked Native Reserves. The proposed road is continued on the plan of part No. 2 showing this road from the summit at 688 feet, with a small section of Snowden's Road, 100 chains north of Plan No. 1. Includes numbered sections, creeks including Te Kaminaru Creek, also Te Kaminaru Range. The Domain trig is named. Each map includes a smaller version, at a different scale, mounted adjacent to the larger version. The untitled map of roads in Ohariu includes Brown's Ohariu Road linked by an un-named road to the Old Ohariu Road. A location along the un-named road is named Taylor's, and is probably a trig. Sections are numbered and include the names of R. Bould, Himi Pari & others, also two sections of native reserve. A smaller version of the map, at a different scale, is drawn in bottom right corner. Pencilled note states: Port Nic. Printed at top right: 56 Other Titles - Plan of Part No. 1 of proposed road, Printers Flat to Terawhiti Other Titles - Plan of Part No. 2 of proposed road, Printers Flat to Terawhiti Other Titles - [Ohariu roads] Quantity: 4 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, coloured, scale [1:15 840], 54.3 x 73.3 cm. Provenance: Initials and date written under the titles: Plan of part No. 1: C.M.I. 29.10.83. Plan of part No. 2: C.M.I. 30.10.83 Initials and date written in left corner of map of Ohariu roads: H.S. 25.10.83

Date: 1932

By: Kilmister, Albert, 1881-1954

Reference: MS-1117

Description: Some early history of the Kilmister family and early Wellington as they remembered it. Details of voyage to New Zealand on the Lady Nugent, local Maori, and construction of houses and roads. Source of title - Spine title John and Frances Kilmister arrived 1841 on the Lady Nugent, lived in Wellington and Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red buckram)

Date: 1845

Reference: MapColl-832.4393gbbd/1845/Acc.37836

Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from the boundary of Upper Hutt to Robinson's Bay and Ward Island, also Wainuiomata including the river. The road which runs parallel to the Hutt River includes the site of Waiwhetu Bridge. A track is marked at Korokoro and a road leading to Petone Pa is named New Road. Sections are numbered. Bays are named as is Somes Island. Adjacent Districts show mainly numbered sections. Includes the name of Shand. Title suppled by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 60.1 x 44.6 cm.

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1955

By: Martin & Dyett (Firm); Waikanae Anglican Parish

Reference: MapColl-832.4399gbbd/1955/Acc.29353

Description: Shows land blocks, sections, proposed roads, reserves in the vicinity of Parata, within the boundary of Te Ngarara and Te Moana Roads and the Main Highway. Land blocks are numbered, include acreages and the following very faint names from the original - Tom Parata, Harata, Uriora, Tama, Wihou, Kananwa, Tira, Wewango, although the handwriting is difficult to decipher. Includes numbered sections, some of which are marked in biro. Similar to MapColl-832.4399gbbd/1955/Acc.29352 (hand coloured) Handwritten on bottom right corner: 843 has been crossed through and 720/IV added Stamp on reverse of map: Gordon H. Burt Ltd., 160 Lambton Quay, Wellington Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale [1:3960], 53 x 48 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Waikanae Anglican Parish Records. MS-Group-0893..

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-003

Description: Shows tent on beach, groups of Maori with two canoes with sails, boats and ships in the harbour. Probably Wellington Harbour from the Hutt Road or Petone in the 1850s looking towards the twown of Wellington. Attributed to Fox on stylistic grounds, along with A-210-008 and A-210-009. The figures in the foreground and the manner of rendering choppy sea are very typical of Fox's work Displayed in "Paradise" (Gifts to the nation), National Library Gallery, January - April 2005. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - Unidentified view of beach and harbour [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm. Provenance: Collection of James West Stack. Possibly given to Stack by Fox when Stack visited Westoe, Fox's home, late summer 1861. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives, from fMS Stack, J. W. Papers and pictures, 1970s.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-07-3

Description: Shows bushclearing along the path which became the Hutt Road. One man chops at a tree trunk with an axe, while two Maori stand in the path. The tranquil water of Wellington Harbour surrounded by bush-covered hills, show in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 191 x 160 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1839 - 1845

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: NON-ATL-P-0004

Description: Palisades of the pa at Kaiwharawhara, at the water's edge, with raupo houses, with verandahs and tree-trunk columns in the foreground, with one Maori man reclining in the left foreground and a woman and child seated by one of the whare. Two canoes, with Maori chapel of raupo beyond them in the middle ground and a European yacht beyond that. On the background hill to the right, the whalers' lookout "Tutaewera", aand on the central hill, a zig-zag Maori path running up the Ngaio Gorge area. The background range shows British Peak on the left and Mount Kaukau on the right. The file print during 1970s and 80s attributed to John Pearse and titled "Wellington". However, it pre-dates Pearse's time in Wellington during the 1850s. Other Titles - Wellington. John Pearse. See article about this picture in Kapa-Mana News 20 August 1980, by William Secker. The painting is pre-1845, since the Hutt Road is not yet formed. The architecture of the raupo huts on the left shows the whalers' influence, with the tree-trunk verandah posts. If the attribution to Robert Park is correct, the work could be as early as 1840. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: [Photograph of] watercolour, size unknown

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-067-2

Description: A road winding up a hill with the Hutt River below. Three men on horseback on the road, with two Maori walking below. A large flax and a small nikau palm are in the left foreground 1852 or 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on surrounding pages of the sketchbook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 226 mm

Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: B-159-024

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman with a child on the woman's back, walking beside their packhorse on a road at the left. The packhorse is laden with red saddlebags. The road continues into the foreground and curves away again to the right, disappearing into a bushcovered hilly area. The couple are passing a central rata tree in flower, and there are bushcovered hills in the distance. In the foreground in front of the rata is a pool or section of a river. Location suggested to be the Hutt Valley, but may be one of the gorges off the western side of the harbour, possibly near the old Porirua Road. Letter of authentication dated 24 August 1983 on backing board. Sometimes known as "Maori travellers ..." Other Titles - Maori travellers with packs and horse, pack horse, Hutt Valley [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 262 mm. Provenance: Formerly owned by the artist's great granddaughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock. Auctioned at McArthur & Company Auckland in October 1983 (lot 28)