Places

Date: 1869

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1869/Acc.1185

Description: Copy of a topographic map of the area in the Murimotu District from the Kaiiwi River and the Ohura River across to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa Ranges and the Rangitikei River. Cut road lines, proposed lines and native tracks are referred to in a reference key. Some tracks are routes proposed by Mr. Hogg and Mr. Booth, also an old war track described by natives is marked. Plantations, mountain peaks, rivers and streams are named. Relief features are described. Major Marshall's and Birch's Station are marked. Handwritten note on bottom right of map: The lake and mountains are from Hochstetter's map corrected by the Auckland Trig Survey: the Wanganui River from Brewer's survey, and the Upper Turakina and Rangitikei from Swainson's map corrected by Monro's survey. Map published in: Copy of the report by the late Mr. H.C. Field on the discovery of Field's track, Wanganui, 1869. Shelf reference qMS-0726, Field Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:506 880], 60.5 x 38.7 cm.

Date: ca 1930s

Reference: PAColl-4636

Description: Photographs of: a new bridge over the railway line at Turakina in the middle distance with the river bridge and the railway bridge also visible; the bridge over the river at Turakina; men shovelling stone from a river bank on to carts running on rails over the river to the highway; jig line of Oreore metalling plant - a man standing at the bottom of inclined rails; a winch and steam traction engine in use on the construction of Turakina bridge; men standing on the new bridge over the railway line at Turakina; and a man standing on the new Turakina river bridge with part of the old one next to it. Photographer unidentified. All have the same photographic developer's stamp on the reverse but they may relate to PAColl-7364. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints at PAColl-5932-34 to PAColl-5932-37.

Date: 1882-1907

By: Olsson, Hans, 1839-1920

Reference: fMS-Papers-1492

Description: Records of Manawatu Gorge toll keeper. Day book, 1882-1886; monthly sheets of tolls 1891-1906; tallies of traffic and stock using road, 1905-1906; flood records, 1906-1907; correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-043

Description: Shows a village at Tokaanu, Taupo, where some of the storehouses are cut into the cliffs with rectangular openings. There are also huts and storehouses on top of the cliff. Labelled features are: the Kaimanawa Range (far left), Pihanga moutain (centre distance) and Herekiekie's grave in the far right background. A road cuts through a gorge at the far left, and there are talls grasses in the left foreground. Other Titles - Rotoaira Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [43 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1892

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-015

Description: A fenced road with native bush on both sides, including flax and cabbage trees. A stream (or another road?) passes underneath it (or joins it?) from the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1904

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944; Wylde, Henry James, 1850?-1933; Grover, Raymond Frank, 1931-2019

Reference: MapColl-832.4397gbbd/1904/Acc.36351

Description: Cadastral map of part of George Street and Bryce Street, Shannon, showing the surveyed section of George Street that is to be closed under the Public Works Act, highlighted green. Shows immediately surrounding blocks with numbered sections, those visible are all owned by James Wallace (465-469 and 439, 440, 444, 446, 448 and 450). Map signed by HJ Wylde, Authorised surveyor, 2 Dec 1904. Ink annotation on map declaring Horowhenua Council Council chairman authority for road closure (unsigned). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:1 584], 47 x 51.2 cm. Provenance: Donated by Raymond Grover.

Date: 1890

Reference: MapColl-832.45bf/[ca. 1890?]/Acc.28699

Description: Original survey plan showing topographical features including the Mangahao River and [Karearea Hill] area, block ten, part of the Woodville - Mangatainoka Block, Mangahao Survey District. Shows several road surveys, survey pegs, and lots 46-58, with acreage. Indicates 'Proposed school residence' and 'Totara Res[erve].' Annotations in ink pen have been aded to the map, for example survey peg marks have survey book page references added alongside them. Some pencil and ink annotations on map. Other Titles - Block 10 (ten) District Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and water colour on dressed linen, scale indeterminable, 43 x 47 cm.

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1870

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1870/Acc.1191

Description: Relief map of the area from Wanganui to Ruapehu to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa ranges to the Rangitikei River. The route of the exploring company is marked from Major A. Marshall's to Lake Taupo including marked sites of their camps with dates. Mr. Birch's sheep track is marked. A note states that A to B is from sketch signed G.F.S. Note on catalogue card states: To accompany: Misc Mss. H8, Report on the practicability of constructing a road from Wanganui to Taupo, 1869. Misc MS H8 is written in pencil on top right of map. Note on bottom left states: Copy f7 Accompanied by a copy of a page from AJHR, 1870, A.-5, p.5. This page includes a report by George F. Swainson with proposals for a road. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour wash on dressed linen. coloured, scale [1:253 440], 91 x 79.3 cm.

Date: 1961

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-106

Description: Shows an T-intersection, possibly in the vicinity of Norsewood. At the end of the road is a signpost to Napier. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: 1870

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmbd/[ca.1870]/Acc.2781-2782

Description: Copy of a map of the proposed road from Murimotu to Wanganui following the Wangaehu, Mangawhero and Wanganui Rivers. Land blocks and settlements are named. Native tracks are marked, also the railway line at Wanganui. Believed to be surveyed by H.C. Field Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, linen backed, scale [1:63 360], 122 x 36.7 cm., sheets 76.2 x 36.7 cm.

Date: 31 Dec 1869, 29 Jan 1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2782

Description: Copies of letters to Hon W Fox from H C Field and George F Swainson. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1846-1848, 1865-1868

By: Stewart, John Tiffin, 1827-1913

Reference: Micro-MS-0165

Description: Notes taken while studying civil engineering at University of Glasgow, 1846-1848. Diaries describing activities as superintendent of works for Wellington and Manawatu districts, 1865, 1868 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 500 pages).

Date: 1890 - 1899

By: Levin & Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4393bje/[189-?]/Acc.8152

Description: Plan of some suburban sections in part of Feilding, highlighting unsold sections on Kimbolton Road (numbers 119-129, each between 5-10 acres) and one nearby section of over 51 acres. Includes annotations of the new road off Kimbolton Road leading to the new bridge over the Kiwitea Stream, and the site of the old bridge. The new road cuts through the unsold sections 121-4. Map drawn on 'The Colonists Land and Loan Corporation, Limited' letterhead paper. Drawn partly on rice or tissue paper with letter-head `The Colonists' Land and Loan Corporation, Limited... Feilding 189-'. This is joined to a smaller piece of plain paper on which has a small part of the map drawing on it. Purple signature bottom right corner. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on rice or tissue paper, linen backed, gauze covered front, scale indeterminable, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Provenance: Donated by Levin & Co 1969

Date: 1960 - 1965

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Old homes & sheds, farms made by pioneers in Norsewood. [1950s-1964].

Reference: E-029-q-139

Description: Shows a road sweeping around to the right with trees on the lefthand side. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 315 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist available.. Provenance: Donated by Mrs J. Brenkley in 1964.

Date: [1925-1929]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-086

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes history of the post office at Ohau up to 1925; notes on railway management; circulars re the Labour Party for Reform Party candidates circulated by the New Zealand Welfare League; letters from the Minister of Railways re proposals to extend services in the North Island and on change to train timetable; employment request; notes by Field on political meeting of Waite at Lawrence from `Otago daily times'; mental hospital staff rates of pay; speech, A D McLeod on land settlement; heavily annotated clippings on the state of the nation from the Prime Minister's address; various notes etc relating to the election; notes on various political meetings including those of Dyson and Sievewright and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1884 - 1894

By: Wanganui County (N.Z.). County Council

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmbd/[1889]/Acc.36724

Description: Survey plan showing part of the eastern line of road, left bank of the Whanganui River, to be closed by the Wanganui County Council. Also shows a small portion of road previously closed, and the present number two line of road. The surrounding land owners and their property section numbers are shown (A.A. Sherriff, William Bamber). 'Traced and checked [by] A.B. 14/2/[18]96'. '98/42'. Sheet 1 is MapColl-832.41gmbd/[1889]/Acc.36724. The library does not hold sheet 2. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:2 376], 76.4 x 56.4 cm.

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/[18-?]/Acc.36399

Description: Map of sections 368-374, Block 5, Gorge Survey District, including acreage, near Ashurst. The sections border a road reserve (next to the Manawatu River), a forest reserve, subdivision 'Z', Manchester Block and sections 364-367. An unnamed stream is indicated bordering sections 368-371. Depicts survey notations along what would probably become Gardner Road and Centre Road, near the Manawatu River and Gorge. '56/13' is written bottom left corner. 'Get out at Ashurst' is written in blue pencil on map. Includes crossed out pencil annotations. Pencil annotation on map 'Gardner Bro[ther]s' stating price for sections 369 and 370 as 21/- (shillings) and for section 368 as 30/-. Other Titles - 5 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, part coloured, scale [1:7 920], 28.8 x 88.9 cm.

Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]

Reference: PAColl-7364

Description: Photographs of road building or maintenance, such as straightening curves, on the following highways: Great South Road at Huntly; laying concrete on the Paparua County section of the Christchurch-Dunedin highway; bitumen surfacing on the Kamo town section of the Whangarei-Kawakawa highway; bituminous concrete paving on the Halswell County section of the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; bituminous concrete laying on the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; Great South Road Mercer-Ohinewai section near Long Swamp with workmen's camps in the distance; penetration work on the Waitara-Pukearuhe section of the Auckland-Wellington via Taranaki highway; Goat valley section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopua-Raglan highway looking towards Thames; improved alignment on the Kawhia County section of the Auckland-Wellington highway; the Leslie's Gully section of the Hamilton-Rotorua highway looking towards Tamahere; Auckland-Wellington highway near Wanganui; improved curve on the New Plymouth-Kaimata highway; Great South Road at Long Swamp; Great South Road at Taupiri Gorge; the Rangiriri Hills deviation of the Great South Road; Hamilton-Rotorua highway near Tamahere showing bitumen on tar sealing; Whatawhata-Raglan highway from near Whatawhata; Rotorua-Whakatane highway; widening work on the Coromandel main highway; Auckland-Wellington highway near Lepperton; bitumen surface on Saddle Hill on the Dunedin-Invercargill highway; bitumen concrete at Halswell on the Christchurch-Akaroa highway; Paeroa Borough section of the Kopu-Raglan highway; Rangiriri deviation. Also included are three unidentified bridges, one built by J T Julian & Son; the bridge at Motueka; a Rotorua County Council speed limit sign on the Ngongotaha bridge; Waitakaruru bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; McCormick's bridge on the Thames Coast highway; replacement of King's Creek bridge on the Gisborne-Napier highway; the Karangahake bridge on the Pokeno-Waihi highway; and railway carts being loaded at Mosgile quarry for the Taieri County section of the Dunedin-Invercargill highway. Arrangement: Artifical collection although some of the prints are from the same source (eg 12-004447 and 004448). Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: One print at PAColl-6181-56..

Date: 1896

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmbd/1896/Acc.12600

Description: Survey map of Hauhau Road (now called Vinegar Hill Road), in Block 7, Ongo Survey District (near Hunterville), from Manganoho Road (now called State Highway 1) south-eastwards to the Rangitikei River. Numbered blocks of neighbouring land are identified (Block 7, lots 5, 5a, 8 & 9), with lot 5 belonging to A G & R K Simpson and 5a belonging to Weston. A small bridge is shown. Blue pencil annotation: 'Get out at Hunterville', 'About 2 1/2 miles N W of Hunterville'. Pencil annotation: 'A R MacKay'. 'From Plan 97/27'. 'Traced & checked ERW 14.2.[18]96'. Inset top left corner of the surveyed Hauhau and Manganoho Road intersection. Verso: 'Hauhau Road near Hunterville'. 'A.R. Mackay - Is the road formed?'. Title incorrectly identifies Block as no. 8 instead of no. 7. (See NZMS 13, WN 43 Ongo, 3rd ed (Wgtn: Land & Survey Department, 1953). Other Titles - Hauhau Other Titles - 7 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 47.4 x 44.6 cm.