Places

Date: 21 January 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-09

Description: Levenia Shine, Post Mistress at Whangamomona Post Office. Photographed 21 January 1988 by Fiona Clark. Exhibited in 'Within Memory' Exhibition at the National Library Galley, 6 April - 16 July 2006. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: 1863-1899, 1977

By: Bluck family

Reference: MS-Papers-2556

Description: Collection consists of the journal of Alfred Bluck covering his voyage from England to Lyttelton on the `Zealandia', 31 August - 8 December 1863, active service as a Taranaki Volunteer 1863-1866 & farming at Tuakau to 1867; Edgar Bluck's journal, June 1888-April 1889 written as a letter to his brother Frederick recounting his travels in Queensland & gold-mining in New Guinea; one photograph of Agnas Bluck, one letter from Lucy Bluck, 1 March 1877, to the Secretary of the Canterbury Board of Education requesting equipment for the newly-opened Harrisville School where she was the first teacher; pamphlet, Harrisville school centennial 1877-1977. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts, printed matter, photograph

Date: 1944

By: Le Fleming, Eliza Ann, 1892-1975

Reference: MS-Papers-5253

Description: The memoirs are those of the daughter writing about her mother's experiences as a settler and pioneer in the Timaru and Taranaki districts. Accompanying material - Accompanied by genealogical chart and notes relating to the Kelland and Le Fleming families Martha Le Fleming (nee Kelland) came to New Zealand ca 1865 and lived first in Timaru and settled in Otakeho, Taranaki, 1881. Her daughter Bessie (Eliza Ann) wrote the memoirs after her mother's death in 1944. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr G C Palliser, Lower Hutt, 1995

Date: ca 1928-ca 1938

By: Irik, M, active 2001

Reference: PAColl-6211

Description: Photographs of Ohangi School, Taranaki, and teachers Violet Scheib and Jean Feist. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1836-1869, 1910

By: Bolland family

Reference: MS-Papers-2004

Description: Chiefly family letters from William Bolland, first minister at New Plymouth, 1843-1847; and from his wife Jane, after his death. Also two letters from Bishop Selwyn, and one from John Morgan, Wanganui to Rev W E Bolland, Norfolk, England, dated 1910 Included are three letters by William Bolland to his mother Sarah Bolland. In two of them William describes his happiness at having married Jane Wright. They were married in 1841, and sailed for Taranaki the same year. In three letters written by Jane from New Zealand she describes their arrival, life as a clergyman's wife, her home, and nursing her son through an illness. A two page sheet entitled `Description of Sunday', was probably also written by Jane. Quantity: 3 folder(s) (18 pieces). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)

Date: 1929-1948

By: Kendall, Leslie Frank, active 1920-1950

Reference: PA1-o-717

Description: Album compiled by Lesley Frank Kendall. The first section relates to tramping and the Mount Egmont Alpine Club. This includes - A large group of people on a mountain tramp ca 1929. Climbers on Mount Egmont. Building the first Syme Hut on Fantham's Peak, Mount Egmont, 1930. Military training camp at Long Bay. Emerson Street, Napier, in ruins, 1931. Two men on a motorcycle holiday. Group of photographs of the Wairarapa and Tararua Ranges. This includes - Men hunting in the Palliser Bay area. Views of the Rimutaka Range and road. Climbers on Mount Hector, Tararua Range, and at Kime and Field's huts. View of the Balclutha road bridge (built between 1933 and 1935). Kendall family members and a motor holiday in Central Otago ca 1936. This group also includes Queentown, the Buller Gorge, the DH 86 aircraft `Karoro,' and Canterbury. Views of Napier rebuilt. Sports matches include - New Zealand versus India, hockey, 1938. Otago versus Canterbury, rugby (probably Ranfurly Shield) 1938. Photograph group relating to a holiday in Auckland. Photograph group relating to a holiday at The Portage, Kenepuru Sound, Marlborough. Family gathering. Lesley Kendall in military uniform and Norma Clout on their wedding day, ca 1940. Group of photographs of unidentified children, people and places. Pig hunting trip, locality unidentified. Group of photographs of Lesley and Norma Kendall's first baby. Holiday on the South Island's West Coast. Wanganella on Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour, 1948. Views of Ohinemutu and Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs relating to the Royal New Zealand Air Force training school at Levin, Second World War. Family photographs, views of Wellington, the Putangirua Pinnacles Palliser Bay, and Picton. Groups of people on holiday at Paraparaumu, 1930s. Groups of people on a day out at Ohariu Valley, Wellington, 1930s. Wellington College Mod. VB class, 1929. Lesley Kendall with athletic trophies for the 1929-1930 season. Family photographs, 1920s-1940s. House on Maungakiekie Avenue, One Tree Hill, Auckland. Group photograph of a dance party, Mount Eden, Auckland, 1930s. Two photographs of New Zealand Air Force groups, Second World war. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1820-1896

By: Hirst family

Reference: MS-Papers-0282

Description: Letters exchanged between members of the Bracken family in England and the Hirst family in New Zealand, including Grace's correspondence to her husband Thomas Hirst, and to her mother and sisters. In letters home to her family Grace discusses business affairs, frequently requesting goods to be sent out for sale in their shop; the breaking in of land at Bell Block, and construction of their home `Brackenhirst'. She records the details of domestic and farm life, and the progress of the war in the 1860s. The family retreated from Bell Block to the safety of New Plymouth from where Grace continued her letters. By May 1860 Grace was writing from Wellington, waiting for a passage to England. On the return voyage to New Zealand the following year, Grace and Thomas' ship the `William Brown' was destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay. Grace described the fire and their subsequent rescue. Thomas and Grace returned to England. Thomas made the return voyage to New Zealand on the `Ravenscraig' but Grace remained for a year before setting out for New Zealand on the `Silver Eagle', recording the voyage in a letter-journal up to her arrival in Auckland in January 1863. Grace continued her correspondence to English relations to 1896, her letters being supplemented by those of her daughters Annis, Harriet and Mary, all of whom married and settled in New Plymouth The collection also includes newspaper cuttings, 1886-1896, 1950s; and a family tree of the Appleyard family which provides information about the Hirst family Grace and Thomas Hirst immigrated from West Riding Yorkshire, arriving at Auckland in 1852 with five of their eight children. Their eldest son, James, had come out in 1851 to prepare a place for them at New Plymouth. Two of their children stayed with Grace's sisters in England. They settled at New Plymouth, trading as general merchants and at the same time broke in a farm at Bell Block, where the family home `Brackenhirst' was built. During the Taranaki war they retreated to new Plymouth. Thomas died in 1883 and Grace lived on in New Plymouth until her death. Quantity: 40 folder(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1841-1965

By: Hursthouse, Harold Franklin, 1875-1965

Reference: 83-318

Description: Includes 10 diaries (1899-1907) written by Grace Hair of Manaia, Taranaki (later to become Mrs Harold Hursthouse), with the title `The diary of a girl'. The 3 diaries which cover 1899-1901 have pressed flowers and ferns inserted between the pages. The collection also includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, testimonials, letters to Charles Hursthouse for period 1841-1842, copy of the will of Ernest William Hursthouse (brother), and pedigree of the Hursthouse family from 1580. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es) wax box (10 volumes, 11 folders). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs

Date: 1820-1896

By: Hirst family

Reference: MS-0994-1006

Description: Letters exchanged between members of the Bracken family in England and the Hirst family, mainly Grace Hirst. Discuss business affairs, day-to-day life in Taranaki, Maori wars in the 1860s, voyages to New Zealand, etc Source of title - Supplied In Dec 1851 Grace, Thomas and five of their children left England in the `Gwalior', arriving in Auckland in Jun 1852. They settled in New Plymouth and traded as general merchants. In Feb 1860, with the outbreak of war in Taranaki, the family retreated from Bell Block to the safety of New Plymouth. In 1861 Thomas & Grace returned to England where Grace remained for a year before returning to NZ on the `Silver Eagle' in 1863. Thomas returned on the Ravenscraig in 1861 Grace frequently assisted neighbouring families as a midwife and nurse, attended at the birth of many of her own grandchildren, and helped lay out the dead. She was also active in fundraising for the Anglican Church Quantity: 13 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (27 cm; red buckram)

Date: 1917-1927

From: Thwaite, Ann, 1932- :Photographs relating to the Harrop and Valentine families

Reference: PA1-o-1590

Description: Throughout the album are many photographs of family, friends, children babies and weddings, some of which are identified by name. The two main places depicted are Christchurch and New Plymouth. Groups on Mount Taranaki/Egmont and views on and arround the mountain also crop up throughout the album. Young women at Canterbury University College, particularly groups associated with Helen Connon Hall. A group of women in the Canterbury Teachers' Training College basketball team. Some photographs of people playing tennis. Touring and camping trips to places like Stoney Creek (near Balclutha?) and the Awakino Valley. Other places represented are Rotorua where a holiday was taken in 1924. Tauranga, its waterfront, and yachting in the harbour. Some views of Wellington. At one point in the album groups of photographs appear that indicate a trip overseas taken in 1926. These include - Elephant and keepers, probably Sri Lanka. Landscape views, India. The Taj Mahal. England which includes photographs of the historian Angus John Harrop and his sister among the colleges of Cambridge University. Group visiting the Malvern Hills. Passengers and officers on the ship `Beltana'. A children's party on the ship. South Africa, Durban and Cape Town. Australia 1926 - Adelaid Sydney and Melbourne. War memorial to New Zealand troops at Le Quesnoy, France. A note inside the front cover of the album states that photographs of England were sent by Angus John Harrop. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, May 2011

Date: 1965 - 1975

From: Wellington Workers’ Educational Association: Collection

By: Wellington Workers' Educational Association

Reference: A-280-011

Description: Profile portrait of a woman with short dark hair and a long neck. Head and shoulders only. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Felt-tip pen on sketchbook page 266 x 187 mm (excluding edges torn from ring-binder)

Date: 1910

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012821-G

Description: Ladies nail hammering competition, Tututawa picnic, 1910. Photograph taken by James McAllister. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-04

Description: Margaret Busby, Post Mistress Jane Lawrence, and Mary Martin in Normanby Post Office. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 25th of January, 1988. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

Date: 1885 - 1895

By: Good, Thomas, 1823-1907

Reference: A-329-006

Description: Shows Mount Ruapehu in the central distance. Two women stand together in the right foreground on an area of lawn in a landscaped garden. The garden comprises swathes of lawn surrounded by shrubs and trees, with a seat in the centre and possibly a small bower at the end of the lawned area at the left. The other works in the group include one dated 1892 and one dated 1893, and it is assumed that all date from the late 1880s and early 1890s. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - T.G. [and title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet 136 x 224 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's South Kensington, 25 May 1989, lot no. 176. Backing (now discarded) indicates that the work was previously framed at some time by Gowrie Galleries, 316 Oxford Street, Woollahra 2025, NSW.

Date: 1988

From: Clark, Fiona :Post Office Documentary Project photographs

Reference: PAColl-1302-08

Description: Post Mistress Joyce Street, and Kath Benton, at Frankleigh Park Post Office on the day it closed down. Photographed by Fiona Clark on the 5th of February, 1988. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cibachrome colour print

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-003

Description: A settler on the roof of his hut, trying to cover the chimney which is on fire. In the foreground stands his wife, hands on hips, watching him. The hut is in a clearing in dense bush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 215 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911

Reference: E-047-q-021

Description: The fortification on Marsland Hill at New Plymouth with a large hospital tent in front and many Maori and Pakeha in front of it. In the foreground, groups of Maori and Pakeha, including a man performing a challenge, with an axe. The occasion appears to be festive, with many flags strung up and families present, possibly after the cessation of hostilities at New Plymouth. Based on a watercolour in Edward Arthur Williams' sketchbook, called Taranaki (E-348-131/13l). There is also a watercolour of the same subject called New Plymouth 18 June 1864 by E. A. Williams, held by the Hocken Library (neg 116167 1/2 in the Drawings and Prints photographic files). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 105 x 185 mm

Date: Between 1895 and 1900

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

Reference: PA1-o-405-13

Description: Group of Pakeha men and women (some thought to be relatives of surveyor Lewis Coster Sladden) photographed in front of a whare at Parihaka with Maori children in the late 1890s, by an unknown photographer. Source of descriptive information - Sladden family named by a library client, she has a copy of this image Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.8 x 15.3 cm, mounted on album page 15.1 x 20.3 cm

Date: 1880

By: Moore, Sophia Augusta, 1862?-1945

Reference: A-181-002

Description: Tree ferns and other native trees in the foreground, a log bridge crossing a small gully, with a woman carrying a bundle on a stick, just stepping off the log bridge. Other partially cleared bush in the background. The woman may be a self-portrait Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - S.A.Lysaght [illegible] 1880 [?] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 163 x 277 mm

Date: 1891

By: Sinclair, J C, active 1891

Reference: PA2-1666

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).