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Date: Between 1979 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8845

Description: Kauri seed laid on kauri wood, female and male kauri cones, and Tane Mahuta (giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Kauri Forest). A view of the Waimate North Mission Station Church; three views of a ginkgo biloba tree at the home of John Gilkison at Cambridge; three images taken at the home of Merta Alford (Harriet Mercy Alford) at Taotaoroa showing Sir Michael and Lady Inagh Parsons, visiting New Zealand. The last five images show scenes at a waterlily garden. Marked as being at Waitoa by Rhoda McWhannell, but possibly the Waihi Waterlily Gardens. They include water lilies in flower in the lake, the lake and bush, the water lily nursery, and one image of a yellow begonia plant in flower. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1847

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-434-028

Description: Page includes: Waimtai [Waimate] Church, and burial place of British officers. The church is described as "a structure of no pretension to beauty" Commanding officer's wau [whare?], Rua Pekapeka [Ruapekapeka] War dance of the New Zealanders. "The third scene shows a war dance of New Zealanders, got up for the amusement of the British, who are enjoying the grotesque exhibition. Around are seated some natives in the customary cloak; and a monster mortar, belonging to the British, is shown on the right" External cavern - within a Maori fortified pa Internal cavern and connecting passage - within a Maori fortified pa Group of Maories - shows four Maori men, three of them standing and one seated on the ground at the left in a cloak. One of the standing men shows tattooing of the buttocks. Two of the standing Maori are holding rifles. Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engravings and letterpess on page, 410 x 275 mm Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in 2010.

Date: 1840

By: Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850

Reference: E-128-q-006

Description: Shows the Waimate Mission Station on the left, a two-storied building with verandah and the Waimate Church in the centre at a slight distance Original wash drawing is the property of Royal Society Tasmania, held by Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart Other Titles - Mr Clarke's house at Waimate Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 139 mm on sheet 276 x 215 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: 1845

From: Thomson, Arthur Saunders, 1817?-1860 :The story of New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1859).

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: PUBL-0144-1-330

Description: Flax bushes in the foreground and three standing Maori; cows fenced in on the left. In the middle distance on the left, a church and a cluster of buildings beyond a fenced area on a low hill. Another two buildings on the right, possibly barns with a distinctive hill beyond Derived from Cyprian Bridge's watercolour View of the Waimati (missionary station) and Poka Mie hill, 1845 (A-079-036) Extended Title - From: Thomson, A. S. The story of New Zealand. (London, John Murray, 1859), volume 1, p. 330 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 59 x 84 mm

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: Nov 1844

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-203

Description: Sketch by William Bambridge, showing the mission station house and church at Waimate North. Haymaking is underway in the adjacent field. The sketch is on p 203 in the diary. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 65 x 133 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm

Date: 1841

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-034-2

Description: A small Gothic-style church, with the fenced in grave and memorial stone for Arthur Taylor, the artist's oldest son, killed in a fall from a horse. Pukenui is the flat-topped hill in the background. There are houses visible in the middle distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Sepia ink, 85 x 150 mm

Date: 1841

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-034-3

Description: Shows a view over trees and rolling countryside, with the aimate North church in the left distance. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia ink 85 x 150 mm.