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Date: 1856-1917

By: Mason, James Malcolm (Dr), 1864-1924

Reference: 77-075

Description: Papers include correspondence, diaries, financial records, and miscellaneous papers Accompanying material - Chronological list of papers in collection compiled by reader; in collection file Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: Preliminary listing available Mason served as Chief Health Officer for New Zealand (1900-1909) Quantity: 3 box(es). 4 folder(s). 1.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs Finding Aids: Detailed calendar of correspondence arranged in chronological order (in back file). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Negatives found in 1903 diary in box 77-075-3; two photographs - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Pen and ink framed sketch, initialled TM 1894.

Date: 1833-1902

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: MS-Group-1027

Description: Comprises Hadfield's missionary activities at Kapiti and Wellington and includes correspondence outwards (1833-1886) (238 items); inwards (1839-1902) (15 items); Henry Williams to Hadfield (1860-1865) (13 items); Catherine Hadfield's letters (1851), 1858-1859 (24 items); Hadfield's diary (Sep-Oct 1839, Jun 1846); sermons (ca1888-1891); Catherine Hadfield's diary (1853); and other minor items Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.14 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (35-37 cm, ¼ maroon morocco, red buckram) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available (copy also at qMS-0902).

Date: 1994

By: Tennant, Margaret A (Dr), active 1994

Reference: MS-Papers-5206

Description: Written information sent in by former staff and inmates of health camps, collected by Dr Tennant in the course of her research on health camps Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: 1855-1950

By: Field family

Reference: MS-Group-0060

Description: Correspondence and papers of two prominent New Zealand families. The collection centres around W H Field, Waikanae landowner and MP for Otaki, and his wife Isabel Hodgkins, sister of artist, Frances Hodgkins. It amalgamates a number of separately catalogued ms collections of the same provenance, including MS-Papers-0113. * Diary for 1883 missing Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also W H Field papers, 73-128 Quantity: 244 folder(s). 92 volume(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Family trees for Field, Hodgkins and Parker families available in staff back file entitled Field Family listings.. Provenance: Collected by Field family members, 1855-1950 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Accompanying art works - To Photographic Archive - Accompanying photographs. Processing information: Two further boxes still require adding to this group and are at the end of the sequence at MS-Papers-0113-31 and MS-Papers-0113-32; they are papers relating to W H Field and will be added to Series 1 and 16B

Date: 1820-1976

By: Williams family

Reference: 75-001

Description: Comprise letters of Henry Williams, Jane Williams, Mary Williams, Samuel Williams and others; research notes on Samuel Williams and on the Williams family in general; papers relating to Te Aute College; diaries; records re property in Hawkes Bay, and an extensive collection of papers by and relating to William Gilbert Puckey. Includes papers in Maori. Source of title - Supplied title Other - C A Williams gave the papers in a number of separate donations in 1975; they have been combined under the present reference number. Quantity: 47 folder(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1839-1957

By: Rangiatea (Church : Ōtaki, N.Z.)

Reference: Micro-MS-0230

Description: Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Original baptism register, 1852-1875 (MSY-1281) held as part of MS-Papers-1925 (Church of England in New Zealand Wellington Diocese). Photocopies of published registration information are at Library references P ATL NZ 929.3 REG 1840-1958 (burials), P ATL NZ 929.3 REG 1839-1844 (baptisms), and P ATL NZ 929.3 REG 1841-1866 (marriages). Rangiatea is the oldest Maori Church in New Zealand. Ministers in charge included Octavius Hadfield, 1839-1870; James McWilliams, 1870-1906; Temuera Tokuaitua, 1908-1933 and Paora Temuera, 1933. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: Mss and printed material

Date: 1939-1998

By: Campion, Edith, 1923-2007

Reference: ATL-Group-00854

Description: Comprises literary drafts, correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Edith Campion, and to her activities as a writer, actor and director of R Hannah Ltd, and to her domestic life. Includes many letters, scripts and film treatments from her daughters Jane and Anna Campion, who are both involved in the film industry. The papers reflect in detail the life and problems of a talented upper middle-class family in the dying years of the twentieth century. The New Zealand Players scrapbooks cover the years of the company's greatest activity (1952-1957) and provide insight into the development of drama in New Zealand. Include programmes, itineraries, reviews and newspaper cuttings. Relationship complexity - The Library already has a collection of NZ Players Theatre Trust Board papers, 80-321, of 37 boxes Edith Campion, a descendant of the shoe manufacturer, Robert Hannah, studied acting at the Old Vic in England. A co-founder, with her former husband Richard Meckiff Campion, of the New Zealand Players Theatrical Company, she lived at Te Kowhai Farm at Te Horo, and in the 1970s became an author. Mother of Jane, Anna and Michael Robert Campion. Quantity: 48 volume(s). 155 folder(s). 4.50 Linear Metres. 1 C120 cassette(s). 1 5" reel(s). Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, audiocassettes, open reel audiotapes Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms E Campion, Kelburn, Wellington, 1995 and 1998 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - One photograph by John Ashton of Puck and Oberon from `A Midsummer night's dream' (1995), and further photographs found among the 1998 accession. - To Ephemera Collection - Various programmes and other material from the 1998 accession.

Date: 1948-1960

By: Maher, James Joseph, 1888-1964

Reference: MS-Papers-2182

Description: Maher's papers reflect his interests as an MP representing a rural electorate. They include correspondence (1951-1959), speech notes, caucus committee papers (1952-1958), National Party material (1948-1960), farming and dairy matters (1951-1959). Source of title - Supplied Maher was National MP for Otaki, 1946-1960 Quantity: 45 folder(s). 5.85 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1843 - 1874

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Auckland

Reference: MS-Papers-10926

Description: Includes Otaki letters, 1848-1869, Porirua letters, 1847-1851, and Wellington letters, 1843-1874 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)

Date: [1930-1940]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-10

Description: Contents comprise Otaki-Waikanae area and river (Carkeek's surveys, provincial plan of Horowhenua county, and of Otaki Borough (1925); Waikanae-Pukerua area; plan of Wairaka pa; Porirua Harbour and adjacent coast; sketch of part of Porirua Harbour; plan of Kaitawa kainga; part of coast, Porirua Harbour (Te Neke kainga); Banks Peninsula; Waikanae-Paraparaumu area (1888) Arrangement: Notebook no 9 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: Jan-Oct 1920

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-32

Description: Contains diary entries by Keys re his travels through the Bay of Plenty and Horowhenua districts on business as a Native Land Agent; there are detailed descriptions of the countryside and towns which Keys travelled through, and discussions about the people he met; there are also discussions about Maori practices and customs that he encountered and his impressions of them. There are also notes about native flora and fauna and the liquor trade, and a number of photographs of people (mainly from Te Arawa and Ngati Raukawa), scenery and marae, taken by Keys according to the text (each is dated). Also contains copies of various manuscripts (in Maori) submitted to Keys by Maori informants, and information about the history of Rangiatea at Otaki Also includes stories, written in Maori, from the Ngati Raukawa tribe; "The story of Uenuku-kopako and Kapu- Manawawhiti"; "The death of Tukemata"; and a copy of a letter from Riapo Puhipi (Leopold Busby) about an exchange of gifts between Te Rauparaha and Poroa, a chief of Ahipara. Includes photographs of the old Otaki school house; Kahurangi Taipua; Raukawa meeting house (all on p.73), and Tungia Te Ao (pp.74 & 100). Contains description of the Whakatane river in 1907 (p33 & 34) and the names of the rocks in the river. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [1860-1944]

By: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944

Reference: 73-128

Description: The papers are a mix of personal and business correspondence, financial records, papers relating to land, contracts and other papers. Some relate to Field's wife, Isabel Field, and his family, some to his parliamentary career, his legal practice and his constituency affairs. Language - Some material is in Māori and will be noted on the particular records Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also Field family papers at MS-Group-0060 W H Field was MP for Otaki from 1896-1911 and 1914-1935; he was also a lawyer and landowner in the Kapiti district Quantity: 290 folder(s). 6 volume(s). 6.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Large collection of maps, some original; previously 73-218-B0002. Processing information: The collection is currently being arranged and described. The arrangement differs completely from that of MS-Group-0060 as the material was no longer in any sort of order and it was decided to divide it into series. Includes 73-128-B0001 and 73-128-B0002; larger-sized documents are at fMS-Papers-6904.

Date: 1846-1912

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904; Macmorran, Barbara Elizabeth, 1923-

Reference: MS-Papers-0139

Description: Letters from Bishop Selwyn and others, and outwards correspondence, largely to the Church Missionary Society; Reminiscences of Hadfield and Henry Williams; papers on the Bryce v Rusden case; Otaki School affairs and parish accounts; clippings The papers of Mrs Hadfield include her diary 1853-1854, and correspondence with her mother Marianne Williams, 1851-1879 Arrangement: Arranged into series Missionary, Bishop of Wellington Quantity: 43 folder(s). 0.43 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss,typescript and printed matter (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Provenance: Donated by Barbara Elizabeth Macmorran, Great-grandchild of Octavius Hadfield. Transfers: To Book Collections - Life of Hadfield by R McNab.