Places

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1925 - 1947

By: Siroper, George, active 1925

Reference: MapColl-832.16aj/[ca.1925-47]/Acc.12,026

Description: Drawn on a published map of Mayor Island to Poverty Bay with an extended portion of another map glued to include the area from Mayor Island to the Mercury Islands. The annotations depict extended river and partially smooth water limits at various points around the coastline from the Mercury Islands to Poverty Bay. The limit for Gisborne fishing boats extends from Cape Runaway to Poverty Bay. A reference key is included which states that river and smooth water limits are coloured blue and one area is prominently named Te Kaha river limits. Extended and partially smooth water limits are coloured red and three areas are prominently named Tauranga; Whakatane, Ohiwa and Opotiki; Te Kaha extended river limits. The Tauranga extension for fine weather only, at the discretion of the Inspector of Fisheries, is coloured green. 'Opotiki extreme limits' covers the approximate area between White Island and Whale Island. An additional area has been shaded green for the extended river and partial limit from Whangamata and Tauranga to Mayor Island, with details written in biro added at a later date. Also marked in biro are three anchorages for launches, one at Waihau Bay. 'George Siroper 9/1/25' is handwritten adjacent to reference key, at centre top of map. Signature hard to decipher. '133/47' is handwritten centrally on the map. Nos. '6' and '2527' and 'Restricted limits - Bay of Plenty' are handwritten on the reverse Base map: Mayor Island to Poverty Bay / surveyed by Captain W. Pudsey Dawson. London: The Admiralty, 1906. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, coloured, scale not given, 84.3 x 95.8 cm.

Date: 1949

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginning with T. 1900s onwards ]

By: Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Tokaanu-1949-01-back

Description: Shows two drunk fishermen returning home across a field in which a scarecrow stands with outstretched arms. One fisherman accuses the scarecrow of being a liar, thinking that the arms are a measure of the size of his catch. Extended Title - on Tokaanu Hotel menu, November 1949, back cover. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on menu. Physical Description: Photolithograph 127 x 205 mm, on back cover of menu. Provenance: Donated by Jonathan Dennis in 1997.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-013

Description: Shows a view of the harbour from the water's edge, with two figures fishing from a boat and pier in the right foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 113 x 350 mm

Date: 1939 to 1950

From: Hunter, Thomas Alexander (Sir), 1876-1953: Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-237

Description: Photographs, chiefly taken by Sir Thomas Hunter, between 1939 and 1950. Many of the scenes show camping holidays, with camping sites at Whangamata (two holidays, January 13-29, 1939; and January 26 to February 16 1940), Gisborne, Wairoa, Napier, Palmerston North, Taupo, and Waikanae. The album is split in two, with half starting at one end, and the other half starting upside down at the other end of the album (tete-beche). Two photographs show Thomas Hunter with his son Irwin wearing army uniform, taken in 1940. The last few scenes are of Thomas Hunter's home at 10 Clermont Terrace, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, lacks cover; 18.5 x 23.5 cm

Date: [Between 1902 and 1927]

From: Beauchamp, Judy (Mrs), fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Morris, C H, active 1920s; Emmett, Harold, active 1905-1952

Reference: PA1-o-349

Description: Album of photographs relating to the Morris family. Many are snapshots, with people identified only by Christian name. Several show groups of children in fancy dress; three are of two boys smoking cigarettes; there are scenes of a group of men on a fishing trip in the Taupo, Tauranga areas; and at the end of the album two images of fishing boats, and fishermen's cottages at Makara. One view is of the house owned by Benjamin Mountfort in Hereford Street, Christchurch. Other - In Alexander Turnbull Library Photograph Archives album index, the album is listed as being phtographed by C H Morris, a postmaster-general in the 1920s. There is no mention of a C H Morris in Wise's post Office Directory, but William Russell Morris is listed as living at 9 Roscoe Terrace, wadestown, and as being the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, black spine; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1927

Reference: PA1-o-444

Description: Photographs of the Royal visit in 1927 of the Duke and Duchess of York, taken by an unidentified photographer. None of the photographs have captions. Images include the royal entourage driving or travelling by train through New Zealand countryside in the South Island and the North Island; various ceremonies, welcoming crowds, a large group of nurses lining the steps up to a hospital, various dignitaries, and inspection of troops and police. Two photographs show the Royal camp at Tokaanu, and one shows rows of people seated at tables in the open air. A number of more personal images show the Duke and Duchess, the Duke outside smoking a pipe, the Duke at a racecourse with a trotting horse and sulky, and the Duke and Duchess fishing near Turangi. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; entitled "Photographs" (stamped in lower right corner); 18.5 x 29.5 cm

Date: 1960

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues and price lists relating to fishing tackle, fishermen, in New Zealand. 1960-1969]

By: R Sanderson Ltd (Turangi)

Reference: Eph-A-FISHING-TACKLE-1960-01

Description: Lists and illustrates reels, lines and flies. Also gives a guide to the pools around the Tongariro River, and shows maps of several dry-fly fishing pools: Sand Pool, Blue Pool, Waddell's Pool, Barlow's Pool, Major Jones' Pool, Whitikau Pool. Inside and outside back cover shows maps of the pools on the higher and lower reaches of the Tongariro River. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, 212 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions Ltd in 2005.

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera relating to various miscellaneous hotels in locations or towns beginning with the letters N to Z. 1900-2000s]

By: Tokaanu Hotel; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: Eph-B-HOTEL-Tokaanu-1946-01

Description: Front cover shows the front of the hotel building, while the back cover shows a man in waders fishing in a river. Inside is a menu and signatures of guests. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on menu. Physical Description: Photolithographs and letterpress, on folded menu 238 x 145 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jonathan Dennis in 1997.

Date: 1890-1910

By: Johnson, Marguerite Maude, 1883?-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-9869

Description: Comprises most of Johnson's reminiscences in which she describes her early family life from her family's immigration to NZ in 1885 and living at Waikawa and Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds. She continues with her experiences growing up including travels in New Zealand with her sister, and later; `Trout-fishing'; notes; and cover and notes for `Botanical explorers of New Zealand' by Rewa Glenn. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated from the estate of Marguerite Maude Johnson, Mar 1972

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2226-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a clearing to a collection of tents. Some of the larger tents are partially visible amongst trees in the middle distance centre left. Two cars are parked in front (number plate of one: 24-932. R.M.T. Co.). Four men are standing on the far right, and there are three people seated on the ground outside a tent in the middle distance on the left. Various trees surround the campsite. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inserted in the container is a line of masking paper shaped for the sky in the image. Refer also Pan-2111 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Royal Fishing Camp. Tokaanu. 1927; Marginal notes on negative - HRH Duke of York's camp on Tongariro River, N.Z. No. 1 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 22.7 x 124.3 cm

Date: [1971-1995]

From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11750-50

Description: Papers relating to various research topics including the Kingitanga (Maori King movement), Maori fishing and early missionaries to the Maori. Also includes correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Te Kooti, and Maori carvings. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One drawing of bearded man in suit with a carving..

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2111-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a bend in the Tongariro River at a collection of tents amongst trees in the centre middle distance. There are lines of light-coloured marker stones around the tents. Bush on the far right, the far left, and in the distance. Stony beach in the foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-2226 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Tongariro River. New Zealand. No. 694; Marginal notes on negative - Tongariro River showing fishing camp, HRH Duke of York. 1927 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 131.2 cm

Date: 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2110-F

Description: Panoramic view showing the Tongariro River on the left, looking across a grassy area to a line of tents amongst trees, centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Fishing camp. Tongariro River. New Zealand. No. 695; Marginal notes on negative - Fishing camp. HRH Duke of York. Tongariro River. No. 2. Bright green tops to tents Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 137.2 cm

Date: Between 1900 and 1920

From: Brown, Thomas Watson, 1878-1947 :Photograph albums relating to New Zealanders in the South African War and of New Zealand scenes

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-075

Description: Album belonging to T W (Thomas Watson) Brown. Scenes around New Zealand, many probably taken by Brown, some taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, and some of Lake Te Anau, Lake Wakatipu, and Milford Sound taken by FGR (Frederick George Radcliffe). The first part of the album is mainly images of tramping, camping and hunting in the Orongorongo Range and the Rimutakas, with some of the people identified, including Roley Neale and W A Neale (William Augustus Neale). Other sequences of images are a number in and around Lake Waikaremoana, including several of men fishing showing their catches; climbing in the Tongariro National Park area; views of the small towns Mohaka, Mataatua; areas around Titirangi, Kawau, Hamilton and Tauranga. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - TW Brown Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red covered album, lettered in white ink "Photographs. T.W. Brown", 240 x 305 mm

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029/040

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1949

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in places beginning with T. 1900s onwards ]

By: Tokaanu Hotel; Krebs & Harland Ltd; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Tokaanu-1949-01

Description: Front cover shows the front of the hotel building, and signatures of guests. Inside is a dinner menu and wine list, and on the back cover is a cartoon by Leonard Cornwall Mitchell, entitled: "Liar!". Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on menu. Physical Description: Photolithographs and letterpress, on folded menu 205 x 127 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jonathan Dennis in 1997.

Date: 1859-1973 (193-?)

By: Buchanan, Cameron, 1859-

Reference: MS-papers-4034

Description: Contains the reminiscences of the author's life as a boy on Great Mercury Island between 1859 and 1873. Covers life relating to his family and the local Maori population. Publication - Published as Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island): memoirs of Cameron Buchanan ... 1859-1873. Whitianga: Mercury Bay District Historical Society, 1977 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - David Ennor, Auckland, 1986

Date: 1769 - 1773

By: Sporing, Herman Diedrich, 1733-1771; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771; Strahan & Company

Reference: B-085-010

Description: Engraving from the official account of Cook's first voyage, based on a drawing of Te Puta o te Paretauhinau Pa at Mercury Bay, Coromandel Peninsula (not Tolaga Bay as claimed in the title). The drawing of the pa is by Herman Diedrich Sporing, Sir Joseph Banks' clerk; the canoe is copied from a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, the official artist aboard the Endeavour. The scene shows a boat from the Endeavour being rowed in the left foreground; a small canoe with five Maori engaged in fishing in the right foreground; an arched rock in the water behind the boats with a pa on top of it; two canoes pulled up on the bank to the right behind the arched rock and dense bush in the background. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Mercury Bay Extended Title - From: Hawkesworth, J. An account of the voyages for making discoveries ... Vol. 2 Plate 18. The pa shown was seen in November 1769. See Joppien & Smith. The art of Captain Cook's voyages, vol 1, cat. no. 1.121 for the original drawing of the pa, and 1.132 for the original drawing of the Maori canoe. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 238 x 270 mm

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).