Places

Date: 1949-1972

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-065

Description: Includes newspaper cuttings of a memorial church at Kahukura and Gisborne promotional material from the 1960s, essay by Leo Fowler on the Dunlop family at Poverty Bay, and a talk by Pine Taiapa on Ngati Porou history. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1887-1953

By: Wallingford School

Reference: qMS-2112

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (442 pages). Physical Description: Ms (34 cm; ½ red morooco)

Date: nd

By: Denne, Archibald, Harry, 1900-1972

Reference: MS-Papers-10887

Description: Includes reference to his teaching at Taihape and Oxford, experiences in Maori schools in the Northland and on the East Coast, relations with Sir Apirana Ngata and others, and experiences in Fijian and Chatham Island schools. Includes some sketch maps of the areas mentioned Denne was an inspector of Maori schools 1933-1937, inspector of schools 1938-1947 and senior inspector of schools in Hawke Bay 1947-1948 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (85 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - One cartoon entitled `AHD inspects the sewing'.

Date: 1928

By: Whyte, David, 1865-

Reference: MS-2393

Description: Reminiscences of farming and pioneer life on the East Coast and Hawkes Bay Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (260 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (26cm, maroon buckram)

Date: 1890-1904

By: Watkins, Rees, 1864?-1926

Reference: MS-Papers-1408

Description: Written to mother and father in Wales, first from Napier, where Rees worked for railways, and later from Ashley Clinton, Hawke's Bay, where he took up land. Gives details of farm life, clearing land, shearing. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: [1940-1980]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-014

Description: Rangitane pa, Dannevirke area; letter with whakapapa from M N Paewai; historical notes and songs from the Dannevirke district collected from Ranginui Rautahi and Nireaha Paewai of the Ngati-Pakapaka hapu of Rangitane with index to whakapapa Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1905-1908

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-067

Description: Contains farm records for Maori farms in Hawke's Bay and associated financial records; also contains minutes of meetings held at Waimarama marae in 1906 about various issues; also contains brief notes about Maori land blocks in Hawke's Bay and the respective shares of the owners

Date: 1888-1957

By: Evangelical Lutheran Emmanuel Convention of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-2202

Description: Contains miscellaneous material removed from Lutheran Church records (see MS-Papers-2200) held by the Library. Includes essays and papers of Pastor Christopher Gaustad, correspondence of the Convention, minute book for the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Dannevirke, newspaper cutting and pamphlets on religious topics Relationship complexity - For main collection of Convention records see Ries family papers (MS-Papers-2272). See 84-237 for translations from Danish to English of items in these papers Convention formed in 1890 as a result of expansion of Danish Lutheran Church in Hawkes Bay area Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter

Date: [1970-1975]

From: Dennis, Lawrence Samuel, 1915-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7261-23

Description: Part of folder, Background information, certain hotels formerly administered by Department of Tourist and Publicity, comprising draft essay or report on Lake Waikaremoana and Lake House (ca 1965), and planning team report on Lake Waikaremoana with two photographs of redevlopment scheme for the THC by John Scott (1972) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1898-1933

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6571-072

Description: Contains Ngati Kahungunu and other whakapapa for Mere Mohi and related hapu written in an unknown hand, together with some waiata in the same hand; also contains whakapapa for the Te Whaiti family from Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Toa, written by Henare Te Whaiti; also contains whakapapa contributred by Poihaere Hue; also contains information about Ngati Kahungunu, including the conflict and subsequent peacemaking between Wairarapa Maori and Te Ati Awa in the 1830s and the death of Nga-oko-i-te-rangi at an earlier time Also contains notes in Maori about the signs of the Zodiac

Date: 1988-1989

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Educational reminiscences

Reference: 88-005-09

Description: Rita Ellen Lee's reminiscence of her teaching career in Canterbury, Southland and Otago, 1928-1958; Miss L Leonard's reminiscence of Marlborough School, 1905-1907; R Hazel Lill's reminiscence of Willowby School, 1911-1917; Mrs Laura Law (nee Mawhinney), Eweburn School; W E Langford's brief history of Hastings Central School, 1875-1975. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph; typescript

Date: 1898-1921 (1982?)

By: Bedingfield, Henry Derisley, 1898-1992

Reference: MS-Papers-4352

Description: The reminiscences cover the period 1898-1921 and contain an account of Bedingfield's early life in southern Hawke's Bay. Bedingfield grew up on a farm at Matamau and attended school at nearby Makotuku. After leaving school in 1914 he worked briefly as a labourer before becoming a clerk at the Waipawa and Waipukurau branches of the Bank of New Zealand. He transferred to New Plymouth in 1921. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (23 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-047

Description: Anne Humphries is the central figure of the essay but an account is also given of her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, husbands and children from the time they came to New Zealand until Anne's death Includes four generation family tree Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published inventory available.

Date: 1964-1972

By: Gambrill, Reginald Frank, 1890-1975

Reference: qMS-0820-0824

Description: Comprises letters and extracts from personal diaries with notes from family records copied and extracted as a foundation for the preparation of a biography of Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell. Divided into 1772-1895 (vol 1); `Land, 1859-1972 (vol 2); `World War I, 1914-1918 (vol 3); `Civil life, World War II, the declining years, 1919-1960 (vol 4); `Tributes and letters' (vol 5) Gambrill covers all four Andrew Hamilton Russells (though concentrating on the third and fourth) and their lives in NZ. Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - The Russell family saga Arrangement: Each volume has a contents index at the front Gambrill compiled the saga in preparation for a biography of the Russell family Quantity: 5 volume(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts and photographs (35 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1960-1964

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Diaries

Reference: Micro-MS-0600-12

Description: Notes on Adkin's original Maori oral history research which focuses on tribal histories, settlements, and historic sites. Adkin's interviewed Paeroa Wineera and her son Tutuira Wineera (1963) who gave him information on Ngati Toa whakapapa as well as the original Maori place-names for Taupo Pa (ie. Turi-Karewa) and other landmarks around Takapuwahia Pa. Includes notes on Adkin's archeological expeditions in the Mana-Kapiti Coast, Horowhenua, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, and Wairarapa-Palliser Bay districts. Also comprises notes on the Whitireia and Mana Island archeological sites. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1883-1889, 1989, n d

By: Mabin, Railene, active 1997-2005

Reference: MS-Papers-8238

Description: Photocopies of Heretaunga School minutes (9 Apr 1883), Heretaunga School record (1889) and L S Rickard's `Three schools; a centennial history' (pages 8-25) relating to Heretaunga School; also reminiscences by unknown person of time spent at `The Dame's School', run by Miss Vaughan in Havelock North, in the early 1880s Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter (photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R Mabin, Waipukurau, Mar 2005

Date: [1960-1961]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-53

Description: Comprises report on quadrilateral adze with tang reduction; discovery of canoe hull (waka ama) of form requiring an outrigger attachment, Te Horo; timetable and background notes to tour of Hawke's Bay; notes; sketch of Napier harbour from 1870 map; drawing of small pataka and trig station profile; street map of Napier, with route noted; photgraphs of group (identified); extended genealogy, Tainui and Takitimu canoes to David Winterburn; the magnificent Winterburn adze; squat mere-like patu from Makurerua-Linton area; map, Horowhenua-Manawatu area showing localities of recent archaeological and Maori lore finds, the Makurerua-Linton adze and the Paretoa old burial place Also photographs of Adkin, map showing Maori sites and place-names of the Heretaunga Plains, ca 1850 (from Colenso); and photographs of the Makurerua-Linton patu Arrangement: Notebook no 52 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1920

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0933B

Description: Candidates came from Whakarewarewa School (Rotorua), St Stephen's School (Auckland), and Wharekahika Native School (Te Araroa) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1948-1961

From: New Zealand Alliance : Records

Reference: 77-206-08/05

Description: Correspondence and membership lists re Wairoa, Napier and Hastings Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1877-1917], nd

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-120

Description: Includes letter from Rev F W Martin re prayer and Hawke's Bay matters and from Major Gerald B Carter with MEF writing from the Dardanelles; and letters from Jessie; WBP of London; part of letter written from `Thorthowald', Napier; and part of one from South Makaretu re fires causing major problems for bush settlers. An undated letter written from Crail has attached a dance programme card for Meta Johnston, Okawa (6 Oct 1905). Quantity: 1 folder(s).