Places

Date: 1800 - 1840

By: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931

Reference: MapColl-832.47ee/[Pre-1840]/Acc.2743

Description: Map of Wellington Harbour, and greater Wellington, including southeast to Baring Head, westwards to Cape Terawhiti, northwards to approxiamately Pipinui Point and eastwards to the Hutt River. Shows Maori names and the remains of old pa sites, Maori villages (kainga) and burial grounds. Shows rivers and streams (unnamed), and dotted pathways, on which points are marked with a cross. Catalogue card states [by Elsdon Best]. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Pencil and red ink on tracing paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 50 x 60.1 cm.

Date: 1848

By: Whitehead, Arthur, active 1840s

Reference: MapColl-832.45cba/[ca.1848]/Acc.4900

Description: Topographic map of the southern half of the North Island, with especial emphasis on the Wairarapa valley, showing natural features and stands of timber; the Maori names for some of these features are given, together with names and locations of some pa . Includes the surveyors' route which began on 1st. June, ca. 1848, from a site along the Manawatu River to the Ruamahanga River, Lake Wairarapa, ending at the Hutt River on 20 June. Notes describe some topographic features. See also "A treatise on practical surveying" by Arthur Whitehead, 1848 (Exeter: A. Whitehead, ca.1848). Held NZ&P Collection, P 526.9 WHI 1848. Other Titles - Photocopy from "A treatise on practical surveying", by Arthur Whitehead, C.E. & surv., 1848 Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Notes. The red line shews [sic] the track of the exploring party with the termination of each days march defined by the end view of a tent and the day of the month. The points at which observations for Latitude and Longitude were made are also shown Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photostat., linen backed, scale not given, 67.9 x 49.9 cm.

Date: [1962-1963]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-63

Description: Comprises discussion on Maori place-names of Porirua Harbour and environs, northern area from Paekakariki to Wairaka with maps; memoranda of illustrations for Porirua Harbour area with map showing viewpoints and directions; former Maori lines of communciataion and travel (paths, tracks, trails, canoe passage) in the south-western Wellington district, a compilation; Paremata Flat, a cartographic adjustment of early cultural and vocational sites (all with maps) Arrangement: Notebook no 62 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1902 - 1912

By: Greville, Reginald Palmer, 1862-1923; Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.47a/1902/Acc.12464

Description: Topographic and surveying map of northern part of Kapiti Island from the Otehou Stream northwards. Topographic features are described and some vegetation is named. Water supplies, walking tracks, sites of McLean's house, a woolshed and sheepyards and a fisherman's hut are marked. Streams and localities have Maori names. A note refers to an abundance of goats on the island. Stamps on bottom right corner: 14958. Indexed Stamp on bottom right is of the District Land and Survey Office, Wellington. Note on catalogue card states that this is a photocopy of an original held at the District Office, Wellington Signature of R. P. Greville under title Handwritten note above title states: Blk [i.e. Block] I Stamp of approval with signature of M. C. Smith, for Chief surveyor, 7th June 1912 Note on bottom left states: Entered on Crown Grant & road record maps Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photostatic copy, scale [ca.1:12 672], 43.6 x 43.3 cm.

Date: [1930-1940]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-13

Description: Contents comprise sketch plan of Waipatu Island pa, Lake Horowhenua; ponds (?) and umu sites near State Farm Road, sth of Lake Horowhenua; eel storage tank at Matukutuku Lagoon, Horowhenua; Otaki area, corrections and additional data, rafter patterns, Raukawa whare-runanga; Tikorangi Stream-Waikawa area, Horowhenua'; canoe baler from Pipinui, Western Wellington, south-western Wellington area; patu washed ashore at Waitarere Beach, Horowhenua; patuki from shore of L Horowhenua; Kuku-Poroporo headwaters, Horowhenua; part Horowhenua county; Waikanae-Akatarawa area with place-names etc; middens on northern shore of Lake Horowhenua; Waikawa River mouth, Horowhenua (May 1944); marine mollusca and pumice implements from Waikawa middens Contents also include the identification of Maori archaealogical finds in the Kapiti-Horowhenua districts, including a greenstone hei matau from Waikawa Arrangement: Notebook no 12 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-47

Description: Comprises map of Fitzroy Bay, Baring Head, showing topographic features and former native sites; sketch plan, Parangarehu kainga site, Fitzroy Bay; visit to Glendower Station, Ponatahi Rd, Carterton, to inspect J M Jury's ethnological collection, especially his Palliser Bay artefacts; map, excursion to Flat Point, eastern Wairarapa; map, Flat Point-Glenburn Coast and hinterland, east Wairarapa showing archaeological sites and other data, including profile of coastal plain; sketch plan of sites on the Arawhata Stream; sketch profiles of Pukehuiake pa, Whatipu Stream and debouchure of Huatokitoki Stream; sketch profile of Pawharetotara pa site, Waikekeno Stream; osteological features characteristic of and distinguishing between Polynesia and European peoples; Maori lore of the Otaki-Paraparaumu sector of the coastal area of western Wellington (a) Maori place-names, sites and geomorphic background of the Otaki Te Horo portion of the coastal lowland; sections of same; map, Rangiuru Creek to Paraparaumu Beach; Arrangement: Notebook no 46 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1956-1957]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-35

Description: Comprises notes on sites and artifacts of Waikanae-Paekakariki area (with map); map, Manawatu River from Longburn Bridge to Oroua confluence; genealogies, no 1, relationaship of Muaupoko to Rangitane, no 2, the branching out of sub-tribes from Rangitane, supplied by Wiremu K Te Awe Awe per G Allwright; map, visit to old Maori site on dune belt, Rangitikei River; artifacts from Papaitonga-Hokio sector of dune-belt (with map); on the archaeology of Kaitaia-Ahipara, North Auckland (with maps); small stone bowling disc, Makara Arrangement: Notebook no 34 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1857 - 1859

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Knowles, Francis William, 1835-1887

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/1857/Acc.25764

Description: Surveyor's map of the area along the Huangarua River from the Otaraia Pā in South Wairarapa. Includes Maori placenames and pa sites, and various geographical features and trig points. Includes written descriptions of the terrain and vegetation. The road to the beach is marked. Handwritten on bottom right of map: W.29 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Reduced by C. M. Igglesden & F. Knowles July 1859 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:63 360], 73 x 39 cm. Provenance: Photocopy from a map originally held at Lands and Survey Dept. Head Office Collection (W29), now housed at National Archives, Wellington

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Williamson, John S, active 1840s; Bidwill, Brian Carne, 1922-2009

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[184-]/Acc.25826

Description: Surveying map with topographical features of the Ngapuke area, with land occupied by C. R. Bidwill and Maori owners; also shows various Maori named land blocks. Some physical features are described. Includes the Ruamahanga River and Ngapuke Pah site. C.R. Bidwill's station is called Pihautea Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - I certify that the rules for the guidance of Native land Surveyors have been complied with in this Survey. The instrument used has been a 5 1/2 Inch transit theodolite . Signed John S. Williamson, Licensed surveyor. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured laser photocopy, scale indeterminable, 26.6 x 39.4 cm.

Date: [1952-1953]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-31

Description: Comprises detailed hand drawn Maori maps giving place-names and sites of Wellington Harbour and environs; Miramar Peninsula; Tarakena Bay fortified positions; Island Bay-Oriental Bay area; Karori-Ngaio area; Lambton-Kaiwharawhara area; Wellington peninsular to Colonial Knob; Hutt Valley (1840 and 1852); Motukairangi Island (ca 1400); and Hutt Valley, lower part with all Maori names Arrangement: Notebook no 30 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1959-1960

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-44

Description: Comprises map of archaeological sites and other features of the Orongorongo-Turakirae area, excursion 12 Sept 1959; `The Great harbour of Tara'; map, Pencarrow-Fitzroy Bay lagoons showing route and ethnological data, Sep 1959; photograph by G R Bull from Pencarrow Head to Wellington with key; the outer coast south of Porirua Harbour, Maori place-names and sites. Excursion from Titahi Bay to Ana-paura, 10 Oct 1959; scenery and old Maori pa sites at Titahi Bay and adjacent coast, 21 Apr 1960; Maori place-names and sites of Titahi Bay...south arm Porirua Harbour, excursion, 10 Oct 1959 and text; photograph, Porirua-Wellington harbour district showing location of Maori (Ngati Toa and Ngati Ira) geographical place-names and traditional sites; map, Titahi Bay-Mt Cooper-Pikarere area, 21 Apr 1960 Arrangement: Notebook no 43 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1855 - 1865

By: Archives New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832.45bf/[1860?]/Acc.36679

Description: Survey plan of the Ihuraua Block, approximately 12,000 acres, bounded by the Iparaonei Native land in the north, government land in the northeast, Pari-atua range in the west and the Tutumae and Managaroa Rivers in the south. Contains 38 Maori names are over circa 4.6 miles of the Ihuraua River, including the names of several pa sites (and excluding the names of streams); identifies the Te Angi fern bush and the fern range (Taihowhiti) on the map. Karamana's Reserve (21Ac) and the Horopapera Reserve are located in the northeastern edge of the map on government land. Written on map: AAFV 997 W24. See Info map 260, T25, 1978. Includes table of bearings from the North, West and East sides. Includes note on original regarding western boundary which is difficult to decipher. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Microfiche printout on four sheets glued together, scale indeterminable, 86.1 x 67.4 cm.

Date: 1855

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/1855(1966)/Acc.19568

Description: Topographic map of the area from Lake Wairarapa to Matarawa to the Pairoa Range and the Aorangi Mountains. A note on the map states that it is a tracing from a ca. 1855 sketch map held at the Turnbull Library, by A.G. Bagnall, ca. 1966, showing land blocks and runholders names, Maori land, and various Maori names for natural features. McNaughten's property, of 2000 acres, is situated between the Mangauru and Waihora Rivers, adjacent to the proposed road to the beach. The road from Wellington is marked and the line of a proposed road to the beach. Oteraia [i.e Otaraia] Pa, Burlings Hotel and Nix's Hotel are marked. Names include Borlese, Morrison, Butler, Tucker, Brierly, Smith & Revens, Gillies, W.H. Smith, McNaughten, Bidwill. Scale of original [ca.1:126 720] A.G. Bagnall was the Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library, and also wrote a comprehensive history of the Wairarapa entitled `Wairarapa - an historical excursion' (1976), but this map does not appear in the book Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 59.2 x 41.8 cm.

Date: [1955-1956]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-33

Description: Comprises further notes on former occupation and archaeology of the country east of Wellington Harbour (with maps); bone fish-hook shank and pumice net float, Wellington; adze with longitudinally ridged anterior surface; nose stone, Tirau, Central Waikato; old Maori sites at Ohau and Te Ika-a-Maru Bays, south-west Wellington (with map); some notes on the stone walls at Waikaretu by C H Hunt, Raglan (with map); Arrangement: Notebook no 32 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1954-1955]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-28

Description: Contents comprise notes on adzes found at Ohau Bay (Wellington); Waikanae, McCrae's Flat (Central Otago), Dargaville and Horowhenua; a greenstone spike 12" in length found at Arapawa Island (with map and genealogy of the Heberley family); map showing geographical features and the position of Maori Pa sites and kainga of central Wellington; map showing distribution of type IV adzes (Waitaha culture) of western Wellington from Palliser Bay to Foxton; adze found at McCrae's flat Otago. Arrangement: Notebook no 27 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1922

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939; Brook, Thomas, 1873-1948; Neill, William Thomson, 1864-1943

Reference: MapColl-832.47bje/1922/Acc.7329

Description: Cadastral map with topographic features of Eketahuna and Mauriceville Counties adjacent to Horowhenua, Pahiatua, Akitio and Masterton Counties. Boundaries are prominently marked, as is the Borough of Eketahuna. Includes numbered land blocks and sections with acreages, Maori reserves and other Maori land, and various Maori placenames for geographical features. Education, water supply and forest reserves are marked. Trig points, peaks, settlements, roads and streams are named. Note on bottom right states: For boundaries of Eketahuna and Mauriceville Counties see N.Z. Gazette, 1917, p.2515; Borough of Eketahuna N.Z. Statutes, 1906,No. 15 (local) Addition of NZMS map number in title supplied by curator Extended Title - Wellington: Lands & Survey Dept., 1922 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, linen backed, coloured, scale [1:63 360], 63.1 x 100 cm.

Date: 1855

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898; Archives New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832.45gc/1855/Acc.4502

Description: Topographic map of the area from Cape Palliser and Cape Turakirai [sic], the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges, to the Waituiti and Mataikuna Rivers. Shows runholdings, Maori reserves and lands not purchased, and various Maori names for natural features in the Wairarapa valley and on the coast. Rivers and streams are named. Boundaries of runholders' properties are marked and names include W. Spinks, C. Sharp, G. Scott, M.A. Buxton, J. Taine, F. Burton, G. Moore, M. Hill, Hales & Murch, R. Collins, S.M. Scroggs, Donald and Rhodes, J. Northwood, Smith and Revans, C.R. Bidwill, A. Gillies, R. McMaster, P. Hume, J. Kelly, R. Russell, C. Matthews, Camerons, D. Riddiford, R. Barton. Other Titles - Sketch map of the runs in the Wairarapa and East Coast District. In the title, Wairarapa refers to the valley around Lake Wairarapa, and the East Coast refers to the coast of the Wairarapa district from Cape Palliser to Mataikona. Handwritten on original in bottom right corner: I.A. 1855/2565. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - F. D. Bell, Commr of Crown Lands, July 1855 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale not given, 58.9 x 38.7 cm.

Date: 1890

Reference: MapColl-832.45bj/[ca. 1890]/Acc.28695

Description: Survey map with topographical information from Waitapu near the Whangaehu River southwards to Te Tawae, Taueru River. Shows the Taueru River; Te Kopuanui; Te Ahititi; Whakahaumu; Tuporo Pu Horo; Pariwhaiti; Pa Karaka; Tarawanga and Te Kanohi o Tohi. Indicates survey data, trig points, and Native (Maori) land southwards of Pa Karaka and Te nui o te Homaikai. Includes pencil and ink annotations, mainly corrected survey measurements. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, irregular shape, scale [1:7 920], 66 x 55.5 cm. Provenance: Donated, source unknown

Date: 1902 - 1912

By: Greville, Reginald Palmer, 1862-1923; Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office

Reference: MapColl-832.47a/1902/Acc.12465

Description: Topographic and surveying map of southern part of Kapiti Island from the Otehou Stream and the vicinity of Kaiwharawhara, southwards. Topographic features are described and some vegetation is named. A cultivation, water supplies, walking tracks, surveyors' camps and a homestead are marked. Streams and localities have Maori names. The positions of Tahoranmaurea and Tokomapuna Islands are marked. Stamps on bottom right corner: 14959. Indexed Stamp on bottom left is of the District Land and Survey Office, Wellington. Note on catalogue card states that this is a photocopy of an original held at the District Office, Wellington Signature of R. P. Greville under title Handwritten note above title states: Blk [i.e. Block] II Stamp of approval with signature of M. C. Smith, for Chief surveyor, 7th June 1912 Note on bottom left states: Entered on Crown Grant & road record maps Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photostatic copy, scale [ca.1:11 088], 42.7 x 43.4 cm.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Dennan, James John, 1834-1892; Bidwill, Brian Carne, 1922-2009

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[184-]/Acc.25824

Description: Cadastral map with topographical features showing Pihautea Estate and surrounding Maori land in south Wairarapa occupied by Charles R Bidwill. Identifies land blocks with Maori names and provides acreage and unnamed land blocks with acreage. Ruamahanga River, Te Maire Creek, Jury's Island and the Road to Kahautara are shown. Other bordering settler properties are named as G Goodrick, W Bicknell, B.W.O. and B Williams, W. Nichol, G. Hunter, Yule Maori land blocks include Maramamau. C.R. Bidwill's station is called Pihautea Station Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured laser photocopy, scale indeterminable, 36 x 28 cm.