Places

Date: 1897

By: Thomson & Brown (Firm); Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Mi/1897/Acc.14340

Description: Incomplete cadastral, surveyed map showing subdivision of Sections I-XII, Worser and Karaka Bay, Miramar. Sections are between Crawford (Nevay) Road and Karaka Bay Road. Names of properties include: Pilot Station, Marshall, Slater, Townsend & Paul, Browne, Overton Park Reserve and Military Fortification Reserve. Part of Section VI, Lot 13 is highlighted pink. Sections are numbered, with acreage; some show price in pounds sterling. A wharf and a proposed wharf are shown. The road to Wellington is marked. Includes pencil and ink notes written or drawn on map. Stamped Thomson & Brown 'Litho Brown & Thomson, 1897' handwritten on corner Last 2 letters of surveyor's name written on left side of map Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, 25.5 x 73 cm

Date: 1881

By: Park, Robert George, active 1881; Levin & Company Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ng/1881/Acc.6349

Description: Cadastral, part surveyed map showing the subdivision of the Trelissick Estate, Ngaio, Wellington, highlighting Sections 4, 5 and 9 and identifying Sections 6, 7, 8 and 10, and a Native (Maori) Reserve. Shows Old Porirua Road, part of the Wellington to Wairarapa Railway, and part of the Kaiwharawhara Stream. Parts of Section 5 have been subdivided, and names of owners of those properties are: Crofton, Bartlett, Chew and Aplin. Shows proposed roads. Trelissick Estate was developed by Captain Edward Daniell, in 1843, who named the property after his family home in Cornwall, England. Daniell died in 1866, the property was subdivided in the 1880's by Major & Mrs Deane. Gorge Road was upgraded in 1898. (Onslow Historian, v3 (3) 1973, p.4-13) Other Titles - Plan showing subdivisions in the estate of Trelissick Written on reverse: Major Deane Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 65 x 55 cm.

Date: 1881

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Ne/1881/Acc.23009

Description: Consists of two maps, one on each side of the sheet, both surveying a Native (Maori) Reserve between Russell Terrace and Adelaide Road, Newtown (near Berhampore), Wellington. Map one, 'Survey of N[ative] R[eserve] Newtown' shows survey measurements and markings across area named Newtown and survey compass measurements in a 360 degree circle. Includes the names Matene and Ihaka. Map two, '[Native (Maori) Reserve sections bounded by Adelaide Road, South Road, Russell Terrace and Wharepori Road, Newtown, Wellington, showing Maori owners]'. Shows one acre sections, part surveyed, numbered 972 - 989 and 994 - 1007. Also marks Reserve no. 215 alongside Section 971. Sections show names of Maori owners: Nakora Te Manukarioe; Waaka, Taura; Mita Metiria; Ihaka Te Row (Rou), Ehara; Akauihi; Taniati Te Wera; Huikana Ngapaui; Teira Te Watakore; Rapaua Te Owhiro; Harata, Maria; Paora Teretu; Tiare Te Hua; Kuraheke; Ihikiera, Apikaira (some spelling difficult to decipher, so may not be correct). Written in several places on map 'N.R.' (Native (Maori) Reserve). Includes several survey calculations in pencil. Other Titles - Survey of Native Reserve Newtown Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink and pencil on both sides of sheet, part coloured, 68.6 x 101.6 cm

Date: 1851 - 1855

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1853/Acc.24010

Description: Cadastral map of the area surrounding Makara Beach, Ohariu Bay, southeast and northwest of the Makara and Ohariu rivers, including parts of both the Ohariu and the Makara Districts. Shows several numbered sections, with the names of the property owners, including: G Hart (occupied by John ?Monk), T Molesworth, R Barton, Smith (former Hallets), Stevens, Captain Daniell, H St. Hill, New Zealand Company, James Bain, Johnston, ?Barten, John Cook. Two blocks of land include annotations indicating they were sold in October and December 1855, one to the Provincial Government and one to James Baines. Several ink and pencil annotations indicate subsequent owner names and cadastral information. One area marked in pencil as unsurveyed. Large blocks of land are coloured coded as Native (Maori) land; smaller areas as Native (Maori) cultivations. A pa (kainga) at Makara Beach is shown. James Drake was a surveyor for the New Zealand Company. Written on map above Drake's signature: 'copy'. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 75.8 x 67.1 cm.