Places

Date: 7 October 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Politics-Commissions-Local Government-04

Description: Map showing new boundaries for Wellington City, Lower Hutt City, Porirua City, Upper Hutt City, and Kapiti Borough. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1969. This photograph relates to a new area scheme. The map was used by the Commission when visiting affected local bodies. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 28.4 x 21 cm

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Is/[ca.1910]/Acc.14444

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map showing subdivision on Milne Terrace and Knoll Street, Island Bay, Wellington, with numbered sections and acreage. Some sections show price, some are marked sold (in pencil or ink). Also marked is Brook, Beach and Derwent Street. Two names written on map in pencil - not decipherable Title supplied by cataloguer Base map: Fragment of unidentified published map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on diazo photoprint, encapsulated in transparent paper, 53.2 x 62 cm

Date: Aug-Nov 1841

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Gollan, Donald, 1811-1887

Reference: MSDL-1259

Description: Gollan describes his feelings on leaving Scotland, his family and friends; voyage to Wellington, New Zealand on the `Clydeside' from Greenock via Adelaide (with refrence to fellow male passengers); short period spent in Adelaide en route; impressions of the settlement and aborigines; arrival in Wellington; European settlers; business opportunities; resident Maori (makes reference to cannibalism) Accompanying material - Typed transcript done by M Donaldson, 2007 The letter addressed to his friend John G Grieve of Whitsome, Dunse, Berwickshire was begun on board the Clydeshire on 16 Aug and resumed once he reached Port Nicholson on 8 Nov 1841. It was postmarked Dunse, 25 Mar 1842. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD (shipboard diary digitisation) project

Date: 1862

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1862/Acc.14103

Description: Cadastral map showing part surveyed, numbered sections for sale on Customhouse Quay, Lambton Quay, and Harbour Street, Lambton Harbour, Wellington, highlighting sections already sold, as well as reserves for Customs and Post Office, Society of Oddfellows building, government reserve, Scotch Kirk, 'Noah's ark' in red. Note under title reads: For upset prices and further particulars, see Government Gazette of Nov 21st, 1862. See also accompanying photocopies (3 pages) of: sheet from New Zealand Government Gazette, Nov 21, 1862 (giving prices); report of claim by J Plimmer Committee, 1862; and copy of manuscript map of block comprising new street (Hunter Street), Lambton and Customhouse quays, showing 'Noah's Ark' (near Plimmer's Wharf). See also similar map held at MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1962/Acc.7792 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on ink and paper, 32 x 41 cm

Date: 12 September 1967

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Politics-Commissions-Local Government-05

Description: Map showing local bodies in the Wellington Region. Ink drawing by an unknown draughtsman.

Date: 1925 - 1935

By: Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/Wa/[ca.1930]/Acc.14630

Description: Cadastral, surveyed map highlighting subdivision of property belonging to H V Wilson, bounded by Wadestown Road and Sefton Street, Wadestown, Wellington. Sections are numbered (with qualifier 1st, 2nd or 3rd), and show acreage. DP 8291 is shown in pencil. Shows site of former tennis court, neighbouring sections, site of house and tramway. Written on map are pencil and ink jottings and amendments. Written on reverse: Sefton St & Wadestown Rd Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, paper backed, 37.7 x 45 cm

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: 1899

By: Luff, George Andrew Middlemass, 1862-1938; New Zealand. Parliamentary Library

Reference: MapColl-832.4799fb/1899/Acc.22901

Description: Topographical map showing proposed extension of Wellington City boundary, to include Seatoun Road District (Miramar Peninsular), the Melrose Borough (Roseneath, Lyall Bay, Island Bay, Owhiro Bay and northwards to Kelburn) and Hawkin's Hill, into existing City of Wellington boundary, which were previously part of the Hutt County. The extension is highlighted in red, and shows schedules 1-4. Also shown are the Karori Borough, part of the Onslow Borough and the Makara Road District. Includes note regarding the Wellington City Extension Bill of 1899, signed by the Wellington Magistrate Court Clerk. Written on recto: Wellington City Extension Bill. 1899 Local Body Wel[lington] City [?] Plan Includes some pencil annotations numbering sections and showing Kelburn as part of Melrose Stamped Wellington Magistrate Court and General Assembly Library Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Magistrates Court Wellington. Signed by Clerk; Verso - bottom right - General Assembly Library; Verso - bottom right - Signed GAM Luff Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 69 x 103 cm.

Date: February 1957

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 1/2-177211-F

Description: A flat area is marked out with roads and town blocks. Accompanied by a woman a group of children walk across a pedestrian crossing. Behind them a child in a pedal car waits and other children watch. In the background children can be seen along the edges of the marked out area. Photograph taken in February 1957 by Morrie Hill. Scourse of decriptive information - A Library client has identified this event as part of the Karori School centenary in 1957. Information recieved in January 2007. This event was part of the centenary of Karori School in 1957. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: Sep 1877-Dec 1879

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Barraud, Laura Cottam, 1859-1935

Reference: MSDL-1277

Description: Barraud records part of the return voyage to Wellington with her family on the `Zealandia', 12 Sep-26 Oct 1877, ending with two weeks quarantine on Somes Island after a smallpox outbreak. From Apr-Dec 1879 Laura resumed her diary describing family and social life in Wellington. Part of SBDD project Daughter of the artist Charles Barraud. Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1 Jan 1841-26 May 1847

By: Greenwood, Joseph Hugh, 1819-1849

Reference: MS-0878

Description: Diary of a voyage to New Zealand in the Lady Nugent, farming at Lowry Bay, 1841-43, and at Purau, Banks Peninsula, 1843-47. Account of a journey to Wanganui and Taranaki, Feb 1843, and some account of other parts of Wellington Province Part of SBDD project Other - The second diary was destroyed in a fire at Teviotdale in the 1930s Quantity: 1 volume(s) (373 pages). Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: Transcription available at MS-Papers-4882.

Date: 1861, 1863

By: Maskell, William Miles, 1839-1898

Reference: MS-1564

Description: Account of voyage to Lyttelton on the William Miles, 6 May-19 Aug 1860, and return to England by Chrysolite, 1 May-27 Jul 1863; impressions of Canterbury, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland 1860; comments on war in Taranaki and Maori fortifications; observations of Maori, settlers and work on Sir Frederick Weld's run at Flaxbourne, 1860, before taking up own property Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - Spine title: Log to and from New Zealand, 1860, 1863 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (181 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 cm; ½ dark green morocco, green cloth) Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)

Date: 7 October 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Politics-Commissions-Local Government-03

Description: Map showing local bodies in the Wellington Region. Ink drawing by an unknown draughtsman.

Date: 7 October 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Politics-Commissions-Local Government-02

Description: Map showing four new city boundaries centered on Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua. Also a new borough named Kapiti. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1969. This photograph relates to a new area scheme. The map was used by the Commission when visiting affected local bodies. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24 x 16.8 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: 1 Jan 1850-31 Dec 1851

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: MS-2096

Description: Journal kept by Swainson on board HMS `Havannah' and HMS `Bramble' on voyages between England, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Contains detailed descriptions of social life in Sydney, Wellington, Hobart and Auckland, and of the Society Islands, the Isle of Pines, Fiji and Rio de Janeiro. Includes a photograph of Swainson and an engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire. A typed inventory of outline of events is included. Accompanying material - Photograph of Henry Gabriel Swainson; transcript of portion of journal, Oct-Nov 1850, when Swainson was at the Isle of Pines; outline of events noted in the journal, by Lynda Scarth; note by Dorothy Swainson re provenance of journal; engraving of Crick Church, Northamptonshire Source of title - Supplied title: title on front endpaper `Private journal/Commencing Jan 1st 1850/Ending December 31st 1851/Henry Swainson/Her Majesty's Ship "Havannah"/ Sydney 1850-' Quantity: 1 volume(s) (186 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm, ½ red calf, marbled boards in red buckram hinged lid box) Transfers: Two pencil sketches (1) Hutt River (1849) signed W & HS and (2) of HMS `Havannah' at Darling Point, Port Jackson, removed to Drawings and Prints. Enlarged copy of photograph of Swainson in PS 284152.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Inserts located at the end of the digital files

Date: 1857 - 1858

Reference: Eph-D-POLITICS-Wellington-1857-01

Description: Text outlines Isaac Featherston's occupation of 28,000 acres at a very low rent, and implies that Featherston is reluctant to answer questions about it. The New Zealander for 21 November 1857, Page 3, makes this comment: "If this be true, one cannot wonder that Dr. Featherston disapproves of such personal questions being put to him on the platform, or that he and his colleagues have made such desperate efforts to retain the Government in their hands. Nor can we wonder that the feeling should now generally pervade the Province, that it would be better to encourage a healthy tide of self-paid immigration by resorting to the system of selling land on credit, in proportion to passage-money —rather than raise large loans on the Provincial lands to import labourers for the large run-holders". Exhibited as part of the exhibition "I protest", in Alexander Turnbull Foyer, Feb-April 1997. Poster was distributed by supporters of Dr Robert Porter Welch, opposition candidate for the Superintendency in the Wellington Provincial Government elections in 1857. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress print, 580 x 400 mm.

Date: 14 December 1939

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Days of Commemoration-Wellington Centennial 1939-01

Description: Maori Battalion guard of honour under the command of Major George Dittmer, at the opening of the Maori court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of December 1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.5 x 20 cms

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: 1870 - 1879

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/[ca.1870]/Acc.1192

Description: Topographic map of the coastline from Lambton Harbour to Lyall Bay. Evans Bay is marked, includes depths in fathoms and the site of the dock with acreages and including the hill behind. In Lambton Harbour the site of a wharf adjacent to an area of reclaimed land is marked as is the site of the city of Wellington. Signal stations and a pilot's station are marked. The area of land from Evans Bay to Lyall bay is divided into numbered sections, part of which is named Burnham Water with notes which state that this land is now drained and that the whole peninsula is good grazing land and used as a sheep and cattle farm. The site of a homestead of Major Mc. Barnet is marked in section 9, about 390 acreas, on the peninsula. A homestead and stockyard etc. are marked at Evans Bay. Port Nicholson and Cook Strait are marked. Stamp on bottom left corner states: Waterlow and Sons, London - improved. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, 49.3 x 37.1 cm.