Places

Date: 1895

Reference: MapColl-832.41gbbd/[ca.1895]/Acc.388

Description: Topographic map of the Oruamatua Kaimanua Block bordered by the Moawhango and Rangitikei Rivers. Other blocks adjoining are Rangipowaiau, Kaimanua No.3, Ohaoko, Awarua Block No.2, Mangaohane No.1. Includes entirely Maori names of settlements and people. A few notes are in English, e.g. sheepyards. Three notes refer to the places where Tipae was believed to have been killed according to Te Hau, Hiraka and Ihakara, Hepara. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:31 680], 50.8 x 40.4 cm. on sheet 51 x 60.2 cm.

Date: 1959

By: Sinclair, E M, active 1948-1967; Carter, William Ernest, 1932-

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmp/[1959]/Acc.36425

Description: Map of part Awarua 4c no. 11, blocks XIV, Ohinewairua and II, Hautapu survery districts, Taihape, showing the main airstrip runway and the subsidiary runway adjacent to the Hautapu River. Indicates the hanger, telephone line, state highway, railway and power lines. Includes reference key. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, scale [1: 3 168], 32.5 x 32.7 cm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Carter, September, 2001

Date: 1990

By: Brown, Joan, 1914-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-10575

Description: Life story of Joan Sedon written to inform her descendants about her generation of the Sedon family of Wanganui Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (10 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter (completed in typescript)

Date: 1869

By: Field, Henry Claylands, 1825-1912

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1869/Acc.1185

Description: Copy of a topographic map of the area in the Murimotu District from the Kaiiwi River and the Ohura River across to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa Ranges and the Rangitikei River. Cut road lines, proposed lines and native tracks are referred to in a reference key. Some tracks are routes proposed by Mr. Hogg and Mr. Booth, also an old war track described by natives is marked. Plantations, mountain peaks, rivers and streams are named. Relief features are described. Major Marshall's and Birch's Station are marked. Handwritten note on bottom right of map: The lake and mountains are from Hochstetter's map corrected by the Auckland Trig Survey: the Wanganui River from Brewer's survey, and the Upper Turakina and Rangitikei from Swainson's map corrected by Monro's survey. Map published in: Copy of the report by the late Mr. H.C. Field on the discovery of Field's track, Wanganui, 1869. Shelf reference qMS-0726, Field Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale [1:506 880], 60.5 x 38.7 cm.

Date: 1886, 1993

From: McNab, John, b 1855 : Diary and travel account

Reference: MS-Papers-6235-3

Description: Title continues:`...off for a holiday, or, Glimpses of Maoriland'. McNab recounts his journey with technical details about the transport he took, various points of interest such as lengths of tunnels, Windy Wellington, and he includes poems; he names and describes each geyser at the Pink and White Terraces, particularly notes churches visited and people he met. Relationship complexity - Photocopy of original volume at MS-Papers-6190 and microfilm at Micro-MS-0930 In Feb 1886 McNab left his home in Timaru for a tour of the North Island travelling by train, steamer, and coach from Christchurch, Wellington to Napier, Tauranga, the Pink and White Terraces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Masterton, back to Wellington, Lyttelton, and home to Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1904, 1999

By: McDonald, Alexander, 1829-1905

Reference: MS-Papers-6628

Description: Transcription of MacDonald's reminiscences of life and times in New Zealand from his arrival at Wellington in 1840 on the `Blenheim' until 1904 when he recorded `My story'. He focuses particularly on relations with Maori, Maori-European land dealings, the politics and politicians of the times and related matters. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - Another typescript copy at MS-1167 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (one volume, spiral bound). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1876

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm); Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1876/Acc.6344

Description: Map with some survey markings of Ohau, Manawatu Kukutauaki no 4F, Waikawa, Waikawa River and Huritini. Shows an unnamed Crown grant near Takapu o kai Ngarara. Southernmost points on map are Waitohu government trig and Pukehou. Shows the site of Te Rauparaha's Pa adjoining the Waikawa River, and a pa on the Ohau River. Stamped 'Buck collection' on verso. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, part coloured, scale [1:15 840], 108.6 x 75.4 cm.

Date: 1861-1867, 1876

By: Taylor, Basil Kirke (Rev), 1831-1876

Reference: Micro-MS-0841

Description: Journeys around the Wanganui district ministering to Maori; records of baptisms, marriages and burials; military engagement at Moturoa 15 May 1864; meeting near Taumarunui between Wanganui, Waikato and Taupo Maori Feb 1876; observations on Maori customs, flora and fauna and nature of country traversed; Maori vocabulary; sketches Source of title - Supplied title Rev Basil Taylor was the son of Rev Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 170 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: [1950-1952]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-25

Description: Comprises notes on Maori place-names and sites of past and present kainga, Bay of Plenty (with map); of Tauranga Harbour, Mt Maunganui, Whakatane and Maketu and Waihi estuaries (with maps); section of whalebone object; letter, Bryce Wood to Adkin (1953); moa-bone with cuts, Roxburgh; Solomon Islands adzes; adzes from Auckland and Poroutawhao; data from Moawhango by R A L Batley (with map) Arrangement: Notebook no 24 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [1961-1962]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-54

Description: Comprises reports and notes on old Maori burial ground at Paretoa; the site of the outrigger canoe hull, nr Te Horo (with map); unusual adze form pendant, nr Waikanae; Maori net floats; preliminary tour of Horowhenua by Palmerston North Polynesian group, with map showing pa; circular letter to Wairarapa and Manawatu; problematical contents of a Wairarapa Maori cache; cloak-pin or fish-threader bodkin from Castlepoint; memoranda of a Maori skull from the Waikanae dune-belt; identification of a large wooden artefact, nr Waikanae; from Keith Cairns re Maori sites; photographs, L Horowhenua and eastern end of L Papaitonga Arrangement: Notebook no 53 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1882-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-2243

Description: Papers include letters to Denmark, a history of the Scandinavian church in New Zealand 1865 - ca 1900 by Mads with a translation and history from 1928 by Ansgar, sermons and diaries of Ansgar Christensen, 1928-1957. Also includes Clem Koch's history of the Lutheran Church in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Mads Christensen was sent to New Zealand by the Inner Mission Board of Denmark in 1886. He was ordained and inducted to the Mauriceville Parish in 1886; from 1893 he served in Palmerston North. From 1928 to 1958 his son, Ansgar, served in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palmerston North. In 1928 his son Ansgar took up his father's responsibilities for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Palmerston North which he served for the next thirty years Quantity: 56 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1870 - 1984 - 1880

By: Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Kodak New Zealand Ltd; Sullivan, John Paul, 1948-; Brake, Brian, 1927-1988

Reference: C-106-013-a/018-a

Description: Contains 6 images: Wanganui family and possessions, 1870s; Unidentified man, Wanganui, 1870s; Mrs Morgan and child, Wanganui, 1870s; Staff and premises of the Wanganui Evening Herald, 1868; Mr and Mrs Thomas Roots and their twelve children in front of their home at Springvale, 1870s; Mother and child, Wanganui, 1870s. Title from illustrated container, also bearing descriptive notes. Container has not been assigned its own location number and is therefore not recorded separately. However, the individual photolithographs have separate entries. Other Titles - Imagers of a new land. Other Titles - Portraits by W. J. Harding. Inscriptions: (On verso of container/ envelope): Portraits by W.J. Harding,/ chosen by Brian Brake and John Sullivan / and published with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited.; Recto - beneath image - (On each photograph): Reproduced from the original negative by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust, Wellington, with the assistance of Kodak New Zealand Limited. / [Title]. Quantity: 6 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 photolithographs, 259 x 213 mm, and 213 x 259 mm, on sheets 415 x 350 mm, in container 510 x 390 mm. Provenance: Deposited under Legal Deposit regulations, 1986.

Date: 1945

By: Wilkinson, P R, active 1946-1949

Reference: MapColl-832.43gcdc/1945/Acc.9496

Description: Cadastral map detail of Block 5, Pohangina Survey District, showing sub blocks 6, 8, 10, 12 and 13 and part of sub blocks 4, 5, 7 and 9, that have been prepared for the Manawatu Catchment Board as part of their proposed soil conservation research station plan, based at Te Awa. Map shows relief contours. Surveyed by L.D. and traced and drawn by P R Wilkinson. Manawatu Catchment Board plan no. 98 (original map changed from 15/3), sheet no. 1. Other Titles - 5 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scale [1:3 960], 55 x 76.4 cm.

Date: 1947

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Maps from collection

By: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964

Reference: MapColl-832.43ee/[ca.1947]/Acc.43776

Description: Maps shows Maori place names from an area around Otaki from the Otaki River to Lake Huritini in the North and across to the foothills of the Tararua ranges. Prepared for recording data in this region and appeared in a revised form as maps 1 and 3 in 'Horowhenua' by Adkin in 1948. Has accompanying note signed by Ian Keyes authenticating the map. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964. Papers and diaries. Reference: MS-Papers-0261.

Date: [1944]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-17

Description: Contents comprise notes re adze types; type VII, VB from Turakina district; Waitaha adze from Porirua Harbour; from Mangaroa; type IIA from Patea; greenstone adze from Levin-Foxton highway area; map of sites of Horowhenua adzes found by Henry J Kilsby; grey stone adze from Heatherlea-Koputaroa area, Horowhenua; blackstone adzes from Onukuwaiata, Waimakaira, Horowhenua and Wallace Road, Levin; location maps of adzes found by A Seifert, A Gillespie, Louis Noara and on Clifford's farm, Tokomaru area (1941-1944); adzes from Makurerua Swamp, Horowhenua Arrangement: Notebook no 16 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1997

From: Battersby, Dorothy, fl 1940-1997 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5953

Description: Comprises biographical pieces on Joseph Pierce Punch, Gladys May Goldfinch and Rose Eliza Punch, the latter written by Sara Green with photographic portraits of each subject Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: Evans, I, active 1920s

Reference: PA1-o-1519

Description: Photographs taken on holiday in New Zealand by woman identified as I Evans. Comprises photographs of men, women and children from Tuhourangi and Arawa iwi, many in traditional costume; Model Village at Whakarewarewa; Ohinemutu Pa; Lake Rotorua; Guide Ruth, Ana Hato; Guide Rangi; Wairakei geysers; Rotomahana; buried forest; Arapuni; Hongi's Track; Lake Taupo; Wellington Harbour from Ngaio; tobacco growing at Riwaka; apple packing shed at Redwood's Valley, Nelson; Devils Boots, Collingwood; Government Buildings, Wellington; Wainui House, Nelson; houseboat, Whanganui River; self-portraity of photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 151 x 202 mm Provenance: Purchase, 2009

Date: 1895

Reference: MapColl-832.41cba/[ca.1895]/Acc.2864-5;9064-5

Description: Topographic map of the area from Mataroa, Hokio, Kaitapa, Kahikawaka, Cedar Ranges to Makokomiko Creek, bordered by the Rangitikei River. Motukawa No.2 and Awarua No.2 are prominently written and refer to the districts. Some of the terrain is described. Settlements, rivers, creeks, streams are named. Waterholes, horse tracks, the best line for a road, woolsheds, sheepyards, a racecourse and the site of an iron house are marked. Includes Kirimara Old Pa. Names include: Mitchell. Paurini's, Keri Kow's, Tawhi Paranihi's, Te Aruhe's, Birch's Stn., Chase's, Waikari's, Sutherland's. Title assigned by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s) on 4 sheets. Physical Description: 2 positive and 2 negative photostatic copies, linen backed, scale [1:31 680], 79.3 x 108 cm., sheets 45.7 x 63.5 cm. and smaller

Date: 1945

By: Manawatu Catchment Board and Regional Water Board; Wilkinson, P R, active 1946-1949

Reference: MapColl-832.43cdc/1945/Acc.9267

Description: Manawatu Catchment Board proposed flood control scheme for the lower Manawatu River, 1945. The plan outlines stage one of a five year plan of flood protection for the river from Whirokino to Ashurst. Shows flood protection river cuts, stopbanks, outfall drains, raised banks ponding areas, an alternative cut, as well as a 200 ft wide channel through Moutoa. Also shows a diagram above the map entitled 'Longitudinal profile along cut' that depicts the 1902 flood level, stopbank heights, low level bank heights, ground levels along the cut and the mean contruction level on the bottom of the cut. Plan number on map has been changed from 1/6 to 87, before copying. Drawn by P.R.W. [P.R. Wilkinson, registered surveyor] & D.J.B.H. 29.6.45. 'Comptns D.J.B.H 29.6.45'. Original signed by Malley, Engineer, 2 7 [19]45. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scale [1:31 680], 56.6 x 75.2 cm.

Date: [ca 1964]

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

Reference: MapColl-832.45eg/[ca.1964]/Acc.27673

Description: Drawn on a base map of Owahanga Station, the annotations depict pā sites, (including terraced pā), middens (deposits of shells or animal bones indicating human settlement) and pits along the Mataikona River. Several comments are written on the map such as the bulldozing of sites, pit size, locality of farm buildings. Drawn by P.J.P. Base map: 'Owahanga Station' (ms map?, 1964). Surveyed by R G Lockie. This map names paddocks, buildings, and describes land use. Gives topographical information. Includes enlargement of the layout of the station's farm buildings such as wool shed, cook house, and shearing quarters. Map consists of two sheets glued together. Note: Owahanga Station is officially in the Tararua District but in the Wellington, not the Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Quantity: 1 map(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 55.2 x 51 cm. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.