Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950

Date: 1868-1956

By: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950

Reference: MS-Group-0941

Description: Papers relating to the life and career of Sir Apirana Ngata His papers reflect his wide involvement in many areas of Māori life. They include correspondence (personal and official), reports, administrative files, papers relating to his Parliamentary career and his involvement in local issues and concerns. Subject areas include loan development schemes, instructions on sheepfarming, park boards, records of various stations, the School of Māori Arts, constituency matters, land blocks, meeting houses and marae, the Māori Battalion and similar topics. Further summary information is provided in series descriptions Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Researchers should be aware that some key papers of Sir Apirana Ngata have come to the Library separately and are not part of this collection. These separate holdings include (i) Extensive correspondence between Ngata and Sir Peter Buck and other Ngata papers included in the Eric Ramsden papers (MS-Papers-0196) (ii) Ngata's correspondence on ethnological matters and his correspondence and working notes for `Ngā Mōteatea' held as part of the New Zealand Māori Purposes Fund Board papers (MS-Papers-0189) (iii) Microfilm of Ngata family Ngāti Porou research material provided to the Library for copying by Mr Amster Reedy on behalf of the Ngata family (iv) other smaller collections from various sources including a 1897-1899 letterbook and family correspondence recently purchased by the Library (MS-Group-0903). Arrangement: The papers have been well looked after prior to coming to the Library, but most were not in any filing system, apart from one major sequence of papers, mainly from the 1940s, in a numerical registration sequence (series 2). This series has been maintained. The remaining papers have been grouped into series broadly relating to Ngata's major activities. Researchers need to be aware that other papers relating to these activities will also be found in series 2. The date range of materials falls outside Ngata's own life time because the collection has been added to over the years. Sir Apirana Ngata was one of the most influential Māori leaders of the twentieth century. He was a lawyer and politician who was elected to Parliament as the member for Eastern Māori, retaining his seat until 1943. He took a leading role in fostering Māori land development and a revival of traditional Māori culture, as well as an active interest in local Māori affairs, education, health, incorporation, agriculture and other concerns. Quantity: 886 folder(s). 10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Owned by descendants living in Ruatoria. Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives, material transferred to the Ephemera collection and the Photographic Archive - To Photographic Archive - 1 folder of photographs, and 1 folder containing a photograph of an unidentified soldier (located at PAColl-6649) - To Ephemera Collection - Medal issued to commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1937 - To Photographic Archive - 4 black and white original photographic prints (PAColl-7894) from A2002-066. Processing information: The collection is currently being arranged and described.

Date: [ca 1869]-1955

By: New Zealand. Māori Purposes Fund Board

Reference: MS-Papers-0189

Description: Includes research notes and correspondence of Sir Apirana Ngata, dealing particularly with his work on `Nga Moteatea' and the Centennial Atlas project. It also includes manuscripts of many other writers on Maori history and whakapapa and ecomomic and social matters, collected by the Board. Further descriptive notes are attached to each series record. Other - Collection microfilmed - MS-Copy-Micro-0789 Relationship complexity - Most of the administrative records of the Board are held at the National Archives of New Zealand, as part of the MA record group Relationship complexity - Also see the Ngata family papers, MS-Group-0941 and MS-Group-1140. Arrangement: The collection originally arrived at the Library in two parts, with the second part being known and listed as the `B series'. It is now being reprocessed into series bearing more relation to how the records were created and used. The reference numbers are unchanged, however, and those researchers wishing to search the old `B series' can do so, by searching in the reference number field on MS-Papers-0189-B*. The Board was set up under the instigation of Sir Apirana Ngata in 1924. It incorporated the Board of Maori Ethnological Research that had been established the previous year. Among other things the Board promoted scholarship and publications relating to Maori, and collected archives relating to Maori history. This collection comprises the ethnological manuscripts and research material collected as part of this goal. Quantity: 358 folder(s). 2 volume(s). 6 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory containing further detail of collection is kept in the staff Manuscripts backfile.. Provenance: Material collected from a variety of sources by the Board.

Date: 1942

By: Phillipps, William John, 1893-1967

Reference: qMS-1588

Description: To W J Phillipps of the Dominion Museum, giving a list of carved houses on the East Coast Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, grey covers) Processing information: Transferred from main collection, Oct 1978

Date: 7 December 1992 - 07 Dec 1992

By: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010; Fyfe, Judith Mildred de Visme, 1944-; Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: OHColl-0604/1

Description: John (Jock) Malcolm McEwen born Feilding, 1915. Outlines family background - grandfather, David McEwen, born Belmont 1845 and settled in Manawatu 1867. Notes that five of 15 families in first Census were McEwens. Refers to maternal great grandfather, John Bryce, who as Minister of Maori Affairs organised arrest of Te Whiti at Parihaka. Also talks about wife's family (Durrad) and refers to Canon Cotterill and Margaret Durrad, a graduate of Canterbury University who taught at Maori Mission School, Putiki, Wanganui. Recalls childhood in the country; Sunday school and bible class; racially integrated community; first carving experience and subsequent fascination. Talks about encouragement from Sir Apirana Ngata. Describes routine of Apirana Ngata's carving team. Refers to Pirihiria Heketa, mother of Miriama Scott. Backgrounds entry as cadet in Maori Affairs Department and mentions Dr Mason Durie and chief interpreter, Kingi Tahiwi senior from Otaki. Discusses exclusion of Maori language in Maori schools and gives reasons. Refers to father, Malcolm Roger McEwen, a bilingual school teacher and talks about advantages of being bilingual. Refers to 1934 Royal Commission and resignation of Apirana Ngata as Cabinet Minister. Outlines career as Resident Commissioner Niue (1953-1956); Deputy Assistant Secretary of Island Territories (1956-1958), with reference to United Nations and in 1967 appointment as Chairman of UN Visiting Mission to New Guinea. Refers to end of Colonial Era and resurgence of rights of the Indigenous (1960s). Mentions Foss Shanahan. Refers to MASPAC (Maori and South Pacific Arts Council). Talks about involvement in Meeting House carving and teaching Maori Culture and post retirement involvement with local Maori club `Mawai Hakona'. Discusses dissolution of Maori Affairs Department and decline of Maori Trade Training Scheme. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-01063-01065; OHLC-006090-006092 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3818. 2 b&w photographs unidentified and photocopy of one b&w photograph of Jock McEwen and eldest granddaughter, Heather McEwen ca 1991.

Date: [1928]

Reference: PAColl-D-0630

Description: Group photograph with Joseph Ward seated in the centre front row and George William Forbes on his immediate right. All names entered in Name Field. Identical photograph at PAColl-D-0629 Inscriptions: Recto - Names written on photograph in ink Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 420 x 560 mm on card

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: 1860s-1949

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Harding, William James, 1826-1899; Johnston, Owen, active 1940-1987; New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch

Reference: PA1-o-1038

Description: Contains photographs of a Maori group at Wanganui, Te Rangitahau of Waitahanui, inscription at Wairaka meeting house (Whakatane), Pohaturoa Rock (Whakatane), Tainui anchor stone at Mokau, Matahourua anchor stone at Dominion Museum, Tokomaru anchor stone at New Plymouth Museum, hui at Rangitukua (March 1945), Ngarimu hui at Ruatoria (1943), hui at Hiruharama (1945), Tahi hohepa at Otukou (1947), reception to Field-Marshall Montgomery at Ohinemutu (1947), Sir Apirana Ngata speaking at erection of Porourangi meeting house (Waiomatatini), scenes in Parihaka, and Sir Peter Buck at Te Araroa (March 1949). The photographers represented are W J Harding, A P Godber, Burton Brothers, Owen Johnston, and the New Zealand Railways Publicity Department. A number of images were provided by the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Graphic drawing book 23 x 31 cm

Date: [ca 1920s]

By: McDonald, James Ingram, 1865-1935

Reference: PAColl-D-0823

Description: View of the homestead, out buildings and surrounding paddocks taken by [James Ingram] McDonald, ca 1920s [?] Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 360 x 765 mm with mount 480 x 887 mm

Date: 1893-1922

From: Keys, Ben, 1878-1951 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0407-16

Description: Contains various printed papers relating to religious and political matters; these papers include information about the spread and prevention of small-pox and other diseases, information about Arbour Day (in English), copies of political correspondence from Taranaki Te Uamairangi, Tau Henare, Maui Pomare and Apirana Ngata; a copy of the Kahiti o Niu Tiremi dealing with the enlistment of Maori soldier in World War One, and a notice with regard to the establishment of a railway company at Taupo; there is also an invitation from Te Arawa rangatira for Te Arawa people to attend a hui at Maketu to discuss negotiations with the Government Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1840-1981

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-06

Description: Contains 3 photocopies of an essay about the Maori occupation of Otahuhu and the Auckland district up to 1840. Also contains an essay in Maori about the Maori perspective of the Treaty of Waitangi Working notes compiled by librarians working with Maori materials in the Manuscripts Section of the Library during the late 1970s and 1980s. Most of the work was done by Sharon Dell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1934-1940

From: Stowell, Henry Matthew, 1859-1944 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0062-60

Description: Includes Native Land Court documents of the Wellington region; newspaper cuttings dealing with major and minor issues of the period including the Report of the Native Affairs Commission and Apirana Ngata; tributes and obituaries, horse racing, comic caption competitions, Maori land settlements of the time, articles on brothels, concerts, Maori history, New Zealand flora and fauna Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1911

From: Ormsby family : Papers

By: Wahanui, Hari H, active 1917

Reference: MSY-5005

Description: Contains manuscript minutes notes of the Maori development hui (1911) which was hosted by Ngati Maniapoto in Te Kuiti and which was attended by people like Sir Apirana Ngata and Peter Buck and which addressed issues such as the future development of the Maori people and Maori culture and the impact of law and religion. Accompanying material - Partial transcription contained in folder MS-Papers-6889-1 but excludes pages 45-52 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1890s-1954

By: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962; Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Tesla Studios; Photo News Ltd; Price Picture News (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-7488

Description: Photographs of Sir Peter Buck, his family, friends and colleagues. Includes photographs of his services with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, life in Hawaii when working with the Bishop Museum, knighthood, and tangi. Also includes photographs of Huria Matenga, Sir Bernard Freyberg, Sir Peter Fraser, Sir Apirana Ngata and the Prince of Wales. Among the photographers represented are Hermann Schmidt, Tyree Brothers, Leslie Hinge, New Zealand Herald, Tesla Studio, and Price Picture News (New York). Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0181 (Papers of Eric Ramsden).

Date: 1944, 1972

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-061

Description: Two copies of the intrductory address (lecture one) by Sir Apirana Ngata at the opening of the Porourangi Maori Cultural School, Ruatoria, and lectures two and three (4 Apr 1944, copied 1972); and correspondence relating to this series of lectures Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1942-1971

From: Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, 1898-1976 : Papers

By: Bracken, Thomas, 1841-1898

Reference: MS-Papers-5220-002

Description: Includes correspondence about critiques to book drafts such as 'Nga Moteatea' and 'Tamihana, the king maker', also includes Tainui whakapapa and history, an article on Samuel Marsden, dedication of Maori, church and historic buildings, patere from Tuhoe, research correspondence, poor pronounciation of Maori placenames, prestigious visits to New Zealand and places like Taumarunui and also the history of Te Miringa Te Kakara. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1914

From: [Theatre programmes for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand. 1914].

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1914-01

Description: An arrangement of text, with engraving on front cover. Cover shows the front of a Maori meeting house. The programme included performances by: A T Ngata; Twelve Maori belles; Mrs Woodward (soprano); Mr Courtney Mohr (singer); Little Miss Thelma Aitken (recitation); Miss Rena Te Au, Misses Ria and Hinehau Tahiua [sic] (singers); and actors Jack and Nell Merrideu, Weston, and Mr Phipps Williams. Orchestral conductor Mr W McLaughlin. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on folded programme.. Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on sheet, 267 x 211 mm (folded).

Date: [ca 1963]

From: Fowler, Leo, 1902-1976: Papers and photographs

Reference: 77-014-1/02A

Description: Papers relating to Maori music and waiata. Includes the script for a radio programme about Maori music by Phyllis Williams (Kirimamae), called "Maori Song Forms" on the scripts. Many of the waiata featured in the programme relate to Ngati Porou, and people mentioned in the programme include Sir Apirana Ngata, Ngaropi White, Materoa [Reedy], Hera Haereroa, Enoka Te Pakaru, Hiria Tamati, Matekino Brown, Alfred Hill and Tuta Nihoniho. Also mentioned is the story of Pou (Pourangahua) and the origins of the haka associated with Te Rauparaha "Ka mate, ka mate" are discussed saying it has connections to the story of Maui capturing the sun. Different kinds of waiata or song forms are discussed as well as titi torea, or Maori stick games. Also includes lyrics and translations of many Maori waiata, a booklet of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, translated into Maori, with notation, and a programme for the 123rd Waitangi Day Celebration, at Waitangi on 6 Feb 1963. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1906-1980]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-002

Description: Letters from a variety of people, mostly relating to McEwen's work and interests. Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes letter to Erik from Remuera re periodicals and publishing; letter re origin of word pakeha from Rotorua; extract from the `Economist' re a `new Maori war' (1863); letter from A H Turnbull to S P Smith re Mr Macdonald's voting paper (1906); additional material on Ngarimu from R T Kohere; letter to Gordon Wasson re Maori fungus, words re excrement, thunder etc; notes on Tamatea's lizards by R T Batley; letter, Enid Tapsell, to JPS re kumara; correspondence relating to Foss Leach's Skinner Fund grant. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1920

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0039-08A

Description: Contains waiata and karakia, and accompanying narratives Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

From: Seddon family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1619-228

Description: Pamphlets including The campaigns of 1917 edited by Captain Basil Williams, The price of Citizenship by Sir Apirana Ngata, Stories from the history of the Kopara Valley by Form 2 Houpiri School, Instructions for the Guidance of Medical Examiners for War Pensions, Provincial pride, no. 11 Aug 1965 and Te Wai Poumamu - souvenir of the Grey District Diamond Jubilee, 1868-1928