Melanesian Mission

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0088-7

Description: Born on Norfolk Island, the son of Rev John Richardson Selwyn. Reminscences about his childhood and early years; especially his father and his grandmother Sarah Selwyn, Melanesian Mission, life in Lichfield, and various members of the Church of England, namely - Bishop Maclagan, Rev E Bradley (d 1913), Bishop of London (Winnington Imgram), Canon Lansdale, Archdeacon Iles, Rev Nobbs, and Bishop Abraham. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (58 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Found in the basement of New Zealand House, London in January 1970

Date: 1876-1887

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2122

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1908-1920]

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2622

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1921-1934

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1092

Description: Contains minutes of the Executive Committee 21 Apr 1921-5 Mar 1925, and of the Finance Board 25 Mar 1925-31 Jul 1934. Minutes are indexed Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1997

Date: 1950 - 1979

By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002; Farmer-Lee, E, active 1970s

Reference: E-615

Description: Includes photographs of drawings of buildings made for his book "Patterns of the past; some historic New Zealand buildings" (1977). Also includes photographs of eight portrait drawings of heads and nudes. The buildings featured in the drawings are (from North): St John's Church Waimate North; Stone store and mission house Kerikeri; Mansion house Kawau; Ferry Building Quay Street Auckland; Chief Post office Auckland; Jewish Synagogue Auckland; Melanesian Mission Museum Mission Bay; Ewelme Cottage Parnell Auckland; Old wooden buildings Victoria Street Auckland; "Alberton" Mt Albert Road Auckland; Mokai ghost town near Taupo; General Assembly Library and Parliament Buildings Wellington; Provincial Council Chambers Christchurch; Provincial Council Buildings - Bellamy's; Langlois-Eteveneaux Cottage Akaroa; Holme Station homestead South Canterbury; Lighthouse Timaru; Springdale historic farm buildings south of Timaru; St Augustine Church of England Waimate; Railway Station Dunedin; Corner of Cumberland and Dundas Streets Dunedin; Law Courts Dunedin; Terrace houses Stuart Street Dunedin; Buckingham Street Arrowtown; Sunderland Street Clyde. There are also three unidentified drawings (E-615-034/036). Also includes three photographs of paintings by E Farmer-Lee: "Feisal's Night Camp", "The Estuary", and Approaching dusk, Denmark, 1972" (E-615-037/039). Quantity: 39 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, sizes varying up to 95 x 130 mm. Provenance: From the estate of Owen R Lee. Transfers: Negatives for these photographic prints, acquired at the same time, are housed in the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1968

From: Alexander, John Hood, 1917- :New Zealand historic buildings. Pen wash paintings with text by John H. Alexander. Auckland, Morton Williams Ltd, 1968.

Reference: B-086-018

Description: View of the stone mission house at Mission Bay, Auckland. In the foreground are two large trees (possibly gums). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 142 x 182 mm

Date: 1850-1964

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0422

Description: The records include the Codex Pitcairnensis, 1850 (the `Constitution' of Pitcairn Island, also incorporating its first written laws); land grants, 1867; diary of Isaac Robinson, 1882-1883; Norfolk Island almanac, 1888; land applications, 1901-1914; register of tenancy in Crown buildings on Norflok Island, 1907-1964; agreement re land of Melanesian Mission, 1915; medical survey by A H Baldwin, 1931; index to administration correspondence, 1942-1943. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index..

Date: 1789-1902

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2840

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1903-1967

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2643

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1907-1908

By: Phillips, Jillian, 1950-

Reference: PA1-q-1069

Description: Photograph album of Wellington and trips around the North Island. Includes views of the opening of Victoria Bowling Club, bowling matches and other bowling clubs in the North Island, the contruction of the Grafton Bridge, Rotorua geysers, Te Wairoa buried village, and Dominion Day celebrations at Newtown Park, Wellington, Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 260 mm Provenance: Photograph album was compiled by Jill Phillips' great-grandfather.

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: [New Zealand calendars of quarto size]

By: En-Zed Card & Calendar Company Ltd; Four Square Stores; New Zealand Antarctic Society; Tanner Couch Ltd; Commercial Print; New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society; Pelorus Press; Victorian Government Tourist Bureau; Tricker, Gary Walter Morice, 1938-2021

Reference: Eph-B-CALENDAR-1960s

Description: Includes calendars: Commercial Print (Boulcott Avenue, Wellington). Calendar for 1964. En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd (Auckland). [Calendar for 1965]. (2 copies) En-Zed Card & Calendar Co Ltd (Auckland). [Calendar for 1966]. (2 copies) Four Square. J D Turnbull, 1 Moxham Avenue, Hataitai. [Calendar for 1962]. Four Square. Beautiful New Zealand; the scenes from the 1964 Four Square calendar (folder of six loose colour photographs only) The Melanesian Mission. [Calendar] 1968. New Zealand Antarctic Society. Calendar 1962 New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc. Calendar 1961. (featuring a drawing by Gary Tricker) Shipbuilders Ltd. A family of shipbuilders; the Darrochs of Omaha and the ships they built, by C W Hawkins. Pelorus Press. [Calendar for 1966, relating to D M Darroch & Son of Stanley Bay]. Tanner Couch Ltd. Seasons greetings. [Humorous fishing calendar for 1961]. Victorian Government Tourist Bureau. Arts calendar 1969. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) sets on calendars (plus some duplicates). Physical Description: Offset lithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-026

Description: Shows a small group of men, possibly soldiers, standing near the sea, with the Melanesian Mission of Kohimarama at the left, the beach on the right. Other Titles - [Houses and people by the sea. Former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1859 - 1865

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-022/023

Description: Double spread shows a view of all the buildings in the Kohimarama Mission School complex. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on pages of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on double page spread 126 x 346 mm.

Date: 1908-1932

By: Blencowe, John Walcot (Rev), 1886-1964

Reference: Micro-MS-0447

Description: Contain various printed items, a Mota vocabulary, letters to his parents 1909-1911 describing his voyage to the Pacific, his stay on Norfolk Island, and life as a missionary on Santa Cruz; incoming letters including several in a Melanesian language 1910-1915, lists, drafts of speeches and letters, photographs etc relating to the Melanesian mission. Blencowe went to the Solomon Islands as a missionary in 1909 for three years. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 380 pages). Physical Description: Negative microfilm Finding Aids: Inventory available; detailed list of contents at beginning of the reel.

Date: 20 May 1992

From: Rawene Public Library oral history project

By: Brindle, Stephen John, 1907-2000

Reference: OHInt-0641/02

Description: Stephen John Brindle born Devonport 1907. Talks about father's life at sea and describes events leading up to father's arrival in New Zealand, with reference to Capt. Skinner of the Melanesian Mission schooner `Southern Cross'. Gives brief description of Melanesian Mission activities and previous Southern Cross wrecked around the Islands. Mentions father's friends, Mr and Mrs S P Andrew, a photographer in Wellington. Recalls returning from school to become father's assistant on the farm and family move back to Onoke in 1926. Refers to father belonging to Masonic Lodge in Kohukohu. Describes courtship and marriage in 1935. Mentions father-in-law, William Digby Young. Describes having tonsils removed by Dr Smith, appendicitis removed when 21 years and flu epidemic (1918-1919). Discusses history of Onoke's Native Land Court - the first in the Hokianga but not the first in New Zealand as records show. Explains that Whangarei held a court in 1862 and Onoke ca 1865. Discusses transport and the use of launches which were dependent on tides. Gives long and very detailed description of the cream-launch routine and the navigational skills needed to negotiate creeks and landing-stages in the darkness. Mentions launch driver, Ivor Bryers. Interviewer(s) - Alexa Whaley Venue - Omapere Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010750 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3805.

Date: 1955-1961

Reference: MS-1940

Description: The volume comprises Elizabeth Colenso (née Fairburn), a biography by her eldest granddaughter, Frances Edith Swabey which covers the years 1819-1904 (45 & 49 pages); an Account of a visit by the Turakina to the Crozet Islands, Feb 1907, by F M Simcox (6 pages); an account of the golden wedding of W H & F M Simcox, 1920, from the Otaki Mail, (3 pages); a dedication of the Simcox Memorial Window in All Saints Church, Otaki, 1930, from the Otaki Mail (3 pages); an incident in W M Simcox's life and poem entitled `Kapiti Island' (3 pages) and a reference to Stratford House at Camp Hill, Birmingham, England. There are two indexes, one for pages 1-45, the other for pages 108-122. F S Simcox compiled this volume in stages, beginning in 1955 when his eldest sister, Edith Swabey, asked him to type Elizabeth Colenso's biography; as time passed additional projects presented which now form part of the volume: accounts of a visit to the Crozet Islands by F M Simcox, of the golden wedding of W H and F M Simcox, a dedication of a stained glass window, an incident in W M Simcox's life and information about Stratford House, Birmingham, a history of which had been written by J W Simcox. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (red linen) Finding Aids: Indexed (Biography of Elizabeth Colenso, 1819-1875 on pp 45-49; 1876-1904 on pp 50-56). Photographs of Rev B Y Ashwell's cottage at Pepepe; William Thomas Fairburn; family of W T Fairburn, 1891; William and Elizabeth Colenso; Ridley Latimer Colenso, 1880; F M Simcox, 1877; F M Colenso, 1865?, ms map of Norfolk Island and Crozet Islands

Date: 1891

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the Church of England (Anglican Church) in New Zealand and its congregations, parishes, churches and buildings]

Reference: Eph-B-RELIGION-A-1891-01

Description: The text of prayers and hymns for the dedication service: "Eternal Father, strong to save", Psalm 107, "Thy Kingdom come, O God", and various prayers. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on folded pamphlet 215 x 135 mm.

Date: 1968

By: Alexander, John Hood, 1916-1975; Morton Williams Ltd

Reference: B-086-015/020

Description: Folio no 1: "Selwyn Church", Waimate North; Partington's Windmill, Auckland; Pioneer's homestead, Otaki. Folio no. 2: Manganese miner's cottage, Russell; Rev. Henry Williams' house, Pakaraka; Melanesian Mission, Auckland. Sheet of descriptive text in each folder, from which title is taken. Folder title is 'New Zealand historic buildings. Fine art prints by John H. Alexander'. Note on text: 'Typesetting and lithographic plates by Photo Engravers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand'. Issued at $5.85 per folio. Other Titles - Selwyn Church, Waimate North. Partington's Windmill, Auckland. Pioneer's homestead Otaki. Manganese miner's cottage, Russell. Rev Williams' house, Pakaraka. Melanesian Mission, Auckland Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sepia, on sheets 142 x 182 mm in 2 folders 144 x 185 mm

Date: [ca 1902-1925]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0557

Description: Autobiography consists of 112 typescript pages. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory..

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-033

Description: Shows a few figures paddling in the waves on the beach at Kohimarama, with the Melanesian Mission College at the right. Other Titles - [Beach scene. Former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch with some watercolour, on page, 126 x 173 mm.