Shotover Mine (Thames, N.Z.)

Date: [187-?]

From: Ellings, E E (Mr), fl 1976: Photographs of Thames

Reference: 1/2-065402-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1868, 1871 etc

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-041

Description: Photographs of the North Island of New Zealand taken by Daniel Mundy during the 1860s to 1871. Captions hand-written by Mundy on verso of each page. (Information from handwriting and signature `D.L.M.' in this album at p. 51) The Thames goldfields are shown in a number of images, including some with captions Shortland and Grahamstown (now part of Thames); the Moanataira [i.e. Moanatairi] wire tramway, with the Rainbow Hotel nearby; Hunt's claim (known as the Shotover Mine); the Missouri Battery; the Bank of New Zealand building at Grahamstown; and miners' huts. The timber industry is shown with kauri logs being transported by bullock teams and awaiting transport by water. Photographs associated with Maori include military outposts at Terewera (i.e. Tarawera) and Ormond; "Kawiti's Runanga, or court houses, now `tapu', Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 21); "limestone caves at Waiomeo [sic], Bay of Islands; the burial place of the Mangakahia tribe. Strictly tapu" (p. 22); "Group at Waimeo feast, Bay of Islands" (p. 20); "Native feast - or bone-scraping at the burial of the remains of several chiefs at Waiomeo, Bay of Islands" (p. 46); "Waipawa Valley, Poverty Bay, scene of the massacre by Te Kooti" (p. 47); "Here the moa feet impressions were found, Poverty Bay, Sept. 1871, D.L.M." (p. 51). There are two-image panoramas of the Thames goldfields and Napier. In this album they are not on following pages, but are separated. (Thames goldfields, Mundy numbers 121 & 120, here seen on pages 9 and 15); Napier (Mundy numbers 164 & 165, here seen on pages 50 and 52). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover, geometric pattern, gold decoration, entitled `New Zealand' in gold; 30.5 x 42.5 cm

Date: ca 1868 - 1870

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003165-G

Description: Men and women at the Shotover Mine, Kurunui, Thames. The men photographed here probably include the discoverers of the claim - George Clarkson, W A Hunt, William Cobley and John Ebenezer White. Taken by unidentified photographer, circa 1868 to 1870. John Ebenezer White's friendship with Piniha, who shared ownership of the land around the Hurunui Creek, enabled the gold miners, George Clarkson, W A Hunt and William Cobley, to gain access to this land. The miners sent samples of quartz to an Auckland jeweller on 10 August 1867 and filed a claim for miners' rights on 12 August. As a reward for the first discovery on the field, Comissioner Mackay gave Clarkson, Hunt, Cobley and White additional ground equivalent to two miners' rights. (see Williams, Z & J "Thames and the Coromandel Peninsula - 2000 years"). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1875

From: Severn, Henry A :Sketch panorama of Thames Goldfield / H A Severn d[el]. - [1875?]

Reference: F-013-2

Description: View of Thames from the sea. Shows mostly bare hills and a line of buildings strung along the shore. The Kuranui Battery building is towards the right, with the Shotover Mine on the far right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on paper, backed with linen ; ink and wash, monotone

Date: [ca 1870]

Reference: 1/2-019700-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Copy negative from 1927 Thames goldfield Diamond Jubilee Souvenir. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative