Waimate Plain

Date: Jan-Jun 1845

Reference: MS-Papers-2790

Description: Summary population return for the parish of Waimate, Taranaki, from J Skevington Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1841-1844, 1846-1848

From: Mair, Gilbert, 1799-1857 : Inward letters

Reference: MS-Papers-10823-2

Description: Comprises 6 letters to Mair at Wahapu and Wangarie [Whangarei?], written from Mangungu Hokianga between May 1842 and Aug 1844. Gives Mission news and personalities, deaths and illness in the family, detailed accounts on economic and social conditions in the Hokianga, comments on the Wairau Affray and his concerns about the unsettled condition of the local Maori. Also, 3 letters from Auckland and Waimate, South Taranaki Apr 1846-Nov 1848 re his posting to Taranaki; returns chest-of-drawers to Mair at Waihapu; gives impressions of his new station and local rivalry between Methodist and Anglican missions Quantity: 1 folder(s) 9 letters.

Date: 1870-1880

By: Best, Walter, 1848-1929; Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Monkton, Charles Henry, 1840-1890; Harding, R E (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: PA1-q-028

Description: Photograph album compiled by Walter Best, comprising views of Wellington, Auckland, Picton, Nelson, Naseby, Manawatu Gorge, Mahurangi, Te Ore Ore Pa, Masterton, Hutt River, Lorne station on the Waikohu River, Napier, Lyttelton, West Coast, Reefton, Maitai Valley, Bulls, Wanganui, Waitotara, Waimate plains and Mitre Peak. Also includes a photograph of the Best family home, Fernbank, Tinakori Road. Photographers represented include James Bragge and Charles Henry Monkton. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/1-000763, 1/1-000783, 1/1-00260, 1/1-002712 to 1/1-002721; 1/2-004094, 1/2-004136, 1/2-004698, 1/2-004699, 1/2-014969, 1/2-015699, 1/2-018087, 1/2-020713, 1/2-020714, 1/2-020716; 1/4-009246, 1/4-010018, 1/4-010023, 1/4-10024, 1/4-010894, 1/4-014970 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Mrs R E Harding, Wellington, in May 1949

Date: 20 Oct 1851

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0675I-03

Description: Contemporary copy in Henry Halse's hand with translation regarding land meetings Quantity: 1 piece (8 pages on 2 leaves).

Date: late 1870s

From: Best, Walter, 1848-1929 :Album of photographs of New Zealand

Reference: PA1-q-028-33

Description: Charles Finnerty's survey camp, Waimate Plains, Taranaki, circa 1870s. Shows a group of tents by a bridge, and groups of people. Photographer unidentified. Other Titles - Finnerty's Survey Camp Waimate Plains Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Finnerty's Survey Camp Waimate Plains; Album page - beneath image - Finnerty's Survey Camp Waimate Plains Latter 70 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20.3 x 26.1 cm, mounted on album page 23.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1851

From: Wesleyan juvenile offering; a miscellany of missionary information for young people. London, 1843-1863

By: Wesleyan Missionary Society

Reference: PUBL-0208-1851-108

Description: Looking down from a high point at a cluster of small buildings, surrounded by a fenced formal garden. The station shown is on Waimate Plain in South Taranaki, and was occupied by William Woon Other Titles - From Wesleyan juvenile offering. A miscellany of missionary information for young people. Volume 8, 1851, between p. 108 and 109. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) publication. Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 160 mm

Date: 20 Nov 1871

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0695G-4

Description: Letter with contemporary brief note in English Quantity: 1 piece (4 pages on 1 leaf).