Rivers - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: [1891]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-07

Description: River winding over plains towards Ahikereru with mountains in the distance. A fenced settlement (possibly Te Harema Pa) is on the left on a slightly raised area. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Looking towards Ahiokereru - Urewera Country [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - Watercolour. T. Ryan [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 165 x 274 mm

Date: October 1993

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6648

Description: Views of the Raukokore River (October 1993). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: [1891]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-06

Description: Whirinaki River winding over plains towards mountains. A pa (possibly Te Whaiti settlement) is on a slightly raised area at the right. Mist or low clouds can be seen. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Early morning in the Whirinaki Valley Urewera Country [in pencil] Library holds a similar image by Thomas Ryan at B-159-006 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 178 x 290 mm

Date: 1925 - 1947

By: Siroper, George, active 1925

Reference: MapColl-832.16aj/[ca.1925-47]/Acc.12,026

Description: Drawn on a published map of Mayor Island to Poverty Bay with an extended portion of another map glued to include the area from Mayor Island to the Mercury Islands. The annotations depict extended river and partially smooth water limits at various points around the coastline from the Mercury Islands to Poverty Bay. The limit for Gisborne fishing boats extends from Cape Runaway to Poverty Bay. A reference key is included which states that river and smooth water limits are coloured blue and one area is prominently named Te Kaha river limits. Extended and partially smooth water limits are coloured red and three areas are prominently named Tauranga; Whakatane, Ohiwa and Opotiki; Te Kaha extended river limits. The Tauranga extension for fine weather only, at the discretion of the Inspector of Fisheries, is coloured green. 'Opotiki extreme limits' covers the approximate area between White Island and Whale Island. An additional area has been shaded green for the extended river and partial limit from Whangamata and Tauranga to Mayor Island, with details written in biro added at a later date. Also marked in biro are three anchorages for launches, one at Waihau Bay. 'George Siroper 9/1/25' is handwritten adjacent to reference key, at centre top of map. Signature hard to decipher. '133/47' is handwritten centrally on the map. Nos. '6' and '2527' and 'Restricted limits - Bay of Plenty' are handwritten on the reverse Base map: Mayor Island to Poverty Bay / surveyed by Captain W. Pudsey Dawson. London: The Admiralty, 1906. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, coloured, scale not given, 84.3 x 95.8 cm.

Date: [ca 1926]

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1053

Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1896

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

By: New Zealand. Māori Land Court

Reference: MapColl-CHA-4/1/15-Acc.37753

Description: Identifies Whirinaki River an Mangawiri stream etc. Note attached reads: These three tracings were enclosures in the letter from the Chief Surveyor, Auckland ..... 1947. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale [ca 1: 31 680] 24.7 x 19.8 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: March 1904

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-634-31

Description: Lord Ranfurly's party crossing the Whakatane River, photographed in March 1904 by Malcolm Ross, during the last stage of their journey from Waikaremoana to Ruatoki. Lord Ranfurly is riding the grey pony in the centre. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - "Late in the afternoon we rode through the broad swift-flowing waters of the Whakatane". Malcolm Ross, in "Through Tuhoe land" (Christchurch Press, 1904) states that "Late in the afternoon the Governor and his party rode through the broad, swift-flowing waters of the Whakatane, here a noble river, and rode slowly forward towards the native village of Ruatoki, where were gathered about a thousand of the tribespeople and the representatives of all the Maori Councils of New Zealand." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 157 x 210 mm mounted on album page 255 x 287 mm

Date: 1891

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Watercolours and sketches of a visit to Te Kooti, Urewera country. 1891].

Reference: B-159-008

Description: Includes views of Rangitaiki River and the Tawhiuau Ranges beyond; and Harema Pa. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on two sides of sheet, 253 x 372 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: 1993

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6647

Description: Karen and Guy in inflatable canoe (April 1993). Views of the Te Kumi Flats on the Raukokore River (October 1993). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: November 1993

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6650

Description: Views of the Raukokore and Maungahaupapa rivers (October and November 1993). Views towards Lake Waikaremoana and Panekiri Bluff (November 1993). Papakorito Falls (November 1993). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard mounts.

Date: 1961. 1984

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6466

Description: Tramp in the Raukumara Range. Trip along the Kereu River. Portraits of trampers. Views of the Waipoua forest, 1984. Burnt forest at sunset, Aniwanawa Valley, 1984. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1984

From: New Zealand. Ministry of Education :Photographs from the Ministry of Works Library

Reference: PA1-o-1301

Description: Photographic record of digging the trench in which to lay the natural gas pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge. Photographed by an unknown photographer from September to December 1984. The pipeline through the Waioeka Gorge carried natural gas between Kawerau and Gisborne. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1913

By: Martin, W A, active 1913

Reference: MapColl-832.19gbbd/1913/Acc.25,688

Description: Cadastral map of two sections, numbered 1 and 11, bordered by the Motu River and Te Whakamaria Stream. Includes acreages. Other Titles - Plan of bush areas, Motu survey district Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 33.2 x 36.4 cm.

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Read, Raymond, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1597-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down from a steep hill over a flat farming valley. River winds across the land from the left and up through the centre on the right. Road in foreground. House, partially hidden by trees, on a knoll in the centre middle distance below a steep hill. Willows along the river, native bush in a gully to the right of the house. Sheep in a paddock below the house, outbuildings centre left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken in the Kutarere area by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Raymond Read. Kutarere. Opotiki. 2 B&W. 1 oils. Plain iron roofs on all buildings. River; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Raymond Reid [i.e. Read]. 2 B&W & 1 oils Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 109.7 cm

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

From: Werren, Douglas John 1930-2007: Transparency slides

Reference: PA12-11317

Description: Transparency slides of coastal scenes taken by Douglas John Werren, circa 1950s and 1960s. Photographs include the confluence of the Taruheru River and Waimata River, wharf area and town, Gisborne (seen from Titirangi Domain). Also coastal images [Bay of Plenty? Poverty Bay?]. Quantity: 17 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies

Date: [1891]

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-02

Description: Rangitaiki River in the foreground, with plain and rugged rocky mountains including Tawhiuau in the background. To the right of the ranges is a waterfall called Mangamate. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Tawhiuau Ranges. Border of Urewera Country [in pencil] Library holds a similar image by Thomas Ryan at B-159-008-1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 173 x 270 mm

Date: 1998

From: Young, David Christopher 1947-: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11323-32

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1888

From: Hoare, E A, fl 1887-1888 :Drawings, watercolour sketches, photographs and notes of E A Hoare, Artiste, on board 'S S Tongariro'. December 1887 to March 1888

Reference: E-955-f-021-1

Description: A view across Lake Rotorua, probably from the top balcony of the Lake House Hotel, Ohinemutu. The 'creek' might be a reference to Utuhina Stream. Two small geysers can be seen, and a Maori family sit beside one of them. Two cottages are also in view in the foreground A very similar view from the watercolour on the previous page, E-955-f-020-6 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Creek from L.H. [Lake House] [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on paper, 95 x 147 mm, on sketchbook page 255 x 370 mm

Date: 13 August 1891

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-08

Description: A river, possibly the Whirinaki, winding between steep bush covered hills in Urewera Country. To the left a track has been cut into the hill. A toitoi bush is in the foreground. A waterfall is cascading down the hills on the right. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - The Umurakau Gorge Urewera Country [Okahu?] [in pencil] "and Otira K" has been written and crossed out. ; Recto - bottom right - Watercolour T. Ryan [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 200 x 160 mm

Date: 1947

By: Alley, L A, active 1947; New Zealand. Public Works Department

Reference: MapColl-832.16cdc/1947/Acc.9273;9274;9275;9276;9277;9278

Description: Regional planning map of the Whakatane River and land adjacent to it. Includes topographical descriptions, details of flood surveys, areas marked as native land, sections, settlements, meeting houses and individual property owners are named. Roads, railways, streams are marked and some are named. Includes the Whakatane Paper Mill. Several notes elaborate on river diversions, stopbanks and flooding. Names listed are: Simons store, Black, Kendall, C. Comiskey, Karepe, Blewett, Signal, Merito, Sykes, Webster, Hayward, Grey, Foster, Reid estate, Sisam estate, Grace, Hill, Morrison estate, Brown, Rawson, Richardson, Souter, Yeoman, McGougan, Davies estate. Quantity: 6 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, scales vary, 41 x 423.7 cm. on sheets 41 x 91.3 cm. or smaller