Mobile Recording Unit Waikato - Record list of the Thames Valley and Waikato Tour

Record list of the Thames Valley and Waikato tour of the Mobile Recording Unit of NZBC and other loose papers. Topics covered in the interviews include early settler and Maori history of Thames and Waikato, including Morrinsville, Te Aroha, Hauraki Gulf, Coromandel, Paeroa, Pirongia, Te Awamutu and Huntly.

Includes some details about the interviews with Sir Stephan Allen and Missy Mary Ann Turnbull of Morrinsville, Toki Watene and R W Hammond of Thames, Kapa Potae of Kennedy Bay (Coromandel), C H Hovell [Charlie], Hoane Te Huia of Paeroa, Mr H A Swarbrick relating to the missionary period, and Raureti Te Huia and Te One Haereiti of Te Awamutu. Some of the interviews were conducted in Maori mostly relating to early Maori and Pakeha settler history of the Waikato and Thames area, also recordings of waiata, whakatauki, whakapapa etc. Also includes a biography of Mr George Shaw of Wilson & Shaw, Huntly, and a story about Te Rauparaha's lament, [relating to leaving Kawhia] and English translation.

Language - Some notes about interviews recorded in Maori.

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

One photograph of a family. One young girl, one young boy and a teenage girl, possibly Fowler's family?