Schools - Cook Islands
Visit of members of the New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903
Date: 1903
By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931; Read, G A, active 1903
Reference: PA1-o-933
Description: Record of tour of the Pacific Islands by members of the New Zealand Legislature in 1903 Photographs taken by Henry Winkelmann of Auckland (numbers 1, 38, 50-51, and 79) and G A Read of the NZ Government Printing and Stationery Department Very few of the people shown are identified Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Belonged to William Henry Triggs (1855-1934)
Seddon's trip to the Pacific islands album
Date: 1900
By: Sears, Frederick W, active 1890s-1900s
Reference: PA1-o-461
Description: Photographs all taken by Frederick W Sears. Other Titles - Cover title - The Premier's trip to the Pacific Islands Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "The Premier's trip to the Pacific Islands" in gold lettering; 17.0 x 21.5 cm
Visit of members of the New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903
Date: 1903
By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931; Read, G A, active 1903
Reference: PA1-o-819
Description: Record of tour of the Pacific Islands by members of the New Zealand Legislature in 1903 Photographs taken by Henry Winkelmann of Auckland (numbers 1, 38, 50-51, and 79) and G A Read of the NZ Government Printing and Stationery Department Very few of the people shown are identified Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album Provenance: Provenance unknown. Previously housed in NZ & Pacific collection
Visit of members of the New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903
Date: 1903
From: Hall-Jones, William (Sir) 1851-1936 :Photographs
By: Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931; Read, G A, active 1903
Reference: PA1-o-818
Description: Record of the tour of the Pacific Islands by members of the New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903 Photographs taken by Henry Winkelmann of Auckland (numbers 1, 38, 50-51, and 79) and G A Read of the NZ Government Printing and Stationery Department Very few of the people shown are identified Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Date: [ca 1914]
From: Turner, Shirley Margaret, 1945-: Photographs of Rarotonga, Fiji, and probably Tahiti
Reference: PA1-o-1814
Description: Album containing 9 photographs taken on Aitutaki, Cook Islands, circa 1914, by an unidentified photographer, possibly the Turner family. Includes photographs of Government School, memorial to native missionaries killed in New Guinea 1881, husking and grating coconuts, Rima Dadaraka who held a silver medal for bravery, damaged building from hurricane in 1914, Mummy(?) apple tree, burial ground, and a 12 year old Aitutaki girl. Inscriptions: On album cover: embossed: 'Photographs'; On album cover: hand written in ink: Aitutaki, Cook Islands Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, 11 x 15 cm, with grey pages staapled together, and soft grey cover.
Palmerston Atoll
Date: [1960]
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
By: Burland, John Colles, 1926-2015
Reference: PA12-0515
Description: Views on Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands, showing Empire Day celebrations, the teacher and pupils at the school on Palmerston Islet, construction work on the school building (including thatching the roof), and members of the Marsters family. Photographs taken in 1960 by John Burland. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.
Interview with Mr Kauraka Dan
Date: 9 June 1991 - 09 Jun 1991
From: Kauraka, Kauraka, 1951-1997: Papers and recordings
By: Kauraka, Dan, active 1951-1991
Reference: OHInt-0069/24
Description: Kauraka Dan talks about illness; being saved by Tihau's suggestion; Neville Pearson; work on Penrhyn; love; accordian playing; bad luck omen; news omen; tear drops; favoured child; story of Joseph and the last born; death of Kauraka's mother; Atinga (Offering); Solomona grave; Mangaia geneology; schooling; paying tithes; wedding; Herekaimareka; sibilngs; arithmetic; Piapa; alphabet; story of Fakahiti; work, travel and determination. Discusses his life, particularly recalling his schooling, examinations, the use of a writing slab, lessons taken from the bible, native religion and definition of God, scholarships, pocket money, marriage, Tepaeru, birth of Kauraka, working life and the epidemic of 1952. Venue - Rarotonga Interviewer(s) - Kauraka Kauraka Venue - Avatiu, Rarotonga Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005158, OHC-005159, OHC-005169 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - 3 folders. 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Abstract in Rarotongan - OHA-1697.
Avarua School, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Photograph taken by W Walker
Date: 1949
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s
Reference: 1/2-039965-F
Description: Avarua School, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. View includes the milk room. Photograph taken betwen September and November 1949 for the National Publicity Studios, by W Walker. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
European School, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Photograph taken by W Walker
Date: 1949
From: Tourist and Publicity
By: Walker, W (Mr), active 1940s-1950s
Reference: 1/2-039963-F
Description: European School, Avarua, Rarotonga. Shows children in a classroom. Photograph taken between September and November 1949 for the National Publicity Studios, by W Walker. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.
Children entering school building on Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
Date: 1960
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
Reference: PA12-0515-05
Description: View of unidentified children entering a new school building on Palmerston Island. The children are dressed in uniform and an unidentified woman, probably a teacher, stands on the verandah. Taken in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide
Teacher Ada Arioka with her pupils in the new school on Palmerston Island, Cook Islands
Date: 1960
From: Burland, John Colles, 1926- :Colour transparencies of Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mangaia and Palmerston Island, 1960
Reference: PA12-0515-04
Description: Teacher Ada Arioka assistingr one of her pupils as he works at his desk in the new classroom on Palmerston Island. Taken in 1960 by John Colles Burland. Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide
Simpson album : Visit of members of the New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other I...
Date: April-June 1903
By: Read, G A, active 1903; Winkelmann, Henry, 1860-1931
Reference: PA1-o-468
Description: Record of the tour of the Pacific Islands by members of the New Zealand Legislature in 1903 Photographs taken by Henry Winkelmann of Auckland (numbers 1, 38, 50-51, and 79) and G A Read of the NZ Government Printing and Stationery Department Very few of the people shown are identified Other Titles - Visit of members of New Zealand legislature to the Cook and other Islands, 1903 Inscriptions: Album page - The voyage, of which the accompanying photographs form a partial record, was undertaken in April-June, 1903, for the purpose of giving Members of the New Zealand Legislature an opportunity of seeing the Cook and other Islands, which were annexed to the colony in June, 1901. In all fifteen islands were visited, eight of them being within the extended boundaries of New Zealand, and the remaining seven belonging to one or other of the adjacent groups - viz., Samoa, Tonga or Friendly Islands, and Fiji. The total distance travelled was 8,015 miles and th time occupied,, seven weeks. A detailed report on the visit will be found in parliamentary Paper, 1903, A.-3B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "Visit of members of New Zealand Legislature to the Cook and other islands, 1903", lettered in gold; 15.5 x 23.5 cm
Photographs of Richard Seddon's tour of the South Pacific Islands in 1900
Date: 1900
From: Hall-Jones, William (Sir) 1851-1936 :Photographs
By: Sears, Frederick W, active 1890s-1900s
Reference: PAColl-5287-1
Description: Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s).