Land Information New Zealand

Date: 1843 - 1939

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; Hall, Lance, 1899-1985; War Memorial Library (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MapColl-832.4793gbbd/[ca.1843]/Acc.7915;7918;8370;8371;8372

Description: Cadastral map, with topographic features, of the Hutt River valley from an area north of the Stokes Valley bridge to the harbour. Includes the road which runs parallel to the river. High Street, Victoria Street, Railway Avenue, and Hutt Road are named. The settlements of Richmond, Aglionby and Britannia are named. Includes numbered sections with owners' names. Clifford, Molesworth, Taine, Park, Child, Alzdorf, Hanson, Stokes, Dr. Evans, Riddiford, Dr. Dorset, Swainson, Barton, Compton, Captain Daniell, Colonel Wakefield, Burcham, Bidwill. Several areas of native reserve are marked as are the sites of a pa, Hughes' House, Masons House, Boulcott's House, Molesworth Farm, Aglionby Arms, Queens Head Inn are marked. Title supplied by cataloguer Hand-written along bottom of sheet 5: Photostat of plan in Survey office, Wellington. L. Hall, 1939 Quantity: 1 map(s) on five sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale not given, 196.7 x 63 cm., sheets 64.1 x 45.2 cm. and smaller

Date: 1992

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Maps associated with architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Houghton, Ashley Russell, active 1992

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gbbd/A/1992/Acc.46207

Description: Survey of the Basin Reserve, Wellington with bearings and measurements. No buildings are shown. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, scale 1: 1 000, 39 x 58 cm. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Plans-2002-058-D-013.

Date: 1972

By: Brown, Derek Edward, active 1972

Reference: MapColl-834.48gbbd/1972/Acc.45880

Description: Survey plan of three drawings showing the details, including bearings and co-ordinates in terms of geo datum 1949, of an existing road being closed and the new replacement road in the Canterbury Land District, Clyde Survey District, Ashburton County. The drawing on the left side of the map shows the overview detail of the existing and replacement road with the roads location to the Clyde River, the survey co-ordinates from Gowler Downs, the survey order number S.O.11331,that the road trasverses and that it crosses Run 112, Erewhon. The road is identified as being 75.76 links wide and the scale of the drawing is 5 chains to the inch. The middle drawing identifies in much detail, the bearings and co-ordinates, including locations of survey pegs, of the road being closed and those of the new replacement road. Two areas within the drawing shown as 'Diagram A' and 'Diagram B', are drawn again, giving greater detail of the bearings and co-ordinates. The road is shown to transverse S.O.11076, S.O.4572, S.O. 11331 and R.S.8178 Survey co-ordinates from Gowler Downs are also shown and that the road crosses land known as Run 112, Erewhon. The name A.A.Urquhart is also printed under Erewhon. The scale of the middle drawing is 2 chains to an inch. The third drawing, located on the right side of the map, is identifed as 'Diagram of Bearing Control, not to scale'. It includes bearings from Blk.XI Clyde S.D., Craig Phillips Blk.XIV Clyde S., and 8031 Rabbit Hill Blk. XIV Clyde S.D. A legend, 'Shedule of Areas; Purpose, Colour, Area', is located at the top right corner of the map. Purpose states, 'Road to be closed", 'New Road (from RS8178)' and '(from Sec.58CL) Part Road to be closed'. Colour states 'Green', 'Orange', and the Area, identifies two numerical areas for the 'Road Closed', five for the 'New Road' and one for the 'Part Road to be Closed'. A 'Note' advises 'All marks down 12" [inch] unless otherwise shown. Boundaries not fenced unless otherwise shown.' Data relating to the Survey Block and District, Land District, Local Authority, scale, surveyed by, and date are located at the bottom of the map. Nine different scale lines are drawn on the left side of the map, outside the map's left border. Quantity: 1 map(s) in three segments. Physical Description: Brown photographic paper, hand coloured, Scale [1:3 960] [1:1 584], 43.5 x 43.5 cm

Date: 1906

By: Hanify, Hugo Page, 1865-1945; Land Information New Zealand; Toomath, Stanley William, 1925-2014

Reference: MapColl-832.4792gbbd/1906/Acc.47249

Description: Copy of a cadastral subdivision plan of land at Lowry Bay and Point Howard, Wellington. Shows roads and numbered and surveyed land sections, with deposited plan numbers and dimensions. Includes part of Eastern Bays Marine Drive, Nikau and Howard roads. Other Titles - Subdivision no 2. Plan of part sections 20 & 22 Harbour District Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photostatic copy, scale indeterminable, original scale [1:1 584], 45.5 x 49.5cm. on sheet 45.5 x 54 cm. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Toomath & Wilson, architects. House, Point Howard [for] Mr & Mrs A McDougall... Reference: Plans-2005-057-0225.

Date: 1860 - 1997

By: Land Information New Zealand; Karori Historical Society

Reference: MapColl-Collection-KHS

Description: Maps that are copies of survey plans held by Land Information New Zealand show land owners and land blocks in Karori mostly in 1860s and 1870s, land blocks part of Old Karori Rd in 1906 and the watershed of the Kaiwarawara Stream in 1901. Two maps come from an unknown source - the effect on Makara of a proposed Quartz Hill wind power station in 1997, and south coast Makara property boundaries, 1990s. Quantity: 9 map(s) in 24 sheets. Physical Description: Photocopies, scale indeterminable, 30 x 42 cm.

By: Burns, Doris, active 2002

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.40169

Description: Part of a cadastral, surveyed map of South Makara Road, Wellington, showing numbered land blocks and owners names, with acreage. Owners names on sections include: Native reserve, E Barr, J F Coleridge, H R Russell, F Collier, G Shotter, J McLeary, A Allan, J Stoodby, J Cape, J Gomme, L Harris, V G Hine, J E Wainhouse, Trustees of A Johnston, W M SMith & S Revans, Exors J Muir, W Bushell, C J Heath, J T Coleridge, C W Williams, T Budge, J Somes, J R Hawkey, V G Hine, E G Wakefield, W Shepherd, Wm Barnes, J Fry, J Tompkins Jnr, J White, W Finnimore, J Thompson, W Finnimore, W McKelvie, J Blakey, B Holmes, T Allington, E Thompson, JC Andrews, R Carpenter, G Brown, W Calvert & W Gilling, C W Sexton, C Ibbotson, S Cobham, R Cockburn, J Reading, R Richmond, E Allington, G Collier, Smith. Title supplied by Curator Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 36 x 26 cm

Date: 2000-2002

From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-11624-183

Description: Comprises papers relating to research for an exhibition on landscape. Includes print-outs of emails and webpages, press release for 'The Wanderer Project' installation, notes, draft proposal for exhibition 'Taking in the View: Awesome!', and memorandum about Te Papa exhibition proposal 'The Far Away Hills'. Source of title - Supplied by librarian Arrangement: Originally delivered in a box labelled 'Landscape, Tourism, Sublime drafts & research' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript, mss

Date: 2012-2016

By: University of Auckland

Reference: ATL-Group-00029

Description: Collection comprises digitised copies of unpublished maps created or held by New Zealand government agencies New Zealand Mapping Service (NZMS), Lands and Survey (L&S), and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Includes the Topoplot 270 series, and other collected sets of maps associated with a map series, geographic areas, or use by the government agencies. The maps bear annotations, often in unidentified hands, relating to their accumulation and use over time. AIso includes charts. Title supplied by Library. The National Library of New Zealand partnered with the University of Auckland to create a digital repository of govenrment printed maps owned and created by LINZ. The pilot project was initated by the University of Auckland in 2009, and further developed with input from the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ), the National School of Surveying at the University of Otago, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). During 2012-2016 the LINZ collection of maps held at the New Zealand Defence Force library at Trentham, Upper Hutt, were scanned by contact scanners to produce archival quality digital surrogates. Quantity: 1413 digital image(s). Transfers: Published maps that were part of the digitisation project have been described in the National Library of New Zealand catalogue. - - A set of digital surrogates that were created by the digitisation project have been described separately at Library reference MapColl-Collection-NZGB as New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand. This collection describes both the hard copy maps and their digital surrogates held by Alexander Turnbull Library.. Processing information: The original maps were digitised by the University of Auckland at the New Zealand Defence Map Library (Trentham) with the funding of National Library of New Zealand.

Date: 1998-1999

From: Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (Inc): Records

Reference: 2004-200-10

Description: Inward and outward correspondence; identified correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860s-1990

By: New Zealand Geographic Board

Reference: MapColl-Collection-NZGB

Description: Maps of New Zealand that were used by the New Zealand Geographic Board. On these maps, the New Zealand Geographic Board showed official names of geographic features in New Zealand. These maps were used along with other documentation to populate LINZ's online placenames database. Arrangement: The original arrangement of the maps by the NZGB has been preserved by the Library. Following the alpha prefix of the Library reference number are three numbers. These numbers relate to the original location of the map within the NZGB filing sequence, being the original drawer number, the original folder number, and the number of the map within that folder. Quantity: 397 map(s). Physical Description: Printed matter and mss Transfers: Digital surrogates of published maps that were part of the digitisation project have been described in the National Library of New Zealand catalogue. - - Other unpublished maps that were part of the digitsation project have been described separately at ATL-Group-00029.. Processing information: Digitisation details - Prior to their transfer to Alexander Turnbull Library, these original maps were digitised by the University of Auckland at the New Zealand Defence Map Library (Trentham) with the funding of National Library of New Zealand. The digital surrogates were preserved in the National Heritage Digital Archive and attached to the descriptive records in this collection in February 2020.

Date: 1800 - 1939

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-5/29/376/Acc.55062

Description: Photocopy of a map of the North Island of New Zealand with annotated manuscript heading "Maori Tribal Boundaries, 1800 - Map prepared by Sir Apirana Ngata - 1939". Photocopy by Land Information New Zealand. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on paper, 100 x 71 cm

Date: [ca 1911]

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Map collection

By: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918

Reference: MapColl-832.4cba/[ca.1911]/Acc.46384

Description: Topographic map of Tararua Ranges showing tracks. Annotations at the bottom left corner reference related Lands and Survey drawer plans, a researcher has provided the relevant Wellington Land District references: 11/5, SO11783-1881; 45/4, SO11381-1879; and 46/3, SO11616-1881. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mt Reeves to Cone 3 hours; Hector to Alpha 3 hours; Recto - bottom left - 11/5; 45/4; 46/3 Draw plans related to this map are held by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Draw plan digital files also available from the Institute of Cadastral Surveying. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, colour, 74 x 69 cm. Processing information: Description updated 2 October, 2023 following information provided by a researcher.