Horokaka

Date: Probably March 20 - 21 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8793

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides was probably taken earlier than those on some of the preceding sheets (information from his diary). This sheet contains images taken between Lower Hutt, Masterton and Castle Point in the Wairarapa. Included are interior and exterior views of St James' Anglican Church in Lower Hutt; a view of the pass over the Rimutakas; St Matthew's Church and several street scenes in Masterton; Jessie Cooper's home; the open air Masterton Swimming Pool; views of the Wairarapa Plains with a sheep station; the Ruamahanga River; Mt Holdsworth Reserve looking up to the Tararua Range; views of Castle Point, including one of shells embedded in rock, the NZ native ice plant "disphyma australe"; and a woman selling fruit and vegetables at a roadside stall on the Carterton Road. Slides on this sheet are numbered 529-532, with gaps for 531, 534, 539-540 and 553. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 531, 534, 539-540, 553). These showed the Rimutaka Pass, a Masterton street scene, the Wairarapa Plains with the Ruamahunga River and sheep, and Cabbage Tree Grove on Palliser Road, which he took as part of his representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1960 - 1961

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Native wild flowers, berries and weeds. 1960-1961.

Reference: E-164-q-051

Description: Shows two branches showing leaves and flowers of fuschia and one branch of ice plant with small purple flowers backed by green leaves. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 246 x 310 mm

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

Reference: E-332-036

Description: A view of the gorge of the Waitaki River looking west with a mist over southern mountains. Also shows Horokaka (Spaniard?) in flower. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title; Recto - bottom right - Te Piriamokotaha Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 185 x 229 mm

Date: 1860 - 1861

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-001

Description: An arrangement in spray form of several flowering New Zealand plants, including horokaka or New Zealand iceplant (with the mauve daisy-like flowers), adiantum (maidenhair fern), and samolus repens, a member of the primrose genus, found from Kermadec to Auckland Islands. Other Titles - Adiantum (maidenhair fern), horokaka (disphyma australe). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 274 mm