Swamps - New Zealand - Manawatū-Whanganui Region

Date: Between 1885 and 1888

From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway

Reference: PA1-f-239-50

Description: View of the Makerua Swamp, a 20,000 acre expanse between Shannon and Tokomaru, looking north the Manawatu River in the background. Photograph taken between 1885 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. Photograph probably taken at the same time as PA1-f-239-51. the Makerua swamp was drained during the 1890s, in the course of construction of the Wellington & Manawatu Railway. Source of information: Uncommon carrier : the history of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, 1882-1908 / K.R. Cassells. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.3 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm

Date: Between 1886 and 1888

From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway

Reference: PA1-f-239-39

Description: A horseman at the ford across the Waikawa River at the Autaha Swamp, Horowhenua District. Photograph taken between 1886 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 223. Autaha Ford, Waikawa R. Manawatu. W&B Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.2 x 20.5 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm

Date: Between 1885 and 1888

From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway

Reference: PA1-f-239-51

Description: View of the Makerua Swamp, a 20,000 acre expanse between Shannon and Tokomaru, looking south toward Shannon, with the Wellington & Manawatu Railway track at the left. Photograph taken between 1885 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 245. Tokomaru Swamp, Manawatu. W&B Photograph probably taken at the same time as PA1-f-239-50. The Makerua swamp was drained during the 1890s, in the course of construction of the Wellington & Manawatu Railway. Source of information: Uncommon carrier : the history of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, 1882-1908 / K.R. Cassells. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.2 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm

Date: 6 May 1932

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-f-009-252

Description: View of the artificial pa-mound of Mangaroa, in the Kaihuka Swamp at the north end of Lake Horowhenua, showingh shell-midden (the white patches in the middle distance). Photograph taken 6 May 1932 by G L Adkin. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - The present appearance of the artificial pa-mound of Mangaroa in the Kaihuka Swamp at the north end of L. Horowhenua. The white patches are shells (midden refuse). 6.5.32 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 62 x 106 mm mounted on album page

Date: Early 1900s to 1931

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: PA1-q-002

Description: Maori place names and old historical sites of Horowhenua (Vol. 1, images 1-146). Album includes maps, diagrams & sketches, and black & white photographs. Views include Paremata Redoubt, Lake Horowhenua, carved pātaka at Papaitonga Pā. Views of Komokorau, the burial place of Mua-Upoko chiefs including Chief Mahuera Paki Tanguru-o-te-rangi; Lake Wai-tawa and Te Moutere (formerly a fortified island pā). Place names & historic features of Kapiti Island, including relics of whaling days at Wharekohu Bay showing ruins of stone house, stone walls and a stone-embanked stream channel, burial caves, Waiorua Valley showing the approximate site of Te Rauparaha's principal pā, and Motungārara Island where there was a subsidiary pā of Te Rauparaha. Ōtaki, Rangiātea Church (1925); carved whare at Puke-Karaka; Ōtaki Jubilee Pole; and old meeting house Uawhaki at Waikawa. The site of the old Māori flour-mill on the Waitarere Stream at Poroutawhao, which was built in 1853 or 1854 under the direction of a French priest. Several images of performers competing in the haka and poi competitions at Shannon, 2 January 1928. Images of Pākehā pioneers of Horowhenua (Hector McDonald and his wife Agnes (nee Carmont)), and a photograph of Rora Hakaraia, daughter of Mua-Upoko chief Tanguru, and sister of Te Rangihiwinui (also known as Taitoko, and later as Te Keepa or Major Kemp). The photograph of Rora Hakaraia was taken from a painting in the possession of Rod A. McDonald of Levin. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s).