3500 Hectare station, Kaingaroa Road, Chatham Island, Chatham Islands. Ponga whare was built on the station by Hauhau prisoners in 1867 for the station's owner Edward Chudleigh.
Wharekauri Station
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Burt album
Date: [1873?]
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands
By: Barker, Samuel Delabere, 1848-1901
Reference: PA1-q-041
Description: Photographs of various areas in the Chatham Islands and the people who lived there in the 1870s. Group photographs include those of the Hunt family, the Gregory family, the Langdale family, the Beamish family, and groups of unnamed Moriori. At least some of the photographs were taken by Samuel Barker who visited the Chatham Islands in 1873. Information from comparison with images in published items. Arrangement: Images are numbered sequentially throughout album At one time this album apparently belonged to the Shand family (also of the Chatham Islands) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey covered album, 32 x 27.5 cm Provenance: Donated by W B Burt, Christchurch, 1972
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Chatham Islands album
Date: 1938
Reference: PA1-q-052
Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm
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Dendroglyphs on Chatham Islands; Opposition to sale of Wharekauri Station
Date: 1991
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference: 97-042-07/14
Description: Report to New Zealand Historical Places Trust on `Dendroglyphs on Chatham Islands'; submission to Waitangi Tribunal by Moriori claimants to prevent the sale of Wharekauri Station on Chatham Islands Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
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Webster album 7
Date: 1890s
From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection
By: Kitch, George B D, active 1880s-1915
Reference: PA1-q-263
Description: Photographs of the ship HMS Ringdove, her crew, and various ports of call in New Zealand, Australia, Chatham Islands, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and Cook Islands. Some of the people are identified, and include men and women at the ports of call. Views in the Chatham Islands include Mrs Chudleigh and Emma Hodgson at the Chudleigh home, and a house built of ponga logs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album lacking cover; 30.0 x 24.5 cm