Missions - Cook Islands

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

Date: 1844-1929

By: Hall, Percy (Rev), 1875-1949

Reference: MS-Group-0064

Description: These papers relate to Rev Percy Hall's period as a London Missionary Society missionary in the Cook Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Includes an extensive collection of inward correspondence; a collection of printed material, much by the mission press in Rarotonga; samples of school work; and some early newspapers, serials, maps and photographs, covering his period in the Cook Islands. Also includes writings in Cook Islands Maori written by students at the mission and also collected by Percy Hall and by his predecessor, John J K Hutchin. Much of this material has been transcribed by Bob O'Brien and the transcriptions are available on the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website (http://www.nzetc.org) Language - Cook Island Maori Relationship complexity - A purchase from Bethune's Auction in June 1987 of Tereora School children's work illustrating legends and customs of Cook Island Maoris, gives some samples from the 1960s and 1970s. This is to be found at 88-22-42 in Drawings and Prints Section Percy Hall, a trained teacher, was appointed headmaster of Tereora Boarding School in Rarotonga in Jul 1900. In 1905 he returned to England where he trained at the London Missionary School Hackney College in theology and was ordained in 1908. From Feb 1908 he worked in Rarotonga, being appointed to the training institution at Avarua in 1916, when he left Rarotonga for New Zealand and resigned from the London Missionary Society. In 1922, after teaching in Taihape, he taught at Marton District High School, retiring in 1940. Quantity: 58 folder(s). 34 volume(s). 2.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Three maps (See inventory for details) - To Newspaper Collection - See inventory for details - To Serials Collection - See inventory for details - To Photographic Archive - Glass negatives (Cook Island scenes).

Date: 20 Dec 1854

By: Buzacott, Aaron, 1800-1864

Reference: MS-Papers-1193

Description: Letter from Buzacott to the Rev Mr Berne, describing the distribution of Bibles in return for arrowroot from the natives of Rarotonga; he also describes a measles epidemic. Also a list of books translated and printed at the Mission Press by the London Missionary Society. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 letter). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Removed from his "Mission life in the Islands of the Pacific... " (London, 1866)

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)

Date: 1862-1883

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-061

Description: Consists of various notebooks and letters bound together. Contents list, in S P Smith's hand, at front of volume. Traditional legends, songs, genealogies etc and contact period history from informants Itio (Mangaia), Rupe (Atiu), Apolo (Manihiki), Patu, Taunga and Taarua. Also material about Mauke, Pukapuka, Manuae, Aitutaki and Rarotonga. Letters and accounts of mission activities in New Caledonia, Samoa, Pukapuka, Manihiki and other areas. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

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

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

Date: 1883-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-9677

Description: Collection of photocopied papers from a variety of sources, most of which are concerned with the Cook Islands between 1883 and 1912. Include missionary reports, some correspondence, diary extracts, newspaper cuttings and rough statistics. Some papers relate to missionary school at Marton who took in Cook Islands pupils. Also, cardboard notice stating that `Meredith's ancestor who we think is a chief, wrote about the Cook Islands deaths, news, marriages and births. Please do not touch. Meredith Wilmot' Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: [ca 1885-1945]

By: Lovell-Smith, Timothy James, 1945-; Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd; Crummer, George R, 1868-1953; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Dufty, Francis Herbert, 1846–1910; William H Hammer & Company; Muir and MacKinlay (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955; Tattersall, Alfred James, 1866-1951

Reference: PAColl-0422

Description: Views of New Zealand, the South Pacific and elsewhere including: a chief's house in Fiji; the grounds of the Sanatorium, Rotorua; Wairoa township before the Tarawera eruption; "Fijian warrior armed for war"; Maori children in swimming hole with other children standing behind them smoking; three photographs of the construction of the Wellington Town Hall organ; women doing a poi dance and men doing a haka in front of Maori spectators at Whakarewarewa; five photographs of Cook's landing place on Niue; a set of photographs of many parts of the world with the name Waimarino on the reverse, possibly from the voyages of a merchant ship of that name (these include one of an Arab dhow in the Indian Ocean requesting its longitude, Bill Brayton and others holding his sea turtles, two of the gun on board and three of the Panama Canal); the wreck of the Ansonia on Middleton Reef; an artist's impression of the Trans-Pacific yacht race trophy; a performance by Rarotongan men in uniform; three Rarotongan women washing clothes in the river; children swimming in Ngatangiia Creek; the Beach Road, Apia, Samoa; New Zealand Government Ship TutauRai (?) off Niue; and six mounted photographs by James Valentine and Co of New Zealand scenes and Maori women. Arrangement: Prints housed in 2 boxes at PAColl-0422-1 and PAColl-0422-2. Negatives housed at 1/2-037763, 045085, 056525 to 056545, 056315 to 056333, 144784, 144815, 144818, 144830, 144847 and 144850 Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1871 (translated 1974)

By: Maretu, active 1802-1880

Reference: qMS-1323

Description: Contains illustrations, maps, bibliography and index, biographical notes, background material, annotation and analysis of the original autobiography of Maretu Draft of Mrs Marjorie Crocombe's translation of a Cook Islands history, written in 1871 by Maretu, a convert and missionary for the London Missionary Society from 1833 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (275 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) (blue buckram)

Date: 1847-1857

By: Gill, George (Rev), 1820-1880

Reference: MS-Papers-2087

Description: The collection consists of three letters from George to his brother, Henry Gill, in which he writes about religious matters, the family's isolation in Rarotonga, and financial arrangements for their parents. There are also two letters from George Gill to his sons, Arthur and Trego Gill who were being educated in England Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typed transcripts (photocopies)

Date: 1883-1891

By: Hutchin, John Joseph Knight (Rev), 1857-1912

Reference: MS-Papers-1746

Description: Diaries kept while Hutchin was principal of London Missionary Society Training College for Native Teachers in Rarotonga. He comments on college affairs, Rarotongan society, land problems, commerce, language and lore. Later entries more concerned with LMS business. Source of title - Supplied title Rev Hutchin was principal of the LMS's Training College for Native Teachers (1883-1891) Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies) Provenance: Rev Hutchin was the grandfather of owner of the originals, Mrs Tereora E Pethick

Reference: A-119-004

Description: A small brick or stone church with lancet windows and a square tower to the right. Palm trees to the right and left, with another small dwellington on the left, behind a brick or stone fence. Mountains in the background Extended Title - Missionary Magazine and Chronicle, 1855 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 102 x 140 mm

Date: 1889, nd

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-111

Description: A note by W W Gill says "this ms is of great interest as being from the pen or lips of Papeiha who took the Gospel to Rarotonga, Sydney 25 July 1889". Relationship complexity - Translation available at MS-Papers-1187-111A Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 pages).

Date: 1887

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-062

Description: Missionary magazine and chronicle, 2 Mar 1887, pp57-60, Progress of the gospel at Manituki. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1898-1909]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0091

Description: The papers comprise typescripts entitled: The Activities of Walter [sic] Moss in the Pacific or the eccentricities of a British Resident; Cook Islands genealogical tables; The Kingdom of the Pacific; letter to Lord Ranfurly, 20 Sep 1898; The LMS in the South Seas; The London Mission, its policy and peculiarities; The London Mission Society [sic] in the Cook and Northern Islands; Message to the Cook Islands Parliament, 26 Sep 1898. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: 1891-1973

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1069

Description: Manuscripts in Rarotongan from Titikaveka recording, among other items, activities of the London Missionary Society at Titikaveka; also financial records of the Factorei Societe Commerciale at Avatiu 1882-1884, and diary of Charles Banks for Jan-Aug 1903 Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Tapere Titikaveka Kauare Other Titles - Pu Apii Sabati Titikaveka Other Titles - Mataiti Titikaveka Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1995

Date: 1839

By: Makea Davida, active 1827-1839

Reference: MS-Papers-0820

Description: Comprises letter, probably from Makea Davida, to Mr Semple (or Sempill) in Cook Islands Maori, referring to the conversion of Rarotonga to Christianity with translation of same. Also letter from W C Cunningham, explaining both. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and ms (photocopies)

Date: [ca 1880]

By: Papeiha, active 1823

Reference: qMS-1622

Description: Source of title - Transcribed Papeiha was a Tahitian from Raiatea who introduced the Gospel into Rarotonga in 1823 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (57 leaves). Physical Description: Ms (photocopy) (34 cm; blue linen)

Date: 4 Nov-31 Dec 1882 (transcribed ca 2010)

From: Hutchin family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10083

Description: Folder comprises photocopy of a handwritten transcription of Hutchin's Rarotonga diary for 1882. The transcription was compiled in two notebooks. Diary details Hutchin's arrival in Rarotonga aboard the `Waiwera' which was captained by Bushell, relationships with local people and the activities of the Church in the region. Diary continues to document social life and customs of the Cook Islanders as well as the role of the missionary in this society. Includes names and homelands of some of the students attending the Christian school for tution. Some local stories are recounted as is Hutchin's dealing with Cook Island chiefs. Diary ends Sunday 31st December 1882. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss (colour photocopies)