Whangamarino Station

Date: n d

From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992 : Chatham Islands collection

Reference: MS-Papers-0434-41

Description: Describes Maoris taking possession of Chathams, arrival of Mr Hunt in 1840, arrival of whalers and Germans, cannabilism, land settlement, Pitt Island, island steamer trade, disaster of `Te Aroha' in 1931 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript and photographs Photographs of J G Engst, house at Whangamarino, Alex Shand and F A D Cox (partners in Whangamarino Station), despatch of wool for shipment to New Zealand

Date: [1869-1939]

By: Cox family

Reference: MS-Group-1136

Description: Ledger of the donor's grandfather (d 1915), who farmed on the Chatham Islands from 1869 to 1909. Also two ledger journals, ca 1910-1934, and one account book for the Tiki Tiki Point cattle yards at Waitangi (ca 1907-1921), and copy of a letter from Alexander Shand to Noel Cox, 11 Feb 1910. Source of title - Supplied The Cox family farmed on the Chatham Islands until 1956 when Bernard Cox's uncle sold the property Quantity: 1 volume(s). 4 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two black and white photograph copy negatives (C26169 & C26170).

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1901]

By: Thompson, Fred, active 1969; Thompson, Charles, active 1901

Reference: PA1-o-495

Description: Album of various aspects of life in the Chatham Islands circa 1890s-1901, presented to Charles Thompson (possibly Captain Charles Thompson who sailed in the area during this period). Photographs taken by an unknown photographer. All the photographs are described in large letters on the original negatives. On page 23 there is a photograph showing Kiti Karaka Riwai in front of the wharerunanga (meeting house) at Wairua Inscriptions: Album page - "Handed on by his son Fred Thompson" Physical Description: Album with green leather cover, entitled "To Charles Thompson from his Chatham Island friends, August 1901"; 24 x 31 cm

Date: March 1877

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

By: Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906

Reference: 10x8-1054-G

Description: View looking east from the vicinity of the Orea stream towards Whangamarino. The Whangamarino woolshed may be seen on the hill in the right background. The body of water in the left background is Lake Huroa. Standing in the foreground is the resident magistrate, Samuel Deighton. Photograph taken in March 1877 by Alfred Martin of Christchurch. (Scene identified by George Hough, 9 May 2000). Samuel Deighton was identified from a copy of an original print from this negative at PAColl-3957-1. Alfred Martin visited the Chatham Islands in March 1877. (Source: \"A Canterbury album\", by Joan Woodward, 1987, p 104) Whangamarino was leased from the Pomare family in 1870 by Felix Arthur David Cox and Alexander Shand, who who developed a sheep run on the property. Source: \"A land apart, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand\", by Michael King and Robin Morrison (1990). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 8 x 10 inches