Masterton District

Date: [ca 1930-1940]

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

Reference: PAColl-2009

Description: Photographs include damage caused by the Hawkes Bay earthquake. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-169670-F to 1/2-169681-F Quantity: 12 b&w copy negative(s). 9 photocopy/ies. Processing information: Added to ATL-Group-00791 in 2022. Previous Library reference PAColl-2009. Previous title: Donaldson, Marsha, 1945- :Photographs of Napier, Hastings and Masterton district. [ca 1930-1940].

Date: 1873 - 1929

From: Bagnall :Selection of published and manuscript maps

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/[1970-9]/Acc.53221

Description: Land & Survey printed base map with pencil annotations, indicating owners' names and dates of change in ownership. Some dates are late 19th century and early 20th century. Printed map issued as WN. 65 in the series NZMS 13. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on lithograph, scale 1:63 360, 38 x 38 cm.

Date: 1880 - 1910

By: Winzenberg, Albert Edward, 1865-1931; Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PAColl-3069

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-011679 to 011688, 011692 to 011697, 011701 to 011726 Collection consists of contact prints from negatives made by A E Winzenberg in his Masterton studio. Quantity: 42 b&w copy photographic print(s) from 10" x 12" glass negatives. Provenance: Studio passed to Miss Iva Gordon, then (ca 1950) to Messrs Hope Cross & Richardson. The Taranaki negatives mentioned in the donation book are by William Andrews Collis. It is possible that the Winzenberg and Collis collections may have become intermingled.

Date: Between 1871 and 1881 - 1870

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbe/1871/Acc.27669-70

Description: Copy of an 1870 cadastral map of land blocks within the Manawatū-Wairarapa Block, from the Tararua Ranges eastwards to the Puketoi Range and Castle Point Block. Blocks indicate name, number and acreage, and include Kaihinu, Pahiatua, Te Pukahu, Mongorongo, Eketāhuna, Ngatapu, Ihuraua, Manawatū, Mangahauo, Puketoi, Tautane, Makure. Two blocks include note 'not passed the [Native Land] Court' (Kaihanga, Mangahao no. 3; 7,000 acres and Puketoi no. 6; 3,200 acres). Includes annotations such as the addition of Mangakao no. 2 block in 1881. Includes names of rivers, streams. Note on map reads: 'Produced before the N[ative] L[and] Court at Masterton Wairarapa September 7th 1871'. [Signed] J Rogan'. Note on map reads 'This ? does not conflict with Crown Lands' Judge (signature indeciferable) 'Oct 23 '[18]71' Written on map, bottom left: '897', '2387' Written under map 'This plan is now numbered 88B'. Some annotated text and signatures difficult to decipher (such as map compiler and surveyor). Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 map(s) on two sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 61 x 50 cm. Provenance: Copied from map W49 part of Head Office Collection of maps and plans. Dept. of Lands and Survey. Processing information: Separated in 1999, combined with ATL-Group-00693 in August 2023.

Date: 1873 - 1929

From: Bagnall :Selection of published and manuscript maps

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/[1970-9]/Acc.53223

Description: Land & Survey printed base map with pencil annotations, indicating owners' names and dates of change in ownership. Some dates are late 19th century and early 20th century. Handwritten names:MJ Speed, 1908 and McLean 1873 around Scrubby Hill and Dusky Hill. Crown owned land. Some shaded areas. Printed map issued as WN. 66 in the series NZMS 13. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on lithograph, scale 1:63 360, 40 x 36 cm.

Date: ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2895

Description: Transparencies showing a family outing to Castle Point, Wairarapa, New Zealand, taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Also includes transparencies showing views of Huka Falls, Taupō. Transparencies showing Huka Falls are continued at PA12-2896. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original photographic print(s). Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-84.

Date: 1914

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/1914/Acc.5806

Description: Shows Castlepoint and Masterton counties, giving land blocks, Maori reserves and land blocks, and Maori placenames for geographical features, trig points etc Extended Title - Wellington: Lands & Survey Dept., 1914 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on lithograph, scale 1:63 360, 102 x 77 cm.

Date: [1900-1950]

By: Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society

Reference: MS-Group-0249

Description: Scores/libretti of musicals 'The Geisha', 'A Country girl', 'Dorothy', 'Katinka', 'The Toreador' with annotations of stage and other directions. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 6 volume(s). 0.08 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter Provenance: The scores probably belonged to the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society, whose director could have been Harry Hall.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: B-062-016

Description: Possibly above Castlepoint ; cf. E-011-f-052 which shows a view from the opposite side First sheep station in New Zealand. Established in Wairarapa by Mr C Clifford in 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 250 x 350 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa

Date: 1863

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-171-060

Description: Farm buildings in the foreground, rolling hills and bush beyond Other Titles - Waitawhiti Waitawhiti Station, Northern Wairarapa (near Tiraumea & Spring Valley), owned by William Spinks & managed by Robert Langdon. (Bagnall, A C. Wairarapa, p. 352 & 582). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 215 mm

Date: 1885 - 1891

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953; Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904

Reference: E-393

Description: Includes route sketches from Bay of Islands, views of the Coromandel district, Wairarapa, Upper Hutt & Cheviot, plus unidentified landscapes & portrait studies. Sketches by J.M.Nairn from this volume removed by previous owner and sold to National Art Gallery at subsequent Dunbar Sloane auction, 14.9.89; replaced by photocopies in the Library's sketchbook. See shelf-list for list of titles and negative numbers Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 44 pages. Physical Description: 36 pencil, 1 sepia wash, 1 pencil & sepia wash, 1 ink, 3 pencil & pastel sketches page size 137 x 20 cm

Date: 1982

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

By: Beca, Carter, Hollings & Ferner Ltd

Reference: Plans-2009-082-8001-001/014

Description: Includes site plan, general arrangement, reinforced concrete floor slab details, footing details, precast wall panels and pilasters, precast launder details, centre column top details, platform and separating skirt details, slewing ring bearing details, steps and walkway, inlet pipe and annulus details, inlet and outlet pipe details, sub-foundation retaining wall, and electrical plan. Quantity: 14 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, 590 x 840 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1905-1930

By: McDonald, Munro L B, active 1993; Daily telegraph (Napier, N.Z.); Frank Duncan and Company; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-2986

Description: All Blacks, Sydney; stage coach, Otira River; Masterton telephone exchange, Armistice Day 1918; Amy Johnson in Australia; Auckland Exhibition Inscriptions: [Two of postcards have messages on verso; other photoprints are identified on verso] Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 folder(s) envelope contains collection. Physical Description: 3 postcards, 155x208mm photoprint, 121x72mm photoprint, 2 210x252mm photocopies Provenance: Found amongst accumulation in Munro McDonald's office

Date: ca 1900-ca 1910

From: Main, William :Photographs of the Nelson properties at Pori, north eastern Wairarapa.

Reference: PA1-o-1206

Description: Most of the New Zealand images relate to the Nelson family, their farms, farm houses, and farm buildings in the Pori area, north eastern Wairarapa, and scenic views of the area such as the Makuri River, a waterfall at Tiraumea, Annedale north of Tainui, the Pori Bridge, and native forest. The images of the farm houses include building a stable and buggy house, views of the yard with washing drying, a hen run, and a view of the dining room at "Ruatea". Four images are of Hugh Nelson's whare which was the first building constructed at "Taumata". There are three photographs of local Maori, one of bullock teams at Tiraumea, snow covered landscape at "Nga Mahanga", a picnic group with horses and buggys, and many views of the countryside from the Nelson farms showing cleared, partially cleared and forested land, much of it covered with the gaunt trunks of burnt off bush. There are group photographs of the families and friends. As well as the men these include women (wives?) Lucy, Katie, and Winifred, and children, Robert, Frances, and Dorothea. Other new Zealand houses include two probably located at Annedale with the names "Te Hoe" and "Manawa", and another in Featherston called "Newstead". The English images are of family and friends and various places, houses and churches which include Dover, Tunbridge Wells, Broadstairs, Minehead, Ostend, Clovelly, Lynton, Lymouth, Doon Valley, Meywingen, St Saviours Leeds, and Chester Cathedral Arrangement: Loose prints originally in this album can be found at PAColl-7868-1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: MapColl-832.4595gbbd/[1856]/Acc.36615

Description: Cadastral surveyed map of Masterton as a small farm settlement in circa 1856, eastwards of the Ruamahanga River, westwards on either side of the Waipoua River, along the Waipakako Creek, and on the northern side of the Kuripuni Creek, and east of that Creek. Over 100 sections are surveyed showing section number, acreage, owner's name (a few are unnamed); most over 40 acres. Map also shows reserves, unnamed roads, and Masterton's centre. Written on verso: XI, 11. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on dressed linen, part coloured, [1:3 960], 77.8 x 155 cm.

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Skeet, Bertram Vivian, 1876-1963

Reference: Pan-0825-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse with several chimneys situated on a wide plain. A driveway to the house goes from bottom left of image. Mountains to the right in the distance beyond the house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-0829-F Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - B.V.Skeet Upper Plains Masterton 2 sepia Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.9 x 120.2 cm

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-008/009

Description: Extensive landscape view in the Wairarapa from Brancepeth Station Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 130 x 360 mm

Date: [1815-1962]

By: Groves family

Reference: MS-Group-1188

Description: Includes family correspondence from 1856, business papers (insurance, shares, tax, leases and mortgages) marriage and death certificates, newspaper clippings, obituaries, family tree, 1808-1962, and sketch plans. Also typescript of Tinui church history; correspondence; accounts and estimates to John Groves, 1895; land tax assessment John Groves, 1894; newspaper cuttings from Weekly Star, Wairarapa Daily Times, and The Times, 1815, 1893-1905. MS-Papers-0347 contains family letters from Castlepoint referring to life there, 1855-1864; receipts and other documents of Isaac Cripps (related by marriage), 1849-1859, 1880; `Early Castlepoint' by H G Groves, 1940. Quantity: 14 folder(s). 0.33 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1873 - 1929

From: Bagnall :Selection of published and manuscript maps

By: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/[1970-9]/Acc.53222

Description: Land & Survey printed base map with pencil annotations, indicating owners' names and dates of change in ownership. Some dates are late 19th century and early 20th century. Additional land subdivisions adjacent to those depicted on printed map added to bottom of sheet. Handwritten names: J.V.Smith, R.K. Prendergast, C. Sharp, Mannsell. Printed map issued as WN. 64 in the series NZMS 13. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on lithograph, scale 1:63 360, 45 x 37 cm.

Date: 1918 - 1946

By: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993

Reference: PAColl-1124

Description: Relate to the Cameron family Masterton and also to an overseas trip to America, Britain and France made by Walter Cameron and his wife in 1930 Prints from these negatives are held in the Turbull Library Pictures files. Finding Aids: Written information identifying many of the images can be found in the PAColl sequence at PAColl-1124.