Waipoua Forest

Date: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1120

Description: Waipoua Kauri Forest. Print with hand-applied colouring made from a copy negative made ca 1970 by Whites Aviation, from a photograph taken 1939 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 68 x 38 cm

Date: [ca 1940-1952]

From: Hogben family :Family photographs

Reference: PAColl-9874

Description: Photographs relating to Julius Hogben. These include - Hogben seated at a table with four other people probably taking part in a radio broadcast. Julius and Kathleen Hogben, probably at Julius's retirement event. They are holding gifts. Photograph of of a tree (Agonis flexuosa) taken by Stephen Roth. Julius Hogben in humerous conversation with unidentified man. Scenic view with poplars, river and hills, Nelson 1944. Quantity: 1 box(es). 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1931-1953

By: Edwards, Ella, active 1885-1988; Rego, Marion, active 1975-1997

Reference: PAColl-5173

Description: Holiday snaps of places in the northern part of the North Island Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1941

From: Hogben family :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1739

Description: Sheila Hogben's album of holiday photographs. The first holiday taken during the Christmas break, 1939-1940, included six girls camping at Waiau Pa, Manukau Harbour. The six girls with their bicycles ready to leave on their trip. Shots of the girls at their camp with two men, Charlie and Arthur. The rest of the photographs are mainly shots of the girls at tennis, at the beach, and in the pastoral landscape of the farm where they were camping. The second holiday was a tour of Northland made in January 1941. This time a group of four girls set out with their bicycles loaded down with camping gear. They also travelled by hitching rides on trucks and they are seen on their first lift on the back of a truck with their bicycles. Group photographs in bathing togs on the beach at Tikinui. Two girls swimming with two men in Three Chain Lake. The girls with the Meredith family, Glink's Gully. In Trounson Park Kauri Reserve and Waipoua Forest. Swimming at Waimamaku. Outside their tents at Opononi. On Ferguson's Estate, Kaikohi. Views of buildings at Waitangi. The stone church at Paihia. Views of the Bay of Islands. The girls at Kawakawa, Whangarei, on Brynderwyn Hill and at Waipu Cove. Their last lift on a truck with Bert and Dicky. Back with the family at Red Beach. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1935

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-379-017

Description: Shows the giant kauri tree Tane Mahuta in the centre, in a bush setting. Other Titles - Tane Mahuta Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - This is the Maori name given to this tree which is almost the largest in the Waipoua State Forest. It is the one tourists are taken to see and a notice at the foot of it says: This tree is 43 feet in girth + 42 feet to the first branch. It is probably 1,200 years old + contains 72,000 superfeet of timber. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 357 x 257 mm.

Date: 1947

From: Creator of collection unknown: Photographs relating to Dalmatian gum diggers, life on the gumfields, and social events

By: New Zealand. National Film Unit

Reference: PAColl-2144-1-05

Description: Dalmatian Nickola (Nick) Yakas climbing a Kauri tree in Waipoua, retrieving cones for seed for the Waipoua Forest New Zealand Forerst Service kauri nursery. Photograph taken in 1947 by the New Zealand National Film Unit, while the Unit was making a motion picture about Nick and his climbing. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.3 x 20.3 cm

Date: January 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1216

Description: Waipoua Kauri Forest. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken January 1952 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: January 1952

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1287

Description: Waipoua Kauri Forest. Print with hand-applied colouring made from negative taken January 1952 by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 38 x 68 cm

Date: 1940s-1970s

By: McGregor, William Roy (Professor), 1894-1977

Reference: PAColl-5642

Description: Mostly photographs of Kauri trees and forest. In particular they relate to Waipoua and Warawara national parks and the Karekare Domain in the Waitakeres. All are part of a larger collection in Manuscripts comprising papers consisting principally of the records of the New Zealand Conservation Society, of which Professor McGregor was the founder and president, together with some records of successor and related conservation bodies. Much of the material relates to the attempts to conserve the Waipoua Kauri Forest. Arrangement: Prints housed at PAColl-5642-1, negatives housed at 1/4-080988 to 081015 and 35mm-22140 to 35mm-22144, transparencies housed at PA12-1474 to PA12-1500. Quantity: 329 b&w original photographic print(s). 15 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). 35 b&w original negative(s) 5 of which are 35mm strips comprising 19 images. 466 colour original transparency/ies. 113 b&w original transparency/ies.

Date: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-D-1274

Description: Waipoua Kauri Forest. Print with hand-applied colouring made from a copy negative made ca 1970 by Whites Aviation, from a photograph taken 1939 by Leo White. Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print with hand-applied colouring, mounted on board, 68 x 38 cm

Date: 1930s

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

By: Tanner Couch Ltd

Reference: PAColl-5655

Description: Tourist Department photographs of the North Island, published by Tanner Couch Ltd. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1960

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-034317-F

Description: A65185 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1951

By: Steven, Astrid Mary, 1906-1999

Reference: G-940

Description: Shows an abstract interpretation of Tane Mahuta within surrounding forest. The giant kauri stands imposingly at the front, represented in black and other dark colours, with the texture, light and shadow of the forest represented by the various fabrics used Steven regarded this work as a collaboration with the Maori artist Heni Sherratt, who designed the patterned fabric in the collage. The two met while Steven was teaching art to Maori children on the East Coast in the late 1940s. When she went to London in 1951 Steven was invited to participate in the Ascher Award at the Tate Gallery, and contributed this collage to the exhibiton. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - A.M. Steven [in ink]; Verso - centre - Collage / The realm of Tane by A.M. Steven / NFS Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Collage of dyed and shaped fabrics, using netting, astrakhan and silk hand-sewn to a vilene backing, 760 x 840 mm, and attached to a wooden frame, 910 x 995 mm

Date: 5 April 1997 - 05 Apr 1997

From: Te Roroa Maori life stories project

By: Tane, Whitiki, 1924-2000

Reference: OHInt-0568/07

Description: Wally Tane was born 1924 in Waikara, Waipoua, South Hokianga. Talks about his father Mekene Tane Hohaia and his mother Tureiti Iraia. Discusses his father's work as a gumdigger and refers to Nick and Te Miringa Yakas. Describes schooling at Katui and Donnellys Crossing Schools, speaking Maori, racist attitudes and the effect of being educated in English only. Mentions Waikara and Waimamaku kaumatua and discusses land grievances. Talks about joining ATC, enlisting with the Royal New Zealand Air Force, training, resentment towards Americans in New Zealand, overseas service as a gunner in 14 Ventura Squadron, jungle training, being based at American camps in the Philippines and Japanese bombing raids. Gives his impressions of American servicemen, recalls the segregation of black and white servicemen. Talks about events in Auckland. Mentions rape. Reflects on returning to Wellington and Waikura. Talks abut employment with the New Zealand Forest Service and working at Waipoua Forest. Refers to planting of Te Roroa wahi tapu with pine trees. Describes meeting and eventual marriage to Margaret Yelash, life at the old family home in Waikara and of the problems of moving back to Dargaville. Talks about employment with the Hobson County Council, post-retirement job as a school bus driver and successfully tendering for the bus run. Explains the significance of the name Waikara given by the tupuna Tohe and lists the hills Tohe named. Interviewer(s) - Garry Hooker Accompanying material - Ngati Ruanui, Tai Tokerau whakapapa and Te Roroa whakapapa of Whitiki (Wally) Tane included with the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2624.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8807

Description: Transparency slides of New Zealand selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet starts with a series of maps, a world political map, map of the sea floor showing the relationship of New Zealand with the various undersea mountain ridges etc., New Zealand physical, rainfall, and geological maps. Views of Cape Maria van Diemen and Rangitoto nearing New Zealand on board ship. Auckland Harbour from the air; Auckland from Devonport; Ninety-Mile Beach; country near Waipoua Forest, the road into the forest, and Tane Mahuta, on the way to Kaipara; Kaihu River and coastal country between Trounson's Forest and Waihue; and Omamari beach and stream. The last five views show aspects of Holmridge farm owned by Mr Williams' friends Ruth and Vernon Woods. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of New Zealand images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Between 1979 and 1983

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA12-8845

Description: Kauri seed laid on kauri wood, female and male kauri cones, and Tane Mahuta (giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Kauri Forest). A view of the Waimate North Mission Station Church; three views of a ginkgo biloba tree at the home of John Gilkison at Cambridge; three images taken at the home of Merta Alford (Harriet Mercy Alford) at Taotaoroa showing Sir Michael and Lady Inagh Parsons, visiting New Zealand. The last five images show scenes at a waterlily garden. Marked as being at Waitoa by Rhoda McWhannell, but possibly the Waihi Waterlily Gardens. They include water lilies in flower in the lake, the lake and bush, the water lily nursery, and one image of a yellow begonia plant in flower. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: Jan 1969 - 01 Jan 1969

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Tolley, Leon, active 1950s-1969

Reference: OHInt-0105-54

Description: Leon Tolley, Waipoua Forest Officer in Charge talking about Nick Yakas as he knew him in the 1950s. Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000380B Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1.15 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: Jan 1969 - 01 Jan 1969

From: Oral History Collection of Peter Mathews

By: Tewake, Crissy, active 1969

Reference: OHInt-0105-50

Description: Interview with Crissy Tewake. Interviewer(s) - Peter Mathews Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000388B Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 15 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 2 Oct 1942 and 12 October 1950

From: NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd: Mosaic aerial negatives, prints, transparencies, and index

Reference: NZAM-C/365-F

Description: Aerial mosaic made by NZ Aerial Mapping Ltd in 1942 and 1950 showing part of Waipoua State Forest in Northland Region Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - N.18 E.21 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative, approx 59.4 x 84.1 cm (A1 size), approximate scale 20 chains to one inch

Date: 1948

From: Butcher, Charles Henry, 1887-1957 :Lantern slides of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA11-262

Description: Contains lanterns slides depicting the destruction of Waipoua kauri forest in ca 1948, probably taken by William Roy McGregor. Images published with William Roy McGregor's conservation campaign pamphlet 'The Waipoua forest' (1948). Slides feature forestry roads, milled timber, Kauri trees, deforestation, and uprooted stumps. An unidentified figure appears in one slide [McGregor?]. Quantity: 14 b&w lantern slide(s). Physical Description: Lantern slides