Moawhango

Date: [ca 1902]

Reference: PAColl-0051

Description: Views of the town of Moawhango in Rangitikei Co, and the station of the Batley family. Also of Wanganui, Wellington, and Sir Walter Bullers house on the Terrace. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s) sepia.

Date: [1950-1952]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-25

Description: Comprises notes on Maori place-names and sites of past and present kainga, Bay of Plenty (with map); of Tauranga Harbour, Mt Maunganui, Whakatane and Maketu and Waihi estuaries (with maps); section of whalebone object; letter, Bryce Wood to Adkin (1953); moa-bone with cuts, Roxburgh; Solomon Islands adzes; adzes from Auckland and Poroutawhao; data from Moawhango by R A L Batley (with map) Arrangement: Notebook no 24 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: [19--]

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MS-Papers-1925-77/44

Description: Photographs of St Margaret's Church and Vicarage, Taihape; Rev and Mrs Clarkson at site of St Margaret's Church before the church was built; Moawhango Church; Mataroa? Church (all ATL file prints) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 photographs). Physical Description: Photographs (photocopies) Transfers: To Photographic Archive - All prints transferred.

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007354-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. At Conservation. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1801, 1935, 1940

From: Scholefield, Guy Hardy, 1877-1963 : Papers relating to New Zealand history

Reference: MS-Papers-1801-2

Description: Extract from the log of the `Royal Admiral' commanded by William Wilson, while in New Zealand waters during 1801; `Reminiscences of the Moawhango and Taihape district', by F J Ellis, ca 1935 and `A history of Macfarlanes of Letter in the port of Menteith', by Katherine Agnes Macfarlane, ca 1940 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1892

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: MapColl-832.41gme/[ca.1892]/Acc.2779

Description: Cadastral and topographic amp of the area from the junction of the Mangawhero and Whangaehu Rivers to Karioi, across to Rangipo Desert, Awarua Block and the Rangitikei River. Includes district boundaries, roads, rivers, sections and the railway at Hunterville to Mangaonoho whicha re referred to in a key. Each survey district is divided into numbered sections with acreages and owners' names. Native land is shown. Photocopy from Mr Batley, Taihape [R.A.L. Batley] Part of title is handwritten on the reverse and supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, linen backed, scale 1:63 360, 59.4 x 53.2 cm.

Date: 28 Mar 1994 - 14 Apr 1994

From: The Men in Our Lives oral history project

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: OHInt-0406-06

Description: Tony Batley outlines his family history going back to 1863 when his grandfather joined the crew of the `Royal Bride` which sailed to New Zealand and anchored off the coast at Napier (Paytoney) where a local gale blew the vessel over. Local Maori formed a living chain and saved the crew - Grandfather was thirteen years old with no possessions. Was hired for a couple of years by Sir Donald McLean who had a sheep station at Marae Kakako. Evenually in 1882, after several jobs, grandfather returned to Moawhango and opened a store with his brother Thomas Snelling and in 1883 opened a post office. He acted as interpreter for the Maori Land Court held in Moawhango in 1894. Discusses his life in Taihape, apart from 4 years in the Airforce, which included a course in firearms in Levin and Ohakea camp before duty in the Solomon Islands, arriving in Guadacannal on his 21st birthday. Recalls the RNZ Airforce camp called `Bloody Knoll on Ridge' had been a scene of heavy fighting in 1942. Describes the tension. Refers to Ventura bombers, the S Brauning Machine guns and depth charges. Describes the impact of returning to Moawhango and the Taihape district and how it re-awakened his interest in the history of the area and in 1946 he began to abstract his grandfather's diaries and relates extracts from them. Describes many interests. He was on the Council of the Polynesian Society; was a Board Member of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust; Chairman of the Kaimanawa Kaueha Forest Park Advisory Committe; President of the New Zealand Archaeological Society and currently on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Regional Committee, Wanganui. Discusses the peopling of inland Patea by Tamtea and his descendants. Notes that Ngati Hotu were the original iwi. Discusses Winiata marae and the Moawhango and Orua Matua carved houses. Tells the story of Ngatarua and land given to Ngati Hinemanu. Abstracted by - Susan Hawes Interviewer(s) - Susan Hawes Recorded by - Susan Hawes Venue - The Homested, Moawhango Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006749-006755; OHLCD-1295-1300 Quantity: 7 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 6.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1530. 5 photographs

Date: 1959

From: Elder, Norman Lascelles, 1896-1974: Maps

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: MapColl-832.41eg/1959/Acc.56841

Description: Shows area near Moawhanga locality which is 10 km East of State Highway 1, 15-20 km South of Waiouru. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo print, 45 x 47 cm

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-021

Description: Shows a canoe containing four figures, in a narrow gorge with vertical cliffs on both sides. The trees growing on the cliff-tops are meeting overhead. The location Moawhango has been also spelt as "Moawhanga". Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [21 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 235 x 145 mm

Date: 1885, 1989

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Olding, Jane Sophia, -1902

Reference: MS-Papers-4178

Description: The diary describes the latter part of Jane Olding's voyage to New Zealand on the `Aorangi' and gives her first impressions of life in the Kuripapango district. At the back of the diary are several pages of newspaper clippings. Also included is a transcript of the diary by Eliza Fielder in 1886? and Marsha Donaldson in 1989. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Accompanied by explanatory letter from donor Jane Olding sailed from London to Auckland on the `Aorangi', disembarking at Napier Nov 1885. She joined her brother, Robert Batley on his farm 56 kilometres past Kuripapango on the Napier-Taihape road, at "Moawhanga" [Moawhango]. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (55 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typed transcripts (photocopies) Provenance: Donor's great-great-grandmother, Eliza Fielder, was a good friend of Jane Olding; this diary was found at the back of Eliza Fielder's journal (MS-Papers-4180)

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese :Photographs relating to St Margaret's Church, Taihape, and Anglican clergy and churches

Reference: PAColl-6716-2

Description: Chiefly photographs of St Margaret's in Taihape, produced by the Photograph Section of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Includes photographs of St Margaret's Church, (Mataroa?) Church, a vicarage at Taihape, interior of Moawhango Anglican Church, exterior of Moawhango Church, and a view of Moawhango township. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1925-77/44.

Date: 1995 - 1998 - 1996

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-370

Description: Shows leaves, flowers and fruit of two varieties of coprosma. Artist's list: C. acerosa (ii): Male flowers, 23.11.95 nr Waiouru coll. Geoff Rogers. Female flowers 20.12.96, Maowhango [Moawhango] coll. Colin Ogle and Geoff Rogers. Drupes 8.1.98 cult. Percy Res., Hutt Valley, Robyn Smith, orig. Volcanic Plateau C. perpusilla ssp. subantarctia [sic]: Flowers 20.12.96 from Enderby I., coll. Brian Rance Individual images appear on pages 733 and 747 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - November, December, January Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 332 x 258 mm.

Date: 1912

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: 1/2-017056-F

Description: Overlooking the farmland and settlement at Moawhango, in 1912. Piles of hay lie in the foreground paddocks. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 8 June 1898

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/1-011000-G

Description: View of Moawhango, Rangitikei, taken from above on a hillside. Taken by Edward George Child, 9 June 1898. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - EGC & Co. Pho, Ohingaiti.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Moawhango, NINZ, 9th June /98 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1903]

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: 1/2-017055-F

Description: Overlooking farmland and settlement at Moawhango, circa 1903. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1880s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 15

Reference: PAColl-7081-20

Description: Unidentified Maori group before Oruamatua meeting house at Moawhango, circa 1880s. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of photograph reads "Herima [sic] Paerau's whare puni" Other - Inscription Oruamatua Patea refers to the area in the Rangitikei district near the Mokai Patea Range. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oruamatua Patea [sic]; Verso - Herima [sic] Paerau's whare puni Moawhango Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.2 x 20.1 cm

Date: 1894

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: 1/2-017057-F

Description: Overlooking a kāinga, described as "Moawhanga" on the front of the image, and as "Moawhango Pa" on the back of the print, dated 1894. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Valley of Moawhanga[sic] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [Between 1900 and 1910]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007372-G

Description: A view of Moawhango, showing the marae at the right, taken ca 1900s by Samuel Head. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1892

By: Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004

Reference: 1/2-017061-F

Description: View of bullocks pulling carts laden with large bales at Moawhango in Rangatikei. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1892. Note on back of file print reads: View of the settlement which appears to be the same as in 17059 1/2 although there are more buildings. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1861 - 1862

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

Reference: E-041-021

Description: Shows steep cliffs surrounding the narrow junction of the two rivers. A canoe with six figures aboard, is about to enter the narrow junction. Other Titles - Moawhango junction... Quantity: 1 drawing(s) In his sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui R[iver]. 1861-62. (p. 124). Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 130 x 177 mm