Tuahiwi

Date: [1893-1914]

From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-11946-049

Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, 1893. Also loose material including photographs, clippings, and a typescript (annotated) of Ngāi Tahu whakapapa. The volume is annotated by Cowan, and includes notes relating to Ngāi Tahu place names from the Canterbury region. The photographs are in postcard format, and include images of Akaroa and Wainui, by Jessie Buckland. Also a real-photo postcard sent to Cowan by W. A. Taylor, which includes a personal message saying 'To Mr James Cowan, trusting he will have a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year, with a pen ever ready to promote an understanding of the Maori People'. The image on the postcard is of signatures of the Tuahiwi Runanga, 1870. According to Cowan's annotations on the typescript of whakapapa, the information had been supplied by Tame Kirini [Thomas Green], of Tuahiwi, in 1907. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers, photographs, and postcards

Date: 20 Jun 2002

From: TB sanatorium patients (New Zealand) oral history project

By: Crofts, Te Ruahini Elizabeth Koe, 1930-2010

Reference: OHInt-0837-09

Description: Interview with Ruahini Crofts about her experiences as a tuberculosis (TB) patient in the early 1950s. Mentions her father had died of TB when she was four. Talks about having a month-old baby when she was diagnosed and admitted to Coronation Hospital in Christchurch. Comments that the treatment was bed rest, injections of streptomycin and big pills that were hard to swallow. Refers to Dr John McLeod, Dr Enticott and Dr MacIntyre. Mentions an older Maori woman in the next bed, and the number of Maori women in the ward. Talks about nurses and patients who helped her morale, and about occupatinal therapy. Refers to her family travelling by buses from Tuahiwi to visit, but not seeing her baby for ten months. Discusses contagion, visitors, staff and volunteer helpers at the sanatorium. Refers to the privilege of getting "block leave" - being allowed to get up and go to the toilet when they wanted to. Mentions a Maori cook who collected puha and cooked boil ups for Maori patients. Comments on patients smoking secretively, mainly once they were mobile. Mentions relationships and marriages breaking up when the more mobile patients in the "upper san" got into relationships together. Talks about having relapses after the birth of her next two daughters, and "eating her way out" of hospital. Refers to having a new operation during her third period in Coronation Hospital. Describes how she was well for two years after her son was born, but then had a relapse, was sent by her priest to Hanmer Hospital where she deteriorated and was rushed back to Christchurch Hospital. Reflects on how her experiences have made her realise she is not invincible, and led her to take very good care of her family and herself. Discusses the role of the extended family in bringing up her children when she was in hospital. Talks about her later life and careers, and her children and grandchildren. Interviewer(s) - Sue McCauley Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012731 - OHC-012732 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). Physical Description: Textual file - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-4271, OHDL-000903. Search dates: 1950 - 2002

Date: 1889-1909

From: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926 :Photograph albums

By: Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-q-1137

Description: News and personal photographs, taken and collected by J L Wilson, featuring North Canterbury 1889-1909, with an emphasis on 1901-1903. Series include: Wilson family portraits of Joseph Lowthian, his wife, son Leonard, daughter Estelle, and mother-in-law Mrs Emma Matthews; various views of Highfield Annan settlement land (including Wandle Valley, farmland) with land ballot at Waiau and Canterbury Land Board meeting relating to settlement; Maori performance group (kapa haka) and various unidentified portraits and group images; opening of the Kaiapoi Swimming Baths with Mayor J Daly and Premiere Richard Seddon; re-opening of Ashley Gorge bridge (between Glentui and Oxford); inspection of North Canterbury Volunteer Mounted Rifles by Colonel Porter [Woodend?], with officers including Captain R W Chaffey and Lieutenant Horne; flooding in Rangiora and Waverley; views of Hamner Springs; Kaiapoi railway station buildings (built 1872 and 1904 respectively) and trains, with J Ward opening new station; massed school display at Lancaster Park, with cadet competition and girls' drill; and Governor Lord Plunket (and Lady Plunket) visiting Kaiapoi and Tuahiwi. Events include general election at Tuahiwi schoolhouse, fire at Hobday's Drapery (Christchurch), Lady Stewart and A W Rutherford opening track at Conical Hill (Hamner), reception for General Booth at Cathedral Square (Christchurch), Amuri sheep sale (Culverden), Amberley South African War Troopers Memorial unveiling (with Sergeant Turner), J Ward laying foundation of Kaiapoi Post Office, Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Show, sheep sale at Rangiora, Mrs Harrison Lee addressing temperance rally at Junction Hotel (Rangiora), and Rangiora New Year's Day sports meeting with crosscut sawing event. Named figures include Charles Luger of West Oxford (with goat), Mr Thomas Leech of Brooklands (with woodcarvings), and G H Blackwell. Group photographs include Brown and Alexander wedding at Riverside, Mr Smith's family of nineteen (Oxford), Claire Parham's wedding party, Kaiapoi Men's Hockey Team in fancy dress (cross-dressing), and Leithead and Blackwell family members at Main Drain. Buildings include Jollie's Pass Hotel (Hamner Springs), R Evans' flour mill (Ohoka), Kaiapoi Borough School, John Sims residence (Kaiapoi), Tuahiwi Town Hall, Waverley Railway Station, Hamner Post Office, Hamner Plains Sanatorium, Blencowe Grammar School (Cumberland, England, 1859), Marston (Kaiapoi), and Cheviot Post Office. Interior of Wanganui Museum (featuring [whale?] skeleton) and Christchurch Cathedral. Miscellaneous images include various coach scenes, Paterson's Creek rail bridge (Otorama), sheep dipping in the high country, first grave and early working-man's cottage (Rangiora), scenic images of farmland and mountains in Canterbury Region, sheep at R W Chapman's estate (Lowland Leas), trees planted by J L Wilson and Inspector Buckley at post office site, cliffs at Summerhill, Waimakariri Water Supply (Brown Rock intake), shingle being carted to Main Drain (Skew Bridge, Flaxton), triumphant arc on Kaiapoi Bridge (coronation of Edward VII), Hereford Street (Christchurch), swans gifted to Kaiapoi Domain by Glenmark Station, R Evans' wheat crop at Clifton (Waikari), Waimakariri Gorge railway and dray bridge, entrance to Riccarton Racecourse, crowd in Runanga Hall courtyard (Tuahiwi), HMS 'Powerful' and HMS 'Challenger' docked at Lyttelton, and riverside camping and the bluff at Cheviot. Collected images by named photographers include Maori portraits and objects by Charles Spencer. Album includes cyanotype of Richard Seddon and a group of unidentified men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1976, 1979, 1980, date unknown

From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage

Reference: PA12-12215

Description: Transparencies of Māori churches in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the name and the location of the church. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Churches and locations annotated on the slide mounts include Methodist Church at Pawarenga, Holy Trinity at Pawarenga, St Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church at Pawarenga, St Joseph's Anglican Church at Awanui, St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church at Jerusalem, Chapel at Te Aute, Methodist Church at Omanawa, Mikaera Church at Hiruhirama, Ripeka Tapu at Waiparera, Church of Bethlehem at Repia, St Thomas' Church at Maketu, Presbyterian Maori Mission Church at Te Whaiti, St Matia at Tokomaru Bay, Onuku Church at Akaroa, St Mary's Church at Tokomaru Bay, St Stephen's Church at Tuahiwi, Pepera Church at Koroniti, St Faith's Anglican Church at Rotorua, St Mark's Church at Oturu, and Maori Church at Manutuke. Title transcribed from item. Most transparencies are undated. Arrangement: Transparencies were arranged in a small plastic slide case, with a capacity of approximately 40 mounted transparencies, labelled "Maori Churches". There was no apparent order. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Colour transparencies in plastic and cardboard slide mounts. Processing information: Slides have been removed from container and put into archival pockets, following the original order, from left to right and top to bottom.

Date: 1995

From: Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions

Reference: MS-Papers-5757-25

Description: Story of Samuel Hastings Andrews, schoolteacher. Tells the story of his Andrews ancestors in England and New Zealand; early life and education in Christchurch; work as a quarry manager to Tramway Board; teaching career - Tuahiwi Native School (1916-1918); Papamoa (1918-1919); Otaua Native School at Punakitere (1919-1920); Kohimaramara (1920-1921); Pouto School on Kaipara Harbour (1921-1923; Waimauku School north of Auckland (1923-1936); Otakeho School in Taranaki (1937-1942). Family life, and years of retirement in Auckland. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy), photographs Includes photos of Samuel Hastongs Andrews; Hilda Codling; Tuahiwi School (1919); Pouto School and pupils (1922); Otakeho School house; etc

Date: 1850

Reference: MapColl-834.44gbbh/1850/Acc.39

Description: Shows Tuahiwi Bush (long since disappeared), Maori cultivations, and Ruataniwa Pa. See Travers, W T L. The stirring times of Te Rauparaha ... also The sacking of Kaiapohia, by J W Stack (Christchurch), 1906). Other Titles - Spine: Te Tuahiwi (Kaiapoi) Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured, mounted on linen 99 x 74, folded in folder 26 x 20 cm., dark green linen. Processing information: Catalogued from card only

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-094

Description: Shows record of Mantell's movements for the whole of August 1848. Mentions travelling Porirua to Wellington on 1 August, 7th leaving Wellington for Nelson and Motueka, then sailing via Port Underwood, where he spent from 13 to 18 August. Arrived Akaroa on 20 August, Akaroa to Pigeon Bay, staying at Ebenezer Hay's 25 August, '26th Pigeon Bay to Heaphy's P[ort]. Levy' 28th Port Levy to Rapaki, 29th Dean's at Riccarton, 30th Deans to Waimakariri, 31st 'W[ai]makariri to camp in Tuahiwi bush'. See also his contour drawing of the same journey from Akaroa to Dean's at E-334-099 Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink, 120 x 350 mm (page size)

Date: 1867

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: PA7-01-23

Description: South Island Maori converts to Christianity, with Eliza Stack, wife of the Rev. James Stack, outside St Stephen's Church, Tuahiwi. Photograph taken 1867 by Dr A C Barker. Bearded man third from left is believed to be Hakopa Te Ata-O-Tu. Man in waistcoat, third from right, is believed to be Pita Te Hori, an assessor for the Native Land Court. Information from "Maori, a photographic and social history", by Michael King (Heinemann, 1983), p59 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print 13.4 x 18.5 cm

Date: 4 February - 19 March 2013 - 04 Feb 2013 - 19 Mar 2013

By: Karaitiana, Robert Leggett Paul, 1930-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-; Clucas, Rosemary, active 2013-

Reference: OHColl-1077-1

Description: Interview with Paul Karaitiana by Helen Frizzell. The interview focuses on Karaitiana's whanau and family land, his blade shearing career, and muttonbirding at Pohowaitai Island. The interview also discusses language and Te Reo Maori, and Karaitiana's thoughts on his cultural identity. Awards/funding - Interview funded by the Ngai Tahu Fund Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - Includes photographs, scans of newspaper clippings, whakapapa information and other materials Arrangement: Digital files arranged as OHDL-002186 to OHDL-002188 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 20 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 2 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 5 Electronic document(s) Microsoft Word files. 1 interview(s). 9.34 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7785, OHDL-002187. Search dates: 1930 - 2013

Date: 1859-1925

By: Wilson, Joseph Lowthian, 1846-1926

Reference: PA-Group-00741

Description: Albums containing ca 2200 photographs taken and collected by Joseph Lowthian Wilson, who was the North Canterbury reporter and agent for the Christchurch Press from 1864-1913 (based in Kaiapoi). The images have a news emphasis with coverage ranging from accidents, floods, and snowstorms to visiting dignitaries, local personalities and groups, buildings, and municipal openings (bridges, swimming pools, etc.) The collection is also strong in images of Kaiapoi Maori and material relating to the South African War and North Canterbury Mounted Rifles. While focussed on the Waimakariri District, the entire Canterbury Region and the Eastern Cape of South Africa are also represented. In addition to photographs, there are some paintings and drawings in the albums. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 11 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph albums Finding Aids: A digital catalogue of images in albums 1 to 10 was created by Eliane Armstrong and is held at Library reference PADL-001467.. Provenance: Purchase, 2011 and 2012 (two accessions) Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive; material transferred to other sections from here - To Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1996: Two volumes of 'The Kaiapoi Record' one dated 1911 to 1913, the other 1913 to 1915, The Lothian Wilson Bible, an unpublished manuscript 'A history of Kaiapoi 1852-1932' by H A Childs, a scrap and newscutting book - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Curios-041-001: Maker unknown : Silver-plated tureen, inscribed and presented to Joseph Lowthian Wilson on his retirement from the staff of the Christchurch Press, 13 August, 1913 - To Drawings & Prints Collection - A-447-009, A-447-010, A-447-011: watercolour entitled 'Kaiapoi 1864', silhouette of a house and trees on a riverbank or lake, and pencil sketch of woman driving car..

Date: 1864-1881

From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0048-11

Description: Contains letters to Buller, in his capacity as a lawyer, with regard to Maori land tenure and related payments and other issues, on the West Coast of the North Island in particular (Manawatu, Horowhenua etc); contains copies of various lease agreements; also includes some genealogy and an electioneering pamphlet calling for people to vote for Buller Also contains a hand drawn map by Hunia Te Hakeke of Parewanui showing the different divisions; whakapapa from Hauiti; an agreement to sell land at Waipa; a letter by Teoti Pakipaki establishing his mana to Tuahiwi (Canterbury); a letter announcing the death of Ruta Paratene, a wahine rangatira of Kai Tahu; and information including waiata about a famous patu pounamu named Tuhiwai which belonged to the Muaupoko tribe. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1937

From: Grace, John Te Herekiekie (Sir), 1905-1985 : Grace family papers

Reference: 85-173-4/5

Description: Contains very detailed accounts of the domestic situation of South Island Māori families living in traditional kainga; the accounts include information about the housing, health, employment and educational status of every single person in the various settlements, organised alphabetically. These accounts were apparently compiled under the aegis of the Native Land Court, Wellington. Title taken from item. Two copies also held at Archives New Zealand: ABAQ W4235 box 1 parts1 and 2; R361254 and R6723246. Other related material at Archives New Zealand, Wellington: Maori Affairs archives group (MA 30/3/-). Quantity: 1 volume(s) contains approximately 475 pages. Finding Aids: Report for each locality has index of persons.. Processing information: Chief Librarian restriction removed 12 July 2023 as part of the Chief Librarian Restriction Review project.