Waipaoa
Dossier (volume 1)
Date: 1979-1982
From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki
Reference: MS-Papers-9587-01
Description: This volume explains the outline of the collection and gives the reasoning of why the dossier was put together . This volume gives a brief background on the project. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (77 pages). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies
[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Waipaoa Feb 15th 1862. View from the verandah [il...
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
Reference: B-004-014
Description: Recto shows view along a bend of the Waipaoa River, Poverty Bay, with a settlement, possibly a kainga, but including at least one European house, on the bank to the left, trees, plains and a range of hills in the background. Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil, recto and verso, 245 x 355 mm
Accounts, receipts and various papers
Date: [1867-1890]
From: Muir, William McIntosh, 1843-1927 : Papers relating to his business
Reference: MS-Papers-6219-09
Description: Accounts, receipts, wages sheets, pay sheets, list of cheques paid and other papers relating financial matters. Includes the Pines estate, the estate of A Muir and the estate of Rockell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Business and farming correspondence and papers
Date: [1878-1905]
From: Muir, William McIntosh, 1843-1927 : Papers relating to his business
Reference: MS-Papers-6219-03
Description: Comprises letters and other papers re Muir's business including fragment in Maori; part of letter from T T Ritchie, Dunedin; letters from Common Shelton & Co, Gisborne; papers regarding Waipaoa Station and Waipaoa loan no 2; correspondence with Crown Lands Office and Native Land Purchase Office; re property at Maranui, Lower Hutt; re compensation case of Alexander Sample; part of letter from Colonial Investment & Agency Company of NZ; letter, William Common to the Native Minister, re Rotokautuku Block; balance sheet and summary of meeting for Hataitai Land Company Limited (1903-1905); share transfer from William Fox Wheeler to Muir for Caledonian Gold Mining (1883); asseta and liabilities statement of The Poverty Bay Herald newspaper business to Feb 1886; and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Accounts, receipts and various papers (photocopies)
Date: [1867-1890]
From: Muir, William McIntosh, 1843-1927 : Papers relating to his business
Reference: MS-Papers-6219-10
Description: Photocopies of accounts, receipts, wages sheets, pay sheets, list of cheques paid and other papers relating financial matters. Includes the Pines estate, the estate of A Muir and the estate of Rockell. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers and notes on East Cape rivers
Date: 1959, 1982
From: Young, David Christopher 1947-: Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11966-08
Description: Includes report of tour by East Coast Catchment Board of rivers within its area (1982), statistics relating to the Waipoua River and an account of travel up the Motu River by Bill Peach in 1959. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Interview with Stewart Symon
Date: 9 Jul 1998
From: Past champions oral history project - The Shear History Trust Golden Shears Open Champions
By: Keats, Ian Laurie, active 1948-2000; Symon, Stewart, 1940?-
Reference: OHInt-0509/16
Description: Describes being born in Waipaoa near Gisborne and attending Te Karaka District High School. Recalls milking cows as a child and starting shearing when he left school. Mentions Norman Wilton, Dick Twistleton and `Red' Flemming (Fleming). Describes shed conditions, the pub as entertainment, female shed hands, wages and competition shearing. Recalls the excitement of winning the Golden Shears in 1964 and winning a trip to England. Mentions a Young Farmers Club trip to Australia. Comments on enjoying judging. Mentions David and John Fagan, Larry Lewis and Samson (Hamahona) Te Whata. Discusses gear including wide combs. Mentions Bing Macdonald. Stewart Symon has Huntingdon's Disease. Interviewer(s) - Laurie Keats Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2526. Picture of Stewart Symon, 1964 Golden Shears champion
Industrial
Date: 1977, 1980-1981, 1992, date unknown
From: Thornton, Geoffrey Garth, 1922-2017: Papers and photographs relating to industrial and construction heritage
Reference: PA12-11666
Description: Transparencies of industrial structures in New Zealand, taken by Geoffrey Thornton or Jocelyn Thornton. Each slide mount is annotated with the subject (type of structure and sometimes name of owner/company/building) and location. Dates and photographer name are sometimes annotated. Title transcribed from item. Some slides are not dated. Arrangement: The first of two boxes of slides labelled 'Industrial'. Transparencies were arranged in a 6-row, 50 slides per row, plastic case, and slides of similar structures were grouped together. 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.
Jones, Kevin, fl 2002 : The Archaeology of the Eastern North Island
Date: 2002
By: Jones, Kevin L, active 2002
Reference: MS-Papers-7358
Description: A monograph by Jones on the archaeology of the eastern North Island comprising an abstract, sections on people and place, the pre-European period, historic period, locality reviews, conclusions, references and lists of tables and figures (150 pages plus several unnumbered ones). In addition, there is correspondence between Jones and the Ombudsmen's Office relating to the Department of Conservation's decision not to publish the monograph. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts
Dossier (Volume 9)
Date: 1979-1982
From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki
Reference: MS-Papers-9587-09
Description: The content of this volume contains hymns, prayers, bible extracts and chants. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (169 pages). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies
[Polack, Joel Samuel], 1801-1882 :Haupatu, a chieftess of Waipoa. [ca 1840]. [New Zeala...
Date: 1800 - 1839
By: Polack, Joel Samuel, 1807-1882; Laing, (Mr?), active 1840s
Reference: E-279-q-161
Description: Reproduction of a wood engraving by Laing. The artist is possibly J S Polack, who published the image of Haupatu in `Manners and customs of the New Zealanders', James Madden & Co., Leadenhall St, London, 1840 Vol II page 1. Head and shoulders portrait of a Maori woman with curly hair, and small amount of tattooing on her nose and chin. She is wearing a cloak over a European garment with a soft collar. Other Titles - Haupatu, chieftainess of [Waipaoa ?] Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Laing Polack traded from Kororareka (Russell) from 1831 to 1837. He returned to England in 1837. His second book `Manners and customs of the New Zealanders was published in 1840, shortly before he returned to New Zealand in 1842. He remained another nine years before leaving to try his luck on the Californian goldfields in 1850. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 140 x 90 mm
Dossier (part 5-9) (Duplicate)
Date: 1979-1982
From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki
Reference: MS-Papers-9722-1
Description: Duplicate copies of `dossier on Te Koti...'. Use set located at MS-Papers-9587 Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies
Dossier (volume 10)
Date: 1978-1982
From: Dossier on Te Kooti Rikirangi Te Turuki
Reference: MS-Papers-9587-10
Description: This volume contains oral statements from members of the Ringatu Church. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (63 pages). Physical Description: Typescript and photocopies
Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978 : Annotated typescript copy of a report relating to ...
Date: [19--]
By: Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978
Reference: MS-Papers-11264
Description: Folder comprises an incomplete report of Captain Gilbert Mair and the Arawa Flying Column's search for Rongowhakaata leader Te Kooti and his followers in the Urewera Mountains. The narrative details the Arawa Flying Column's movements as they track Te Kooti to the Hauhaus' fortified camp at Waipaoa in 1871. Details are provided of the attack, and the near capture of Te Kooti by Captain Mair. Manuscript continues with details of the capture of Te Kooti's follower Wi Heretaunga and his execution by the Arawa soldier Sergeant Kepa Te Ahuru (who was also Heretaunga's nephew). Page 11 ends mid sentence. Document is annotated confidential on each page. This report appears to be a literary draft for Petersen and Anderson's publication `The Mair family' published by A H & A W Reed, Wellington, 1956. Gilbert Mair was a surveyor, interpreter and soldier. Captain of the Arawa Flying Column engaged in the campaign pursuing Te Kooti and the Hauhau in the 1870s. Peterson and J C Anderson co-wrote `The Mair family', published in 1956. Source of title - Provided by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: The auction catalogue indicated that G C Petersen was the typist of this manuscript.
Letter from Nikorima Te Marutuna to McLean
Date: 21 Jan 1864
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0688A-09
Description: Letter written from Waipaoa Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 1 leaf).
Letter from Te Hutana to McLean
Date: 8 Jun 1863
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0687C-08
Description: Letter written from Mataweka complaining to McLean about his failure to respond to his letters and requests to meeet regarding land deals Quantity: 1 piece (4 pages on 1 leaf).
Letter from Heta T Hungahunga to McLean
Date: 3 Sep 1868
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0692D-02
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).
Letter from Nopera Kuikainga to McLean
Date: 6 Feb 1866
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0690A-06
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).
Letter from Heta Tiki to McLean
Date: 15 Dec 1868
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0692J-11
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).
Letter from Toha to Karauria
Date: 28 Aug 1868
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0692C-14
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 1 leaf).