Survey District and farming locality along Akitio River, Dannevirke County, Southern Hawkes Bay. Named after Karl Herman Weber (or Webber), chief surveyor of the Hawkes Bay Province 1864-77. (Wises-VH)
Weber
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Manuscript
Mabbett, John, 1839-1921 : Diaries
Date: 1894-1895, 1898, 1902-1905, 1915
By: Mabbett, John, 1839-1921
Reference: MS-Group-1432
Description: Includes diaries of John Mabbett in which he records his life as a farmer at Weber in the Hawkes Bay. They contain details of farming activities like clearing land, the affects of the weather on stock, docking lambs and planting crops etc. Also includes prices of purchases for the farm and details about his family of six children. Publication - See `From Berkeley to Weber - John Mabbett 1839-1921' by William Mabbett and `Two Brothers from Berkeley' by Harold Mabbett. Quantity: 8 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript Processing information: Typescript information updated following request from researcher. 17 May 2023.
Image
'Kelvin Grove', Weber, Manawatu-Wanganui
Date: 1925
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Crosse, Latima George, 1858-1948
Reference: Pan-1617-F
Description: Panoramic view looking over a valley with the roof and front entrance of a homestead visible amongst trees centre left. Outbuildings on hill behind the house. Gateposts with wrought iron palings in centre foreground. Car parked outside to the right of the gates. Drive winding up through trees to the house, fenced tennis court to left of house, lawn below with flower beds and a large tree at the foot of steps leading up. Cleared rolling hills in the background. Haystack at the foot of a paddock centre right. Shelter belts of trees, clumps of toetoe. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Area listed as being in Hawke's bay in Wise's Post Office Directory 1925, and on a photograph taken at that time by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1621 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Kelvin Grove. 1925; Marginal notes on negative - L.G. Crosse. Kelvin Grove. Weber. H.B. 3 in oils Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 96.5 cm
Image
'Kelvin Grove', Weber, Manawatu-Wanganui
Date: 1925
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Crosse, Latima George, 1858-1948
Reference: Pan-1621-F
Description: Panoramic view looking up at a large single-storeyed wooden homestead partially hidden by trees. Drive from the right, steps up to the house, paths branching off. Fenced tennis court below the house on the left. Rockeries, flower beds, shrubs, trees below the house on the right; cabbage trees by the house. Fir tree by the rockery in front of steps. Unidentified structures amongst trees centre right. Lawn below the house on the left. Hills in background far left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Area listed as being in Hawke's bay in Wise's Post Office Directory 1925, and on a photograph taken at that time by Robert Percy Moore Refer also Pan-1617 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Kelvin Grove; Marginal notes on negative - L.G. Crosse. "Kelvin Grove". Weber. H.B. 3 in oils; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Box 49 H.B. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.4 cm
Image
Buck, George: Photographs of the Shaw family with horses
Date: ca1907-08 - ca1930s
Reference: PAColl-0857
Description: Two copy photographs circa 1907-1908 and 1930s taken by unidentified photographers. One is of Mr Francis Shaw seated on a horse in front of a house, with his wife and their son, Stanley, in the background. The other is of three women and two men beside a horse with ribbons and the number '10', probably at a horse or agricultural show There is a crowd of spectators behind. The people and location are not identified. Quantity: 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Processing information: Information about photograph from accompanying letter.
Image
Ryder, Jessie :Photograph of Latima George Crosse, 1858-1948
Date: Ca 1900
By: Harris, Charles Henry, -1907
Reference: 1/2-190374-F
Description: Group at the shearing shed on Latima George Crosse's property, Kelvin Grove, photographed ca 1900 by C H Harris of Waipukurau. The group includes Sutton Palmer (2nd from left), Charles Crosse (3rd from left), Latima George Crosse (5th from left) and William Palmer (6th from left). See DNZB v.2 - brothers George and Thomas Crosse were farmers and community leaders of Hawkes Bay. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) (copy of original print returned to owner). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 10 x 12.5 cm
Map
[Creator unknown] :Ingley's Block, Weber District [ms map]. [n.d.].
From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps
By: Masterton Public Library
Reference: MapColl-832.3gbbd/[n.d.]/Acc.36804
Description: Cadastral map in the Weber Survey District (twenty miles southeast of Dannevirke) from the proposed government road, southwards to the road south of the Akitio River and the Totara reserve. Depicts J. Ingley's property (Section I, Block XV Weber S.D - 1445 acres), Section I Blk X (1598 acres) and Section II Blk II (412 acres), other named properties including Wardell, Rosenbech, Herbert, Framers, the Mongatoro Estate. Several areas are marked 'cleared land'. Also shows Waipatiki Creek, the road to Weber, the main road to Dannevirke (20 miles) and a homestead. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on dressed linen, scale [1:7 920], 69 x 81 cm.