Surveying - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 11 May 1864-12 Oct 1865

By: Canterbury (N.Z. : Province). Provincial Council

Reference: MS-0449

Description: Survey diary detailing Sealy's work laying out roads and boundaries, Rakaia area; also map work at the Land Office. Also details weather conditions. Variations in title - Spine title : Canterbury Association - Survey diary, Ashburton Edward Percy Sealy was conducting contract survey work for the Canterbury Provincial Government Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (9 cm; marbled end-papers, red roan, marbled edges, in slip case)

Date: 1998

By: Hewitt, Helen Verity, active 1998

Reference: MSX-4762

Description: Family history based on the diaries written by Henry John Sealy between 1858 and 1878. Relationship complexity - A copy of John Sealy's dairy located at MS-Copy-Micro-0046 Sealy emigrated to New Zealand in 1858 with his younger brother Edward Percy (b.1839). He worked as a land surveyer in both the Hawkes Bay and Canterbury Regions. He retired and died in Sydney, Australia. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Helen Hewitt, Australia, 1998

Date: 1866

By: May, Henry Stanhope, active 1866

Reference: MS-1626

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (9 cm; red roan, marbled boards, in grey phase box)

Date: 24 May 1861

By: Handyside, Henry, 1831-1877

Reference: qMS-0911

Description: Report addressed to the provincial superintendent of a survey of the area extending from Hanmer Plain, west to Lake Sumner and north to Lake Tennyson. Surveyor for Nelson Provincial Council. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (67 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm; ½ brown morocco, brown buckram) Illustrated with 19 pencil drawings and map of the area

Date: Dec 1866-Aug 1872

By: Shaw, Charles Reginald, 1829-1906

Reference: MS-1933

Description: Brief daily entries concerned with surveying in Timaru, including acreage and owners of land surveyed, and social and domestic duties including gardening, maintenance of his house, purchases and the health of wife and children. Annotated and edited by Mr J B Hamilton for the South Canterbury Historical Society. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (110 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with mss annotations (Photocopy, 27 cm, red buckram)

Date: 21 May 1863

By: Young, William, active 1863

Reference: qMS-2304

Description: Publication - An English translation of Lauper's German account was printed in the Canterbury gazette, 1863 Other - Typescript compiled by Miss N L Miller in 1938 Relationship complexity - Lauper's full account of the expedition written in German is located at MS-Papers-0348 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; grey cloth)

Date: 1906

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

Reference: MapColl-834.2bje/1906/Acc.27415

Description: Survey map of land around the Hapuku River, 1906, depicting Native land (1c), cemetery and land blocks of over either four or 25 acres, in blocks 1a and 2a. Two pencil annotations of names on lots: "?Teera Tahiri' and '?Trelly Slarkey' (difficult to decifer). Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 9 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, scale [1:7 920], 33 x 26 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Te Whaiti family papers MS-Group-0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.

Date: 1858-1878

By: Sealy, Henry John, 1838-1922

Reference: MS-1859-1866

Description: Record of voyage to New Zealand on the Clontarf; details of farming life in the Napier area; surveying and farming life in South Canterbury; domestic activities and meetings with people, including the Haast family Source of title - Transcribed Arrangement: MS-1861-1863, and MS-1864-1866 are boxed together Quantity: 8 volume(s). 0.16 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (16-19cm, maroon covers and hinged lid boxes)

Date: Apr 1850-Jan 1851

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: MS-0454

Description: Entries showing stores issued to various Canterbury Association activities eg agent's house, emigration barracks, surveyors etc. Source of title - Cover title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (117 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (10 x 15 cm; full red roan, marbled end-papers, in slip case) Finding Aids: Index at front.

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-071-2

Description: A panoramic view of the hills around Lyttelton Harbour, with various features named, including the bush in a valley possibly above Rapaki reserve, and Pohue Peak and Obelisk Rock, either of which may be the modern Castle Rock. In the foreground is a tripod with a plane table on top, and lower right is a small pencil drawing of the blockhouse at Akaroa. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; also 'Te Hera o Kahukura' running up the lower left side of the page and other words along the base of the page. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 3 sheets, 115 x 184 mm + 186 mm + 121 mm, total 491 mm

Date: 1848-1850

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: qMS-0374

Description: Holograph copy of charter, 13 Nov 1849; also printed act "empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain lands in New Zealand", 14 Aug 1850. Also inserted are two holograph agreements, both 5 Jul 1848, between Thomas Cass and Charles Torlesse, and the New Zealand Company, to act as assistant surveyors in the Canterbury settlement. Source of title - Cover label Relationship complexity - Photographic copies of Torlesse and Cass agreements also at MSI-Papers-3753 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (30 cm; ½ brown calf, brown cloth)

Date: [184-], 1857

From: New Zealand Founders' Society : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-0227-12

Description: Brief notes of a voyage to New Zealand in the `Gleaner', 1857, by Charles French Pemberton and his wife Eleanor Ann, nee Buss; description of Pemberton's subsequent surveying activities in the Wairarapa and North Canterbury and his settlement at Sefton; details of the Pemberton family Reminiscences of Joseph Simmonds a passenger on the `Fifeshire'. Details first impressions of the Nelson settlement and hardships experienced in attempting to establish himself in the Nelson/Waimea area. Covers years from 1842 to shortly after the Wairau affray when he moved with his family to the Wai-iti River, taking up land later known as `Simmonds Bush' Relationship complexity - NB: Typescript copy of the Simmonds reminiscences also available at MS-Papers-1984 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1880-1931

By: Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931

Reference: MS-0263-0314

Description: Biographical note and photograph at end of 1915 volume Source of title - Supplied title T N Brodrick was Commissioner of Crown lands and chief surveyor in Hawkes Bay, Canterbury and Wellington; later became Under-Secretary for Crown Lands. Two of Brodrick's sons fought in the First World War. Quantity: 52 volume(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (various sizes, various bindings)

Date: 1875 - 1876

From: Artists unknown :Addresses to John William Davis Esquire. 1875 and 1883

Reference: B-058-005

Description: An illuminated address marking the resignation of surveyor John William Davis from the Christchurch Survey office, for a general government position. It notes that he has worked in the Survey Office for 8 years and that there had been 'a want of encouragement for meritorious service in this Department. The message bears 13 signatures. The illuminations include the capital letters of the heading, and a butterfly, two birds and stylised ivy Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, 410 x 310 mm

Date: 5 Jul-16 Aug 1865

By: Newbery, Alfred, active 1863-1884

Reference: MS-Papers-4212

Description: Diary covers period 5 Jul 1865 when the party left Christchurch to 16 Aug when an ascent was made to the top of the Pass. Details the activities of members of the party including a fatal shooting (of Joseph Trounce) and daily progress of survey work. Diary appears to be incomplete. Further information, gathered during processing, and concerning Joseph Trounce is enclosed. Source of title - From first page Accompanying material - Letter dated 14 Dec 1865, posted from Hawford near Christchurch to `My Dear Arthur', in same hand but unsigned, containing more information about the journey. Arrangement: Numbered as instalments 1-3 and probably posted to relatives Newbery, a Canterbury farmer and provincial government agent, participated in this expedition, which was contracted by the Canterbury Provincial Government to survey and lay-off a road to the West Coast goldfields via Browning's Pass. Survey party was led by John Samuel Browning and Arthur Dudley Dobson. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (12 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Photocopy is enlarged 1.42x from the original Finding Aids: Index to persons mentioned in diary, with page numbers, is enclosed. Includes photocopy of a photograph taken at a later date showing the track

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: PA2-2153

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - In pencil and very faint: Edwin Percy 1839-1903 came to New Zealand 1859 on Clontarf. On Survey Staff of Hawkes Bay. Provincial surveyor Canterbury 1865. Amateur naturalist Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1863

By: Lauper, Jakob, 1815-1891

Reference: MS-Papers-0348

Description: Account of his journey, as guide for John Henry Whitcombe, from the headwaters of the Rakaia River across the Southern Alps to the mouth of the Taramakau River, near Kumara. Whitcombe was working on contract for the Canterbury Provincial Government and drown during the expedition. Also, holograph notes by William Young of Lauper's and Whitcombe's exploration. A typescript copy is at qMS-2304 Publication - Published as: Over the Whitcombe Pass: the narrative of Jakob Lauper, reprinted from the Canterbury Provincial Gazette, 6 July 1863 (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1960), edited by John Pascoe Accompanying material - Photocopy of death certificate in folder and carbon copy of a letter to donor from the Librarian Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Translated as `Draft report of the expedition and death of Mr Withcomb' Swiss mountaineer, guide and lighthouse keeper Quantity: 1 folder(s) (36 pp; 11 pp). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Processing information: Transferred from Misc MS G4 & N6, Jun 1969

Date: 1890-1893

By: Ledger, James John, 1847-1907

Reference: MSX-9415

Description: Memoir written by James Ledger in Abbotsford, Australia between 1890 and 1893. The narrative primarily concerns Ledger's immigration to New Zealand in 1878, his four years in New Zealand and subsequent relocation to Melbourne, Australia in 1882. Some of the latter parts of the volume relate to events in Ledger's life up to 1893. In the first section of the memoir Ledger recalls his voyage of 119 days aboard the barque `Cape Finisterre' from London to Port Lyttelton, New Zealand. He provides a very detailed account of shipboard life, his fellow passengers, the weather patterns and activities of the crew, the islands and land masses the vessel passes by. At one point on the voyage an iceberg is sighted and a pen and gouache drawing by Ledger captures the likeness. With his travelling companion `Fred' they publish a weekly newspaper called "The Cape Finisterre Weekly News". Upon arriving in New Zealand Ledger gains employment with the gas works for seven months in Christchurch. Throughout the journal Ledger provides detailed accounts of the characters he observes and meets. There are many sketches in this work and his drawings often match the textual descriptions he provides. Ledger continues to record his work experiences over the next four years as he lives the life of an itinerant worker moving from place to place chasing work. He spent time as an engineer, worked as a lithographer and a labourer. Later Ledger spent time in the Waimakariri Gorge employed with a survey party laying out railway lines, and then as a farm hand in South Canterbury on the annual summer harvest. After working as a clerk in Timaru Ledger joined the South Canterbury Contingent of the Volunteer Corps that were recruited to march on Parihaka in western Taranaki in 1881. Ledger has a fascination with local Maori and he recounts his meetings with Maori throughout the occupation of Parihaka and Pungarehu. Ledger continues sketching during his involvement with the military campaign and depicts both Maori and Armed Constabulary subjects. Returning to Timaru via Opunake he recounts the fate of Mary Dobie who was killed by Tuhi while sketching at Te Namu and is buried at Opunake. After returning to the South Island Ledger visits Dunedin and sells his sketches of Parihaka and neighbour surrounds with depictions of Maori life to a publisher for fifty pounds. These sketches are reproduced by Fergusson and Mitchell as a set of 12 sketches in 1882. Ledger became disillusioned with New Zealand and left for Hobart in November 1882 aboard the `Ringarooma'. Passing through Bluff he narrates a chance encounter he had with the Maori King, Tukaroto Tawhiao. The last section of the memoir deals with Ledger's reminiscences of his life in Melbourne, and includes drawings and photographs. One image is of the Federal Coffee House building in Melbourne. Ledger finishes his narrative with his marriage to Mary Florence Lawerence, finding work as an architect and the purchase of two properties `Hinemoa Cottage' and `Bella Vista'. Included as an appendix to the volume is a section entitled "Colonial jottings" where Ledger refers to particular incidents throughout his travels. There is an inscription at the front of the volume to his godson John Bonsor Ledger, and the first stanza is quoted from the poem "To my sister" by the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon who emigrated to Australia from England in 1852 [poem written 4 August 1853]. Publication - Some of the sketches in this manuscript are based on earlier sketches in Ledger's published work `Pen and ink sketches of Parihaka and neighbourhood with scenes of Maori life, Dunedin, Fergusson & Mitchell, [1882?], 12 leaves of plates ; 24 x 31 cm. Source of title - Transcribed from item James (Jas) Ledger spent nearly four years in New Zealand from 1878 to 1882. He worked in many capacities including surveyor's hand, engineer, farm labourer and volunteer soldier with the South Canterbury Contingent at Parihaka in 1881. In 1882 he travelled to Melbourne, Australia and settled down to colonial life. He married Mary Florence Lawerence and worked as an architect living in Abbotsford. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (102 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (25.5 cm; half binding with green leather and marbled endpages) Memoir includes six black and white photographs; 35 sepia ink sketches.

Date: 1882

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898

Reference: A-449-001

Description: View of J C Richmond's camp site in the upper Waimakariri, showing his tent, utensils on the ground, and towels or blankets slung over a branch to dry. The background scene is of dense forest Although the work is not dated, the library holds a watercolour by Richmond of the same area, dated 1882 (C-090-001), suggesting this pencil drawing might have been done at the same or a similar time Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J C R [artist's initials]; Recto - bottom right - Sat / Mar / My camp head of Waimakariri [inscriptions in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 154 x 255 mm