Hunter family

Date: Sep 1859-Nov 1871

From: Bethune and Hunter Ltd (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records

By: Bethune and Hunter (Firm)

Reference: qMS-0219

Description: Records inwards and outwards movements and freight for the `Esther' and the `Ruby' (possibly other vessels) Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (164 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (31 cm, green buckram)

Date: ca 1880-1954

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); S P Andrew Ltd; Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0507

Description: A collection of photographs of the Hunter family particularly of George Ernest Hunter and his wife and dogs at their home in Watt Street, Wadestown but also of his brother Robert Henry Hunter (the two men look very alike). They include a number of photographs of their house, garden and neighbourhood but also a postcard of Paekakariki beach, a postcard of two wagons with passengers passing through the Devil's Elbow between Buttermere and Keswick in the English Lake District, seven men with penny-farthing bicycles ca 1880, a carte de visite of four young Maori wearing kakahu taken by Swan & Wrigglesworth, and a photograph of a sketch of Porerua Bay near Wanganui (mid 19th century). The collection includes a letter to a Mr Ellingham from I W Macdonald of 8 Lower Watt Street, Wadestown offering him the photographs. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-051

Description: Story of Mrs Kent-Johnston's maternal grandfather, Alexander (Christie) Bennet(t) born 1842 at Tillicoultry, Scotland. Essay describes background, emigration in 1876 on the `Oamaru' with first wife, tragedy on arrival, marriage in 1880 to author's Irish grandmother, comparison struggles of the individual and group family beginnings Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1857-1957

By: Hunter family

Reference: MS-Papers-0049

Description: The papers include an almost complete sequence of 450 letters dealing minutely with David Hunter's management of Porangahau Station (1859-1877); business correspondence of the firm of Bethune and Hunter; George Ernest Hunter's letters which formed the basis of his travel book `Round and about'; genealogies, obituaries and much miscellaneous data, some original, on the streets and social and business institutions of Wellington Other Titles - Round and about Relationship complexity - See also Robert Henry Hunter. Notebooks recording comments and criticisms of G E Hunter's `Round and about', ca 1939 [MS-1056-1059, Acc 97,810-3]; Robert Henry Hunter. Account book, 1912-1950 [qMS-1027, Acc 97,809]; and Dorothy Hunter. Notes on holdings of stocks and shares [qMS-1026, Acc 97,808] Quantity: 176 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Partial piece-level inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Medals, camera, tin of pumonas and a writing-pad transferred to Curios.

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

By: Hunter, J L (Mr), active 1930s

Reference: Plans-2012-011-080

Description: Plan view of a residential tennis court and swimming pool in Porangahau, probably for the Hunter family, who established the station in 1854 and remained its owners until 1986. The station burned down and was rebuilt in the 1920s, and now exists as Chapelwick Coastal Estate Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Scale 16 ft = 1 inch; Recto - bottom centre - Trevor S Buxton NDHNZ / Landscape architect / Palmerston North Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on transparent paper, 420 x 630 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012

Date: Jan 1964

By: Hunter, Nancy Henderson, active 1964

Reference: MS-Papers-3559

Description: The papers consist of a newspaper clipping, dated 14 Jan 1964 which covers the Hunter family centennial and a brief resume of the centennial which took place on the 11th and 12th Jan 1964 and some biographical details of the family Source of title - Supplied title Adam and Thomas Hunter came to New Zealand in 1860 with their five sisters on board the ship `Chile'. They initially worked for Mr Ord at Puerua, South Otago. Adam married Margaret Turnbull in 1869 and took up land at `Greenhill' in South Wyndham; Thomas joined him in 1873 and when he married Jane Findlayson in 1877 the property was divided and the other part named `Woodside'. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and printed mattter

Date: 10 Apr-20 Nov 1877

From: Hunter family : Papers

By: Bethune and Hunter (Firm)

Reference: MSX-8586

Description: Copies of the outward correspondence of David Hunter, co-manager with his brother William Henry Hunter, of Porangahau Station Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (327 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (28 cm, ½ fawn morocco, maroon cloth) Transfers: Attached to MS-Papers-0049.

Date: [6 Jun 1870-28 Nov 1872, 16 Jan 1876-31 Dec 1877, 1 Jan 1878-16 Jul 1880]

By: Hunter family

Reference: MS-Group-2126

Description: Collection comprises 250 letters, mainly from George Hunter (1859-1930) to his father (Director of Bethune and Hunter in Wellington) relating to the running of Porangahau Station 1878-1880. Includes letters from Annie, the widow of William Henry Hunter, to her brother in law George Hunter (1821-1880) relating to her family's lives on the Station. Both writers mention the building and use of a chapel on the Station. Also includes business papers of George Hunter (1821-1880). Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Most letters came in original envelope, with stamp torn off, probably by the vendor, Mowbray Collectibles. Other - Continues information on Porangahau Station contained in MS-Papers-0049 and listed in an inventory for these papers. George Hunter (1821-1880) bought Porangahau station in Hawkes Bay around 1854. Hunter's two sons David Souter and William Henry took over the management and running of the station until 1877 when George Hunter (1859-1930) took over. He was joined by his brother Paul in 1879. Quantity: 24 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Mowbray's Stamp Auction, Wellington, Nov 2012 (A2012-174)

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012701-G

Description: M2078 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012761-G

Description: M2162 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Alington, Margaret Hilda, 1920-2012 : Bolton Street Cemetery transcripts, notes and papers / compiled by Margaret Alington and others

Reference: MS-Papers-2260-039

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Williams, Kathleen Sheila, 1939- :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-334

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 1913

From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives

Reference: 1/1-014112-G

Description: Mrs Thomas Alexander Hunter and children, in 1913. Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).