Otari-Wilton's Bush

Date: 18 Oct 2006 to 24 Jan 2007 - 18 Oct 2006 - 24 Jan 2007

By: Kennett, Jonathan Peter, 1967-; Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust

Reference: OHColl-0830

Description: The project covers the history of the 100 hectare, publicly owned Orari-Wilton's Bush Reserve which celebrated the centenary of its inception as a botanical reserve as August 2006. The content of the interviews includes information about the history of the area, the development of the reserve, including design, rock gardens, the neglect after the Second World War, collection of plants, plant propagation and conservation, activities designed for public participation and enjoyment and the work by volunteers. The interviewees are, Janet Braggins and Barbara Anderson Jarnell, Robert Brockie, Sandra Clarke, John Dawson, Rewi Elliot, Robert Fantl, Ian Fleming, Barbara Hampton, Margaret Mole, Michael Oates, David Bidgood and Tim O'Leary, Alick Poole, John Riseborough, Helen Waugh, John Waugh. Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Kennett Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 15 printed abstract(s). 15 interview(s) 2 are joint interviews. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: ca 1973

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-3463

Description: Views of the rock garden in Otari Native Plant Museum Arrangement: Negatives at 35 mm 19229 - 19232 Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 21 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1 Aug 1991]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1991/2217-F

Description: Ray Mole upon his retirement as curator of the Otari Native Plant Museum, Wilton, Wellington, circa 1 August 1991. Photographs taken at Otari by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 2009-2014

From: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12397-04

Description: Papers relating to Otari-Wilton Bush Trust, includes newsletters, meeting minutes, pamphlets, rosters for volunteers (including Sandra Clarke) working at Otari-Wilton Bush as hosts, information relating to Project Rambo (Rats and Mustelid Blitzing at Otari), Project Halo, and the Otari Treasure Trail. Also includes some material relating to the Wellington Botanical Society. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1980-1999

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to gardens in specific locations in New Zealand].

Reference: Eph-B-GARDENS-Wellington-1900s

Description: Includes pamphlets and fliers about gardens in the following gardens and areas: Eastbourne Karori Otari Native Botanic Garden Silverstream Sudbury, Ohariu Valley Wadestown Wellington Botanic Gardens Subdivisions by location. Related material may be housed at subject locations: HORTICULTURAL EQUIPMENT, HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, LAWNMOWERS, PARKS Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 330 mm

Date: 2004

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-C-ROAD-2004-02

Description: A poster announcing two workshops to be held to discuss ways to make roads safer in the Wadestown Wilton and Northland areas. Shows traffic on the road at the entrance to the Otari Plant Museum. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2004.

Date: ca 1973

From: Cook, Walter :Photographs of Otari Native Plant Museum Wilton Wellington

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-3463-1

Description: Views of the rock garden in Otari Native Plant Museum Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm 19229 - 19232 Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2008

By: Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-D-PARKS-Wellington-2008-01

Description: Poster shows a photographic image of a kereru, daisies, toetoe and cabbage trees at the top, and text below listing the activities taking place on the open day: workshop on plant propagation, native forest plant sale, bush walk to the skyline, treasure trail with Dr John Dawson, identification of pest plants, sausage sizzle, tea and coffee. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 593 x 418 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library, in 2008.

Date: 1967-1969

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8530

Description: Group taken at Pukeiti in 1967 includes - Moss mixed with other plants. Olearia flowers. Hebe in flower. Group taken at Otari Native Plant Museum, Wilton, Wellington, 1967, include - Alpine daisies (Celmisia species). Poroporo (Solanum aviculare) flowers. Corokia shrub in flower. Small leaved pomaderris in flower. Under `Dawson Falls' there are two views of native forest on the lower slopes of Mount Taranaki. Scarlet rata in flower, Wellington, 1967. Pink manuka in Doreen Blumhardt's garden, 1967. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1988

From: Eiby, George Allison, 1918-1992 :[Wellington sketchbook]. December 1988-May 1990.

Reference: E-482-f-001

Description: Shows wooden footbridge Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 350 x 280 mm

Date: [1980s-2015]

By: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-2019

Reference: ATL-Group-00399

Description: Research notes created by Sandra Clarke circa 1980s to 2015. Predominantly relating to the history of the descendants of George and Helen McRae of Scotland, who settled in Nelson, New Zealand in 1842. Contains many annotated print-outs from National Library Catalogue of sources consulted. Also administrative material relating to the Otari-Wilton Bush Trust, biographical material about botanists, material relating to the history of Otari-Wilton Bush, and a brief description of the buildings occupied by the National Library Serials Unit between 1960 and 1978. Title supplied by Library. Clark was involved as a volunteer at Otari-Wilton's Bush and a member of the board of Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust. She was also employed at the National Library of New Zealand until 1979 when she set up the consultancy Wilton Library Services. Quantity: 18 folder(s).

Date: 2002-2012

From: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12397-15

Description: Research papers relating to Martin Chapman and family and the "Chapman Garden" in the Otari-Wilton's Bush. Papers include biographical information, correspondence, photographs, maps, photocopies, and handwritten notes. Title on outside of original enclosure read "McRae" but this does not seem to match the contents. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Removed from plastic folder, order of papers within the folder retained. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Removed from plastic clearfile for preservation purposes and placed into acid-free folder. Photographic prints placed into clear enclosures.

Date: 2007-2009

From: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12397-16

Description: Research material relating to Otari-Wilton Bush. Mainly bibliographic in nature. Includes a copy of 'Guide to New Zealand Information Sources. Part I: Plants and Animals' complied by Lucy E. Battye for Massey University in 1975. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [2009-2010]

From: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12397-06

Description: Research papers about John Stanley Reid including a copy of his obituary, and articles written by Reid mainly relating to Otari -Wilton's Bush. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [2009-2010]

From: Clarke, Sandra Stelfoxe, 1942-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12397-05

Description: Research papers about Raymond Mole, who was Curator at Otari-Wilton's Bush from 1962 to his retirement in 1991. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2009

From: Parkinson, Philip Granger, 1950-: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12421-22

Description: 'Report on an investigation of the native land Mollusca (and occurrence of any introducted taxa) within the Otari-Wilton Bush reserve' by Phil Parkinson and Bruce A Marshall 2006-2008. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 1 volume.. Physical Description: Typescript, spiral bound.

Date: 1948

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-378-060

Description: Shows a watercolour of a plant of chrysobactron rossii (bulbinella rossii, or bog lily), with four yellow flower heads. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 190 mm.

Date: 1990 - 1994

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to parks, conservation and recreation areas in Wellington City and Region]

Reference: Eph-B-PARKS-Wellington-1990/1994

Description: Includes: 1992: Department of Conservation. Bush cabins Rimutaka Forest Park. May 1992 Department of Conservation. Wellington Conservancy Office. Tramp, camp, walk and stalk; an update of recreational developments in Wellington's forest parks. [1992] Wellington City Council. Wrights Hill Recreation Reserve. 6/92 [1992] (2 copies) 1993: Otari Wilton's Bush. Native Week, Monday Oct 4th-8th [1993?] Wellington Regional Council. Belmont Regional Park. March 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Dry Creek, Belmont Regional Park. March 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Stratton Street, Belmont Regional Park. March 1993 Department of Conservation. Catchpool Valley, Rimutaka Forest Park [March 1993?] Department of Conservation. Colonial Knob Scenic Reserve. September 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Korokoro Valley, Belmont Regional Park. March 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Mountain biking, Battle Hill Farm Forest Park. February 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Mountain biking, Belmont Regional Park. February 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Mountain biking, Rimutaka Ranges and Pakuratahi Forest. February 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Mountain biking, Tunnel Gully Recreation Area and Pakuratahi Forest. February 1993 Wellington Regional Council. Mountain biking in Wellington Regional Parks and Forests. February 1993 Department of Conservation. Tramp, camp, walk and stalk; an update of recreational developments in Wellington's forest parks. Issue 3, October 1993 1994: Imagine a wildlife sanctuary for Wellington. [Questionnaire re Karori Reservoir Wildlife Sanctuary. 1994] (2 copies) Department of Conservation. Bush cabins Rimutaka Forest Park; Lodges, Tararua & Haurangi Forest Parks. December 1994 Department of Conservation. Footnotes; news and information for visitors to forest parks, reserves, and New Zealand Walkways in Wellington Conservancy. Issue 4, August 1994 Wellington Regional Council. Cannons Creek Lakes Reserve, Zone 3 Belmont Regional Park. February 1994 (2 copies) Wellington Regional Council. Hill Road, zone 3, Belmont Regional Park. February 1994 (2 copies) Wellington Regional Council. Korokoro Valley, Zone 1 Belmont Regional Park. February 1994 Wellington Regional Council. Native forest trail, Kaitoke Regional Park. June 1994 Wellington Regional Council. The Ridge track, Kaitoke Regional Park. June 1994 Wellington Regional Council. US Marines; Queen Elizabeth Park. June 1994 Wellington Regional Council. Stratton Street, Belmont Regional Park. February 1994 (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Acquired from various sources

Date: 1973

From: Cook, Walter :Photographs of Otari Native Plant Museum Wilton Wellington

By: Cook, Walter Cameron, 1941-

Reference: PAColl-3463-1-02

Description: Detail of the rock garden at the Otari Native Plant Museum, Wilton, Wellington. Photographed by Walter Cook about 1973. Arrangement: Negative at 35mm, 19229 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 14 September 1932

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/2-088438-G

Description: View of the Otari Native Plant Museum grounds taken from Wilton's Bush Reserve by an unidentified photographer on 14 September 1932. Note on back of file print reads: Date - 14 Sept 1932 (date written on neg) Wilton from Wilton's Bush reserve looking across Otari native Plant Museum. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative