Places

Date: Sep 1872

From: Barker, Alfred Charles :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-032235-G

Description: Grassmere Station, near Cass, Canterbury, photographed by Alfred Charles Barker in September 1872. Looks over rocks, and paddocks of tussock grass, towards a group of buildings including the homestead. Snow covered mountains are behind. An unidentified man sits on a rock on the left. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top right - Grasmere Station Canty NZ Sept [22?] 72 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass copy negative

Date: 1861-1903

By: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903

Reference: 77-248

Description: Comprises Mt Algidus Station diary (1861-1865); letter books (1869-1884); correspondence (1858-1903); newspaper clippings (1898-ca 1902); AMP valuations; speech notes; newspapers; property valuations; and miscellaneous correspondence which includes family letters Source of title - Supplied Further Rolleston papers at MS-Group-0377, 79-287, and 82-355 Quantity: 7 volume(s). 17 box(es). 1 folder(s). 3.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: QO679-QO685 (6 vols) with boxes in 1977 sequence

Date: 1861

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: C-003-004

Description: This is a larger and more finished version of the image at C-003-001. Nine-part panorama forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt. Shows the parsonage with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, roads, bush and hills in the background. There are men on horseback, a light horse-drawn trap, men ploughing with a horse-drawn plough, and a wagon drawn by two horses. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At lower edge of each panel): TBH; Album page - centre - (On verso of one of the panels): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 173 x 2250 mm, on nine joined panels, each 173 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased from a direct descendant of Bishop Selwyn, who previously owned the works. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-248.

Date: 1844 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809-1877 :[Panorama of St John's college, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G A Selwyn in Nov. 1844. Drawn by Mrs Abraham, wife of the bishop, and lithographed by Miss Cotton. Auckland ; St John's College? 1862?]

Reference: A-220-008-a-3

Description: The 5th and 6th sections (of 8) showing the site of St John's College, Meadowbank, looking towards Manukau Harbour on the right, with a road in the foreground. A carriage drawn by a team of bullocks is on the left, then the barn and several haystacks, Mt Wellington in the centre background, the stables as an outbuilding to the tall half-timbered weaver's house on the right, and farmland beyond that. Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 170 x 493 mm on sheet 210 x 1973 mm

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: W B Chennells :Collection of maps

By: Masterton Public Library

Reference: MapColl-832.45gbbd/[ca.1880s]/Acc.41129

Description: Cadastral manuscript map of part of the Lansdowne Estate adjacent to the homestead. Numbered sections include acreages and boundary measurements. Pencilled annotations include names of French Street, Raglan Street, Robert Street now known as Roberts Road. Pencilled annotions also show an extension to the homestead, the site of W. H. Cruickshank's house, a creek, Nitz Bros. property, the site of the old hospital, Te Ore Ore Road. The second cadastral map is a sales map by W. B. Chennells, auctioneer, for the sale of four sections, each 95 acres of agricultural land, offered for sale by Messrs. McGregor Bros. of Lower Manaia. The area encompassed lies between the main Masterton to Gladstone Road and the Waingawa River. Includes seven numbered sections with the site of McGregor's Homestead. Good deep soil is noted, high land and the site of a pond. Includes notes on the agriculture of the area, mentioning the adjoining dairy farm of J. E. Pond. No scale is given. This sales notice refers to the Times, Masterton, N.Z. The third map is a sales map by Langley Shaw, land agent of Hamilton, or Samuel Vaile & Sons, 95 Queen Street, Auckland and Hamilton. Okauia, the 9000 acre property, adjoins Mata Mata, Maungawhero and Selwyn Estates and is situated near Mata Mata and Hinuera railway stations. 'B' Portion No. 1 Block is subdivided into five farms for private sale. The farms, encompassed by the Waihou or Thames River, Okoroira River and the road to Tauranga, include acreages and boundary measurements. Several roads run through the farms, named and give directions to Mata Mata, Okoroire and Hinuera, Te Aroha, Tauranga. The Waiomau Stream is marked. Each farm includes a description of the terrain, i.e. flat country, bush, low hills. One section of 200 acres is owned by Bates. A printed note, mounted to the right of the map, gives information about the state of the land, prices per acre and term deposits, also the adjoining Mangawhero Estate recently purchased by the Government to be subdivided for close settlement. Adjacent to Okauia is McGuire's property, described as grass land with pine trees, also Heaney's property described as grass land, and the Selwyn Estate. Scale [1:31 680] The locality plan shows the location of 'B' Portion of Okouia No. 1 Block. 'A' Portion of Okouia No. 1 is shown and Okouia No. 4. The area is encompassed by the Waihou or Thames River and the railway line from Walton to Oxford, including named railway stations. The Mangawhero Stream and the Maungawhero Estate are named. Scale [1:253 440] This map entitled 'Part Lansdowne Estate' (comprising four maps on one sheet and mounted on the reverse of 'Sketch map of Clifton, Pahiatua') is shelved at: MapColl-832.4596gbbd/[1886?]/Acc.36545 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) and 3 maps mounted on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, ink and colourwash on paper, linen backed, coloured, scale not given, 20.4 x 28.5 cm. on sheet 70.5 x 59 cm.