Tora Station

Date: ca 1968

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2885

Description: Includes slides showing Ning Nong Bay, Wairarapa, and a camping journey to Te Awaiti and Tora on the South Wairarapa coast, New Zealand. Photographed by Cyril Beavis circa 1968. Transparencies showing Te Awaiti and Tora are continued at PA12-2886. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in March 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-81.

Date: 1935-1950, 1981

From: Wilson, Derek, 1922- : Further papers

Reference: MSX-9193

Description: Contains copies of letters written by Clement Wilson as manager of Tora Station, Wairarapa. Correspondence concerns station business; also quarterly returns for benzine used and annual reports on stock killings and losses. Includes letter to Department of Lands and Survey (25 Jun 1949), giving inventories of livestock, plant and employees. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (carbon copies)

Date: [1905-1975]

By: Mowat, Alexander Gard, 1888-1975; Hocking, Violet June, 1916-2010

Reference: 77-155

Description: Mowat made regular entries in his diaries, sometimes very full and sometimes very meagre. He noted the weather, the main farming activity of the day, visitors and other matters. Diaries for 1915 and 1916 cover the period Mowat was at Te Awaiti Station Source of title - Supplied title Mowat worked first as farm hand at Molesworth Station where he became head shepherd and then managed properties at Mokau, Te Awaiti in the Wairarapa, Mangaoti at Mokau, the Wrekin at Blenheim, Tikokino and Bulls Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs

Date: [1914-1948]

By: Tora Station

Reference: MS-Group-0617

Description: Comprises cook's stores inventory book (1918-1924); receipt book of stores (1926-1929); station stores diary (1922-1925); ledgers (1930-1933, 1935-1937, 1938-1941, 1943-1944, 1946-1947) Tora was originally part of the Riddiford family property. It was purchased in 1948 for soldier settlements, but has remained a separate station. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Check catalogue for Riddiford family papers Quantity: 3 volume(s). 15 folder(s) (volumes in folders). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1926-1935, 1951, 1993

From: Wilson, Derek, 1922- : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11608-68

Description: Includes photographs of Wilson family, Tora Station, the shipwrecked SS Opua and Hadlow Preparatory School; and two drawings. Also obituary for Eric Riddiford (owner of Tora Station) and article about Lagoon Hill Station. All pieces are photocopies, some with ms annotations. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photographs, drawings and printed matter (photocopies)

Date: [1909-1924]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5502-21

Description: Comprises correspondence, agreements and other papers relating to Hutt property titles including letter re Riddiford's proposed settlement on Phyllis Riddiford re Tora and Orongorongo stations and the Hutt properties (1924-1925); Wilsons (NZ) Portland Cement brochure (1925); draft deed between Edward Vivian, D H S and E L Riddiford re Phyllis Riddiford (1924); Letter, H Ernest Leighton re Waterloo Rd block and reply (1923); ms and typed draft deeds between E J and Eleanor Caroline Riddiford re `Middlemarch' block (1909 and sketch plan of same (1920); and lease of `Middlemarch', E C to E J Riddiford (1911) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1949-1951]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5502-14

Description: Comprises documents relating to settlement of sale of Tora Station to the Crown Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1893-1963

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-026

Description: Includes notes by Riddiford on Kelvin Robert Dawson's assets; stores, requirements and assets lists including for Glenburn Station (1900); letter from A Robinson of Masterton re contract for Ruamahanga (1940); `Longwood' wages pad (1953); statement re possible call-up of Murray Redpath, head shepherd of Pukeatua and Lagoon Hill (1941); papers re Longwood Fernside water race (1912); livestock accounts (1912); letter (in Maori) from Niniwa Heremaia to King Riddiford re piece of land her relatives do not want him to have (1894); letter, E L Riddiford to Public Works re Tora East Coast Road (1933); notes on Longwood property; letter, W Gray Young re proposed additions to Longwood (1914); memorandum re proposed subdivision and agistment of stock (1931); correspondence with R Sunderland, Undercliff, Havelock North, re employment of his son, Tom, at Lagoon Hill (1940); letter, James Archer, re petrol (1948); letter, Peter, re a colt; letter from A J Maxwell re bonus (1945); Te Awaite main clip (1944-1950); plan of tennis court; and letter from [? ] S Wheeter, Wellington, mostly re farming matters (1918) Also includes lambing and calving statistics for all properties (1911-1949); letter from Leonard Tripp re Harkaway (a horse) (1955); letters applying for extra petrol allowance (1944, 1948); telegram to DHS re Tutumuri sale, Pukeatua House burnt and farming matters (1919); Letters from Oliver Bunny, Waipipi, Opaki (1925-1926); letter, Vernon Sheridan, Masterton re employment (1940); advertising sheet for Kahu patented sheep handler (1959); recipe to dispose of moss; letter, K J C Lawrence re Tablelands sale (1947); Longwood household valuation (1958); notes re Toxward (1941); statistics re Flat Point; application from Norm Crichton (1963); statistics re shearing (nd); wool prices (1947-1948); letter from Margaret Butler re `the little lady'; letter, Abraham Seed Produce re quantity of seed to the acre (1953); recipe for the Riddiford mixture from Barraud and Abraham (1938); and wool sale auction list for Committee of London Wool Brokers including Riddiford lots (1952) Language - Letter from Niniwa Heremaia re land being given to King Riddiford which her relatives did not want him to have Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1922-1988]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-062

Description: Includes circular, Royal Society of St George (1947); biographical piece on the Russell family; extract from Blue Book re Wairarapa meeting (1848); the `Mayflower's operations during 1940; poems, phrases and political items; speech by Semple (1916); Riddiford family matters, religion; `The Spectator' (12 Nov 1988) and other clippings From unlabelled arch file Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1939]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: PAColl-3060-004

Description: Wairarapa landscape showing Tora sheep station. Photograph taken in 1939 Other Titles - MNZ-1804-1/2 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).