Waipawa

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Gray, Benjamin, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-0716-F

Description: Panoramic view of wooden villa, garage and shed in central image. Car parked on turning area near garage. Young monkey puzzle tree in centre foreground. Well tended garden, including an ovoid-shaped bush formed by topiary cutting. Tall pine trees beside and behind house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Ben Gray Pvte Bag Waipawa HB 1 Oils 1 Sepia 1 B&W. Dark red roof. Dark brown facings. Garage dark brown roof & doors. Red roof on woolshed. Blue & purple pansies in front of house. Various flowers in bed. Dark brown car white hood. Various green. Put plenty of flowers.; Marginal notes on tape - B.Gray Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 133.0 cm

Date: Jan-Sep 1880

From: Rolleston, William, 1831-1903 : Papers

Reference: 77-248-03/1

Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name field. Includes a letter of 20 July 1880 by W Gibbs that records an interview with a girl, ‘E Page’, who was pregnant to her school master ‘Hume’. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: Scope and name record updated 26 September 2023 following information from a researcher.

Date: 1876-1919

From: Thorp, Nigel, fl 1995 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5400-11

Description: The collection includes many transfers of hotel licenses administered by the Wairarapa Licensing Trust, Waipawa County Permanent Building & Investment Society and Magistrate's certificates and accounts/receipts, some to the Court Marquis of Normanby Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Lethbridge, George Yates, 1870-1929

Reference: Pan-0720-F

Description: Panoramic view of a wooden villa set in pine trees at foot of hill. Windmill near house. Sheep grazing. Other small buildings near edge of image. Rolling hills into distance. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in the Waipawa area. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - G. Lithbridge [i.e. Lethbridge] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 124.2 cm

Date: 1856 - 1866

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Stone, (Mr), active 1953

Reference: MapColl-832.3991a/[ca. 1861]/Acc.333

Description: Drawn on a base map of the Waipawa Borough, the annotations depict properties with block number, acreage, Crown grant reference numbers and names of purchasers. The properties vary in size from 10 to 30 acres, and are made up of several streets of suburban sized sections. The names are Robert Mixer Skeet, James Fougere, Thomas Dawson Triphook and Edward George Wright, Louis Noel Du Noyer, William Fannin, Frederick Sedgwick Abbott, Christopher Lockyer, Thomas Gill, Allan MacMaster, Algernon Gray Tollemache. See accompanying one page note entitled 'Schedule of persons who purchased from the Crown the lands comprised in the township of Waipawa'. Patangata Crown Grant District.' Lists block number, purchaser, purchase date, Crown Grant reference, and includes annotated note regarding donor and annotated corrections. Base map: 'Plan of Borough of Waipawa' ([s.l], Lands and Survey Department, [s.d]). Stamp on top right hand corner of map: 'L&S' Series 25, no. 214. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:4 752], 76 x 97 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Stone, Lands and Survey Department, 28.8.1953.

Date: [after 1876]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-45-46

Description: Distant view of the railway bridge at Waipawa which was completed in Sep 1876. In the foreground are two men and a horse. The township can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril after 1876. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 20.6 x 35.5 cm

Date: [Between 1930 and 1941]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-207

Description: Album of photographs (mainly landscapes) taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1930 and 1941. The album is divided into sections (not in chronological order), many relating to camping holidays with an unidentified companion. Areas covered included a Christmas holiday trip in 1937 to the East Coast and thermal regions around Tikitere and Waimangu, the Morere nikau forest, Mount Maunganui beach, Hongi's track, the buried village at Te Wairoa, and Rotorua. A North Auckland trip in December 1938 included camping as far north as Paihia, Russell and Waitangi, the Waitangi Falls, the Waipoua Kauri Forest and Trounson's Kauri Park, also Auckland, the Kaingaroa Plains and Waiouru Valley. Areas of erosion were noted, and mangrove swamps. An Anniversary Day trip (22-23 January 1939) took Salmon to the Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa; and in September 1941 he went to the Hawke's Bay area. In 1945 he went on a North Island Expedition working on malaria control, with ?Bissett, and William John Phillipps. February 20-27 1939 was a trip across the Napier-Taupo Road, and included a number of images of the silt and desolation caused by a great flood in the Esk Valley in 1938. In 1936 Salmon went on a geological trip to the Rotorua area, and at Orakei Korako he was particularly interested in "sinter formations" (thermal deposits of silica, of which the Pink and White Terraces were examples). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1890-1956

By: McCartney, Jennifer, active 1991

Reference: PAColl-1909

Description: Arrangement: 44 copy negatives at 1/2-170243-F to 1/2-170286-F Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1860-ca 1990]

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

By: Bartlett & Andrew Ltd; Billens & Bunting (Firm); Brown, William Edmond, 1840?-1922; Golder, William Wilford, active 1890s; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Lovell-Smith Photography; Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948; Pattillo, Cecil Wright, 1875-1968; Royal Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Shackelford, Thomas George Sidney, -1946; Shanly, F J, active 1911; South Pacific Photos Ltd; Zenith Studios

Reference: PAColl-2838-2

Description: Comprises photographs relating to the Bibby family, Bibby's store in Waipawa, Lunesdale Farm, and Kairakau Beach, taken between circa 1860 and circa 1990 by various photographers, several of whom are unidentified. Contains photographs relating to the Bibby family taken between 1872 and 1990, including: Scenes at 11 Rose Street, Waipawa; Portraits of members of the Bibby family, including James Woodhouse Bibby, Mary Glover Bibby, Thomas Bibby, Hugh Bibby, Tui Bibby, and Basil Bibby; A portrait of members of the Hutchinson family, taken circa 1917; Mary Glover Bibby and sons James and Edward, taken circa 1872; Ann (Nan) Bibby and "Pet", the horse, taken circa 1908; Members of the Bibby family at Hugh Bibby's funeral, taken 1987. Also includes several photographs of Edward Stuart Bibby, including the wedding and honeymoon of E S Bibby and Mabel Katherine Bibby (née Hutchinson), taken 1926; E S Bibby and Mabel Katherine Bibby at the investiture for Edward's MBE, taken 1964; E S Bibby and children at Mary Speirs' birthday party, taken 1987; and a formal portrait of E S Bibby, taken 1990. Also contains photographs taken at Lunesdale Farm between circa 1860 and circa 1990, including: Lunesdale Cottage, taken 1884; Lunesdale Woolshed, taken 1888; farm staff loading bales of wool at Lunesdale Woolshed, taken circa 1900; McLeod's Mill, known as Mason & Co Sawmill, taken circa 1904; Brown's Whare at Lunesdale, taken circa 1912; and several photographs of "The Cottage" at Blackburn Ridge. Also includes photographs taken at Kairakau Beach during a Bibby family holiday in 1930s, and photographs of the Bibby store, Waipawa. Also includes 25 negative and photograph envelopes, many of which are annotated by members of the Bibby family. Quantity: 5 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s). 25 item(s) of photographic ephemera negative and photograph envelopes, annotated. 66 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Gilbertson, E, active 1923-1928

Reference: Pan-0724-F

Description: Panoramic view of a large shearing shed and sheep pens left centre, with the homestead visible nestled among trees on a hill above the farm buildigns. The property has many cabbage, poplar, gum and pine trees. A stream runs throught eh foreground and a hose grazes nearby. There are hills around the property. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - E.Gilbertson "Clarewich" Waipawa HB 2 B&W 1 Sepia 3 framed in 1 1/2" Oak. Comount opposite way. Use the 10" mask & get as much as possible in to make best view. Mountain on right get in if possible.; Marginal notes on tape - E. Gilbertson Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 123.5 cm

Date: 1914 - 1916

By: Waipawa mail, Waipukurau, Kaikoura and Harpenden advertiser (Newspaper); Critchley, Charles Henry, -1958

Reference: Eph-C-NEWSPAPER-WM-1914/1916

Description: Fliers issued as extras to the Waipawa Mail: August 4th 1914: British Army to mobilise May 24th 1915: Italy declares war with Austria August 2nd 1914: Germany declares war with Russia Feruary 1st 1915: Steamer Tokomaru sunk with New Zealand's gifts for the Belgians Undated: A public meeting tonight will be held in the Municipal Theatre Waipawa tonight to consider the question ... of raising funds for providing outfits for the New Zealand Contingent / W I Limbrick, mayor August 8th 1914: Germans ask for twenty-four hours' armistice: 25,000 casualties June 7th 1916: Lord Kitchener drowned; goes down in a battleship Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Seven letterpress items, mounted on three card strips, sizes around 415 x 130 mm.

Date: 1888, 1922, 1948, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1988

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: 90-370-1/01

Description: Papers collected or created by Edward Stuart Bibby relating to the history of Waipawa. Includes: Two photocopies of a letter to Mrs & Mrs Edward Bibby Senior re Waipawa School visit in 1864 Two photocopies of 1864 list of potential Waipawa School pupils Handwritten copies of newspaper accounts 1865 by M G Bibby Two photocopies of Waipawa school accounts for 1867 Photocopy of Waipawa School programme for 1884 Catalogue for the Waipawa Exhbition 1888 (damaged) "1890's view of Waipawa" - handwritten notes and sketch of Waipawa stores made by E S Bibby when talking to Abbotsford Smith Waipawa football club membership ticket 1922 Undated original notes of Old Waipawa by Mary Glover Bibby (pre-1935) Two copies of undated typewritten notes "The Days Of The Coaches Were Not Easy" 13 handwritten pages by ES Bibby on a conversations with his father James Woodhouse Bibby in 1948. Topics include Edward Bibby Senior's trip out to New Zealnd; Trip to Gisborne for land; Opening of Bibby Store; First visit to Lunesdale; Te Hapuka's death and Colenso's bid to keep peace; First transport service in Waipawa; First Dr English; Dr Todd; Early settler Hamlyn; First stationary shop Harwood; First Lunesdale farm employees; Sam Onion first Waipawa blacksmith; Tommy Smith earliest white resident; Early settlers Rathbone and Wilkes; Professor Moore; Maurice Flynn Irish storekkeper; Early schools in Onga Onga Riding Copy of James Woodhouse Bibby's speech made to Waipawa School children when he was 90 years old, 1957 1958 First Day cover, Waipawa Post Office Waipawa Primary School Centenary catalogue, signed, 1962 Last day cover, Onga Onga Post Office, 1988. Title supplied by Library. Detailed scope and contents lists taken from the donor inventory. Arrangement: Papers were in envelopes which were annotated by either E S Bibby at the time of receipt or by family members when collating the material for donation. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: Plan of town of Waipawa now at Library reference MapColl-os832.3991bje/[ca1900]/Acc.57115. Processing information: Papers have been removed from envelopes and envelopes have been retained and attached to papers. Plan of Waipawa originally in folder was removed in 2020 for preservation reasons.

Date: 1870-1891

From: Matua, Henare, d 1894 : Letters and documents relating the Native Land Court

Reference: MS-Papers-8567-006

Description: Contains a file of correspondence, whakapapa and lists of claimants to land in the greater Hawke's Bay region. Also contains a copy of the Maori Land Court notice about the Waipawa court hearing on 26 January 1891. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890s]-1969

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

By: Bachrach, Fabian, active 1950s; Bells Camera House; Deighton, Leslie Howard, -1955; Frank Duncan and Company; Shackelford, Thomas George Sidney, -1946; Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: PAColl-2838-1

Description: Comprises photographs and several photographic postcards relating to the Bibby family, Waipawa and Ongaonga, and E S Bibby's military service, taken between circa 1890s and 1969 by various photographers, many of whom are unidentified. Includes photographs relating to Waipawa and Ongaonga, as follows: Scenes at Waipawa, including horses and carts at Waipawa Railway Station, Waipawa racecourse; scenic views, and views of buildings, including High Street and old hotel, taken 1935, and St Peters Anglican Church, taken circa 1936; Lord Jellicoe opening the Waipawa War Memorial, taken July 1922; Waipawa Volunteer Rifles; Waipawa 111 Company Cadets, taken circa 1915 and featuring some subjects identified verso; Members of the Bibby family at "The Pines" homestead, taken circa 1909; Waipawa District High School rugby team, taken 1912, and Old Boys seven-a-side rugby team, taken 1922, and 1923; St Peters Sunday School, taken 1935, its Diamond Jubilee year; Several photographs relating to Waipawa School and Waipawa District High School, taken between 1918 and 1922; Several photographs relating to the Waipawa Methodist Church, including a group portrait of Church elders, taken between 1917 and 1920, featuring some subjects identified verso, a photograph of the Church jubilee, taken 1945, and the Centennial, taken 1969; View of Ongaonga main street, taken 1913; Ongaonga and Waipawa massed bands, taken 1919; and Ongaonga School, taken circa 1959. Also includes photographs relating to Edward Stuart Bibby's military service, including Bibby and friend, A Glenny, leaving Waipawa for military service, taken 1916; the 23rd Reinforcements sailing from Wellington on 3 April 1917; several photographs of the 23rd Reinforcements at Featherston and Sling Camps, including YMCA Bible study group; and views of Oatlands Hospital and Hornchurch Camp. Also includes photographs taken at Glen Appin between 1925 and 1961, including pastoral scenes, interior of Walkers farmhouse after the Napier Earthquake, taken 1931, and photographs relating to farming. Also includes a formal portrait photograph of the Country Women's Institute Dominion Executive Council; photographs of Napier, dated 1905 to 1908; and a portrait photograph of Basil Bibby. Also includes two items of photographic ephemera; one envelope, annotated likely by E S Bibby, and one printed name list cut from a photograph of the 1916 winners of the Ransom Cup (rugby), possibly belonging with PAColl-2838-1-52. Quantity: 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 24 b&w copy photographic print(s). 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Rathbone, William Henry, 1871-1951

Reference: Pan-0714-F

Description: Panoramic view from high rugged hillside looking across valley with deeply cut stream bed forming a large crater in centre, to steep hills opposite. Small shed in centre of crater. Large 2-storeyed house central-image on hill opposite. Road runs in front of house. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - W.H. Rathbone Waipawa HB 2 B&W, 1 oils. Distant view white house. Dark green roof. Dark green roof on garage door and shed. Bright green hills. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.7 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Williams, George Coldham, 1858-1944

Reference: Pan-0644-F

Description: Panoramic view of homestead set on hill. Deep gully in terrain in image-centre. Steep rocky hills behind. Large villa has verandah in front. Shearing shed/sorting pens to one side. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1429 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - G.C. Williams Waipawa HB (Retake) "Rangitapu" 2 B&W. Sepia. Print from left showing mountain.; Marginal notes on tape - G.C. Williams Re Take Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 9.0 (?) x 118.9 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Rathbone, Herbert Melville, 1870-1928

Reference: Pan-0719-F

Description: Two-storeyed house, gabled, with Elizabethan-styled panelling on upper level. Extensive grounds, shrubs and rose bushed in foreground, property bordered by tall pines and poplars. Cabbage tree near house. Park bench and small cottage with chimney to left of image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - H.M. Rathbone Waipawa HB 3 Oils white house, black facings. Brick red tile roof & chimney. Various colours flowers in garden etc etc.; Marginal notes on tape - H.M. Rathbone Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 120.0 cm

Date: ca 1870-1975

From: Bibby, Edward Stuart, 1896-1991: Collection

Reference: Series-6746

Description: Includes photographs of Bibby family members and the members of other families related by marriage; views of the Ongonga area and Lunesdale, the Bibby family farm near Ongaonga. Also includes historical photographs of Waipawa and events such as the visit of the Prince of Wales and Lord Jellicoe and several photographs of the baches and the Bibby family bach at Kairakau Beach. Also includes several photographs and photographic postcards collected by Edward Stuart Bibby during his military service in World War One, taken between 1916 and 1919. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/4-80870-F to 1/4-80987-F, and 1/2-180094-F to 1/2-180095-F, 1/4-066588 to 066651 and 1/2-173807 to 173812. Quantity: 258 b&w original photographic print(s). 184 b&w original negative(s). 60 colour original photographic print(s). 29 b&w copy photographic print(s). 27 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 8 b&w copy negative(s). 6 colour original negative(s). 3 album(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Processing information: Reference number changed from PA-Group-00109 to Series-6746 in 2021 when this collection of photographs was consoidated with the collection of papers depoisted at the same time.

Date: 1931

From: [Architectural plans collected by Bulleyment Fortune architects. 1890-1900s]

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-0573

Description: Shows the detail of chimney construction: cross section, upper part of stack, plan at hearth line. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo blueprint, 315 x 475 mm.

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-173-026

Description: A coastal view East Wairarapa Other Titles - Between Te Awaiti and .... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 180 x 130 mm