Kaikoura District

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-020

Description: The story of the Brooke family from Pyrford, Surrey and their immigration to New Zealand in 1910. The two sons, Jack and Cecil, began their farming life in the Kaikoura district as farm cadets. For seven years they farmed at Kaikoura from where the boys went to war and served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and later in the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron. After Cecil Brooke's leave he bought a small dairy farm at Ruakura in 1920 and 5 years later married Dorothy Hutchinson. They farmed at Ruakura for 34 years, and purchased a further 200 acres of peat swamp to break in. Includes family tree showing Cecil Brooke's line of descent back 4 generations and copies of photographs, mainly of life of the farm Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: Nov 1962

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-58664-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1863

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :McRae's house, Waipapa [1867?] Dickinson's house of accomodation, Kai Kouras Nov 3rd 1867.

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-017-2

Description: Shows the buildings and sheds of the accommodation house at the left, with trees and the Kaikoura Range in the distance. Other Titles - Kaikouras Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 240 x 330 mm.

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B157

Description: Duplicate typescripts and original papers: census of Maori and their associated hapu living in Queen Charlotte Sound 1889-1894; Kaikoura 1896; list of Maori living in the Wairau and Broader Marlborough Region to Motueka and lists land set aside for `Landless Natives' in the Marlborough Region, including the people who were granted land 1894. These lists contain names from all the hapu contesting Land Claims in the Kaikoura-Marlborough-Nelson Bays region. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: Nov 1962

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-58654-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: 1860 - 1887

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-154

Description: Section I: Identified features include - Owaroa Creek, Mt Smith, Mokonui Creek, Mt Kay, Wards Hill, Amuri Bluff Hill. Section V: Identified features include - Kaikoura Plain, near Easthead. Section XIII: Identified features include - Eden River, Mt Caverhill, mouth of the Waiau-ua River. Section XVII: Identified features include - Dora River, three faultlines, Hurunui River, Heathstock Downs near Waipara. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 4 on sheet 255 x 414 mm

Date: [1915-1970]

From: Mowat family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7496-03

Description: Personal and business correspondence and papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1930-1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946

Reference: PA7-47-09

Description: Photograph of waves breaking along the Kaikoura coast. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent in 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 23.3 x 28.7 cm

Date: 1886-1898

By: Pontifex, (Mr), active 1886-1898

Reference: MSX-8078

Description: Travel journal kept by a Mr Pontifex, apparently a lawyer in Brisbane. Records his travels to the Australian outback, New Zealand, Europe and Britain. Describes travel from Brisbane to St George Qld (1886); Christchurch to Blenheim (Oct-Nov 1889), involving a tour of sheep stations on horseback with a friend, recording names of stations and owners, notes on scenery and state of roads; Christchurch to Hanmer via Kaikoura (Dec 1889) on foot or by coach, with similar descriptions; North Island Jan-Feb 1890, with visits to Maori villages, including Parihaka, where he met Te Whiti. Described in some detail. Other passages record trips to Europe. At the end of the book is a resume of his extensive travels. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Ken Spelman Booksellers, York, UK, 2007

Date: [1930-1939]

From: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946 :Prints and negatives of New Zealand wildlife and scenery

By: Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946

Reference: PA7-47-12

Description: Photograph taken at dawn of the moon shining through clouds onto a calm sea and sandy beach on the Kaikoura coast. Photograph taken by Thelma Kent in 1930s Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 31 x 21 cm

Date: Nov 1962

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-58666-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [ca 1872]-1888

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1878

Description: Photograph album produced in 1888, titled 'Some representative sheep farms. Canterbury and neighbourhood.' Photographs taken by E Wheeler and son, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Album is dedicated to Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Governor of New Zealand. - Images feature farms and homesteads, with the photographer's inscription on the print identifying the farm and the owner (name and place spellings are transcribed from the item). These comprise: Mount Peel (Hon J B Acland), Waikanini (W Barker Esq), Otekaike (Hon R Campbell), Peel Forest (G J Dennistoun & Co), The Warren Woodbury (F W Donkin), Mount Palm (T Chapman), Mount Fyffe Kaikoura (A S Collins), Waimate (J Douglas), Homebush (J Deans), Longbeach (J Grigg), Grassmere, Westerfield (C Hawdon), Hororata (Sir J Hall), Horsley Down (Mallock & J D Lance), Underwood (A Hawdon), Fernside (S Heywood), St Helen's (W A Low), Windsor Park Otago (E Menlove), Lyndon (Macfarlane Bros), The Warren E Oxford (Langton), Waitakahi (A McLean), Glenmark (G H Moore); Achray (Macfarlane), Mt Somers (A E Peach[e?]), Raukapuka Geraldine (W Postlethwaite), Cheviot (Hon W Robinson), Orari Gorge (C G Tripp Esq), Mount Messing (R Rutherford), Montrose (Rutherford), Waireka (R Wade), Swyncombe Kaikoura (W D Wood), and Highfield (Wharton & Co). - Gardens and surrounding scenic landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) are often visible as part of building portraiture. Buildings and structures other than main homesteads include woolsheds, manager's houses, a meat freezing factory (Belfast), the Port Robinson slipway, stock yards, worker's whares, ferret houses, and Glenmark Station's extensive lakes and water features. Images are almost exclusively of the exterior of buildings with only the interiors of woolsheds seen. Many images include the families that lived in the houses and often their dogs. Farm workers are seen in some images. Farm animals pictured include sheep, horses, mules, farm dogs, and oxen. Activities such as shearing with a Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine, wool sorting, wool scouring, wool transportation (horse drawn carts and ox wagons), sheep dipping, and sheep drafting are shown. Other activities include rowing in a boat, lawn mowing, and lawn tennis. Other - Album has covers that appear to have been created by the General Assembly Library. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency Sir W F D Jervois, G.C.M.G., C.B. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green and black album embossed with gold typeface, 24.4 x 32 cm Provenance: Donated by Parliamentary Library, Wellington, 2014 Transfers: From Book Collections - NZ&P: as part of a large ongoing donation of mainly published material..

Date: 2009

Reference: Eph-B-TOURISM-Kaikoura-2009-01

Description: Booklet giving information about Kaikoura, its attractions and event, history, tours, marine tours, adventure tourism, dining and accommodation, shopping and services, walks and mountain bike trails, business directory. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 48 pages, 300 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Nancy Fithian, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1925

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

Reference: Pan-1046-F

Description: Panoramic view, coastal road to Kaikoura just visible on the right amongst trees along the bush-clad foreshore, with the sea on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1925. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "On the road to Kaikoura. N.Z. No. 515"; Marginal notes on negative - 7 7 7 7 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 105.2 cm

Date: 1925

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

Reference: Pan-1044-F

Description: Panoramic view along the coastal road towards Kaikoura with bush clad hills on the right, a road winding through the trees, and a touring car visible in a gap in the bush on the far right. The sea is on the left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1925. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "On the road to Kaikoura. N.Z. No. 516; Marginal notes on negative - Title: "On the road to Kaikoura. N.Z. 1925" #2; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.3 cm

Date: 1925

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

By: Murray, Arthur John, 1873-1949

Reference: Pan-0814-F

Description: "Woodbank" homestead and grounds in Marlborough. Photograph taken in 1925 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - "Title "Woodbank" 1925 AJ Murray Clarence Bridge. 3 Oils Dark red roof & facing. Sea scape in distance. Various colours of flowers. Native bush background."; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "Woodbank" 1925 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 119.5 cm

Date: 1917

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

Reference: E-752-017

Description: View towards a shed and farm fence, with trees and hills beyond, possibly Kaikoura area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 110 x 180 mm.

Date: 1899

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32199

Description: Cadastral plan showing sections, including Police Camp, adjacent to Lyell Creek. Includes streets named Main Street, Pensini Street, and Mabille Street. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - "General Assembly Library" [rubber stamped] Plan related to cadastral plan and typescript correspondence at MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32200 and MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32201. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Manuscript plan in ink with colour shading, on tracing linen, 21 x 33.5 cm.

Date: 1899

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32200

Description: Cadastral plan showing sections at Lyell Creek, New Creek, and Buller River. Makes reference to bridges, included one over the Buller River erected August 1890, and Old Track marked in red. Plan related to cadastral plan and typescript correspondence at MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32199 and MapColl-834.1gbbd/1899/Acc.32201. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Manuscript plan in ink with colour shading, on tracing linen, 21 x 33.5 cm.

Date: 1960 - 2009

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Kaikoura-1960/2009

Description: Includes: ca 1976: Lions Club. Guide for visitors to Kaikoura. Express Printing Works, Blenheim [ca 1976]. Booklet 1978: NZ Walkways. Peninsula walk Kaikoura. 1978. Pamphlet 1990s: Kaikoura New Zealand; magic where mountains meet see (whale fluke on front cover). Booklet of 12 pages, 210 x 203 mm. 1996: Kaikoura Whales. Whale Watch Air Limited.[1996]. Pamphlet 1990s/2002: Dolphin Encounter, Kaikoura New Zealand. ... Imagine ... enter their world [1990s-2002?] Pamphlet (2 copies) ca 2001: Kaikoura; close to nature. Magic where the mountains meet the sea. Kaikoura Visitor Centre www.kaikoura.co.nz [ca 2001] (2 different booklets, different years) 2002: Ocean Wings Albatross Encounters. Kaikoura, New Zealand. (2 similar pamphlets different years - ca 2002 and 2007?) 2004: Kaikoura New Zealand; magic where mountains meet see (whale fluke on front cover). www.naturallykaikoura.co.nz [Pamphlet. ca 2004] (2 copies) Whale Watch with Kaikoura Helicopters. Email kk.heli@voyager.co.nz, www.worldofwhales.co.nz [ca 2005?]. Card 2007: Dolphin encounter, Kaikoura, New Zealand. Swim with or watch the Dusky Dolphins Seal Swim Kaikoura; New Zealand's original seal swimming team. Graeme and family team established 1987. [2007?] Card Whale Watch Kaikoura [2007]. Card Wings Over Whales, Kaikoura. 08002CMOBY (0800 22 66 29). [2007]. Card Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying around 240 mm.