The principal centre on the island, Waitangi has a post office, licensed hotel, school, police station and magistrate court. Local industries are farming and fishing, especially crayfishing and canning.
Waitangi
Burt album
Date: [1873?]
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands
By: Barker, Samuel Delabere, 1848-1901
Reference: PA1-q-041
Description: Photographs of various areas in the Chatham Islands and the people who lived there in the 1870s. Group photographs include those of the Hunt family, the Gregory family, the Langdale family, the Beamish family, and groups of unnamed Moriori. At least some of the photographs were taken by Samuel Barker who visited the Chatham Islands in 1873. Information from comparison with images in published items. Arrangement: Images are numbered sequentially throughout album At one time this album apparently belonged to the Shand family (also of the Chatham Islands) Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey covered album, 32 x 27.5 cm Provenance: Donated by W B Burt, Christchurch, 1972
Barnett, Sally, active 1995 : Photographs of Chatham Islands relating to the Fougere, B...
Date: [ca 1855-1930]
By: Wishart, Betty Sylvia, 1909-1990; Barnett, Sally, active 1995
Reference: PAColl-4855
Description: Photographs relate to the Fougere, Beamish and Wishart families of the Chatham Islands. A family tree is included in the collection. As well as people there are photographs of Waitangi, the hotel, the race track on race days, race horses and other locations in the Chatham Islands. There are also post cards with letters from Jack and Sydney Wishart while on military service in Europe during the First World War Source of title - Title supplied by Library These photographs belonged to Miss Betty Wishart (died 1990). Betty was a daughter of Violet Beamish and Elvyn Wishart of the Chatham Islands. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: She was an artist and an aunt of the donor, Sally Barnett
Members of the Pomare whānau, Waitangi Pā house, Chatham Island
Date: ca 1910-1940
From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: 1/2-037627-G
Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest, between circa 1910 and 1940. Inscription on the reverse reads. Inscription on the reverse reads: "Waitangi Pa house. From right, Whiti Pomare, Ropu Tiwai Pomare, Lize Tiwai Pomare". Information provided by a researcher on 15 October April 2007. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.
Radio telegraph station, Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: ca 1920
From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: 1/2-037614-G
Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest circa 1920. Shows the Radio telegraph station at Waitangi, Chatham Island. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.
Woman, men, and dogs outside the general post office, Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: ca 1910
From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: 1/2-037598-G
Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest, between circa 1910, Chatham Islands. Photographer's text on negative reads: "g.p.o. Waitangi". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.
Shark caught on fishing line, Waitangi wharves, Chatham Island
Date: ca 1910-1940
From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: 1/2-037595-G
Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest, between circa 1910 and 1940, Chatham Islands. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.
People in boat rowing ashore, Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: [Between 1911 and 1940]
From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: 1/2-034877-G
Description: Photograph taken by Ernest Guest, between circa 1911 and 1940. Shows a view of people in a boat rowing ashore, possibly from the SS Tees, to Waitangi. Two ships can be seen in the background and a dog in the foreground on the beach. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass plate negative.
Blyth, Harry George, -1955: Blyth album of views of the Chatham Islands
Date: [Between 1906 and 1943]
By: Blyth, Harry George, -1955; Graham, Sarah, active 1970s?
Reference: PA1-o-045
Description: Views of the Chatham Islands, with emphasis on the house "Te Whariki" at Tuku, various aspects of wool baling, and wool transportation using a bullock team, and the landscape near Tuku. A number of images show buildings at Waitangi, Chatham Island, including the post office, the Mangoutu Hotel (also known as Odman's Hotel), the courthouse, and Heslop's Hotel. The house "Te Whariki" was built by E. Guest, but seems to be the home of Harry Blyth who appears in a number of the images. Harry Blyth is the collector of the images in the album, and possibly the photographer of some. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Ernest Guest (photographer and postmaster), and some by Blyth's wife, Daisy Felicia Blyth (nee Cox), who was a photographer in her own right (see Turnbull Library Biographies Index) Title supplied by Library. Some original glass plate negatives at Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957 : Photographs of the Chatham Islands, ATL-Group-00805. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Mottled brown cover, labelled "Photographs", 180 x 255 mm
Hayward, Maurice Henry, 1910-1985 :Album of photographs of Chatham Islands
Date: 1932-1933
By: Hayward, Maurice Henry, 1910-1985; Hayward, Shirley, active 2004
Reference: PA1-o-1246
Description: Photographs taken by Maurice Henry Hayward while on a work relief scheme on the Chatham Islands building a new wharf at Waitangi. Included are views of Waitangi and its principle buildings, the Post Office, the hotels and the radio station. Also depicted is race day, bullock teams, horses hauling wool bales on sledges, sheep waiting at Waitangi Wharf, human bones, Tommy Solomon's funeral, a shipwreck, the countryside, and coastal views. Throughout the album are images of the old wharf at Waitangi, and the new one under construction and finally completed. There is a record of a tramping and hunting trip made by three or four men, one of whom was Hayward, and two interior views of the living quarters for the relief workers. Some photographs show the men riding horses, and dressed as cowboys or tough looking seamen. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Clough, Richard Lea, 1939- : Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Date: ca1900-ca1939
By: Clough, Richard Lea, 1939-
Reference: PAColl-4788
Description: Arrangement: Negatives in 35mm sequence at 17762 - 17771. Identification of and information relating to the subjects of the negatives is housed in PAColl-4788-1 (IRN 182384) Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w copy negative(s) 35mm strips containing 42 images.
Waitangi, Chatham Islands
Date: ca 1900
Reference: 1/2-005358-F
Description: View of Waitangi showing the buildings on the waterfront ca 1900. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative
Acts, Government circulars, New Zealand Gazettes
Date: 1858-1919
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992 : Chatham Islands collection
Reference: MS-Papers-0434-46
Description: Act regulating the postal service of the Colony of New Zealand, 1858; Act to amend `The New Zealand Post Office Act 1858', 1866; Act to further amend `The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858', 1866; General Post Office circular, 1867; prison regulations for Waitangi Gaol, 1869; menu for opening dinner at Milford Hotel; NZ Gazette Extraodinary re Royal proclamation of a day of Thanksgiving celebrating cessation of World War I Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available.
The Nairn River, Waitangi, Chatham Island
Date: [ca1880-ca1895]
From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands
Reference: PA1-o-1333-04
Description: The Nairn River, Waitangi, Cahtham Island. The buildings in the view are from the left: Pomare Hall, Hood's House (later Nairn House), Ngati Mutunga house (in the foreground), Seymour's house in bend of the river with Mangape house, Piripari house (right hand side of river). Photographed by Karl Gerstenkorn between 1890 and 1895. Seymour's house was built in 1867 by Sellwood. Mangape house was built by the missionaries, Engst and Baucke in about 1859. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm
Allan, Joseph Stuart] 1861-1930 :[Wai-Tangi (Chatham Island) / J S Allan [lithographer....
Date: 1889 - 1891
From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930
Reference: B-110-017-3
Description: A view of hills and water, with a few Maori houses along a shore in the middle distance to the right, a rocky reef extending into the water. One of four proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm. Two of the four are derived from details in lithographs by G. F. Angas in The New Zealanders illustatrated (London, 1847). Three are lithographs signed J. S. Allan; one is signed H M K. The artist's signature appears back-to-front Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm
Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Date: 1928-1968
From: Clough, Richard Lea, 1939- : Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Reference: PAColl-4788-1
Description: This collection also contains typed notes identifying the subjects of the negatives in PAColl-4788 Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s).
Williams, Arthur William, fl 1854-1874 : Copy of his certificate of marriage to Henriet...
Date: 15 Jan 1874
Reference: MS-Papers-9866
Description: Marriage certificate for Arthur William Williams and Henrietta Maud Mary Luckhurst, Waitangi, Chatham Islands, witnessed by D [?] Marjohn and J J Fougere and officiated by S Deighton Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs I P Elliott, Lower Hutt, Dec 1972
Lysaght album
Date: [ca 1875-1880]
By: Lysaght family; Lysaght, James Frederic, 1906-1992; Martin, Alfred, 1846?-1906
Reference: PA1-q-147
Description: Photographs of the Chatham Islands circa 1870s and 1880s, taken by Alfred Martin. Images include landscapes, early carvings in caves (Moriori?), and a number of houses and farmsteads. The Shand house, R. Kerr's farm, and Mr Engst's home are all shown. The last photograph shows crew members of the SS Kahu, with Captains Romeril and Hood. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in brown solander box with leather spine; spine labelled Lysaght; 33 x 26 cm
Photographs of the Chatham Islands
Date: 1910 - 1943
From: Burt, William Beverland, 1912-1992: Photographs, chiefly relating to the Chatham Islands
By: Blyth, Daisy Felicia, 1874-1945
Reference: PAColl-1619
Description: Includes views of Waitangi, muttonbirding, pig hunting, and coast watching in World War 2 Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s).
[Allan, Joseph Stuart] 1861-1930 :[Wai-Tangi (Chatham Island) / J S Allan [lithographer...
Date: 1889 - 1891
From: Various artists :[Proofs and related pictorial material for illustrations to J White's Ancient history of the Maori (Wellington, 1891)] 1832, [1880s?] 1890
By: Allan, Joseph Stuart, 1861-1930
Reference: B-110-026-3
Description: A view of hills and water, with a few Maori houses along a shore in the middle distance to the right, a rocky reef extending into the water. One of three proof lithographs on a single sheet measuring 447 x 285 mm, with one cut out in one corner. The artist's signature is missing in this version Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 99 x 170 mm
Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Treaty of Waitangi and related issues
Date: 2001-2019
From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the Treaty of Waitangi and issues relating to it]
By: Archives New Zealand; Bridget Williams Books; Creative New Zealand; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; New Zealand. Human Rights Commission; New Zealand. State Services Commission; Porirua (N.Z.). City Council; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council
Reference: Eph-A-WAITANGI-2001/2019
Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size relating to the Treaty of Waitangi and related issues from 2001 to 2019. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 55 pieces of ephemera.