Kawau Island

Date: 24 November 1884

By: George, Godfrey Thorne, 1879-1958

Reference: MS-Papers-4047

Description: Letter from Sir George Grey to his nephew, Grey Thorne George, on his fourth birthday. Describes Sir George's garden, presumably on Kawau Island. Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Holograph transcript written by Godfrey Thorne George Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 items). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr D D Hamilton, Auckland, 1986

Date: 1953-1959

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6454

Description: Views of the summit ridges of Pirongia Mountain. Rock formation near Lake Aarapuni. View of the Waihou River. Pokaiwhenua Falls near Arapuni. Fishing on the Waipa river. Old kauri timber dam, Kaueranga River area. Views of copper mine, Mansion House, and Bostiquey Bay, Kawau Island. Carpenter's shop and abandoned house. Track clearing in the Wairongomai Valley. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [Between 1948 and 1958]

From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō

Reference: PA1-o-562

Description: Album of photographs of family and friends probably taken by Rhoda McWhannell. They include a sequence at the beginning of the wedding of Brian Stewart Geddes, and Audrey Marion (nee Hopkins), on 14th May 1945. Their family, especially their daughters Elizabeth Anne, and Jane Margaret, are photographed as babies, and as they grow. Scenic views include the Gisborne region; and Kawau Island, with a large group in Mr McDowell's party, deep-sea fishing from a launch, showing their catch of hapuka A group of women from the Women's War service Auxiliary at Katikati are seen in two images; and a meeting house at Katikati. The last few images show the nursery at Rozel, where Frederick and Rhoda McWhannell developed eucalyptus seedings for forestry. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled `Photographs'; 16.5 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook. Mainly Northland scenes] 1864

Reference: E-125-019/020

Description: An extensive landscape view from a high point looking out to sea Other Titles - Kawau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on paper 135 x 180 mm in album

Date: 1978 - 1980

Reference: Eph-D-BUILDINGS-Auckland-1978-01

Description: Shows an illustration, framed by a white outline of ornate verandah railings and posts, of a yacht sailing and a line of hills in the distance. Date based on the fact that the Mansion House restorations began in 1977. Donor estimates date at the late 1970s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 580 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: 1970 - 1978

From: Gunson, D W, fl 1970s :[New Zealand buildings. Greeting cards]. The Save the Children Fund. [1970s?]

Reference: E-279-q-170

Description: View of Mansion House with balcony to the left, on greeting card sold in aid of The Save the Children Fund Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 105 x 140 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-003

Description: A view from a low hill looking down into a bay on Kawau Island, possibly behind Mansion House. Part of the back of a large house can be seen in the centre near the beach and there is a long low building to the left Inscriptions: Title in ink in the hand of the artist, on label below work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 222 mm

Date: 1888

By: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, 1845-

Reference: B-075-019

Description: An uninhabited rocky beach with a pohutukawa growing over it on the left. Low bush-clad hills in the background on the far side of a bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 280 x 471 mm

Date: 1925

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1052

Description: Album recording a motoring and camping holiday through the South Island of New Zealand. This took in the New Zealand South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin and included the West Coast, Otago, and Canterbury. The central part of the album has images of Khandallah, Wellington, and the family home in that suburb. Family photographs include Doug on his Norton Motorcycle, and Jack and Neville similarly posed on a Douglas Motorcycle. Rene and Frank stand at the net holding tennis rackets, and mother has several images with young Joyce. The last part of the album recordes something of a holiday to Auckland where the family camped at Brown's Bay and took a trip to Kawau Island. A group shot on Mt Messanger on the way back and some views of Pukekura Park New Plymouth complete the album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook. Mainly Northland scenes] 1864

Reference: E-125-011/012

Description: Kawau Island from the sea Other Titles - Kawau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper 135 x 180 mm in album

Date: [Between 1935 and 1936]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Smytheman, V (Miss), active 1935-1936

Reference: PA1-o-470

Description: Snapshots taken in the North Island of New Zealand between 1935 and 1936, taken by an unidentified photographer. Several of the images show war memorials, in Featherston; the memorial clock in Gisborne; and memorial gates at Victoria Park, Stratford. The last three scenes show groups of women. They include Alice, Ivy, Gwynne, Tess, Mrs Carte-Lloyd and Mrs Booth Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled tan cover tied with brown ribbon, entitled "Photo album"; 11.5 x 17.0 cm

Date: January 1958, December 1960, January 1962, January 1964

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: PA12-7695

Description: Transparencies of Lidgard House, Kawau Island, and yachting in Auckland, taken between 1958 and 1964 by Whites Aviation Quantity: 4 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: Between 1880 and 1900

From: Harris, Esme Enid, 1913-1993 :Photographs

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA11-042

Description: Scenic views in the northern half of the North Island, mostly by Josiah Martin, showing Sir George Grey's house on Kawau Island, yacht and waka raced at the auckland Anniversary Regatta, and the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Quantity: 6 b&w original transparency/ies lantern slides.

Date: 1886 - 1888

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :[Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook. 1886-1888].

Reference: E-598-018

Description: Shows a pencil sketch of the Mansion House before the verandah was built around it. Extended Title - from his Whangarei and Waiwera sketchbook, 1886-1888, page 18. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 145 x 223 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2002.

Date: Aug-Sep 1868

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-046

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from Kawau Island listing non-indigenous birds (African geese, English pheasants, California quail) and animals (kangaroos, silver grey rabbits) and decoy ducks available to Hall; letter from [?] J W McGowan, Melbourne Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1867

By: Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Atkinson, Dorothy Alison, 1892-1986

Reference: A-245-005

Description: A beach with bush-clad hills, a rocky outcrop and buildings on the shore Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 260 mm

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-17-23

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1990

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

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-037

Description: The essay details the McDonald family story around the life of the youngest daughter Frances Harwood McDonald. She was born on Kawau Island in 1848 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Published guide available.

Date: 1970 - 1978

From: Gunson, D W, fl 1970s :[New Zealand buildings. Greeting cards]. The Save the Children Fund. [1970s?]

Reference: E-279-q-170-A

Description: View of Mansion House with balcony to the left, on greeting card sold in aid of The Save the Children Fund Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 105 x 140 mm

Date: 1933-1937

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests

Reference: PA1-o-1321

Description: Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best. Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden. Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features. Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point. A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island. Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks. Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935. Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935. Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks. Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice. Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin. Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata. Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933. A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony. Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).