Ōpōtiki

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-106-f-015-2

Description: Shows a group of Maori attacking Volkner in an area outside his church. Also shows other buildings. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rev Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 47, 29 July 1865, page 80, lower half Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 240 mm

Date: 1962-1967

From: Yaldwyn, John Bradley, 1900-1975 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1578-11

Description: Local Government Commission papers re alteration of boundaries, Opotiki - Taupo Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1910]

By: Price, Thomas Edward, 1863-1928

Reference: PA7-50-06

Description: Photograph of cricketers and their friends sitting in front of the pavilion in the Tauranga Domain. Tauranga Cricket Club played Opotiki Cricket Club, the match being won by Opotiki. Photograph taken by Thomas Edward Price in 1890-1910? Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 173 x 277 mm

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Levy, Samuel Abraham, active 1840s-1870s

Reference: E-106-f-051-2

Description: A view from across a river of a church, the vicerage and the tree where C S Volkner was hanged. Several canoes in the river in the foreground. Same image at E-372-f-007-1 An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 4 April 1865, page 4, refers to the display in Auckland of 'three pencilled views of Opotiki - the scene of the recent brutal murder of the Rec Mr C S Volkner ... The sketches have been taken by Mr S A Levy ...' Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 81 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 140 x 240 mm

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: E-574-005

Description: Designs of carving of an Opotiki pataka showing a frontal view of a male figure Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchpad, 200 x 123 mm.

Date: [ca 1965]

By: Opotiki Young Farmers Club

Reference: qMS-1609

Description: Comprises brief historical survey of the Opotiki area; discussion on boundaries; transport; agriculture in general and specifically - wheat, flax; education; maize; crops; topdressing and settlement; disease in relation to farming; milling; geology and recreation Quantity: 1 volume(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (34 cm; blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

Reference: E-372-f-041-1

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Captain Morris Levy Captain Levy, was on board his schooner, Eclipse, when Rev. C. D. S. Volkner was captured from it by Pai Marire Maori in 1865. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 98 x 78 mm

Date: 1951

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

Reference: E-731

Description: Includes pencil sketches of Waiotahi Beach Opotiki 21/12/57; Waihau Bay 24/12/57; pohutukawa near the guest house at Waihau Bay 25/12/57; [pohutukawa at] Waihau Bay 28/12/57; seagulls; Waihau Bay 2/1/58; Waihau Bay 4/1/58; above Long Bay Coromandel; north of Tapu 18/12/58; Kikowhakarere Xmas Eve 1958; Otaina Bay; Kuaotunu. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Croxley Li-Flat artist's sketch block, spiralbound with 23 leaves, each 190 x 275 mm.

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: [191-?]

Reference: PAColl-7294

Description: Photographs of a memorial in the church to Volkner consisting of three photographs and a biography; his communion vessels, a chalice and a plate; the exterior of St Stephen the Martyr; the pulpit in the church; and the Masonic Hotel with Newsham's Buildings near it, the corner of which can be seen in a photograph of St Stephen's in the memorial. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003162 to 003166 Quantity: 5 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: [ca 1930-1943]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-198

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, 1930s-1940s Churches at Hawera, Palmerston North, Opotiki, Te Aroha, Waipukurau, Nelson, Queenstown and Pararaka. Whangarei - Central Park/Mair Park, Mt Darby golf links, children playing in a dinghy at Matapouri, tennis courts. Russell - View of foreshore, and view from the hill with Achilles in port. Tauranga - Causeway between The Mount and Tauranga, pier at The Mount, Mission House. Palmerston North - Boys' High School and baths, View of North side of The Square. Napier - Harbour under construction, view from the hill looking south, The Esplanade showing gardens, children's play area and Sound Shell, National Tobacco Company, T & G Building, Government buildings in Shakespeare Street, Civic Square. Hastings - Poplar Avenue, Cornwall Park, W L C McLean's house Swarthmore at Havelock North with vineyard. Gisborne - Gladstone Road, aerial view of town, river view. Cambridge - Bowling green, BNZ building, clock tower & National Hotel (with caravans parked outside the hotel), etc New Plymouth - Aerial view of 72nd Annual A & P Show; Moturoa; ships in port. Invercargill - The Little Playhouse, Government buildings, Southland Museum, 1943. Also - Children from Kerikeri School leaving for a swim; Arawa Street, Matamata; Lake Drive, Hamilton; view of Lyell township; Burke's Pool, Opihi; Denniston township; Caroline Bay, Timaru; main Street, Winton; shipping at Bluff; Oban township, Stewart Island; view of Picton harbour from Hotel Terminus; Alexander Street, Te Awamutu; Arawa Street, Matamata; Wairoa from Te Uhi Hill; Art Gallery, Wanganui; view of wanganui from Aramono.. Quantity: 76 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1971-1972

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-843

Description: The journey begins at Palmerston North and includes Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and the Bay of Plenty. The van follows State Highway two with frequent deviations from it into various back block localities. Another section of the journey is from Wairoa to Taupo via Lake Waikaremoana and the Kaingaroa Forest. Children as library users and at some of the schools where the van stops are featured. There are a number of photos of the power houses at Kaitawa, Tuai, and Piripaua Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1844-1845

From: Petersen, George Conrad, 1900-1978 : Papers relating to a biography of William Colenso

Reference: 80-038-01

Description: Includes mss map of eastern Bay of Plenty coast and hinterland Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1944-1948

From: Ngata, Apirana Turupa (Sir), 1874-1950 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6919-0337

Description: File (c) - Contains materials such as resource reports and also accounts from a dairy company Includes a report on harvesting seaweed in the East Cape, Bay of Plenty and North Auckland Districts. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1911-1912

By: William Beattie & Company

Reference: PAColl-7346

Description: Postcards of the historic pulpit in the Church of St Stephen the Martyr, the interior of the church looking towards the altar, the Volkner memorial in the church, a reproduction of an earlier photograph of the church in use as a fort, a reproduction of an earlier photograph of the Martyr's Tree near Opotiki, and a reproduction of an earlier photograph of a group of men, some in partial uniform, with the church behind them. Photographed 1911-1912 by W Beattie & Co. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-003592, 003593, 003595, 003596, and 003602 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1926]

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

Reference: PA1-o-1053

Description: A motor tour in the North Island of New Zealand. The album opens at Napier City and includes views of places, bush scenery, rivers, lakes, and camps as the party moves through Hawke's Bay, the Gisborne Region, the Bay of Plenty, then across and into Taranaki via Mount Messenger and back to Wellington via New Plymouth and Wanganui. There are views of Wellington and Newtown Park during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York in 1926, Wellington Harbour, Haughton Bay, Porirua Hospital, and Khandallah Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1892-1910

By: Du Pontet, Eleanor Dorothy, 1892-

Reference: Micro-MS-0493

Description: Autobiography, chiefly to 1910; in Petone to 1895, Feilding to 1898, South Taranaki to 1902, then Opotiki Other Titles - The long years of youth Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (ca 183 pages). Physical Description: Positive microfilm

Date: 1952

Reference: PAColl-7242

Description: The premises in Ashburton of E Burrows and C J Redmonds; the premises in Balclutha next to a garage called Wilson Elliott; the premises in Clinton next to the agency for Dalgety & Co Ltd; the premises of the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd on Fenton Street, Rotorua next to Ernest Adolph's cycle shop; the site for a new building also in Rotorua; the premises in Wairoa; three views of the premises in Opotiki next to a garage or loading bay with a Capstan advertisement above the door; the branch in Dannevirke with two cars parked outside; the premises in Waimate with a plumbers next door; the warehouse premises next to a railway track in Invercargill; and a view over the Hastings District from the top of Havelock North hill looking east. Quantity: 13 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1865

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-051-1

Description: Head and shoulders frontal portrait of Captain Morris Levy Captain Levy, was on board his schooner, Eclipse, when Rev. C. D. S. Volkner was captured from it by Pai Marire Maori in 1865. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Volume 47, July 1865, p. 80 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 98 x 80 mm

Date: 1940 - 1990

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: E-574-004

Description: Designs of carving of an Opotiki pataka showing a frontal and side view of a figure Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchpad, 200 x 123 mm.