Ōhau

Date: 1876

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm); Buck, William Seldon, 1846-1919

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1876/Acc.6344

Description: Map with some survey markings of Ohau, Manawatu Kukutauaki no 4F, Waikawa, Waikawa River and Huritini. Shows an unnamed Crown grant near Takapu o kai Ngarara. Southernmost points on map are Waitohu government trig and Pukehou. Shows the site of Te Rauparaha's Pa adjoining the Waikawa River, and a pa on the Ohau River. Stamped 'Buck collection' on verso. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, part coloured, scale [1:15 840], 108.6 x 75.4 cm.

Date: 1898

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0890

Description: Shows longitudinal section, sections looking east and west and details of nave, vestry, chancel and porch Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Clere, Fitzgerald & Richmond. 22.6.98 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: 1835-1846

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MSZ-0081

Description: Folder of loose material removed from volume stored with it in phase box Contains a census of the Anglican Maori female population of the Kapiti and Horowhenua areas, with occasional notes about various individuals Arrangement: Boxed together with MSZ-0080, MSZ-0082, MSZ-0083, MSZ-0084, MSZ-0085, and MSZ-0085A-C (folders) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1849 - 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-015-3

Description: A night scene with a fire burning near a pataka. A lake and hills are to the right. Muhunoa is alongside the 38 m high knoll Ohau and this is likely to be the hill formation shown in the background Other Titles - Muhunoa Inscriptions: 'Waiwiri from Muhunea' inscribed on the album page, now discarded. The inscription can be seen in the photographic copy of the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 85 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Dorset, H W (Mrs), active 1977

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/[19--?]/Acc.36345

Description: Cadastral map of the Horowhenua Block including the Ohau and Horowhenua Rivers, Pakao Hakio and Lake Horowhenua. Ohau and Levin are marked and several roads and the railway line are included. Numbered sections include acreages, while some also indicate the number of names associated with that section. The name Hope is written adjacent to one section but outside of the block's boundaries. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, scale [1:63 360], 28.8 x 41 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs. H.W. Dorset, 30 March 1977

Date: 1951 - 1954

By: Manawatu Catchment Board and Regional Water Board; Evans, P G, active 1948; Sinclair, E M, active 1948-1967; Pirie, L W, active 1954

Reference: MapColl-832.43gbbd/1951/Acc.9705-9014

Description: The index map, Sheet N, of the scheme for the Lower Manawatu area begins at the mouth of the Manawatu River, reaching as far as Ashhurst and the Kiwitea Stream. The scheme for the Oroua River is also included from the junction near Rangiotu to the vicinity of Kiwitea Stream. Notes about stopbanks, boundaries, railways and classes of valuation are referred to in a key. An extensive valuation table, entitled Rate Yield of Zone Districts includes information about twelve disticts, their areas and capital value of classes. The eight sheets, numbered 1a to 8a, are enlargements of Sheet N showing rural properties adjacent to the rivers, which are divided into classes according to their valuation and referred to in a key. Each property is numbered and includes the owner's name and acreage. Notes on each sheet state that the maps were compiled from Valuation Rolls 3/12 to 3/24 and 1399, 1402, 1425, 1428, 1432, 1441-2, 1476, 1478. Includes named streets, State Highways 1, 12, 30 and 97 as well as the Main Trunk Railway Line and deviation near Longburn. Three amended maps on Sheet 9a are of parts of Sheets 1a. 2a. 5a. Manawatu Catchment Board Plan no. 1/80 has been crossed out on all maps and 514 inserted before copying Originals signed by P.G. Evans, Chief Engineer, 7/12/51, 16/12/52, 12/12/54. Sheet 9a is dated 12/12/54. It was drawn and traced by L.W. Pirie and checked by P.G. Evans. Scale on Sheet N is [1:63 360] and on Sheets 1a to 9a [1:15 840]. Quantity: 5 map(s) on ten sheets. The first map is the index map which details the layout of eight sheets comprising the second map. The remaining three amended maps are on the tenth sheet. Physical Description: Diazo print, linen backed, scales vary, 55.1 x 95.3 cm. and smaller, and 135 x 342 cm., sheets 76 x 93.5 cm.

Date: [ca 1910-1950s]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Papers and diaries

Reference: MSO-Papers-0261-10/18B

Description: Contents: 1942 annotated wall calendar; map showing place-names and occupation sites of Eastern Palliser Bay; diagrams of Maori artifacts found in Lake Horowhenua and from shore near Te Hou Pa; sketch of N-W part of Lake Horowhenua showing position of Mangaroa Pa etc; artifacts from Mangaroa Pa mound and adjacent swamps; sketch plan of former Kirikiri Kainga; map of North Island showing sites giving archeological evidence of the progressive migration of the ancient Wiataha from northern most New Zealand to Cook Strait; sketch of triangular adze from Titahi Bay, Porirua; map showing tribal and hapu areas of Horowhenua; map of Lake Horowhenua and environs showing Maori place names and sites; plan of Pipiriki Pa, Lake Horowhenua; sketch plan of Waipata Island Pa, Lake Horowhenua; map of Mangaroa Pa mound and environs; plan etc of Kikopiri whare-whakairo at Muhurioa West, near Ohau; Lake Papaitonga, Otaki showing place-names and sites; diagrams of Moawhango skull; tracing of Rimutaka Range and S-W hill system & Tararua Range showing major features and tramping data; maps, diagrams and plans of Hawkes Bay and Manawatu Gorge; diagrams, plans, sections of various Wellington and Wairarapa fault lines; map of lower course of Waianakaura River, N-E Otago; various geological maps of Tararua Ranges (including panorama from Te Paki, near Shannon); printed map showing survey districts of Otago Land District, and of Southland Land District; plan of subdivision of Te Rauawa Station at Ohau, 1920; sale notice for Kawiu Estate, Levin, Oct 1919 (owned by Lindsay McDonald; plan of Heatherlea Estate for auction sale, Sep 1918 (estate of late J R McDonald of Levin); map of New Zealand showing railways open for traffic, 1902; map showing Napier Harbour Board proposed inner harbour extension and reclamation areas, 1919; several maps showing physical configuration of Horowhenua in past times, 1910

Date: 1940 - 1942

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1876-1949 :[Drawings of Maori rafter patterns or kowhaiwhai] [1939?]-1947

By: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949

Reference: E-302-q-4

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Ohinemutu, Te Kuiti, Te Puke, Murupara, Putiki, Ohau, Rotorua, Ruatoria, Rotorua, Tokaanu. The first page is Godber's own ' Suggested design for a memorial archway at a bridge", using kowhaiwhai patterns for decoration. Presumed to have been done from 1940 to 1942. The first image is dated 23.7.40 and the last is dated 25.5.42 Quantity: 33 watercolour(s) on 11 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1950

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

Reference: Plans-91-2407/2408

Description: Plans for the YMCA Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprints

Date: 1939

By: New Zealand. Fisheries Research Division

Reference: PAColl-2206

Description: Most images show derelict sawmills in the Marlborough, Hawkes Bay and Horowhenua districts. One series of negatives relates to the burning of a hulk on Ward Island - possibly the William Manson which was beached and set on fire 25 May 1939 Arrangement: Negatives accessioned at 1/4-22616-F to 1/4-22662-F Quantity: 46 b&w original negative(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: film negatives

Date: ca 1870

By: Dalton, Muriel, active 1975-1999

Reference: PAColl-3221

Description: Include views of Wellington City streets, public buildings, churches, Karori Reservoir, and botanic gardens; Petone Woollen Mills, Hutt River and bush scenes; and the Ohau railway bridge Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Both 25x16 cm, maroon board covers with title "Views in and around Wellington" in gold lettering. In green slip cases. Finding Aids: Indexed in Photographic Archive album index.

Date: 1898

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0891

Description: Shows south, east and west elevation and details of wrought iron cross Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Clere, Fitzgerald & Richmond. 22.6.98 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing

Date: [1940-1944]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-18

Description: Contents comprise scheme of classification of Horowhenua and other adzes; examples of types and varieties of this classification; adze types VIB, IIA, IIIA, IA or IIIA, IIB all found in the Horowhenua area; locality plan of Muhunoa East adzes and other data; adze, type VB, from Kingstone Rd, Shannon and locality plan; adze, type IB, from gravel plain east of Levin and locality plan; type VA, from Queens Street East, Levin and type IIA from dunes north of Lake Papaitonga and locality plan; adzes, type VIB from sandstone upland north of Papaitonga, type IIIA from Muhunoa East, Ohau, and VA from Tahapu Rd, Manakau Arrangement: Notebook no 1 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-015

Description: Four sketches of travel by mail-coach and its perils. The coach and four horses negotiating a steep gorge road cut into a cliff-face (possibly Ngauranga or Ngaio Gorge although it is named Waikakariki, not a current name); the four horses balking at a stream; the driver urging the horses on; the coach and horses proceeding along the beach at speed. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm

Date: [1925-1929]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-086

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes history of the post office at Ohau up to 1925; notes on railway management; circulars re the Labour Party for Reform Party candidates circulated by the New Zealand Welfare League; letters from the Minister of Railways re proposals to extend services in the North Island and on change to train timetable; employment request; notes by Field on political meeting of Waite at Lawrence from `Otago daily times'; mental hospital staff rates of pay; speech, A D McLeod on land settlement; heavily annotated clippings on the state of the nation from the Prime Minister's address; various notes etc relating to the election; notes on various political meetings including those of Dyson and Sievewright and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1845-1846

From: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Wellington Diocese : Central and parish records

Reference: MSZ-0080

Description: Contains a census of the Anglican Māori male population of the Kapiti and Horowhenua areas, with occasional notes about various individuals. Also includes some Tainui whakapapa at the back. Ngāti Te Upokoiri is written as a hapū of Ngāti Raukawa. This is possibly an error and should be recorded as Ngāti Te Upokoiti. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Boxed together with MSZ-0081, MSZ-0082, MSZ-0083, MSZ-0084, MSZ-0085, and folders MSZ-0085A, MSZ-0085B and MSZ-0085C Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-B-CATTLE-Dairy-1940/1949

Description: Includes: 1948: Dispersal of Springdale jerseys. Vendor Mr H Wilson. On the farm, Wilson's Road, Hastings. 1 June 1948. Catalogue 1949: Combined sale of Allandale, Springdale, Ypres jerseys to be held at Palmerston North Showgrounds, 25 May 1949. Vendors Messrs A Horn & Sons, Messrs J Horn, Messrs H Wilson. Catalogue Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and booklets, sizes up to 330 mm.

Date: 2000-2007

From: Maclean, Elizabeth Susan, 1932-2011 : Research papers relating to Frederick de Jersey Clere

Reference: MS-Papers-11828-18

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 10 Dec 2005 - 17 Dec 2005

From: Otaki District Commercial Gardeners Society oral history project

By: Young, Kee Sun, 1927-

Reference: OHInt-0819/08

Description: Interview with Kee Sun Young, born Kong Wu village, Guangzhou, China, 5 February 1927. Mentions his grandfather had come to New Zealand as a gold miner, but returned in 1926 and sent his father in his place. Comments that his father lived mainly in New Zealand and they did not meet until he was five years old. Discusses how his family became refugees in Vietnam when the Japanese army invaded southern China. Refers to his father being a market gardener at Ohau, and sending for him when he was 13. Mentions starting school in New Zealand in a small class of Chinese students learning English. Describes the primitive living conditions in a hut without electricity. Mentions working for his father after leaving school and then for a fruiterer in Lower Hutt, until he bought out an uncle's share in a fruit shop in Hataitai when he was 18. Comments on learning from a letter in 1946 that he was married by proxy, arranged by his grandfather. Refers to buying a shop in Nelson, becoming naturalised in 1958, and then returning to China in 1959 to meet his wife for the first time and bring her back. Describes becoming a market gardener in Te Horo in 1961, the crops grown, the land he bought, and employing new migrants. Discusses transporting produce, the tractors and other machinery used for field crops, pest control, and the role of his sons continuing market gardening. Refers to joining the Otaki District Commercial Gardeners Society when he began gardening because its store was convenient and efficient. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015219, OHC-015220 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 2. 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5505 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Colour portrait, taken outdoors Search dates: 1927 - 2005

Date: 1990

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

By: Hurst, Tony (Dr), active 1967-2016

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1990-01

Description: Programme for a horse racing event held near Levin. Includes a photograph of Don Murray, Commander in Chief and Host of the Racing Chariots Carnival. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 212 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Tony Hurst, Wellington, in 2016