Manakau

By: Clark, Garry Trevor, active 1981-1984

Reference: PAColl-5506

Description: Photographs of early Manakau. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-057397 to 057412 Quantity: 16 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives

Date: 1920 - 1924

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-1920/1924

Description: Includes: 1920: J Bateson & Son, Townbelt Nursery, Hamilton East. General catalogue 1920. ca 1920: Frankish Bros & Co. Ltd, seedsmen & nurserymen, Wanganui. General seed catalogue [ca 1920?] 1920: D Hay & Son, Montpellier Nurseries Auckland. Importers, raisers and distributors of new and rare fruits, etc. etc. Supplementary catalogue 1920. 1920: Thos Horton Ltd, Premier Nurseries, Hastings. General catalogue of Horton's pedigree fruit trees, ornamental plants, shade trees, rhododendrons, etc. [1920] 1920: Palmerston North Associated Nurserymen's price-list of select bedding & other plants, obtainable from: A C Bradfield; Hepburn & Turner; P D Henderson; Mrs J Imrie; A W Just; W V Kingsbeer; Nairn & Nairn; A J Shailer. 1920. ca 1920: Reliance Seed Store (R A Nicol, Wellington). Hints on gardening [ca 1920] 1921: B H Just Botanical Nurseries, Palmerston North. 1921 cash price list 1921: W E Lippiatt, Otahuhu, Auckland. Roses and citrus trees, etc. General catalogue. Season 1921 1921: New Zealand Farmers Co-operative Association of Canterbury Limited. Co-op seed guide 1921 1921: A J Shailer, nurseryman, Scandia St., Palmerston North. Trade register. Summer edition December 1921. [Inside entitled] Duncan & Davies Ltd summer list 1921: T Waugh & Son, Hutt Valley Nurseries, Lower Hutt. Waugh's roses and carnations. 1921 1922: J N Anderson & Son Ltd, Napier. Anderson's general catalogue, 1922-23 1922: J M Baxter, Christchurch. Descriptive catalogue of native trees, shrubs and plants. Season 1922. 1922: W Bayliss & Son. New and rare daffodils and general bulb catalogue. Season 1922-23 1922: Christchurch Nursery Co. Roses, fruit trees etc grown for sale by the Christchurch Nursery Co., premier rose growers. 1922 1922: F Cooper Ltd. Wellington. Seed catalogue season 1922 1922: F Cooper Ltd. Cooper's catalogue of trees, plants, shrubs, etc. Season 1922 1922: W E Lippiatt, Otahuhu, Auckland. Catalogue of roses and citrus trees, etc. 1922 1922: Gilbert J Mackay, seedsman and florist, 98 Queen Street Auckland. Mackay's autumn list of sweet peas, flowering bulbs, etc. 1922 1922: C C Rasmussen's catalogue of roses, carnations, ornamental, fruit, hedge and shelter trees, etc. Constantia Nursery, Lewis Avenue, Aramoho, Wanganui. 1922 1923: J N Anderson & Son Ltd. Anderson's select bulbs, 1923-24 1923?: J Bateson & Son, Waikato's premier nurseries, Hamilton East. General catalogue [1923?] 1923: W Bayliss & Son, Brnydwr Nurseries, Jeffrey's Road, Fendalton, Christchurch. Descriptive catalogue of the best and most up-to-date collection of chrysanthemums, carnations, roses, flowering shrubs, cactus, dahlias & fruit trees. Season 1923. 1923: Benefield & Sons, Aramoho Nurseries, Wanganui. Rose & general catalogue [1923] 1923: F Cooper Ltd, Wellington. Seed catalogue, season 1923. 1923: J Johnston & Son, Bella Vista Nursery, Jervois Road, Ponsonby, Auckland. General catalogue [1923] 1923: B H Just, botanical nurseries Palmerston North. 1923 cash price list of fruit trees and shrubs, forest trees, flowering trees and shrubs, hedge trees and plants, etc 1923: W E Lippiatt, Otahuhu. Novelties of 1923 1923: Gilbert J Mackay, seedsman and florist, Nurseries near Royal Oak, Onehunga. Mackay's catalogue. Fruit, shelter and ornamental trees, hedge plants, roses, etc. [1923] 1923: C C Rasmussen's catalogue of roses, carnations, ornamental, fruit, hedge and shelter trees, etc. Constantia Nursery, Lewis Avenue, Aramoho, Wanganui. 1923. 1924: A W Buxton Ltd. Buxton's 1924-25 seed list. 1924: Evans & Sawyer, carnation specialists, Manakau. trade list for season 1924. Perpetual flowering carnations and dianthus 1924: Thos Horton Ltd Premier Nurseries, Hastings and Pahiatua. Selected Premier roses, premier trees. [1924] 1924: Ivorys Ltd, Christchurch. Ivory's double-vigour trees for orchard, garden and forest. [1924] 1924: J Johnston & Sons, Ponsonby Auckland, nurserymen. 1924 trade list 1924: W E Lippiatt, Otahuhu, Auckland. Catalogue of roses and citrus trees [1924] 1924: Frank Mason, rose specialist, Sandon Road, Feilding. Descriptive catalogue and guide to roses, carnations and other plants. 1924 1924: C C Rasmussen's catalogue of roses, carnations, ornamental, hedge, shelter and fruit trees, etc. Constantia Nursery, Lewis Avenue, Aramoho, Wanganui. 1924 (2 copies) 1924: T Waugh & Son, Hutt Valley Nurseries, Lower Hutt. [General advertising booklet, prepared for the Wellington Winter Show 1924] Quantity: 38 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 220 x 150 mm.

Date: Ca 22 August 1981

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Giblin, Ross, active 1980s-2000s

Reference: EP/1981/2872-F

Description: Sid Desborough pruning Sydney, a kiwifruit plant on his property at Summerlands, north of Manakau. Photographs taken ca 22 August 1981 by Evening Post staff photographer Ross Giblin. Sid Desborough pioneered kiwifruit cultivation in Horowhenua. He began planting at Summerland ca 1974, and named his first plants after people working at the orchard at the time. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1892-1915

From: John Martin, Solicitors of Edinburgh : New Zealand letters

Reference: MS-Papers-6509-04

Description: Letters, wills and other papers relating to the Hewitt family trust fund, financial and land matters. The name is occasionally spelled Hewett. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: circa 1890-1910

From: Shaw, G W :Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna

By: Wilson, Alex R, active 1900s; Shaw, Helen M G, active 1976

Reference: PA1-q-269

Description: Photographs of and relating to the Wilson family ex Eketahuna. William M Wilson was born in Glasgow in 1868, coming to New Zealand when 8 years of age. He was apprenticed to John Fitchett, coach builder in Wellington, then with other firms including Rouse & Hurrell. He was employed by Wilfred Woolf in Eketahuna in 1894, and subsequently bought his business, and entered the firm of Kibblewhite and Wilson. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Wellington Provincial District, Eketahuna. Includes dwellings; carriages; group outings and portraits; 1 of the Club Hotel of F D Pelling; 3 of the Ryan family at Tawa Flat; 1 of a house at Island Bay, 1 of a thatched whare at Plimmerton, a Ghuznee St boarding house; 2 relating to the Burnett family; 2 scenes in Manakau; 1 of D A Greenlees store; 2 of Rarotanga; 2 relating to the business of Lyon & Blair, steam printers and lithographers; 1 of a group outside a house in Eastbourne; 3 relating to the Manson family; 1 of a military camp in New Zealand in preparation for the South African War. Also includes a pocket on the inside back cover containing newspaper clippings, and a photocopy of a letter written by the donor Mrs Helen M G Shaw, which gives some information about the album. Inscriptions: Album page - Alex R Wilson, Central Terrace, Kelburne, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark brown cover; 28.5 x 20.5 cm

Date: [1894-1900?]

From: Denton, Frank J, 1869-1963 :Collection of negatives, prints and albums

Reference: PA1-o-132

Description: Photographs, chiefly of the Wellington area, probably taken by Frank J Denton. A number show the house `Fernhill' in Woolcombe Street (now part of The Terrace), Wellington, views from the house and its gardens. Portraits in clude Laurie Denton, Tom Tolley (locksmith), Alfred Bennett and his family, Mrs Denton Snr, Mrs Waters (had a grocery shop in Dixon Street), G L Adkin (as a boy), Miss Dixon (of the aerated water family, the Dixons of Dixon Street), George Butler (artist), and Beaglehole (David Ernest Beaglehole, father of Professor Ernest Beaglehole, and Professor John Cawte Beaglehole). Also includes photograph of a portrait painted by George Edmund Butler of his father Joseph Cawte Butler (maternal grandfather of John Cawte Beaglehole). Other Titles - Wellington I Album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cover decorated with painted leaves, 22 x 26 cm

Date: 1936 - 1946

By: P Burns & Company

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Burns

Description: Mail order catalogues listing gladioli for sale. Years held are: 1936?, 1946 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 245 x 190 mm.

Date: 1890-1905

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

Reference: MS-Papers-1925-76/1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1985 - 1987

By: Pukehou Nurseries (Manakau, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Pukehou

Description: Lists flower plants for sale. Quantity: 3 catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets of approximately 10 typescript pages, each page 297 x 213 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Donal Duthie, Wellington, in 2005.

Date: 1894

By: Clere & Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0794

Description: Plans for a proposed church at a small settlement north of Otaki, lower North Island Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 457 x 627 mm Provenance: Presented, 1962 by Mr E H Clere

Date: 4 October 1986

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: EP/1986/4740

Description: Floodwater around railway tracks on the main trunk line north of Manakau, between Otaki and Levin. Photographed 4 October 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1894

By: Clere & Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1011

Description: Details of west, south and east elevations and seating and prayer desk plan Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Clere & Richmond Diocesan Architects. 31.5.94; Recto - bottom centre - Approved by the Diocesan Trustee Chas. Powles28.6.94, Digby H Jenkins, vicar, Charles Nees, contractor. dated and signed 22nd September 1894. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on grey linen paper

Date: 1945

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

By: Crichton McKay & Haughton (Firm)

Reference: Plans-91-1745/1748

Description: Shows location plan, site plan, details of lavatory block and stainless steel wash troughs. Quantity: 4 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints, and pencil drawings on tracing paper, sizes varying

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: 1980 - 1990

By: Matthews Nursery (Manakau, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-HORTICULTURE-Matthews

Description: Mail order catalogues listing plants for sale, from this nursery which specialised in proteas and other South African, Australian and unusual plants (proteas, banksias, ericas, leucadendrons, leucospermums, aulax, serrurias, melaleucas, isopogons, waratahs, kunzeas, eucalypts, boronias, thryptomenes, etc) Years held are: 1980 (2 copies), 1981, 1982 (2 copies), 1983, 1984 (2 copies), 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990. Quantity: 10 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklets, each around 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1894-1902

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

Reference: MSY-1293

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 2006-2007

From: La Plante, Steven, fl 2001-2015: Photographs of war memorials

Reference: PAColl-10421-03

Description: Photographic prints showing war memorials, chiefly for WWI and WWII, in various localities in the North Island. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s) (Resin coated silver gelatin prints).

Date: 1931

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-142

Description: Shows a road with grass and trees on either side, including pine trees. The Tararua Range is visible in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 135 x 120 mm

Date: 19 Jan 2006

From: Otaki District Commercial Gardeners Society oral history project

By: Corlett, Bruce Alan, 1962-

Reference: OHInt-0819/02

Description: Interview with Bruce Alan Corlett born Palmerston North, 26 April 1962. Mentions his father Selwyn and mother Marlene are both still living on the family farm. Refers to marrying his wife Debbie and their two children Melissa and Nathan, and mentions that he will not encourage his son to follow him in the business. Describes how his grandfather began the dairy farm in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Discusses how he decided to continue the family farm with more intensive land use, although some dairying continued until his father retired. Outlines building glasshouses and growing tomatoes, and discusses heating the glasshouses to extend the growing season. Mentions gradual deterioration of the soil in the glasshouses and trying other culture media, eventually using hydroponics. Describes growing other crops outside, and propagating their own seedlings. Discusses switching from tomatoes to growing lettuce hydroponically year-round. Refers to packaging and transport of produce, and pest control. Outlines the long hours he worked, especially in the early days of growing. Discusses the Otaki District Commercial Gardeners Society and mentions that it has now declined in importance. Talks about the future of market gardening and the difficulty for young people to get started. Interviewer(s) - Anne Thorpe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015209, OHC-015210 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1. 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5499 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. Search dates: 1962 - 2006

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Dalzall, Walter, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1763-F

Description: Panoramic view of a single-storeyed wooden house on the right. Three people are standing by a car parked in the drive to the left of the entrance. Return verandah around the right corner with wide bays on either side. Low hedge outside a fence bordering the lawn, some garden around the house. Haystack to the left of the house. Manakau township on the left of the image including the Manakau Hotel on the far left. Cleared hills in the left background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Dalzal [i.e. Dalzell] Manakau Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 117.2 cm