Manutahi

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Airey, W F (Mr), active 1969

Reference: PAColl-7613

Description: Photographs of a road through the Manutahi area, a house in Patea, buildings in a Patea Street, and Waitotara Pa, taken ca 1870s-1880s by unidentified photographers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: Donated by Mr W F Airey, Lower Hutt, 1969

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-056/057

Description: Shows men on horseback ranging of hillside at left foreground, a stand of bush in right foreground, overlooking a plain, with Mount Taranaki in centre distance. Title found on page [55] of diary. Previously given the title ["Military on horses. Taranaki. Mt Egmont in background. 1864-1866]. See similar view, painted 15 March 1865, at E-510-052/053. Other Titles - Military on horses. Taranaki. Mount Egmont. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - bottom right - Major Brooke R.E.; Capt Betty R.A., Lt Campbell R.A.; Sergt Phillips, R.A. and self According to Williams' diary notes for 14 March (page 45), the army moved to Pa Manutahi on that day, and on 17 March on page [50], "in the afternoon rode out with Betty, Brooke, Campbell and Sergt Phillips to a point a mile in advance of the outposts and got a sketch looking towards Mt Egmont". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1866-1869

By: New Zealand. Army. Taranaki Military Settlers

Reference: qMS-1434

Description: The camp orders are dated at Manawapou, Hawera, Patea, and Ketemarae, and have been authorised by A G Smith, H P Chapman and others. Also contains a report on the Carlyle Rifle Volunteers, fatigue duty list of the Manutahi settlers, and list of return of arms and accoutrements from members of the NZ Cavalry. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (83 pages). Physical Description: Mss (32 cm; ½ brown calf, brown boards, in brown box)

Date: 16 Jan-23 Nov 1898

From: Hirst family : Letters

Reference: MS-Papers-5507-02

Description: Letters written from New Plymouth, The Terrace (New Plymouth), Waipuna (Manutahi) and Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: MapColl-Cowan-family-02/Acc.55467

Description: Plan with the following features labelled: Track to Manutahi etc.; Gully and stream; Dense heavy bush; To Sentry Hill about one mile; Trench; Palisade; Grass and light fern; Escape gallery; Firing gallery; Inner palisade; Outer palisade; and similar. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Photographed [stamped]; Recto - top right - Cowan for block Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink and pencil on tracing linen, with pasted typescript labels, 21.5 x 23 cm. Transfers: From MS-Papers-11946-201..

Date: 1930

By: Rupe, Tuhikaka, active 1930-1931

Reference: qMS-1733

Description: Includes a draft for, or copy of transfer of land between Roy Corkhill and a number of Maori. At head of page is `Ngatihawe grant 3954'. On verso of front cover is `Tuhikaka Rupe, Manutahi Paa 11th Oketopa 1930'. Also includes Whanganui whakapapa and other whakapapa Language - Mainly in Maori Variations in title - Spine title: Journal Tuhikaka Rupe was appointed a member of the District of Taranaki Maori Council in August 1931 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (192 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33 cm; ¼ tan cloth, brown boards)

Date: 1862-1892

By: Parsons, John, active 1852-1868

Reference: MS-Papers-1856

Description: Letters to brother-in-law, J Adams, in Nottingham, chiefly on family matters and daily farm life, with some comments on ploitics Source of title - Supplied J Parsons arrived from England in 1862, farmed at Woodlands, Hawke's Bay, and from 1882 at Manutahi, Taranaki Quantity: 1 folder(s) (39 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcripts (photocopies)

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-052/053

Description: Shows military camp with huts, on raised ground in left foreground. Landscape slopes away towards plain in background, centred around the distant peak of Mount Taranaki. There are flax bushes in the left foreground. See similar view painted 17 March 1865, at E-510-056/057. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] According to diary notes on page [45], the army moved to Manutahi Pa on 14 March 1865: 14 [Mar]. Packed up, struck tents 8 1/2 a.m. Marched 10 1/2 - and passing 2 gullies in a belt of bush came in sight of Pa Manutahi about 3 - Men entered and advanced, but no signs of life & we took peaceable possession, looting wharies and getting a few pigeon spears, mats, and plenty of potatoes - Went out and shot a pig and stabbed another & appropriated lots of potatoes... Page [48] 15 March - Out at daybreak 5 a.m. with Murant [?] and Betty but nothing stirring - rode out again after breakfast & reconnoitred - shot a pig with my revolver from horseback while the foraging parties are busy carrying off green crops and destroying - nothing doing in the afternoon - threw 2 light balls and 2 rockets for experiment at 8 [...] p.m. Whist & bed. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: [between 1856-1889]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/4-008455-G

Description: Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Identified by a researcher as probably Isabella Rennie Brandt Peacock (neé Stephen) and her only daughter Amy Isabel born in 1878. Isabella’s husband was Hector Stephen Peacock of Manutahi who was a farmer and cattle breeder. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches