Mokai

Date: 1883

From: Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0189-B032

Description: Contains whakapapa from Wanganui and Wairarapa, whakatauki, waiata and narratives of conflicts involving Wairarapa hapu Enclosures - 1 portrait at beginning of book as well as 3 loose leaf pages with the letterhead `Fairbairn's New Occidental Hotel, Wellington' which contains whakapapa `na Paora Poihipi' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (23 cm; marbled boards)

Date: 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-5

Description: Kowhaiwhai patterns from a range of named sources, including Arawa, Taumarunui, Ranana (Whanganui River), Rotoiti, Ngaruawahia, Mokai, Tuparoa, Tikitiki Church. The date 28/5/42 appears in the inside front cover. On analogy with volume 4, this is probably the date of starting volume 5. Quantity: 23 watercolour(s) on 9 pages. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1950 - 1979

By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002; Farmer-Lee, E, active 1970s

Reference: E-615

Description: Includes photographs of drawings of buildings made for his book "Patterns of the past; some historic New Zealand buildings" (1977). Also includes photographs of eight portrait drawings of heads and nudes. The buildings featured in the drawings are (from North): St John's Church Waimate North; Stone store and mission house Kerikeri; Mansion house Kawau; Ferry Building Quay Street Auckland; Chief Post office Auckland; Jewish Synagogue Auckland; Melanesian Mission Museum Mission Bay; Ewelme Cottage Parnell Auckland; Old wooden buildings Victoria Street Auckland; "Alberton" Mt Albert Road Auckland; Mokai ghost town near Taupo; General Assembly Library and Parliament Buildings Wellington; Provincial Council Chambers Christchurch; Provincial Council Buildings - Bellamy's; Langlois-Eteveneaux Cottage Akaroa; Holme Station homestead South Canterbury; Lighthouse Timaru; Springdale historic farm buildings south of Timaru; St Augustine Church of England Waimate; Railway Station Dunedin; Corner of Cumberland and Dundas Streets Dunedin; Law Courts Dunedin; Terrace houses Stuart Street Dunedin; Buckingham Street Arrowtown; Sunderland Street Clyde. There are also three unidentified drawings (E-615-034/036). Also includes three photographs of paintings by E Farmer-Lee: "Feisal's Night Camp", "The Estuary", and Approaching dusk, Denmark, 1972" (E-615-037/039). Quantity: 39 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, sizes varying up to 95 x 130 mm. Provenance: From the estate of Owen R Lee. Transfers: Negatives for these photographic prints, acquired at the same time, are housed in the Photographic Archive..

Date: 1985

From: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 :[Christmas and greetings cards from the Fleming family, and preparatory montages and sketches. 1951-1986].

By: Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987; Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: A-304-024/025

Description: Shows panels relating to Charles Fleming's "Science, settlers and scholars", marae at Mokai, Chatham Islands fauna, Mount Bruce (a takahe), Nga Manu Trust, Monet loan exhibition, terns, a wading bird at Upper Waitaki catchment, Palliser Bay trip. Quantity: 14 drawing(s) and 10 pieces lettering stuck on cardboard.. 12 drawing(s) (both ink and photocopied), and 3 pieces lettering, in envelope.. Physical Description: Ink drawings, black and white, mounted on card, 290 x 415 mm. Loose drawings and photocopies measure from 56 x 70 mm, to 122 x 163 mm. Provenance: Donated by Lady Margaret (Peg) Fleming of Wadestown, in 1993.

Date: 27 May 1988

By: Bajko, Michael Fulton, active 1988

Reference: MS-Papers-11095

Description: Letter, addressed to `All Maori people concerned in the Mokai area', concerning a taonga held by the National Museum which was found by Michael's grandfather James Edward Fulton in 1903 while constructing the railway for the Taupo Totara Timber Company Ltd which ran between Mokai and Putaruru. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Michael Bajko, c/- National Film Unit, Lower Hutt, 1988

Date: 22 Feb 2007

From: Civilian life in New Zealand during the Second World War oral history project

By: Prain, Margaret Elizabeth, 1923-2015

Reference: OHInt-0980-13

Description: Interview with Margaret Prain (nee Clark), born in Mokai in 1923. Talks about her family background and growing up in a timber milling area that was subject to earthquakes. Recalls playing at the mill where her father was manager, fishing for trout using tadpoles and playing in the bush. Refers to the wood/coal range in the kitchen, food sources and cooking, and learning to sew. Mentions learning to play the piano, guitar and mouth organ. Comments on going to school with Maori and Chinese children at Mokai. Talks about her father having the only car in the area and taking people to Rotorua Hospital in emergencies. Discusses boarding at Hamilton High School. Mentions she could not understand her brother Donald signing up for war and refers to his farewell party at the community hall. Outlines his war experience - being found wounded by Germans, his German captors being overtaken by British forces, joining the British Army, training as an engineer and returning to Egypt. Explains young people were encouraged to work in essential services and putting her name down for nursing. Describes her training [entry Sept 1942] at Waikato Hospital, living in, and joining the Nurses' Christian Union. Describes the shocking injuries she saw and the state of care of the New Zealand soldiers in the hospital. Explains the nurses were trained to evacuate patients in case of invasion. Recalls a polio epidemic when the hospital was overloaded and tents were erected on the lawn. Mentions the Home Guard and blackout curtains. Describes meeting Ron Knap before her nursing training, getting engaged before he went away, and his being shot down soon after. Comments on her faith helping her when she got the news and feeling a sense of purpose in her nursing. Refers to meeting her first husband Harry while she was training and he had just been cleared of TB (tuberculosis). Mentions marrying at the end of the war, buying a shop in Ngaruawahia and then a shoe shop in Remuera. Describes how Harry became very ill and died of TB in 1950. Talks about later training as an occupational nurse, meeting her cousin Peter Prain, marrying [in 1952], and stopping work after a year to start a family. Comments that after Peter's death [in 1972] she returned to working in hospitals again, becoming hostel supervisor at Christchurch Women's Hospital. Reflects on the lasting effects of the war on her feelings about life and conflict and the importance of her faith. Abstracted by - Erin Flanigan Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-022558 - OHC-022560 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7336. Photocopy(?) of a black and white photograph of Margaret Prain in her nurse's uniform (1942); printout of a colour photograph of Margaret (2007) Search dates: 1923 - 2007

Date: 22 Sep 1984

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Henshaw, Eric Ivan, 1903-1999

Reference: OHInt-0470/14

Description: Eric Henshaw was born in 1903 and spent his childhood in Rotorua. His wife was a Mathews from Ngongotaha. Recalls some aspects of his early life, including the Palace Hotel and the Government Gardens. Focuses on his building in the Putaruru area. Recalls building the workmen's cottages and huts at Maroa and the mill at Mokai. Describes hand sawing the heavy timber. Interviewer(s) - Philip Andrews Quantity: 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2862.

Date: Between 1900 and 1920

From: Brown, Thomas Watson, 1878-1947 :Photograph albums relating to New Zealanders in the South African War and of New Zealand scenes

By: New Zealand. Tourism Department; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923

Reference: PA1-o-075

Description: Album belonging to T W (Thomas Watson) Brown. Scenes around New Zealand, many probably taken by Brown, some taken by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, and some of Lake Te Anau, Lake Wakatipu, and Milford Sound taken by FGR (Frederick George Radcliffe). The first part of the album is mainly images of tramping, camping and hunting in the Orongorongo Range and the Rimutakas, with some of the people identified, including Roley Neale and W A Neale (William Augustus Neale). Other sequences of images are a number in and around Lake Waikaremoana, including several of men fishing showing their catches; climbing in the Tongariro National Park area; views of the small towns Mohaka, Mataatua; areas around Titirangi, Kawau, Hamilton and Tauranga. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - TW Brown Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red covered album, lettered in white ink "Photographs. T.W. Brown", 240 x 305 mm

Date: 1948

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to history, jubilees, centennials, anniversary celebrations in New Zealand]

By: Dalrymple, Kenneth Waring, 1875-1957

Reference: Eph-A-HISTORY-1948-01

Description: Programme for an event conducted by Bishop Bennett, featuring a Maori welcome a resume of Colenso's life by G C Peterson, a tree planting by Bishop Bennett and Colenso's descendants, and a hymn by a Maori choir. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - K W Dalrymple, Waitotopua [?] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded pamphlet, 210 x 134 mm. Transfers: From Book Collections - Donation taken as a whole in NZ & P, transfers made from there..

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1905

From: Hughes, R (Mrs) : Photographs of Rotorua district

Reference: PAColl-4647-4

Description: Two steam locomotives on parallel railway lines in the bush near Mokai with the engine drivers and others standing next to them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 13.1 x 17.8 cm

Date: August-September 1989

From: Electricity Corporation of New Zealand: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1243

Description: Colour proof sheets showing power stations, dams, and surrounding areas, as well as other images related to electric power production in New Zealand. Includes several panoramic views of Wairakei power station and geothermal field, and Aratiatia power station and rapids, interior views of Wairakei and Ohaaki power stations, and views of silica clearance at Wairakei, workers at Te Mihi geothermal field, the prawn farm at Wairakei (using waste geothermal heat), Mokai geothermal field, and 'Craters of the Moon' geothermal area. Either numbers 1233-1242 are missing or the sheets have been misnumbered, as the previous album finished at number 1232. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 album(s) 28 sheets. Physical Description: A4-sized black PVC-covered ringbinder containing plastic pockets holding colour photographic proof sheets. Top right front cover and spine have labels with sheet numbers; spine also has a label indicating colour prints ('COL').

Date: [between 1895 and 1915]

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

Reference: PAColl-6056-05

Description: Photographs taken between1895 and 1915 of Māori people, whare whakairo, meeting houses and communities, along with a variety of carved taonga such as poupou and rock art from across New Zealand. Also includes postcards of people and places photographed in different locations. Some of the prints are annotated on the reverse. Three prints have images of kōiwi - human remains. Kōiwi (human remains) visible at PAColl-6056-05-05, 06, and 24. Title supplied by Library. Hei whakamōhio: He whakaahua o ngā kōiwi tangata i roto i tēnēi taonga. Please be aware this object contains images of human remains. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s).

Reference: 1/2-112223-F

Description: Two cooks posing by tables set for a meal, in a timber camp dining room, Mokai. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: February 1923

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1262-1/4-F

Description: A Heisler locomotive owned by the Taupo Totara Timber Company on the way to Mokai. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in February 1923. This film negative is copied from the print in Godber Album Vol 109, p 180 (PA1-q-102), which includes the inscription "On the way to Mokai. TTT.Co. 2/23". Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - On the way to Mokai. TTT. Co. 2/23 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 8.0 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1937

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

By: Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: MNZ-0068-1/4-F

Description: A locomotive owned by the Taupo Totara Timber Company, hauling logs through the bush on a timber mill at Mokai in the North Island. Photograph taken in 1937 by a staff photographer for the Weekly News. Other - Published in `Making New Zealand' Vol 2, No 17, page 22 Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads `TTT Mokai 1937' Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Photograph from the Weekly News for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).

Date: between 1904-1905

From: Young, L R, fl 1972 :Photographs, including ones of Great Barrier Island and the timber industry

Reference: PAColl-5521-02

Description: Taupo Totara Timber Company's vertical boiler, lidgerwood log hauler, with three workmen alongside. Taken by an unidentified photographer, at Mokai between 1904 and 1905. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: February 1923

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-2006-1/2-G

Description: View overlooking the Mokai timber mill owned by the Taupo Totara Timber Company. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in February 1923. Dated from an original print from this negative, filed in Godber Album Vol 109, p 182 (PA1-q-102), with the inscription "Mokai Mills. TTT Co. 2/23" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1942

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

Reference: E-302-q-5-149/151

Description: Each panel is named in the line above it. Patterns are in red, black and white. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1942

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

Reference: E-302-q-5-144/146

Description: Each panel is named in the line above it. Patterns are in red, black and white. According to a slip of paper inside sketchbook 6, Design number 146 is of a poupou. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 248 x 310 mm in sketchbook