Aorangi Range

Date: 1878

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-034-2

Description: A view of the Mt Aorangi from Featherston, with bush clad area in foreground Other Titles - Featherston. October Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - Mt Aorangi from Featherstone. Oct 1878 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 177 x 246 mm

Date: 1912-1913

From: Girdlestone, Hubert Earle, 1879-1918 : Albums relating to surveying, tramping and climbing

Reference: PA1-o-1223

Description: There are three general groups of images in this album. The first records a holiday to the Volcanic Plateau, taken by a group of men over Christmas 1912, where they climbed Mounts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The story starts with the group outside the 14 miles stables where they hired a wagon to transport them into the mountains. The route they took was from the north eastern side of Ruapehu to the Waihohonu Hut situated between Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. They climbed Te Heu Heu Peak and then trekked across the snow to the Crater Lake returning to Waihohonu Hut and a dip in the Waihohonu Stream. The next day they set out for Mounts Ngarauhoe and Tongariro. They paused at the source of the northern branch of the Waihohonu Stream on their way to climb to the crater of Ngarauhoe. By the end of the day they reached the Ketetahi Hut on the northern slopes of Tongariro near the Ketetahi Springs. The next day they tramped out via Lake Rotoaira to Tokaanu where they set up camp on the shores of Lake Taupo. The Party then moved north to Wairakei and Rotorua taking in stops at the Huka falls and the Aratiatia Rapids. From Rotorua they returned to Wellington by train. The next group records a hunting trip into what is today the Haurangi State Forest Park in the south eastern Wairarapa in February 1913. There are views of the camp with Girdlestone's mother and another woman visiting. The area depicted is in the valley of the Turanganui River and the surrounding hills. Images include native forest views, a forest fire, hunting pigs with dogs, riding horses, the corpses of wild pigs, groves of Karaka trees, and partly cleared land. The third group of images are of social and sporting events associated with two houses. In both cases the sport depicted is men and women playing tennis. Other images include a child driving a peddle car, views of the "Devon" wrecked on the rocks at Pencarrow Head 25th of August 1913, and women and children with horses. The last image in the album is that of a young woman writing as she holds a telephone reciever to her ear. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1902

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: MapColl-832.45gmbd/1902/Acc.27413

Description: Drawn on a Lands and Survey template, the plan shows the surveyed road deviation on Turanganui Road, Okoura Native Reserve, Block 5, at sections 2-4, Haurangi Survey District, Featherston County. Adjacent property owners affected by the road deviation are annotated in pencil and include Hiria Maika and Tiri Purekau; Hemi? Paratene Matenga; and Iraia Te Waite and three others. The road deviation is highlighted in red ink, and flagged between A and B. A statement by Featherston Council Council regards use of the deviation by the public for two years and funding by late Featherston Road Board. Red ink annotation to the map reads: 'We the undersigned settlers agree to the exchange shown hereon'... 'Witness' - this is unsigned. See NZMS 13 WN 90 Lands and Survey map. Stamped: District Land & Survey Office, Wellington, 15630. Note on certificate reads: 'I hereby certify that the road shown in red on this plan and from the points marked A to B has been in use by the public for two years and that it has been formed out of the public funds of the late Featherston Road Board ; Chairman Featherston County Council'. Pencil annotation reads: "To be dealt with under Sec. ?100, PWA. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale indeterminable, 38 x 25 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Fran Te Whaiti papers, Group-0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.

Date: 1934

By: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MS-2504

Description: Notes on the history, topography, botany, geology, climate, wildlife, huts and routes, tracked and untracked, of the Tararua, Rimutaka and Haurangi national reserves (now State Forest Parks); includes transcriptions of articles written for the Evening Post (Wellington). Typescript labelled 1932 edition, but noted as being "corrected to 6/3/34". Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (62 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (28cm, green buckram)

Date: [1932]

By: Wilson, Geoffry Burns, 1904-1977

Reference: MS-2505

Description: Notes on the history, geography, topography, botany, geology, climate, wildlife, tramping huts, tracks and unexplored areas of the Rimutaka, Tararua, and Haurangi national reserves (now State Forest Parks). Includes biography and newspaper clippings. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (74 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter (25cm, crimson linen)

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Perston, John Roberton, 1893-1962

Reference: A-034-035

Description: Shows a small house in hilly country Locality identified by A G Bagnall; name now changed to Aorangi Range Other Titles - Aorangi Range Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 260 mm Transfers: Removed from W M Smith's European sketchbook (E-011-f), page 25..

Date: 1905

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: Mason & Richmond (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/[ca.1905]/Acc.27450

Description: Topographic map with surveying details of the area from the Mangatoetoe River, Palliser Bay to the Taonui River and the Aorangi Mountains to Kaiwhiri and Mataopero. Settlements, rivers and peaks are named. Two areas are marked and include the statements "Boundary as claimed by Government". Some handwritten annotations in pencil and coloured pencil include section numbers and acreages, names of landowners - Heemi te Miha, Iraia, Tutu, Piriha Nihor [handwriting difficult to decipher], Kanes. Other Titles - Te Kopi and Waitatuma Blocks Stamped Mason & Richmond, Authorised Licensed Surveyors, Wellington Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, 97.3 x 64.5 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group 0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.