Hautapu River

Date: 1959

By: Sinclair, E M, active 1948-1967; Carter, William Ernest, 1932-

Reference: MapColl-832.41gmp/[1959]/Acc.36425

Description: Map of part Awarua 4c no. 11, blocks XIV, Ohinewairua and II, Hautapu survery districts, Taihape, showing the main airstrip runway and the subsidiary runway adjacent to the Hautapu River. Indicates the hanger, telephone line, state highway, railway and power lines. Includes reference key. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, scale [1: 3 168], 32.5 x 32.7 cm. Provenance: Donated by Bill Carter, September, 2001

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-037

Description: Shows a view looking out from the interior of a permanent sleeping shed, with the artist's legs and those of Samuel Deigton stretched out in the foreground. There is a knapsack and a kete in the left foreground, and a figure in a feather cloak sits outside, just beyound a support pole of the shelter. A campfire is burning at the left, with a billy or saucepan over it, and a section of river, with cliffs on the far side is visible beyond. Other Titles - River Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [37 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1905 to 1907

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

Reference: PA1-o-197

Description: Photographs taken by Albert Percy Godber between 1905 and 1907, covering a variety of topics. They include family photographs, both individual and group portraits, and Wellington houses (eg `Railway Whare', the house Godber and his family lived in, in Bay Street, Petone). One scene shows Godber's parents, Mary Ann and Charles Godber, with a large group of family members, including Albert Percy Godber, his wife Laura, and two children, Phyllis and William (p.21). On p. 13, Godber's wife Laura and two children are seen with an elderly couple, probably Laura's parents Charles Albert and Magdelina Clara Zinckgraf. Numbers of images show scenes associated with New Zealand Railways, including the Mataroa Railway Tunnel under construction, specific locomotives, signal stations, the railway station at Petone, and scenes at the Petone Railway Workshops. At the beginning of the album, several images show Godber and a team from the Petone Fire Brigade with medals they have won at fire-fighting practice competitions. A pocket at the front of the album holds two photographs, on of a new cutting on the road near Lowry Bay, and one of the `model of `D' class locomotive used in the Petone Peace Demonstration Procession' following the Boer War in 1902, signed `With A.P. Godber's compliments'. Other Titles - Title lettered on spine - Godber Album 105 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown buckram cover; 19.5 x 26.0 cm

Date: 1889

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: MapColl-832.41gme/[1889]/Acc.36714-5

Description: Two sheets of the map of the central route railway, North Island main trunk railway, Turangarere section, each covering up to one mile distance along the Hautapu River. Milage is running from Turangarere towards Taihape. Both sheets show tracks, sheet 2 shows Roapoama's house opposite 70 chains and the track from Moawhango and Marton, while sheet 3 shows a U-turn bend in the track and good sites for platelayer's cottages. The lower diagram in each map is a cross section of the same distance, measuring heights, formation levels, distances and gradients. Maps signed by R W Holmes, 26/11/[18]89. 'Copy of PWD 16466'. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 46 x 61.4 cm. Provenance: Donated by the Ministry of Works, January 1975.

Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-024/025

Description: Double-page spread image shows at far left Herekiekie's waata (storehouse), and other buildings nearby. Two horses are in the centre foreground, and a few scattered figures. At the right is the waterfall at Turangerere on the Hautapu River, with the word "Tertiaries" written beside them. A fenced square enclosure is visible on the bank further up stream. Crawford writes: "At 2.20 pm, we reached the pretty village of Turangerere, the principal residence of the late chief Herekiekie, situated on the right bank of the Hautapu. Here there is a celebrated waata or storehouse, very large and highly ornamented with carvings. There is also a fine waterfall about twenty feet high, and here I got marine tertiary fossils" Other Titles - River Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [24-25 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 470 mm

Date: [ca 1890-1938] - 1992

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

By: Berry and Company; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); George Eden & Company; Hardie Shaw Studios; Zenith Studios

Reference: PAColl-5030-8

Description: Family photographs, mainly portraits, includes William James Hall McCormick, Eric and Myra McCormick as infants, Rene Powrie, Cyril Wrightson (circa 1914-1918), wedding party of Edwin Stoupe (a cousin of Eric McCormick) and Eleanor Baldwin in 1906, images of Taihape circa 1900 including one captioned "reputably first bridge over the Hautapu River, Taihape", one titled "Taihape picnic & sport" (1899). Some photographs taken by C Foster. Some people and photographers unidentified. Group portraits of students at Taihape School (1910s), students of Wellington College (1923), Victoria University College Students Executive Committee, students and teachers at Wellesley College (1929-1930s), Department of Internal Affairs staff (1938). Ephemera and correspondence relating to Eric and Myra McCormick. Includes correspondence from Waitakere Hospital regarding Myra McCormick (1992). Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) and photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Photographic prints, some on mounts, sizes vary up to 38 x 29 cm.

Date: 1905-1935

By: Clark, Robert J, active 1920s-1930s; Ellerbeck Studio; Frank Duncan and Company; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966; Pratt, A A, active 1900s; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; William Beattie & Company

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-Bailey-2018-1

Description: Includes: 01. Blue Slip, Skippers, N.Z. G H D Series 54. Real Photo post card Frank Duncan & Co., Auckland 02. "Boat Day" at Stewart Island. The 'Theresa Ward' at Halfmoon Bay no. 319 E A Phillips photo 03. Camping ground, Kennedy Park, Napier, NZ 04. Davies' "Golden Terrace", Queenstown. C M D series 32. Real Photo post card Frank Duncan & Co., Auckland 05. Gisborne from Kaiti Hill. L A E , Ellerbeck Studio Gisborne (verso has handwritten message from Freda Ludwig) 06. Gisborne from Kaiti Hill. Photo R J Clark 2924. Tanner Bros Ltd, Maoriland Photographic series 07. Hautapu River - Taihape. Protected 1.2.1909 W Beattie & Co Auckland. Moa Series 08. The Lighthouse, Skippers Road Queenstown N.Z. F G R 969. Real Photo post card, Frank Duncan & Co., Auckland 09. Main Street Palmerston North. A A Pratt series, Phototyped in Saxony 10. The Point from the clock tower, Gisborne, N.Z.. A M H Series postcard, printed in Berlin 11. Queenstown F G R 6407. A Real photograph, the George H Davies Tourist Depot, Queenstown NZ 12. Queenstown N.Z. 1210. A Real photograph, the George H Davies Tourist Depot, Queenstown NZ 13. Taihape. F G R 7469 14. Taihape, N.Z. 724 F.T. Series 15. T E V 'Rangatira', 6152 tons, Wellington-Lyttelton Steamer Express Service 16. T M V 'Southland' no. 410 / E A Phillips photo 17. Thomson's "Greenvale House", Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island N.Z. no 808 / E A Phillips 18. Westhaven Road, Takaka N.Z. no 13 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (18 cards). Physical Description: Photographs and photolithographs, sizes around 90 x 140 mm.

Date: 1900-1901

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

Reference: PA1-o-1225

Description: Many of the photographs were taken when H E Girdlestone was working as one of a survey team in the Taihape area. Views of the survey camps variously descibed as near Taihape, on the Hautapu River, as Oroua Bridge, Mataroa Township, Raketapauma, and Rangiwaea Block. He has included scenic views of native forest from some of these and other locations. Most notably he has taken photographs of many waterfalls on the rivers and streams in the area. Many of these are on the Turakina river. One called Rereaupiko Waterfall is formed where the Mangoiwa Stream falls into the Hautapu River. There are also views of the Whanganui River and one of a load of passengers on the "Wairere," a Whanganui River boat. Other scenic views have been taken in the Trentham area, Upper Hutt. These include a stream and native forest, the Hutt River, and cattle in pasture. Other locations around the Hutt Valley and Wellington are a bridge over a stream in the Wainuiomata water reserve, Young's Gardens Karori Wellington, and Views of the South coast looking towards and from Sinclair Head. There are local volunteer military units who participated in a marching competition on the 5th of October 1901. Those named are the "Highlanders", "Kelburns," "College Old Boys," "Civil Service," and "Post and Telegraph." Finally there are many images of family, friends and collegues. These include a group of adults and children at a house in Featherston and shows people playing croquet, members of a survey team in a tent, Girdlestone and a fellow worker engaged in chopping down a large forest tree, groups of young women and men in their sunday best, a group of men in fancy dress playing instruments, the children and teacher of Mataroa School photographed outside what is probably the school room in March 1901, and people in kayaks and canoes on the River Avon Christchurch. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1895

Reference: MapColl-832.41gbbd/[ca.1895]/Acc.389

Description: Topographic map of the area bordering on Otairi, Otamakapua and Oira Blocks and Rangipo Waiu, Oruamatua, Mangaohane. Includes Motukawa No.1, the Rangitikei, Moawhango and Hautapu Rivers and the Tukituki Stream. Includes a total area of acreages in the Wellington and Hawkes Bay portions. Includes entirely Maori names of settlements and people. An area of native land is marked.Shows Maori names Title assigned by cataloguer from map of the same title but varying size and location, purchased at the same time Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale not given, 49 x 60.7 cm. on sheet 51 x 60.7 cm.

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-413

Description: Shows leaves, flowers and seedhead of two varieties of olearia. Artist's list: O. virgata (i): Flowers 15.11.00 from S Taupo wetland nr Turangi Nick Singers, flowers. Robyn Smith also provided flowers from a cult. plant at Percy Reserve. Achenes 2.8.05 from nr. Wairau township, coll. Geoff Rogers O. gardneri: Flowers Dec. 1998 cult. Gerry Foster, orig. from Masterton area. Juv. branchlet 1.5.97, coll. Geoff Rogers. Adult branchlet 2.5.97 from Hautapu River flat, Mataroa, Taihape, coll. Colin Ogle Individual images appear on pages 819 and 823 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - August, November, April, May, December; Hutt Valley; Robyn Smith Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 328 x 261 mm.

Date: 1911 (probably Feb/Mar)

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-007081-G

Description: Hautapu River, Taihape, 1911 (probably February/March). Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1906

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

Reference: APG-0187-1/2-G

Description: View of a bridge over the Hautapu River, with unsealed road visible on either side of the river. Photographed in 1906 by A P Godber. Description in album at Pa1-o-197 (Vol 105, p 5): "Hautapu River bridge". Original print at Pa1-o-197 (Vol 105, p 5). Date from other items in the album. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1861 - 1862

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui River, December 13, 1861-Jan 8, 1862]

Reference: E-041-013

Description: Shows two figures holding a canoe in the right foreground, with a stretch of the river and a waterfall between cliffs in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) In his sketchbook of a trip up the Wanganui R. 1861-62.. Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 130 x 177 mm

Date: 1971

From: Sutherland, James Hector: Photographs of the Country Library Service in operation

Reference: PA1-o-842

Description: Begins at the Country Library Service centre at Palmerston North, then through the Manawatu and Rangatikei districts including the southern volcanic Plateau, and back to Wanganui via Raetihi. Throughout the journey the Country Library Service Bookvan features as well as the country localities through which it passes or where it stops to ply its trade. Several public libraries are photographed, some farmers at work, children who as schools come to use the service, or are seen fishing at Castlecliff, Wanganui. The album ends with an extensive photo essay on Wanganui. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).