Kapuni Stream

Date: 1934

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-012/012-d

Description: Shows riverbed boulders in the foreground and trees beyond. These are prints 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 of the first state of a run of 12 prints. Other Titles - First state Quantity: 5 b&w art print(s) (five prints of same image). Physical Description: Dry point etchings, plate 102 x 151 mm, on sheets 165 x 205 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s]

Reference: PAColl-7053

Description: Views mostly in and around New Plymouth but including clergymen gathered for Archdeacon Govett's jubilee in 1898, crowds in Pukekura Park for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubliee in 1897 and a Floral Fete in 1896, a homestead called Tokotahi near the Tiraumea River in Pahiatua County, the old mountain house on Mount Taranaki, and an area called Grant's Braes (now Waverley) in Dunedin. All the views are captioned. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-002136 to 002173 Quantity: 38 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film 1/2 plate copy negatives

Date: 1960-1989

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to marked walks, trails, tracks and walkways]

By: New Plymouth (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: Eph-A-WALKS-Taranaki-1960/1989

Description: Pamphlets for: Kamahi walk, Stratford Mountain House, Egmont National Park [1960s]. Booklet (2 copies) Kapuni walk, Dawson Falls, Egmont National Park [1960s]. Booklet New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. Barrett Domain. [1980s?] New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. City walks around New Plymouth. New Plymouth City Parks Walkway [1980s?] New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. Huatoki. [1980s?] New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. Mt Bryon Waiwhakaiho Park. [1980s?] New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. Paritutu to Richmond Cottage. [1980s?] New Plymouth Parks and Recreation Department. Te Henui Walkway. [1970s-80s?] (3 copies) New Zealand Department of Lands & Survey. Matemateaonga Track, NZ Walkway [1980s?] New Zealand Department of Lands & Survey. Stony River walk [1980s?] New Zealand Department of Lands & Survey, New Plymouth. Whitecliffs Track [1970s?] New Zealand Department of Lands & Surveys, New Plymouth. Whitecliffs Walkway, Pukearuhe to Tongaporutu [1970s?]. North Egmont walks, Egmont National Park [1960s]. Booklet Opunake walk. New Zealand walkways [1970s-80s?]. Yellow pamphlet (2 copies) Rotokare Walkway, Taranaki District [1970s?] Pamphlet (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Strauchon, John, 1848-1934; Strauchon, Kathleen St. George, 1899-1981

Reference: PA1-o-483

Description: Photograph album containing Taranaki scenes. Album created by John Strauchon, Chief Surveyor & Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki District between 1894 and 1902; photographs possibly taken by him? (Pages 32 onwards are empty). The first section of the album (pages 1-16) contain images of Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki), including two accomodation houses, the Manaia Mountain House (Or Dawson's Falls Mountain House), and the Egmont Mountain House; Fanthams Peak; the Kapuni Stream; and Bell's Falls and Dawson Falls. The second part of the album (pages 18-31) contains views in and around New Plymouth, including two of celebrations during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Inserted in page 11 are two untitled loose photographs, one of a South Island glacier, and the other a lake scene. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine with ornate gold decoration on spine, entitled "Album"; 20 x 29 cm

Date: 1934

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-383-013/013-g

Description: Shows riverbed boulders in the foreground and trees beyond. These are prints 5, 14, 25, 30, 31, 38, 41 and 43 of a run of 45 prints. A-383-014-e has title on back: "Kapuni River & rata tree, Egmont" Other Titles - Kapuni river and rata tree, Egmont Other Titles - Second state Quantity: 8 b&w art print(s) (eight prints of same image). Physical Description: Dry point etchings, plate 102 x 151 mm, on sheets 165 x 205 mm.

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: A-048-008

Description: Copy watercolour by A.D.M. Busby Shows Mount Taranaki in the background with two flat-topped hills, with the Waimate Pa in the middle distance on the shore, the sea in the foreground and two of the ship's boats from H. M. S. Alligator. Indicates position of cannon, and a rock where Mrs Guard was seated on the shore. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa, Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 7 x 15 inches

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-164-008

Description: Shows the palisade of a pa on a clifftop, with figures scaling the cliff by means of ladders coming up from the water level. One of a series of such sketches, the remainder in Auckland Museum (one signed: C. Heaphy), originals for lithographs (held at B-043-015: Ellis 633-636). Waimate Pa was near the mouth of the Patea River, Taranaki. See also Heaphy's 'View on the Patea River, Cooks Straits, 1839' (A-146-004). Heaphy visited Waimate Pa in September 1840 in the company of Robert Park and Robert Stokes. He passed Taranaki on board the Tory in 1839, without landing, and may have dated this view retrospectively Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and date] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing on blue dressed linen 245 x 137 mm

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: B-064-005

Description: A copy watercolour of a picture by Thomas Woore. Shows Waimate Pa on top of a steep hill, with a path leading up to it. The sea is on the left. Shows the area where bombardment occurred during the rescue of John Guard, Kapuni Stream, Taranaki. Notes on front and back Signed Other Titles - Waimate Pa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 430 mm

Date: 1834 - 1932

By: Woore, Thomas, 1804-1878; Busby, Augusta Dora Merewether, 1890-1962

Reference: A-048-010

Description: Steep hills divided by a steeply-falling river. Red-coated soldiers of the 50th Regiment shown with the track and bridge over which they moved their cannons. Several Maori standing close to the bridge and a waterfall. Further Maori indicated on top of the hill to the right. Lieutenant Thomas, in charge of the transport, shown on the peak of a hill to the left. 'Cannonade' appears to be an error for carronade, a short heavy cannon with wide bore. Note on back in the hand of the copyist: "Having failed in obtaining Mrs Guard and her two children from the natives although H M ship bombarded the forts and destroyed their canoes (ammunition being demanded in exchange by them which Her Majesty would not have been pleased to part in Traffic as they wished it). Two cannonades were landed 2 miles to the Eastward under protection of the ship and military dragged across this creek and put in position on a bank commanding the ports from which the natives were driven and possession taken" Other Titles - Carronades Inscriptions: Recto - top left: Sailors transporting the cannonade with their guards. Lieut Thomas R A commanding. Guards of the 53rd Regiment, Lieut Gunton [?]. Top right: natives. natives. Bottom right: Track of cannonades.; Verso - 'Having failed in obtaining Mrs Guard and her two children from the natives although H M Ship bombarded the forts and destroyed their canoes (ammunition being demanded in exchange for them which Her Majesty would not have been pleased to part in Traffic as they wished it) Two cannonades were landed two miles to the eastward under the protection of the ship and military dragged across this creek and put in position on a bank commanding the forts from which the natives were driven and possession taken.' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 257 x 356 mm Provenance: A copy made for the Library from the original drawing by Thomas Woore. The copyist was Woore's great-granddaughter.

Date: 1849

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-127-3

Description: Sketch showing a pa on top of a cliff or headland, with staircase up to it, and a river on the left. Other Titles - River, 8 September Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen & wash, 90 x 165 mm.

Date: 1849

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-127-2

Description: Sketch showing a pa on top of a cliff or headland, and a river winding past it. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen & sepia ink, 90 x 170 mm.