Pastoral letters and charges

Date: 1835-1969

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington

Reference: MS-Papers-1925

Description: Extensive central records for major boards and committees, educational trusts, and cathedral fund (1899-1930). Also Bishop Hadfield's correspondence file for 1845-1903. Parish records for the whole diocese include registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Maori census registers for Kapiti, Wellington and Nelson; Maori mission registers for Otaki 1852-1875 and Putuki 1856-1867; records of St Margaret's Church, Taihape Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also 89-008, 87-181 and 94-235; MS-Group-0062 (St James' Church, Lower Hutt). Further Otaki Parish records are held by the Horowhenua Historical Society) Quantity: 210 volume(s). 213 folder(s). 10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - 29 numbered prints - Artist's impression of new St Paul's Cathedral (T V Ellis, 1945) - To Photographic Archive - Loose photographs mainly pertaining to St Margaret's Church, Taihape and district.

Date: 1957-1992

By: Church of the Province of New Zealand. Diocese of Wellington

Reference: MS-Papers-5238

Description: Comprises records concerning the revision of the Anglican prayer book, the work of the Wellington Prayer Book Committee, draft prayers and services, church and missionary publications, records of the Kilbirnie Ministers' Association, and various papers from the Reverend Bourne's time as vicar at St James' Church, Lower Hutt and St Cuthbert's Church, Eketahuna. Source of title - Supplied title The Venerable Ian G Bourne was Archdeacon of Wellington Diocese. Quantity: 22 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 13 photographs titled Inside a telephone exchange.

Date: 1898-1996

By: Island Bay Presbyterian Church

Reference: MS-Group-0857

Description: Records include Session minutes, correspondence and papers, 1914-1924, 1939-1996; Board of Managers, 1958-1991; financial records, 1898-1903, 1953-1980; Building Committee, 1965-1966; marriage registers, 1914-1967; baptismal certificate stubs, 1932-1941, 1965-1967; communicants and attendance registers, 1918-1969; Sunday School records, 1926-1933, 1958-1969; Bible classes, 1932-1944, 1960-1966; church newsletters, 1934-1970; and records of various other church groups, ca 1919-1980s Relationship complexity - For further records see 88-017, boxes 36 and 37 The church was opened on 9 Oct 1898 Quantity: 59 folder(s). 15 volume(s). 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1904-1986

By: St. Anne's Church (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: 89-051

Description: Comprises vestry minutes for St Anne's Church, Northland (1904-1972) and for St Stephen's Church, Wilton (1964-1976) and for both churches (1976-1986); correspondence of St Stephen's (1958-1976); St Anne's newsletters (1958-1979); and accounts. Also includes vestry minutes and papers relating to St Anne's Ladies' Guild (1947-1969), Association of Anglican Women (1963-1972) and St Anne's Mothers' Union minutes (1953-1972) and AAW members (1954-1972) and other papers. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See further Church of England records See also MSY-2164 Quantity: 5 box(es). 1 volume(s). 2 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available.

Date: 1848-1986

By: Laings Road Methodist Church (Lower Hutt, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0360

Description: Includes minute books; marriage and baptismal registers; cradle and membership rolls; Ladies Guild minutes; Women's Fellowship, Missionary Auxiliary, Sunday School records; Naenae and Epuni Church and Sunday School records; financial records; and correspondence Publication - On our way : the first 150 years of the Methodist Church in Lower Hutt (Lower Hutt: Laings Road Methodist Church in association with Methodist Publishing, [1989] Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - DVD of demolition of church in 2002 deposited with Oral History Quantity: 6 box(es) (Some items on at folder level). 65 volume(s). 4.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collection taken as a whole into Manuscript, transfers made from here - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural drawings.

Date: 7 Aug 1885

By: Green, James Lampard (Rev), 1833-1905

Reference: MS-Papers-3396

Description: Letter referring to mission work at Tahiti Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased 1962 from J Burke, London

Date: 1863-1870

Reference: MS-Papers-10422

Description: Comprises letters written by Frederick Thatcher, 25 Aug 1862 and 11 Aug 1863; Arthur Stock, 15 Feb 1866, 5 Oct 1869; Charles Abraham, 11 Mar 1864, 3 Dec 1867, 29 Dec 1870 and Octavius Hadfield, 17 Feb 1869 Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (9 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: [ca 1905-1994]

By: St. Hilda's Anglican Church (Island Bay, Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0438

Description: Includes baptismal, marriage, burial and confirmation registers; registers of services and other registers; vestry minutes and reports; correspondence, reports and subject files; financial records; church societies and committee material; church history and anniversary records and printed matter. Source of title - Supplied title Island Bay was originally administered by St Thomas's, Newtown, and was made a separate parochial district in 1910 and a parish in 1933. St Hilda's opened in Mar 1911 and St Chad's in 1958. Quantity: 5 box(es) (67 folders). 26 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 3.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Various photographs.

Date: 1833-1902

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: MS-Group-1027

Description: Comprises Hadfield's missionary activities at Kapiti and Wellington and includes correspondence outwards (1833-1886) (238 items); inwards (1839-1902) (15 items); Henry Williams to Hadfield (1860-1865) (13 items); Catherine Hadfield's letters (1851), 1858-1859 (24 items); Hadfield's diary (Sep-Oct 1839, Jun 1846); sermons (ca1888-1891); Catherine Hadfield's diary (1853); and other minor items Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 7 volume(s). 0.14 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (35-37 cm, ¼ maroon morocco, red buckram) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available (copy also at qMS-0902).

Date: 1819-1853

By: King, John, 1787-1854

Reference: qMS-1111

Description: Comprises reports to CMS secretary on journey to Hokianga (1819); to Thomas Kendall on teaching, twine spinning and flaxdressing (1820); to secretary on English-Maori dictionary and its usefulness (1822); to CMS secretary re request for psalters and prayer books and death of Mrs King (1851); survey after 37 years at Bay of Islands, death of Mrs King, Maori wars and their effects (1852); letter to Central Committee NZ re expenses of Mrs King's death and fences round property; piece on beginning his 40th year (1853); and his journals (1819-1834) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Further papers of John King at Micro-MS-0305 King was an evangelist and missionary among the Maori for the CMS Quantity: 1 volume(s) (113 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies) (38 cm, turquoise buckram)

Date: [ca 1945-1990]

By: Anglican Parish of Wainuiomata

Reference: MS-Group-0553

Description: General records of the parish, and the congregations at Holy Trinity, St Peters and St Johns with most of the records coming from St Johns. Also includes Mothers' Union material, the McKie Collection of records, and various church publications. Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: Organized into series according to provenance The first Anglican Church service was held in Wainuiomata in 1945, and by 1946 the site for St John's Church was purchased with a Church hall being built in 1951. Wainuiomata separated from Waiwhetu Parish and became a parochial district in its own right in 1959. In 1961, Holy Trinity church hall was opened, and in 1965 a further congregation at Glendale, whose hall was given the name of St Peter, combined with members of the local Union Parish congregation to share buildings and facilities, together with a combined sunday school, under the Glendale Scheme of Co-operation. Quantity: 6 volume(s). 66 folder(s). 1.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter

Date: 1897-1984

By: Upper Hutt Co-operating Parish

Reference: 91-008

Description: Comprises records of St David's Presbyterian Church, Upper Hutt, including Evening APW and Women's Club (ca 1912-1975); Iona Presbyterian Church, Upper Hutt (1959-1976); Wallaceville Presbyterian Church Accounts (1904-1913) and Ladies Guild papers and accounts; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Upper Hutt, time and wages book (1966-1978); and Upper Hutt and Wallaceville Presbyterian Church Cemetery Committee register of burials (1897-1937) and minutes for same (1940-1984); correspondence and accounts, cash book (1927-1967) and bank statements, pass books, lodgement slips etc Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - See also Presbyterian Church of NZ, Wellington and Wairarapa Presbyteries (88-017) Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Large group photographs (4) and 1 small photo.

Date: 1848-1852, 2002

By: Morris, William, 1815-1882

Reference: MS-Papers-7497

Description: Comprises photocopies of letters from William Colenso to William Morris with transcripts by Alison Wright who has also supplied additional information. Colenso wrote from the Mission Station at Waitangi in 1848, 1849 and 1852 discussing mutual friends and his activities and the changing face of New Zealand and its society, particularly focusing on Maori. Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also MS-Papers-7125 for diary of William Morris Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript (photocopies)

Date: 1931-1994

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1260

Description: Comprises correspondence, personal papers, teaching papers and books, various documents including out-station reports, syallbi poems, drawings, press cuttings and photographs. Also, drafts of her autobiography, `Sharing the climb'. Source of title - Transcribed Sister White taught at a number of schools from 1948 to 1967 in the Oro Province, and helped re-establish others destroyed during the war, and later after the eruption of Mount Lamington in 1951. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: 1838-1868

By: Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904

Reference: qMS-0895

Description: Letters written chiefly from Otaki describing progress of mission work in Wellington province and Maori unrest Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - Microfilm of originals at Micro-MS-Coll-04 reel 52 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (258 leaves). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm, ½ brown calf) Finding Aids: Index at back of volume.

Date: 1896-1905

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1252

Description: Comprise two indexed press copy letter books running from 1896 to 1905. The letters are to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, and to individuals passing on mission news, as well as orders for supplies, and observations on the people and languages of Malekula. Also, lists and details of teachers both European and indigenous, and reports on teachers and students. Source of title - Transcribed Leggatt served as a Presbyterian missionary for some 25 years in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), mainly at Aulua Mission on Malekula. He is noted for his linguistic work and his ethnographic observations. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Printed list also available.. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: 1878-1880

By: Gill, William Wyatt (Rev), 1828-1896

Reference: qMS-0837

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (18 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies) (34 cm, green linen)

Date: 1875-1983

From: Lutheran Church of New Zealand: Records

Reference: 89-055

Description: Comprises records for Palmerston North, Makaretu, Dannevirke, Halcombe, Norsewood, Mauriceville, St Luke's Hall, Women's Guild, Men's Fellowship, Youth group, financial and other papers. Source of title - Supplied title Lutheran Church located in Church Street, Palmerston North. Quantity: 4 box(es). 26 volume(s). 2.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Processing information: Merged with ATL-Group-00496 (formerly MS-Group-1908) in June 2020.

Date: 1968-1983

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1081

Description: Notes, drafts, correspondence and diaries compiled by priests attached to the Archdiocese; includes items in Tahitian and a collection of legends and history from the Tuamotu Archipelago Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1996

Date: 1866-1875

By: Croke, Thomas William (Bishop), 1824-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-0582

Description: Papers include Croke's own correspondence and journal, letters to and about Croke, newspaper cuttings and official church papers. Much of the material extracted from Propaganda Fide by an unnamed compiler. Croke was Catholic bishop of Auckland Quantity: 4 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, manuscript and printed matter (photocopy) Finding Aids: Inventory available.