Fortification - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1849 - 1852

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Horokiwi [186-?] William O Tene [186-?]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-015-1

Description: Shows buildings surrounded by a stockade and a bridge over a creek with two further houses nearby. The artist arrived in Wellington in 1849. Horokiri Valley was fortified for a relatively brief period, from 1843 until the early 1850s. The location of the scene depicted is the military housing inside old Pahautanui Pa site after 1846. St. Albans Church was later built on the site. Other Titles - Horokiri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 257 x 360 mm Processing information: Record updated 7 March 2024 with location information.

Reference: MapColl-832.47eg/[18-?](1972)/Acc.37822

Description: Map showing cultivation area on the southest side of Okupe Lagoon, Kapiti Island. Shows scrub and fence lines, banks, and grooves, scrub and exotic grasses. Shows site of the remains of a half a canoe. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 36.8 x 54.5 cm. Transfers: From the Harper-Taylor papers..

Date: 1848 - 1852

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-172-013

Description: A rough sketch with a view from Thorndon, looking towards Lambton Quay, and Te Aro, with Government House and its flagpole in the foreground, the waterfront (Lambton Quay) with several houses visible, Clay Point indicated and Mount Cook beyond it, with the Barracks. Bush with either tree ferns or cabbage trees is indicated in the near foreground. There are three ships in the harbour Attribution: attributed by the Library on cataloguing, 1980, to H J Warre. However the handwriting is not that of Warre, and the style appears less precise than his. This is one of four drawings in the same hand, with the same provenance, (A-172-013 to -016) one of which appears to be a preliminary drawing for a watercolour by Colonel C E Gold. The group of four was reattributed to Gold in 2011 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 285 mm

Date: [1960-1961]

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 : Ethnological notebooks

Reference: MS-Papers-6061-52

Description: Comprises report of visit to Paremata for further colour slides, with notes re these and map showing Maori sites, place-names and European development and slide viewpoints; pannoramic photograph of Porirua Harbour showing geographical features, Maori sites and place-names; map, Motukaraka; sketch plan, earthworks, Fort Strode. Arrangement: Notebook no 51 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (volume).

Date: 1846 - 1856

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

Reference: E-296-q-003-3

Description: Shows Fort Richmond on the Hutt River. Other Titles - The first stockade erected in the Cook Strait Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen & ink, 45 x 75 mm.

Reference: 1/2-055310-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1847

By: Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905; Rhodes, Beatrice, active 1978

Reference: A-159-028

Description: Shows two British soldiers on sentry duty outside barracks. Other Titles - Porirua barracks, 99th Regiment Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Porrirua Barrack / H. M. 99th. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 187 x 228 mm

Date: ca 1950-1965

Reference: PAColl-4709

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Prints housed at PAColl-6181-16, PAColl-6181-32 and PAColl-6407-33.

Reference: MapColl-832.47eg/[18-?](1972)/Acc.37821

Description: Sketch plan of stone walls at Okupe, Kapiti Island, showing measurements, and their proximity to the gravel beach. Indicates gravel terrace behind the walls, a shallow depression strewn with boulders and a gradual rise between walls and the beach. Identifies a civil aviation beacon. Note on map describes the walls as boulders, with a sketch showing a typical cross-section. Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale indeterminable, 24 x 85 cm. Transfers: From Harper-Taylor papers.

Reference: 1/2-055309-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 :Five early views of the Hutt and Wairarapa. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1972.

By: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust

Reference: C-028-034-a

Description: Two images on one sheet. The upper reproduction is a view looking along the river with the fort beside the bridge. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 240 x 157 mm on sheet 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1849

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

Reference: E-296-q-043-1

Description: Shows the Porirua Barracks on a low headland in a harbour, with hills in the background. Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink drawing, 45 x 75 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1970 - 1979

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand. Ministry of Defence; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-279-q-069

Description: View of the garrison and bridge across the Hutt River. In the foreground are two Maori in a canoe. Personal Christmas card produced for the Chief of the General Staff, 47 Holyoake Crescenr, Avalon, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 11, No 33 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 75 x 110 mm

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-0178-1/2-G

Description: From box containing EP-0168 to 0180 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Reference: Plans-80-0677

Description: Shows details of blockhouse etc Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing

Date: ca1862, ca1936, ca1940

By: Reid, Andrew Stuart de Vesci, 1913-1990

Reference: PAColl-1743

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope.

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-022-a

Description: A two-storied wooden building, with slit-holes for firing guns, in a derelict state, a broken fence or other structure in the foreground, trees on either side. Another copy held at A-072-022, but it is a late pull from a worn plate with blurred detail and no inscriptions. A-072-022-a is an earlier state in better condition Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 123 x 99 mm (platemark) on sheet 193 x 145 mm

Date: 1922

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-023

Description: Shows Fort Richmond, Hutt River, Lower Hutt, with the first arched bridge crossing the river in the foreground Compare Herbert R. Cole's more finished version of the same view (A-136-016). Possibly intended for inclusion in Cowan's New Zealand wars, Vol 1, but not used Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 158 x 234 mm

Date: 1973

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

Reference: Plans-2009-082-4030-001/002

Description: Includes plan of stockade, ground floor plan of blockhouse, plan of suggested landscape work. Quantity: 2 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings on draughting paper, 595 x 420 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at Ms-Group-1803, and in the Photographic Archive.

Date: 14 Dec 1994

From: New Zealand fishing history oral history project

By: Saunders, Alfred Carr, 1911-2010

Reference: OHInt-0444-06

Description: Alfred Saunders born at Point Halswell, Wellington 1911. Recalls his father was an artilleryman in the army, stationed at the Point to look after the large gun there. Talks about growing up on the Miramar Peninsula, Fort Ballance and other forts around the harbour. Also talks about period when father left the army and they moved to Whangaroa where his father took up crayfishing. Recalls leaving school at the age of 15 years and commencing an apprenticeship as a shipwright with B J L Jukes Ltd, a boatbuilder in Balena Bay, Wellington. Describes his duties as an apprentice and explains that many of the boats worked on at the yard belonged to Island Bay and Eastbourne fishermen. Mentions living at Paraparaumu where he built a 40 foot fishing vessel called `May' for a Mr Buckland at Plimmerton during the Great Depression. Refers to his work during World War II, describing some of the vessels he worked on which were commandeered by the navy. After the war went fishing from Paremata and details type of fishing and fish caught. Describes location of his boat yard at Paremata foreshore where he built a number of fishing and pleasure craft. Talks about the Sea Reaper, a vessel of 50 feet in length that he built and operated with his sons during the 1960s. Talks about the crayfish boom at the Chathams and the big demand for vessels. Mentions some of the problems encountered with the Marine Department surveyors and the modern fishing regulations. Talks about son, Harold, who has a boatbuilding business in Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Emmanuel Makarios Venue - 54 Paremata Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010226-010227 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3415.