Tregear, Edward Robert, 1846-1931

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Series-6345

Description: Collection comprises: Photographs of Vietnam War demonstrations Photographs relating to Roth's research and publications Photographs relating to pacifism in New Zealand Photographs of early New Zealand socialist conferences Photographs of Sid Fournier and his wife Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 265 b&w original negative(s). 78 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour original transparency/ies. 5 box(es) photographic prints. 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama print. 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies Processing information: Unit ID (reference number) changed in 2018 when collections of photographs, papers, and ephemera were brought together to form a multi-format group

Date: 1900 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-LOCAL-Wellington-1900/1939

Description: Includes cards and fliers for the following candidates: 1906: Harold Beachamp 1908: A R Atkinson 1909: F M B Fisher (photograph); Robert Fletcher; James Dykes (photograph); Albert H Casey (photograph); John Guthrie Wood Aitken; F Townsend; Thomas Mason Wilford; John Aston (photograph); F G Bolton (photograph). 1910: E W G Coleridge 1911: W Scott Bedford; Hubert L Nathan 1912: Ed Tregear 1923?: H A Huggins (controller of P O Savings Bank) Also includes a programme for the Wellington Harbour Board Jubilee Harbour Excursion, 28 January 1930; an invitiation from Mayor Mr G A Troup to attend the farewell to the Prime Minister Hon G W Forbes on the eve of his departure to England to attend the Imperial Conference in 1930; a programme for the Wellington Historical Pageant and Bazaar, Newtown Park and Town Hall. 25 October - 1 November 1913; a souvenir programme for the Historical Pageant representing important historical events, Petone 7 May 1920 (2 copies). Quantity: 20 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on fliers and cards. Physical Description: Letterpress on fliers and cards, sizes varying below 200 mm.

Date: 1900-1902

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-140

Description: Contains correspondence and official papers mainly relating to his term as administrator at Niue Other - Includes note in Elsdon Best's hand "Contains no ethnological data, some portiion might be required by Turnbull Library. A few letters of a private nature it might be as well to destroy or put away." Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available giving details of each letter.

Date: [Between 1930 and 1934]

By: New Zealand Railways; Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm); Mitchell, Lindsay, active 1930-1942

Reference: PA1-f-058

Description: Album of publicity photographs including designs for advertisements for use in the new Zealand Railway Magazine; designs for posters for use in Railways Ticket Offices and one for a large neon lighting sign "Suggested `Claude Neon' Display for New Zealand Railway Publicity Department, Wellington. `Travel by train'". One photograph is entitled "`Post' corner 1880. Now site of King's Chambers". A number of images show a [Labour Day?] parade of marching people, and floats some of which are advertising NZ Railways holiday destinations, with slogans reading `Come to Rotorua', `Come to Waitomo', `Come to The Chateau Tongariro'. There are designs of title pages for the New Zealand Railways Magazine; a view of a commemorative key with a sheaf of corn on the handle in a presentation box; and designs for a programme of events surround the laying of the foundation stone for the new Government Railway Station, Wellington, N.Z. by HRH the Duke of Gloucester, December 17th 1934. These are followed by photographs taken during the Duke's tour of New Zealand, including crowd scenes in Wellington, Maori celebrations of welcome at Ngaruawahia, and scenes in the Rotorua thermal area. There are a few individual and group portraits of the management and administrative staff of New Zealand Railways, most unidentified. Most of the images relate to the 1930s, but there are a few copies of earlier photographs. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, maroon spine, entitled `Miscellaneous Book C4'; 42 x 59 cm

Date: 1894

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-221

Description: Comprises manuscripts of the following papers (in publication order): `Notes and queries'; `Proceedings of the Society'; Edward A Tregear `A Paumtuan dictionary'; F Arthur Jackson `A Fijian legend of the origin of the "Vilavilairevo" or "Fire ceremony"'[2 copies]; Alexander Shand `The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands' [2 copies]; Rev W Gray `Four Aniwan songs'; rev T G Hammond `The taro'; Ema Turumeke `Narrative of the battle of Omihi'; `Notes and queries'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1864, [ca 1913-1933]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: 80-115-04A/04A

Description: Includes A short account of Ngapuhi raids on Ngatiporou under Hongi and Pomare, written by a Ngatiporou man, 1864; A story of Pomare of Ngatikuhungunu written by Te Wharetoroa of Te Arawa, submitted by George Graham; A story of Hine-Kiore of Te Arawa, written by Te Wharetoroa of that tribe; three Maori songs from T W Downes, and photograph and accompanying letter describing a 19th century Maori burial cave at Tawhata, Whanganui River, by Downes, 1916; unfinished article on stone carvings in Taranaki, by T G Hammond; The period of Hiro and Honokura: from Tahitian, Raiatean and Paumotuan accounts, by A Leverd; notes on Rarotongan and Mangaian words; Some Oceanic colour names, Notes on some Chamorro plant names, and Names of Mangaian string puzzles, all by F W Christian; also obituaries for Elsdon Best and Robert McNab, and other notes and correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Includes photograph of adzed totara coffins and relics, 1916; and photographed sketches of cosmology, and ships

Date: 1885-1892

From: Early Maori Imprint Project : Items transferred from the Printed Collections

Reference: MSX-5211

Description: The Aryo-Semitic Maori by Atkinson, read before the Nelson Philsophical Society 1 Nov 1885, bound in with `Notes on the Maori-Polyensian comparative dictionary of Mr Tregear, also read before the Nelson Philosophical Society 12 Dec 1892 (1893), the `Postscript' to the `Notes', and unsigned review from `The Academy' with notes by H W Williams Source of title - Transcribed Other Titles - Atkinson on Tregear (spine title) Quantity: 1 volume(s). Finding Aids: For further information see Early Maori Imprint project Back file. Processing information: Transferred from the Printed Collections, May 1999. Previous library classification, 499M 1893 ATK / 55101. Neither item in Williams; Notes in Bagnall: A741.

Date: 1893-1894, nd

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-106

Description: Contains (a) letters to S P Smith and Edward Tregear, Omahu Puriri, 1893-1894 (b) Manuscript of Maori, Tangata Maori, the first 11 pages of which appear to have been published in the JPS with additional waiata and translation by S P Smith (JPS v3 p27). The rest seems to remain unpublished. Contains much traditional history. The letters contain information about attempts to date the settlement of New Zealand from Hawaiki using whakapapa and discrepancies between the whakapapa of various iwi, the transfer of Hawaiki placenames to New Zealand, and information associated with the arrival of the Tainui canoe; there are also whakapapa, waiata and proverbs and explanations of the proverbs, and notes about the Maori division of time; there are also notes about 19th century conflicts between Ngapuhi and Ngati Maru, and about Ngapuhi claims to the Kingitanga and associated titles Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1880-1899

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-151

Description: Letters from acquaintances and friends, mainly on non-legal matters. Includes a Miner's Right issued to Chapman, letters concerning Maori culture, botany and proposals for the naming of the Tasman Sea, as well as political gossip, especially re the Seddon Ministry. Not all names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1872-1918

By: Tregear, Edward Robert, 1846-1931

Reference: MS-Papers-0554

Description: Includes 2 poems, letters on his retirement as Secretary of the Department of Labour, a letter from King Kalakaua I of Hawaii, and a letter conferring on him the position of `Officer of Academie' of France. Also a sketch of his life by his daughter. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (11 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms (photocopies)

Date: 1907

From: Booth, Leonard Hampden, 1879-1974 :[Cuttings of cartoons and caricatures from the "Exhibition sketcher" (Christchurch), the "Triad", and the "Sydney bulletin". 1906-1915].

Reference: A-350-021

Description: Shows a full-length standing portrait of Edward Robert Tregear, the political reformer and multi-linguist. His head is shown as much larger than his body, and he wears a handle-bar moustache Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on paper, 215 x 140 mm Provenance: Donated by Ms Honiana Love, in 2000.

Date: [1925-1973]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Papers

Reference: 77-067-5/2

Description: Persons entered under Name; many of the files include letters about the subject from other people. The general `W' file includes clippings on Osmar White, A F Webb and Prof Leicester Webb; the file on Treadwell includes correspondence while on active service with the Middle East Forces. The `T' general file includes a flyer for `The Life and times of Sir Julius von Haast' by H F von Haast and clippings on Baeyertz and the `Triad', on Robert Riley (d 1939), I L Thomsen, Pamela Travers, Greville Texidor and T D Taylor. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1901-1921

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-277

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (38 pieces).

Date: [ca 2000-2004]

From: Jones, Jenny Robin, 1947- : Research papers and transcripts

Reference: MS-Papers-11793-17

Description: Contains photocopies of biographical information, newspaper clippings, notes and other materials regarding Edward Tregear. Also includes listings of Turnbull Library materials relating to Tregear, and photocopies of a letter written by Tregear to Reeves, Turnbull Library reference number qMS-1680. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1895-1900]

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-039

Description: Mainly dealing with the Mortlock and Ponapean languages. Includes covering letters to S P Smith and Edward Tregear. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1909

By: Tregear, Edward Robert, 1846-1931

Reference: MS-Papers-0777/2

Description: Contents include typescript poem; `The Winter-Sleep' signed, 21 Jun 1909; essay; `The commercial Kaiser' Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopies)

Date: 1914-1908

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-099

Description: Letters from members of government, officials and a number of other writers. Includes proposals by Chapman for a national museum and other items connected with his interest in Maori ethnography. A signed menu to a dinner at the Dunedin Club, held on 19 Sep 1903, to honour Chapman's appointment as judge, is included. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1890

From: White, John, 1826-1891 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0075-B37C

Description: Contains correspondence between the department and Mrs Mary White regarding the end of her husband's employment; including final pay details, the return of government property Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1891-1897

From: Polynesian Society: Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1187-113

Description: Mainly inward correspondence to Peal from a wide range of people with like interests in linguistics and anthropology. Includes some copies of outwards correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: A detailed list of correspondents is given in the hardcopy Polynesian Society inventory.

Date: 1892-1910

Reference: MS-Papers-0922

Description: Manuscripts of verse which appear to have been edited for publication. Authors include: Francis Adams, Hubert Church, Ernest Currie, Jessie Mackay, Seaforth Mackenzie, D M Ross, E Tregear, Arnold Wall, Anne Glenny Wilson and Dora Wilcox Quantity: 1 folder(s) (25 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)