Archives Held by the Library

Abbotsford Inquiry papers

Presented By:

Professor John McCraw (member of inquiry)

Brief Description:

7 boxes and 26 books of evidence etc

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Abortion Papers

Presented By:

Professor Ian Pool, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Nine cartons of papers, largely reprints.

Finding Aids:

List of articles available.

Location:

Off Campus (Crown) Storage

Anti-Apartheid and Race Relations Archive
(a.k.a. Michael Law Collection)

Presented By:

Michael Law, Centre for Labour and Trade Union Studies,
University of Waikato, in 1990.

Brief Description:

95 numbered boxes containing material relating to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Race Relations in New Zealand and covering the period c.1969 to 1982.

Finding Aids:

A schedule identifying the contents of each box is available.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner papers

Brief Description:

1 box. Material assembled by Leigh Pearson when working on MA thesis

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Hector Bethune papers

Presented By:

Kathryn Mercer

Brief Description:

1 box of papers

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

John Burt Patrick papers

Brief Description:

1 box of personal papers, etc from a Waterside worker

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Conrad Coker papers

Presented By:

Geoffrey Coker

Brief Description:

1 box with diary and background papers

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Davy Family papers

Presented By:

J. McCallum and D. Holman

Brief Description:

1 box with memoirs, correspondence and background papers

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Margaret (Peg) Dewes papers

Presented By:

Sarah Dewes (daughter of the late Margaret (Peg) Dewes)

Brief Description:

6 boxes of material (photographs, correspondence, programmes, newspaper clippings, tape and video recordings) relating to:

• The Cambridge Music School
• The Community Arts Service
• Lili Kraus
• New Zealand Musical figures Douglas Lilburn, Owen Jensen, Layton Ring, Dorothea Turner and Gwyneth Brown

Margaret (Peg) Dewes (nee Barnett) first met Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus, and her family, in 1943, following their release from a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp in Java. Lili and her family were billeted at the Barnett farm in Tirau for several weeks, and thus began a lifelong friendship and shared love of music. The Barnett family played a key role in forming one of the first Community Arts Service (CAS) committees in Tirau in 1946. Peg attended the first and second Cambridge Music School in 1946 and 1947 where Lili held a masterclass. By this stage Lili had become a naturalized New Zealander.

Peg and Lili enjoyed a rich friendship until Lili’s death in 1986. Whenever Lili returned to New Zealand for a concert tour she would often stay with the Dewes family, and became a specially loved visitor to the Dewes home at 150 Te Rapa Rd, Hamilton. The Friends of Lili Kraus group was started after Lili settled in Texas, and Peg was instrumental in ensuring ongoing visits. Lili came frequently to New Zealand to perform and run master classes, including one at The University of Waikato.

After Lili's death, Peg Dewes began the Lili Kraus scholarship for students in The University of Waikato Department of Music. Peg died in 2019, and her collection of papers, memorabilia and writings of this extraordinary 70 year period of musical and CAS history, have been gifted to University of Waikato by the Dewes family.

Finding aids:

A listing is available online - Finding Aid for Margaret (Peg) Dewes Papers

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through Library staff who will refer you to the Mātangireia Librarian or the Music Librarian 9.00 am - 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. Once day's notice is required.

John C. Galbraith letters

Brief Description:

2 boxes of letters and background material. Galbraith was a Te Puke storekeeper who corresponded with family in Glasgow.

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Len Gale papers

Brief Description:

1 box of material associated with the 1951 Waterfront strike.

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Patricia Glasgow diaries

Presented By:

her family

Brief Description:

4 boxes of diaries and background material. Glasgow lived in the Waikato and kept a diary from the 1930s through to 2000.

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

R.S. Grant diaries

Brief Description:

I box of diaries from the late 1940s and background material. Grant returned to Hamilton after World War II.

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Rebekah Hasman-Judd papers

Brief Description:

3 boxes of material, 2 relating to her Waikato thesis on hydroelectric power generation on the Waikato River. 1 box holding Waikato Women’s electoral Lobby correspondence and also an envelope containing Antisemitic letters to the Waikato times.

Finding aids:

lists in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Huntly Monitoring Project

Brief Description:

8 boxes

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Bruce Liley archive

Presented By:

Margaret Liley

Brief Description:

29 boxes of research papers, etc from Waikato Physics professor plus Royal Commission on Nuclear Energy papers. Some papers confidential.

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

John Mansfield Thomson Archive

Presented By:

Associate Professor Martin Lodge

Brief Description:

90 boxes of papers, photographs and recordings relating to the interests and work of the late John Mansfield Thomson. He was New Zealand's foremost musicologist and the archive includes his studies for the "Biographical dictionary of New Zealand composers" and the "Oxford history of New Zealand music". Also his work on the journal "Early Music", caricature and music in 18th century Britain, and print design.

Finding Aids:

A listing is available online - Finding Aid for John Mansfield Thomson Archive

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Mary Mclean diaries

Brief Description:

1 box with diaries, photographs and ephemera from a Waikato woman covering 1930s to 1990s.

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Donald P. McMurray

Brief Description:

1 box of papers relating to Māori education in Taumarunui and Whanganui

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

(Gabriel) Elliott Minute Books (Native Land Court)

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

A copy of the Minute Book of Gabriel Elliott who was a Native Agent in Te Kuiti from the 1940s to about 1960. This is a personal record including notes on cases in the Māori Land Court.

Finding Aids:

None

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

(William Henry) Grace Diaries

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Copies of the diaries of W.H. Grace for the years 1882 and 1884. W.H. Grace was a son of the CMS missionary T.S. Grace. He lived at Kihikihi and operated as a Native Agent and Licensed interpreter.

Finding Aids:

None

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Huntly Mine Papers

Presented By:

Dr Philip Hart, Department of History,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Coal industry information and mining papers, with special reference to Huntly and the explosion at Ralph's Mine in 1913. Papers were from D.G. McRae.

Finding Aids:

None

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Pei Te Hurinui Jones Papers

Presented By:

Brian Jones, son of the late Pei Te Hurinui Jones.

Brief Description:

80 boxes of papers, manuscripts and photographs, and many books relating to the interests and work of the late Pei Jones, 1898-1976.

Finding Aids:

An excellent typed inventory held in the New Zealand Collection Office.

Location:

Level 4, Mahi Māreikura.

Access:

Access is available to bona fide researchers. Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Opotiki Confiscation

(List of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information)

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

One box (containing the contents of three original boxes) of copies of papers comprising the Opotiki records of the Compensation Court set up under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 and Amendments and includes Minutes of the Court Sittings, etc.

Finding Aids:

38 pages of notes list the organisation of the three original boxes and the arrangement of the original folders within each box.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Ormsby Family Papers

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Copies of papers comprising some Māori materials relating mainly to Ngāti Maniapoto and the King Country and compiled by John Ormsby of Otorohanga.

Finding Aids:

Three pages of notes held with papers.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of the Mātangireia.

Phillips Family Book

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

A copy of a book containing the record in Māori of the investigation of title by the Native Land Court for Whakamaru and Rotomahana-Parekarangi Blocks.

Finding Aids:

Sheet outlining division by pages.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

No access without the permission of the original donor, the Phillips family, and the Ngati Tahu Tribal Trust.

Raupatu Box 1

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

One small box containing four folders of copies of papers held in the Hamilton office of DOSLI - now Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

• Papers relating to sittings of Native Land Court in Taupo District 1868-71.
• Taranaki papers 1859-1868 held in Hamilton Office, Department of Survey and Land Information.
• Ngati Pukeko's claims 1869 (for losses by Te Kooti's people).
• Correspondence and Schedules, Municipal and Public Reserves within Confiscated Lands under New Zealand Settlements Act 1863.

Finding Aids:

None

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Raupatu Box 2

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

One small box containing two folders of copies of papers held in the Hamilton office of the Department of Survey and Land Information - now Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

• Ngati Pukeko's claims 1869 (for losses by Te Kooti's people), duplicate set.
• Waikato Confiscated lands Petition Nos. 15 & 29/1949.

Finding Aids:

None

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Jim Ritchie papers

Brief Description:

21 boxes of research papers, etc from Waikato psychology professor

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

G.J. Schmitt Papers

Presented By:

Brief Description:

6 boxes

Finding Aids:

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

C.H. Schnackenberg papers

Brief Description:

1 box of letterbooks and journals of a Wesleyan missionary in Raglan covering 1846 to 1880.

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Bishop Selwyn Collection

(a.k.a. Selwyn Collection of Early Māori Documents)

Presented By:

The Late Rt Rev W.J. Simkin, retired Bishop of Auckland, in 1967.

Brief Description:

Some 210 documents, largely letters written in Māori to Bishop Selwyn during the years 1842 to 1872. There are also thirty-seven miscellaneous items. All letters have been translated into English, and typed copies made of the translations and the original Māori.

For a comprehensive background of the collection including a brief biography of Bishop Selwyn, the discovery and translation of the letters, an overview of the topics discussed in the letters, and other relevant supporting documentation, see Bishop Selwyn Letters.

Finding Aids:

A list of letters is available. It is chronologically arranged and the name of the writer is given.
An author (i.e. writer of each letter) index is available.
Copies of these are held in the Mātangireia Office.

Location:

Original letters and documents and copies of the majority of letters are held in archival boxes in the Rare Books Room.

Access:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books. Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Douglas Seymour Papers

Collected By:

Bruce Wallace

Brief Description:

Three boxes of papers from the late Douglas Seymour, a Hamilton lawyer. They relate to the founding of the University of Waikato and other matters.

Finding Aids:

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Rosemary Seymour Collection

Presented By:

Dr William Sewell, son of the late Rosemary Seymour, in 1985.

Brief Description:

Some 220 boxes of the late Dr Rosemary Seymour's (1919-1984) papers. The chief emphasis of these papers is on women's studies, interpreted in its widest sense.

Finding Aids:

Excellent inventory in two folders.

Location:

Inventory is held in the Mātangireia Office. Papers are held in Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Access is available to bona fide researchers but only after consultation of the Inventory so relevant papers can be extracted for the researchers. Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday.

Sim Commission Papers

(Confiscated Lands)

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Copies in five folders.
These papers represent mainly miscellaneous notes on petitions, hearings and historical references prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, for the assistance of the Royal Commission to Inquire into Confiscations of Native Lands and other Grievances alleged by the Natives, headed by Sir William Sim. (See Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR) 1928 G7 for Report).
Papers refer only to Waikato, Tauranga and Bay of Plenty (Opotiki) Confiscations within the South Auckland Land District.

Finding Aids:

Two pages of explanatory notes.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Evelyn Stokes Collection

Presented By:

The family of the late Evelyn Stokes.

Brief Description:

Over 100 boxes of papers, research notes and photographs, and many books relating to the interests and work of the late Dame Evelyn Stokes, (1936-2005). Major topics covered include geography, geothermal resources, Māori land claims and history of the Māori.

Finding Aids:

An inventory is available.

Location:

Level 4, Mahi Mareikura and Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Tauranga Confiscation

List of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

One box containing 33 folders of copies of papers concerning the administration of Tauranga lands. The records cover the period from December 1864 to 1886 and include papers, reports from Mackay, Clarke and others and lists of 'awards' made before the Tauranga District Land Act was passed, correspondence, the allocation of reserves and the issue of Crown grants.

Finding Aids:

Tauranga Confiscation - Index of folders
Two pages of explanatory notes and a list of the contents of each folder - a copy of which is held with the papers.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Te Aroha Gold mining archive

Presented By:

Philip Hart

Brief Description:

4 boxes of research papers, etc supporting articles by Hart on the University of Waikato Research Commons

Finding aids:

list in box

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

United Women Convention Archive

Brief Description:

2 boxes of material related to the Convention held in Hamilton in 1976. [See also Rosemary Seymour papers]

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Waikato Confiscation

List of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information

Presented By:

Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography,
University of Waikato.

Brief Description:

Nine boxes of copies of papers comprising the Waikato records of the Compensation Court set up under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 and Amendments and include Minutes of Court sittings, records of agreement by Crown Agents, claims, correspondence, awards in land and money, and miscellaneous papers.

Finding Aids:

Waikato Confiscation - Index to Records. This booklet, held with each set, lists the organisation of the nine boxes and the arrangement of the folders within each box.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

W.G. Whittlestone Papers

Presented By:

Mrs Shirley Whittlestone, wife of the late Dr Whittlestone, in 1988.

Brief Description:

Some 150 boxes of papers relating to the interests and work of the late Dr Walter George Whittlestone (1913-1985). Major topics covered include the dairying industry, third world development, human lactation, breastfeeding, nuclear disarmament and the ethics of science.

Finding aids:

An inventory is held in the Mātangireia Office

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

To bona fide researchers. Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

G.T. Wilkinson diaries

Brief Description:

1 box with diaries and supporting material from Māori agent at Otorohanga in the late nineteenth century

Finding aids:

Location:

Storage – New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Kirby Wright

Presented By:

Margaret Wright

Brief Description:

1 large box with Maori photographs and slides taken when Kirby worked for Waikato Times.

Location:

Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.

Access:

Request through the staff of Mātangireia 9.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.