Papers relating to post war land tenure in the Western Bay of Plenty and other related material

Date1867-1948Reference NumberAms 270/1Collection SummaryThe papers within this series focus mainly on the allocation of land in the post Land War period, and the reaction of Māori to this allocation. Other miscellaneous items with links to land ownership/tenure.DescriptionSeries comprises of three boxes: Box 467, Box 468, Box 469:

Box: 467:

Various DOSLI files & other miscellaneous papers, including: Material from Jim Shepherd on Native Reserves
Lot 202 Town of Tauranga (Haua vs Kata Tamihana (Thompson))
Tuapiro Point claim
Native School Site 7th Avenue, Tauranga
Confiscated Block 1871
Plan of surveys on the confiscated land 1870 (DOSLI Head Office A69/F7)
AJHR references
Bethlehem School Site
Tauranga Plan references
List of Māori Tribes & chiefs 1868
Tauranga lands 1886-1906
Te Mete Raukawa
Katikati-Te Puna Purchase
Katikati - Te Puna Purchase: copy of plan on Māori deed No. 276 dated May 16 1871
Lot 210 Parish of Te Puna
Ōtūmoetai
Survey plan of Farrow's land at Ōtūmoetai mad by J. D. Brown Feb. 1864
Hamiora Tu
Mackay’s Special File 5 re Whitaker 1866: DOSLI 1/3
Mackay’s Special File 6 re Pirirākau: DOSLI 1/6
Miscellaneous correspondence in Māori, 1860s

Box 468:

Tauranga Moana Petitions 1867-1940s
Māori biographies: Hori Tupaea, Akuhata Tupaea, Hori Ngatai, Kaikohe Kereti Roretana (Goss Rolleston), Turirangi Te Kani, Mabel Wharekawa Burt, Renata Ormsby, Robert Terry, Patrick Gardiner
"Matiu Tahu: tohunga and Christian teacher" JTHS No. 49 1973
Halcombe Report AJHR 1871/1872
Tauranga lands AJHR (Wilson report 1879
Douglas petition 1879
Brabant report 1886
Removal of restriction on sale 1886)
Raupatu submissions
Matakana Island Dining Hall plans

Petition details for documents in Box 468
including:

Raupatu Project (RP) material: 1867 Petition of Tauranga natives NZPD 1867 Vol 1, Part 1
1873 (RP) Alfred Faulkner, Tauranga
1873 (RP) Petition of Te Reita Ngakohiku of Tauranga
1876 (RP) Petition Ngaiterangi, Tauranga (Nicholls family)
1877 (RP) Petition No. 259 Wiremu Te Whareiro and others, Ngatikupenga (Ngāti Pukenga) tribe of Tauranga
1878 (RP) Petition No. 143 Winika Hohepa, Katikati/Te Puna
1879 (RP) Petition No. 333/78 Ripeha W. Turiponi, Tauranga
1880 (RP) Petition No. 1879/216 Korowhiti Tuataka (Mrs Douglas) Okauia, Oharekapa, Te Wairere Blocks
1880 (RP) Petition No. 296 Moananui Wharenui and others, Whareroa Block
1911 (RP) Petition No. 146/11 Potaua Maihi and others of Pirirākau tribe, Te Puna, Tauranga
1911 Petition No. 323/11 Te Wanakore Maungapohatu of Ngāti Pirirākau, Te Puna
1912 (RP) Petition no 87/12 Te Reneti Te Whauwhau and others, Tūhua or Mayor Island, Tauranga
1915 (RP) Petition No. 95/15 Tamatehura Winika, that subdivision of Matakana be revised
1915 (RP) Petition No. 99/15 Ramarihi Te Uru Tekohiwi and 2 others of Maungatapu, Tauranga, that subdivision of Hairini Block be revised
"Confiscated native lands and other grievances : Royal Commission to inquire into confiscation of native lands and other grievances alleged by Natives (Report of) 1928 AJHR G7
1928 Petition No. 20 Te Hautapu Wharehira and 23 others
1944 (RP) Petition No. 71/1944 Mate Ratoru Mikare of Tauranga, praying for inquiry into Tauranga confiscated lands
1944 (RP) Petition No. 88/1944 Raniera Hiamoe and 90 others of Tauranga, for compensation for unjust confiscation of Ngāti Ranginui tribal lands
1944 (RP) Petition No. 89/1944 Sam Kohu and 212 others of Tauranga, inquiry into confiscation of Ngāti Ranginui tribal lands
1944 (RP) Petition No. 108/1944 J. Douglas, that land in Katikati Te Puna Blocks (Aongatete) be restored to Ngāti Hinerangi or compensation paid
1944 (RP) Petition No. 120/1944 Ngatoko Rahipere and 90 others, Tauranga, Ngāti Ranginui and Waitaha hapu of Arawa
1944 (RP) Petition No. 124/1944 H. H. Piahana and others of Tauranga, Tauranga confiscated lands (Ngāti Kauaetara and Ngāti Ranginui)
1945 (RP) Petition No. 46/1945 G. R. Hall and others of Tauranga, praying for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into Tauranga confiscations
1948 (RP) Petition No. 68/1948 G. R. Hall and 47 others, Auckland, for tribunal to investigate claims of Ngāti Ranginui Tauranga

Box 469:

Putnam Report (Sergeant Major P. Putnam, Tauranga Station, Armed Constabulary, Report on his district 1872 (photocopied report and sketch map)
James Cowan, Stories of NZ (from NZ Herald 1930s and other miscellaneous items from scrapbook kept by E. L. Adams. Includes articles on Tūhua/Mayor Island, Tapsell )
Tauranga County Council letters (1976) re original site of Katikati township and Kauri Point subdivision
JTHS No. 27 1966 "A hundred years at Yatton Park" by V. Macmillan
Map from book, North Island confiscated lands (No source)
Photocopy of portion of "map of the North Island of New Zealand showing railway and principal steamer and coach routes" . University of Waikato reference 530 BH [ca. 1920]
Tauranga Confiscation: Lands returned, Dept. Lands and Survey files (Schedule of lands awarded to friendly natives within the 50,000 acre block actually confiscated
H. T. Clarke's Schedule 1867 (May- June) confiscated block
Schedule 5, Greerton Lots
Reserves in confiscated block, Town of Tauranga and Katikati Purchase 1871
Clarkes Schedule 1872
H. T. Clarle 1875)
Deeds, Katikati-Te Puna block
glossy print of map showing "Māori earthworks" in Bay of Plenty
DOSLI file 14/32 re reserves Township of Tauranga (Lot 45 Town Hall site)
Signing of Treaty of Waitangi at Tauranga GBPP 1835-42 Vol. 3 IUP ed.
Native reserves Tauranga Township (cadastral map E. S. Wood Oct. 1909, Native Hostelry Reserve, Tauranga B. I. No. 6 AJHR 1870 D16
List of reserves, cadastral maps of Te Papa peninsula, Sulphur Point, Greerton (University of Waikato ref. 530.1251 BH 1887)
handwritten notes from Letter Book of District Surveyor Tauranga 1865-1867
Township of Tauranga: Mackay's list 1867
handwritten notes "Heaphy's list 1871
Notes town of Tauranga Sec. 1 Lot 343A, AJHR G15 1886 re "Land set apart for natives, handwritten references re reserves and lands returned, map "Tauranga 1864")
H. T. Clarke on Tauranga confiscation 1867 (A. N. Brown papers folder 107 and AJHR A20 1867 p. 61)
Land drainage : Kaituna-Waihi catchments (Kaituna Catchment Control Scheme), includes sketch maps and submission to Rotorua District Council from Tauranga Moana District Māori Council
Christchurch Press article May 26 1959 "Medical lore of the old-time Māori" re Agnes Faulkner's address to the Tauranga branch of the Registered Nurse's Association
Population statistics for Bay of Plenty 1971-1981
Dept. Lands and Survey schedule of Faulkner family lands at Katikati
Tauranga County Chairmen, Clerks & Engineers 1877-1978
Tauranga County Council, Ngwaro Village subdivision information 3/5/1976 ref B/1/3
Tauranga District chronological summary
"Special file: W. Mackays reports on Tauranga lands, 7 February 1867 DOSLI files 1/1" (Surveys 1866, confiscated block, Pirirākau objections, W. Tamihana/Waikato [unreadable])
"Panuitanga re Katikati, 12 Mei 1866" see notes field below
Statistics re Cultivated farmland in Tauranga County 1870-1910 and Livestock in Tauranga County 1878-1910
Population figures for Mount Maunganui 1945-1956 from Borough Town Clerk, 1957
Population figures for Tauranga 1945-1956 fro Assistant Town Clerk, 1957
Blundell's Mill, Waimapu River (Flour mill
Obituaries for Miss Alice Maxwell of "The Elms"
Typewritten document "Oraitiana 1837" about the Wright family who purchased land at Gate Pa. Includes genealogy details
Sketch map of highways around Wairoa and Te Puna areas, Tawhitinui Pa marked close to Whakamarama Road
handwritten map and cross-section details of "Pa at Shank's Farm (Managed by Pirret??) [at] Oropi. Waiorohi Stream marked on map. Accompanied by two excercise book pages with additional notes relating to the pa?
Typewritten copy of letter by Sir George Grey (public notification 20/7/1876) re creation of the "Katikati Highway District"
On same paper typewritten note re Bay of Plenty Times 29 December 1881 defining boundaries of said district
Copy of map of Tauranga County
Bay of Plenty Times article by A. W. McMillan "Communist challenge met with the Bible"
Brochure put out by Centre for Continuing Education, University of Waikato advertising Saturday seminar led by Evelyn Stokes re account of recent archaeological excavationa at Kauri Point and Ongare Point. Held at Katikati College, April 1980.

Rough translation of pānui contained in box 469 re land issues in Katikati area: ‘All Māori people of the tribes of the area of Tauranga to Katikati, wanting to express a response to them for that land, we should meet at Katikati on Wednesday 20th of June 1886; to look carefully at their proposal for that area. In the event that the fair and just transaction of money of the person to the land to give money at that time. In the event that a person does not attend the hui, the thought will be to turn over the korero to the Government and his payment. The government does not agree.’ From the Commission Office of Commission Auckland, 12 May, 1866CreatorStokes, Evelyn Mary (Dame), 1936-2005New Zealand. Office of Treaty SettlementsMangatawa Pāpāmoa Blocks IncorporationLevelSeriesSystem of ArrangementThe original order of the series has been maintained and arranged into fifteen series which reflect the major activities of the creator over the years.LanguageEnglishTe Reo Māori

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Papers relating to post war land tenure in the Western Bay of Plenty and other related material