Tauranga Confiscation

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Archive SummaryList of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information. 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.NameTauranga ConfiscationPresented ByDr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.Finding aidsTauranga 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.LocationStorage - New Zealand Rare Books.AccessRequest access to the physical archive

White marble frieze of Gate Pā depicting a mortally wounded Lieutenant Jackson Parkin Booth lying at Rāwiri Puhirake Tuaia’s feet while Henare Wiremu Taratoa brings a calabash of water. Frieze is titled ‘Chivalry on the field of battle’ and appears on Puhirake's memorial, a monument to the Tauranga Wars sourced from Identity and the Battle of Gate Pā at Pukehinahina (29 April 1864) by Debbie McCauley (Tauranga City Libraries), licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License

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CollectionArchives Held by the Library - Non Digitised