Nelson City Council

Tasman Bays Heritage Trust / Nelson Provincial Museum, Copy Collection, C3554

140 High Street
Motueka
Ph +64 3 528 7660
Email contact

Access

• December to June
  10.00am - 4.00pm Monday to Friday
  10.00am - 2.00pm Saturday
• July to November
  10.00am - 3.00pm Tuesday to Friday
  10.00am - 12noon Saturday

Services

All permanent and seasonal exhibitions

Research Room

The historical association has its archives housed at the museum. These are accessible on a Tuesday when the research room is manned or by writing a letter of enquiry.

There are several indexes that the genealogy group has produced; these are freely available in the Research Room.

Charges

$2.00 adults; 50cents children

Contact

Manager Pauline Westall

Research Charges

Motueka and District Historical Association
c/- Jennie Askew
Lodder Lane
RD3
Motueka

Research Fee $15.00 per hour for correspondence research

$10.00 if material required to be fetched from archives

Motueka Genealogy Group
c/- Coralie Smith
7 Wakatu Place
Motueka
Email contact

Donation is required plus photocopying fees.

Photocopying may be done at the museum

• A4 25cents
• A3 30 cents

Resources

• Fergus Holyoake Photograph Collection.1500 photos covering 20 categories of local interest. Indexed by name and subject Copies may be ordered for $2.00 A4 laser copy on card.
• Large library of books on local history
• Family reunion booklets
• Family histories
• Scrapbooks kept by local people- indexed by name and subject
• Early Settlers Name Index covering all published material above and the area Mapua, Motueka, Ngatimoti, Riwaka, Abel Tasman Park, Moutere.

Cemetery Records

• Cemetery records for Tasman District Council areas- indexed

Education

• School Admission Registers Index
• School Reunion booklets- for most local schools

Electoral Rolls, Census, Directories

• Directories: Wises, Post Office directories

Land

• Land Deeds- indexed collection of many local areas

Newspapers

• Motueka Star 1901-1910 (not complete) indexed by name