Whakaahua Tipuna/Whānau
It is believed that this photo was published in the Otago Witness following their wedding.
Last month Te Pānui Rūnaka published the below image on the back page and requested names or information be provided about the photograph. This photo is in the Ngāi Tahu Archive at Macmillan Brown Library, and is entitled A Bluff couple, sourced by Mrs Payne. We would like to acknowledge and thank Michael Stevens, Gary Stewart, Ray Hore, Andrew Burns, Bill Dacker, Greg Coop, Ray Waterreus and Juanita Hoani for making contact and for providing names and information.
There was differing information offered about this photograph though, one caller advised that he had identified the gentleman in the photograph as being Joe Hunter. The Hunter family were originally from Stewart Island and for many years Joe Hunter was a lighthouse keeper on Ruapuke Island.
The majority of the callers who made contact with us advised that this is a photo of husband and wife (and also cousins) William Isaac Haberfield II (1874 or 1875 – 1936) and Ritea ‘Ruby’ Haberfield (née Rehu; 1885 – 1907). We were also advised that they would be better described as a Moeraki couple, rather than a Bluff couple. Further information details that William Isaac is a son of John Kerle Haberfield and Elizabeth “Noki” Haberfield (née Honor, formerly Newton) and was raised in the Oue/Omaui/Greenhills area. Noki was born on Whenua Hou in 1839 to Popoia and Joseph Honor. John Kerle was born at Moeraki in 1845 to William Isaac Haberfield (1815-1907) and Meriana Teitei ( c.1810-1852). Noki and John were married at the Ruapuke Schoolhouse in 1870. Ritea (a fellow descendant of William Isaac and Teitei) was raised at Moeraki and she and William were married at the Hampden Registry Office in late 1906.
Hokonui hui
Hokonui administrative staff in attendance, Robyn was able to gather further information about who was who in those photographs.
On 30 July Robyn Walsh from the Ngāi Tahu Archives team travelled to Hokonui Rūnanga in Gore with Jennifer Walsh (Ngāi Tahu Fund), Donna Flavell and Che Wilson (Strategy and Influence).
Both Terry Nicholas and Rewi Anglem also showed photographs from their collections to Robyn.
Robyn was able to share a little information about the Ngāi Tahu Archives and what the Archives team are trying to achieve in relation to one of our on-going projects, which focuses on the identification of people, places and events captured in photographs from the Ngāi Tahu Archives and the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu photograph collection.
Thank you to Rewi Anglem, Terry Nicholas, Amanda and Penny for their gracious hospitality in allowing Robyn to attend their hui.
Robyn took some photographs of the 1990 opening of Hokonui Marae, from the TRoNT collection, along with some other Hokonui Rūnanga related photographs. It was wonderful that, with help from the Hokonui Rūnanga executive committee, whānau members and From left, Robyn Walsh and Terry Nicholas naming people in photographs from the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu photograph collection.
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