Produce trade - Pacific area

Date: 1840-1902

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0062

Description: Unpublished history, describing the establishment of the company, its Circular Saw Shipping Line and Pacific island trade interests. Includes references to Handley Bathurst Sterndale and `Bully' Hayes, the `seige' of the Suwarrow fort built by Sterndale, and the 1890 Pacific cruise by Robert Louis Stevenson on the `Janet Nicol'. The history finishes in 1902. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also "Complete annotated catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has an index. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Supplied by Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Canberra

Date: [1918-1926]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-160

Description: Arrangement: No number in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1871-1876

From: Phillips, Coleman, 1846-1925 : Papers

Reference: 73-150-03

Description: Volume labelled `South Sea Island papers, my petition of 1876, also a copy of the statutes of Fiji Kingdom under Cakobau' comprising papers A3, A3A, A3B, `Papers relating to the South Sea Islands, their natural products, trade resources &c' (AJHR, 1874), clippings relating to the petition, and parliamentary Acts of Fiji, nos 1-18 (1871) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Preliminary listing in Back file.

Date: 1848-1849

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3596

Description: Concerning Tahiti, especially with regard to the declaration of the Second Republic in 1848, the repression of the subsequent uprising, the question of both refugees to Australia and New Zealand, and the exile of political prisoners to Tahiti. Also includes the question of British missions in Tahiti and some material on French trade to the Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1866-1927, 2012

By: Laracy, Hugh Michael, active 1979-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-11449

Description: Folder comprises letter from Laracy to Rhys Richards detailing Laracy's article on Captain William Ross. Accompanying the letter are copies of newspaper articles relating to Ross, and an annotated copy of a transcription of `The diary of Captain William Ross'. Laracy notes the provenance of the transcription and the diary itself are both unknown. The original diary was written in 1927 and records Ross' career as a sailor, trader and captain in the South Pacific. Ross traded between Auckland and Niue, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands. For 25 years he captained the barquentine Ysabel between Auckland and Niue. Ross was also involved with Mr A Tindall in the purchase of property and trading stores in the Tongan group of islands. Also a photocopy of a newspaper cutting relating to Falcon Island in the Tongan group of islands. Source of title - Transcribed by Library Captain William Ross sailed in the South Pacific as a mariner and trader for sixty years (1866-1926). Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript and printed material (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr R Richards, Porirua, Feb 2013

Date: [1920-1939]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-128

Description: Research papers relating to Captain Matthew T Clayton including a 29 page handwritten account [Cowan has annotated with 'written by Captain Clayton Oct 1920'] which has been titled 'Sandlewooding' by Cowan, plus two pages of pencil drawings including one of the Statesman stuck on a mud bank. Also a handwritten letter to Cowan from Captain Clayton, also is a narrative of 'Sandlewood Cruises in the Western Pacific' dated 1920. A typescript of 'Adventures of Captain Clayton' and related newspaper clippings. Arrangement: 48 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1900 - 1910

Reference: A-423-011

Description: Ink sketch shows smiling Polynesian Islanders in grass skirts. Around a group at left are boxes of Morton's mixed pickles, London; W Gregg & Co Black pepper Dunedin, Rum, and Keen's Mustard. One man prepares a fire with a cooking pot; he wields a knife with the name "Pampa" written on it. Two others look on as a central figure in grass skirt and top hat extends his hand in greeting towards a European man at the far right, disembarking from a boat with a bag labeled "Carr... Mission". However the top hatted figure holds a weapon behind his back. Seated on the palm-lined beach, possibly to attract the European, sits a smiling native woman. Other Titles - Good girl Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 250 x 308 mm, mounted on card 300 x 370 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1932

From: [Ephemera, menus, programmes relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly used on voyages to New Zealand. 1920-1939]

By: Hunt, Alice Suisana, 1925-2019

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-1930-01

Description: Recto shows an island woman sitting under thatched shelter, with a basket of fruit and coconuts, on a beach. Below is a photograph of a street in Apia. Verso has photographs of Niue Island and Kingston (Norfolk Island). Prices and routes are detailed. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Flyer printed on both sides, 284 x 211 mm. Provenance: Donated by Alison Hunt-O'Keefe in 1999.

Date: 1934

From: Union Steamship Company of New Zealand :Ephemera collected on board the Maunganui, and other Union Line ships 1925-1958, 1969.

Reference: Eph-B-SHIP-Maunganui-1934-01

Description: Menu card for luncheon on board the ship 'Maunganui' shows an illustration of two Pacific Islands seen from the back, pointing out an approaching steamship, on which they will load the collection of coconuts, bananas and other tropical crops waiting beside them. The menu includes New Zealand cheddar. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 192 x 116 mm.