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Date: 1992

From: Composers' Association of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-10101-21

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1841-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2847

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1850-1909

By: Baines family

Reference: MS-Papers-1125

Description: Correspondence and diary of William Mortimer Baines who came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. The papers deal with his interests in mining, timber and land. Includes letters from the Fooks, Dixon and Hunt families of Australia. Includes letters from Maryanne Verdon Baines (1859-1869), mostly to her husband after his departure for England. These are concerned to a large extent with her loneliness in Auckland and with plans for her voyage to England. In addition there are a number of letters written in 1869, by Maryanne and William's children, Fanny, Katherine and Rosa. Source of title - Supplied William Mortimer, came to New Zealand in 1850 on the `Sir Edward Paget'. In 1869 he returned to Britain, although he retained a financial interest in land in New Zealand. Quantity: 10 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (photocopies) Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1888-1915

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2291

Description: Comprises annual reports 1888-1898 and cuttings 1882-1915 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 30 June 1943-31 Dec 1944

By: Hanrahan, Pauline Noele, 1917-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-5545

Description: Hanrahan qualified as a registered nurse in 1940 and joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in July 1943. She sailed the same month from Wellington as a nurse aboard the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. During 1943 and early 1944 the `Oranje' made several trips between Port Said and South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In the later part of 1944 the `Oranje' travelled mainly between the United Kingdom and Italy carrying wounded military personnel. Hanrahan left the ship in Cairo in Dec 1944 and served in the Cairo Number One General Hospital for the remainder of her war service. The diaries cover the period 30 June 1943-31 December 1944 and describe her experiences aboard the `Oranje'. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1981-1982

From: Dahm, Astrida, 1950-2002 : Journals

Reference: MSX-6812

Description: Journal kept by Dahm, mostly in German, while she travelled in the Pacific, Australia and New Zealannd; includes died wool samples, drawings, illustrations, paintings, photographs etc Language - Dahm recorded in German though there is a small amount of English included Arrangement: Loose papers at MS-Papers-7904-5 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photograph of Astrida Dahm.

Date: [1914?]

By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-

Reference: MS-0832

Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 2002, [2003]

By: Lutheran Church of New Zealand

Reference: MS-Papers-8080

Description: Memoir recorded by Gerhard Fischer in 2002 describing his life; he begins from the time of his birth in 1918, describes family circumstances, living in Adelaide, their church associations, economic situation, education, training as a minister, his marriage, birth of his children, his various postings which included Christchurch, New Zealand, from which he travelled to Timaru, Dunedin and Hanmer Springs ministerting to immigrants, other travel experiences, family changes and development etc Source of title - Supplied and transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with photocopies of photographs and illustrations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Lutheran Church of New Zealand, per Rev Dr Steen Olsen, Palmerston North, Aug 2004

Date: 1889-1936

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2804

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1838-1972

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2849

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1923-1949

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1956

Description: Reports and correspondence of the Manager and Secretary of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 7 Jan 1853-3 Dec 1880, 1922, 1939,1946

By: Smith, Elizabeth Gael, active 1946-2006

Reference: MS-Group-1550

Description: Collection comprises: Two letters and one telegram to Mr David Smith concerning employment on power line construction at Maungatapere and Tutira, and possible accommodation there. From Robert Williamson and C McIntyre. Also includes correspondence relating to the McLeod family, Nova Scotian settlers of Waipu. A letter to Rev Norman McLeod in Australia and letters to his daughter-in-law, Margaret McLeod, and her family, from her sister Catherine Matheson and her family. A copy of the booklet `Idyll of the Shipbuilders' on the history of the Nova Scotia settlement at Waipu. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typed transcripts, printed matter Transfers: Material received into Manuscripts, material transferred from here to the Published Collection, November 2006 - From Photographic Archive - Three letters - To Published Collections - Copies of `Idyll of the Shipbuilders' (PR-06-0568).

Date: 1971

By: Cook, George Pilkington (Rev), 1893-1973

Reference: MS-Papers-2205

Description: Reminiscences cover 1893-1905 Cook's family emigrated, 1899, from Australia to Huntly, where his father was Methodist agent, and thence to Dannevirke and Johnsonville Quantity: 1 folder(s) (103 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1926-1928

From: New Zealand Council for Educational Research : Various studies

Reference: MS-Papers-7064-18

Description: Corrected typescript draft of Coad's book (1926), `The History of the Pacific' (pages 215-312). Chapters 15-18 cover Australia and New Zealand, yesterday and today, the special interests of America, New Zealand and Australia in the Pacific and the political history of the Pacific Islands. Relationship complexity - See Printed Collections for copy of Coad's book, 990 COA Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1998

By: Kotani, Tetsuya, active 1998

Reference: MSY-4759

Description: Report by Kotani describing his visit to Australian and New Zealand libraries; includes Auckland City Library, Statistics of NZ, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington City Libraries, Macquarie University Library, State Library of NSW, Fisher Library, University of Sydney, AUSTRADE, Dept of Foreigh Affairs and Trade, the National Library of Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the library of ANU Language - The report is in Japanese Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr T Kotani, Japan, Jul 1998, per Mr D Harlen, National Library of New Zealand, Nov 1998

Date: 1855-1900

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2910

Description: Selected papers from the records of James Baine and Co, the James Ireland letters (these include a letter written by George & Susan Patterson giving details of their voyage to Auckland on the `Rock City' 1855), and the William Midgley and Captain Henry Hatchwell papers, as well as journals of J T Deighton, F G Pearson and Sarah Stephens and one anonymous writer Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864-1911

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2051

Description: Comprise selected papers of the Fortescue, Seymour, Lillicrap, Gidley, Kilner, Kitson, Luxton and Tanner families Other Titles - Colonial Floras Other Titles - A history of the British Army Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 30 Sep 1928-11 Jan 1934

Reference: MS-Papers-0838

Description: Comprises NZ Dept of Health forms, Outward bill of health for the `Southern Cross' under command of Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith for 1st NZ to Australia flight (8-9 Oct 1928). Also letter carried on the `Southern Cross' flight, Richmond-New Plymouth (13 Jan 1934, written 11 Jan 1934). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms and printed matter (annotated) (photocopies)

Date: 1981-1989

By: Bosdet, Joan Mary, 1916-1996

Reference: MS-Group-1974

Description: Collection comprises three travel albums compiled by Bosdet which include details of her visits to New Zealand. Albums are in scrapbbok format and include diary entries, photographs, postcards, ephemera, maps, sketches and printed booklets. Source of title - Supplied by Library Bosdet worked as a school inspector and in museum education. She visited New Zealand three times on personal trips and on behalf of the Advisory Council for Education (ACE). Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, typescripts, photographs, ephemera, sketches and printed matter Provenance: The collection was originally depsoited with the Institute of Education, University of London by an unidentified donor in 2009. These volumes are part of that original deposit which have now been dispered into seperate collections (Information sourced from NRA Archives, 11 Apr 2011: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=archives-nra;3a01c3f0.0907)

Date: 1885-1952

By: Pearce family

Reference: 90-216

Description: Correspondence, reminiscences and papers relating to the career of A L Pearce in theatre and film, and in regard to his directing in Hollywood during the 1920s. Drafts of screen-plays for projected theosophical films `Redemption', `Natura' and `Charistra visits Mars'; and scripts for `Arms and the man' (George Bernard Shaw), `Invisible foe', 'Faust', and the film script for `The Stoker'. Theatrical and film ephemera, including programmes, news clippings and publicity brochures, and two scrapbooks containing New Zealand theatre advertising and programmes, kept by Jessie Pearce. Draft of a `Chronology of Australian Theatre', compiled by Harry H Musgrove, and given to Pearce for checking. Papers relating to the Esoteric-Ethical-Philosophy, which Pearce had followed since 1900; includes notebooks on reincarnation, minutes of group meetings, descriptions of the Brotherhood and other material. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 box(es). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: Preliminary listing available. Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Map of the Brotherhood (Ink and colour on linen); Key to map in box 3 - To Photographic Archive - 39 film publicity, family and other photographs.