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Scrapbook No 2 :Notes and clippings on New Zealand genre
Date: 1929-1941
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew 1859-1944 :Scrapbooks, nos 1 and 2
Reference: qMS-1931
Description: Contains clippings on prominent people, organisations and issues of the time in New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph Printed matter
Moore, Thomas Richard, 1845-1957 : Reminiscences of Thomas R Moore of Waimarama
Date: 1845-[ca 1880] (1937)
By: Moore, Thomas Richard, 1845-1935
Reference: qMS-1385
Description: Includes brief account of his voyage to Lyttelton on board the Sir George Pollock with his parents, sisters and governess in 1851 Quantity: 1 volume(s) (13 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (28 cm; grey pamphlet case)
Travel in New Zealand; the island dominion; its life and scenery, pleasure-routes and s...
Date: 1926-1930
From: Cowan family: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11946-009
Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, New Zealand, in 1926. Annotations on front cover 'South Island N. Z. J. Cowan', and loose papers that were laid in to the volume, include newspaper cuttings, notes and correspondence. The letter is from Richard Henry (2 February 1929) of Helensville, and is addressed to The Editor of the Star Auckland, relating to wishing to share information with "J. C." about "the cause of our native birds dieing [sic] out". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed volume with loose papers in a folder
The English of the line and other verses/ Alan E Mulgan
Date: 1922-1925
From: Cowan family: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11946-016
Description: Published by Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, in 1925. Also includes some handwritten notes relating to the song of the riroriro, and a clipping of an article 'Birds in poetry' from John O'London's Weekly, 7 October 1922. The notes include a waiata supplied by Makurata (?) at Ruatahuna, relating to the riroriro bird (grey warbler), signalling the beginning of summer. Also a handwritten letter to James Cowan from Alan Mulgan (25 May 1932). Language - Waiata in Maori relating to the riroriro, otherwise in English. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed material and holographs
Programme 234 - Birds by Mr & Mrs L. Humphrey
Date: 28 April 1968
From: Open Country Sound Recordings
Reference: OHInt-0002/208
Description: Mr & Mrs Humphrey of 6 Totara St. Marton talk about the well-loved thrush that inhabited their garden for a number of years. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script at MS-Papers-1239, folder 71 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s).
Programme 423 - The dawn chorus by Dan Greaney
Date: 12 Dec 1971
From: Open Country Sound Recordings
Reference: OHInt-0002/382
Description: From Dan Greaney we hear how the majestic splendour of the dawn chorus of New Zealand native birds, although sadly diminished during the last 25 years, can still be heard in the Jackson Bay country where milling interests have not yet laid waste the forest as in other parts of Westland. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Accompanying material - Script (hand-written) at MS-Papes-1239, folder 107 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 14 Minutes Duration.
Wilson, John James, 1840-1918 : Journal of a voyage on the Cashmere / transcribed by Ma...
Date: 8 Dec 1861-8 Apr 1862 (2006)
From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection
By: Wilson, John James, 1840-1918
Reference: MSDL-1261
Description: Brief daily entries record shipboard activities, weather conditions, care of the birds, shipboard events, ships sighted, ship's arrival at Auckland Wilson travelled to Auckland on the Cashmere in charge of 125 singing and game birds being imported into New Zealand Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: Part of SBDD project (Shipboard diary digitisation)