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Date: [ca 1900]

From: Holland family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6630-1

Description: Title continues:`...written for the information of my dear Wife and family'. The typescript memoir is incomplete, ending with page 17. March writes of his early life and family, schooling at Greenwich, joining the merchant navy, maiden voyage of `John Taylor' to Bombay and return trip to London, voyage to and from Melbourne in the same ship, brief description of voyage on same ship to Lyttelton in 1853 (after which he remained in Christchurch), his entry into the local Immigration Department office, marriage, appointment to Crown Lands Department and ending with the death of John Ballance. Also includes letters from E J Wakefield to March (1878) and from John Ballance to March (1888). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1841-1842

By: Webber, Edmund, 1817-1860

Reference: MS-Papers-10957

Description: Webber's memoirs were written while working as an unpaid clerk in the Treasury in Auckland in 1842. Covers his first 20 years and describes life while serving in the West African Survey under Sir Edward Belcher, return to England, and his 4 years on the Mediterranean Station. Webber's journal begins on the voyage to New Zealand 20 Aug and ends with Webber in Auckland, 22 Jun 1842. Describes departure from Sydney, life in Van Dieman's Land, meetings with members of the Ross Antarctic Expedition, visits to Norfolk Island, arrival at Bay of Islands, New Zealand landscape, attempts to obtain a government post, social life in Auckland and the barracks, land question, Governor Hobson, trial of Maketu, Auckland Maori. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - William Cocksworthy Museum, Kingsbridge, Devon via NZ High Commission (84-243)

Date: 1987

By: Doogue, Eugene Philip, 1901-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-10644

Description: Reminiscences of growing up in Dunedin and Southland; time spent farming before joining Stamp Duties Office in Dunedin; time spent in Invercargill office; transfer to Wellington as Death Duties clerk, Stamp Duties Office; marriage to Doreen Colgan in 1933; position as Bureau Inspector with Unemployment Board administered by Labour Department in 1935; and various other positions with Labour Department; transfer in 1943 to Ministry of Supply as an investigating accountant; retirement in 1950 and life thereafter till 1981. Incluudes list of family members with dates of birth and occupation Quantity: 1 folder(s) (46 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr J A Doogue, Hamilton

Date: 1854-1875

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0211

Description: Correspondents include: Joseph Carroll, Te Hoe, 1851 (1 letter); Gilbert Carson, Wellington, 1874 (1 letter); Alfred Carter, Napier & Gisborne, 1874-1875 (4 letters); C R Carter, Wellington, 1862 (1 letter). Contains personal letters from family friends to McLean, and two other letters about a summons to appear before the resident magistrate (ie McLean) and about difficulties with Maori land tenure at Gladstone, Wairarapa Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1841-1842

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Webber, Edmund, 1817-1860

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1640

Description: Webber's memoirs were written while working as an unpaid clerk in the Treasury in Auckland in 1842. Covers his first 20 years and describes life while serving in the West African Survey under Sir Edward Belcher, return to England, and his 4 years on the Mediterranean Station. Webber's journal begins on the voyage to New Zealand 20 Aug and ends with Webber in Auckland 22 Jun 1842. Describes departure from Sydney, life in Van Diemen's Land, meetings with members of the Ross Antarctic Expedition, visits to Norfolk Island, arrival at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand landscape, attempts to obtain a government post, social life in Auckland and the barracks, land question, Governor Hobson, trial of Maketu, Auckland Maori Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) (2 volumes). Physical Description: Holograph (Microfilm) Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1984

Date: 1841-1890

By: Allom, Albert James, 1825-1909

Reference: qMS-0061

Description: Describes in detail Allom's career as a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Wellington, then as a settler in the Wairarapa, his return to England and employment as private secretary to E G Wakefield, then to several colonial governors, before becoming Genreal Manager of the Great Barrier Island Company and his return to New Zealand; he describes life on the Thames goldfields as a storekeeper, and later his work as an official in the Auckland Provincial Government Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (24 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, brown buckram)