Places

Date: 1890 [ie 1958]

By: Caldwell, Elizabeth Pringle, 1819-1907

Reference: qMS-0361

Description: Title continues:`...Colonial experiences in the province of Nelson, and in particular, the early settlement of the Golden Bay district, commencing in the year 1851. Written in 1890 from her diaries covering a ten year period by Elizabeth Pringle Caldwell' The reminiscences include copies of newspaper extracts, a petition to Provincial Council and a letter from T P Caldwell is appended Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also Washbourn family papers (MS-Papers-1771) Elizabeth, husband Thomas and their five children came to New Zealand on the `Eden' in Nov 1850. They settled in Nelson where Elizabeth opened a girl's boarding school and took part in musical activities. They later moved to a property at Onekaka, Golden Bay, and then to Tukurua. A lengthy land dispute with local Maori at Tukurua left the family homeless, with Elizabeth and the children living in a disused whare. Copied with permissiosn of Caldwell's grandson, R H O Caldwell, on the occasion of the Nelson City Centennial, 1958 (note by S Northcote Bade) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (31 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; blue pam case)

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

Date: 15 Sep 1839-30 Aug 1840

By: Baker, Charles (Rev), 1803-1875

Reference: qMS-0110

Description: Describes missionary life in Paihia and the Bay of Islands and establishment of schools; comments on Europeans and Maori, political events, activities of French; mentions signing of Treaty of Waitangi Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (16 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (34cm, blue linen)

Date: 1956

By: Thompson, Hugh Montgomery, 1887-1956

Reference: MS-Papers-6538

Description: Thompson wrote his reminiscences in 1956, shortly before he died. He describes his family background, where they lived, his school days, mostly in Palmerston North, joining Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, in 1905 and moving to Nelson in 1906, Hokitika in 1910, Invercargill in 1911, Hastings in 1913, Wanganui from 1919 to 1924 when he worked for the Public Works Department in the King Country and in 1935 his move to Greymouth. From 1938 to 1956 he and his family lived in Tauranga. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1931

From: Wild, Geoff V, fl 1920s-1950s : Scrapbooks

Reference: MS-Papers-11217-2

Description: Srapbook contains newspaper cuttings, mainly from the Southland Daily News, of articles relating to the school's jubilee celebrations and to its history during its first 50 years of existence Southland Boys' High Scholl was established in December 1880 and its 50th Jubilee was celebrated in 1931 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1896-1990

By: Muritai School; Gollans Valley School (Eastbourne, N.Z.)

Reference: MS-Group-0607

Description: Admission registers and school log books Source of title - Supplied Muritai School first opened on 17 March 1897, the first registers date from October 1896 and are for Gollans Valley School, the predecessor to Muritai. Quantity: 19 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Muritai School, Aug 1997

Date: 1883-1961 [transcribed 2008]

By: New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Wellington Branch

Reference: MSDL-0369

Description: Electronic transcription of the original school admission registers of Vogeltown and Brooklyn schools, Wellington (MSY-5730 to MSY-5738), transcribed by members of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Source of title - Transcribed from item Arrangement: The spreadsheet arranged in surname alphabetical order. It is a merger of the Vogeltown and Brooklyn Schools admission registers and comprises 14 fields - register, register number, former number, administration date, sort date (yyyy/mm/dd), name (surname, forename), parent, address, birth date, last school, last day, destination, and comment Quantity: 2 megabyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s).

Date: 1875-1978 [transcribed 2007]

By: New Zealand Society of Genealogists

Reference: MSDL-0247

Description: Electronic transcription of the original school admission registers - Infants (1882-1935), Boys (1875-1925), Girls (1875-1925), Main (1926-1978). Original registers (MSY-3238 to MSY-3274) are held by Alexander Turnbull Library with the exception of the Girls (1875-1882) and Boys (1877-1881) registers which are held by the Beaglehole Room, Victoria University Library. Source of title - Transcribed from item Arrangement: The spreadsheet arranged in surname alphabetical order. It is a merger of Boys, Girls, Infant and Main admission registers and comprises 14 fields - register, register number, former number, administration date, sort date (yyyy/mm/dd), name (surname, forename), parent, address, birth date, last school, last day, destination, and comment Quantity: 9 megabyte(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: BIFF is a spreadsheet file format developed by Microsoft. BIFF 8X is a native file format of Microsoft Excel XP. (".xls" (Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) v. 8).