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Correspondence and papers re R J Seddon Memorial picnic ground, Kumara
Date: 1967-1971
From: Seddon family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1619-101
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Rice, Thomas William, fl 1872 : Letter from William and Ann White
Date: 18 Aug 1872
By: Rice, Thomas William, 1839-1907
Reference: MS-Papers-9899
Description: Letter from Wm and Ann White (Wm was Rice's step-father) advising him to come home, to Scotchman's Lead, because times in NZ were not good. He describes discovery the finest diggings ever discovered, at Port Darwin; notes from donor re family background Source of title - Supplied Accompanying material - Notes from donor re family background Letter in reply to one written from Kumara re hard times Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs A Wachner, Invercargill, Mar 1974
Correspondence and papers re R J Seddon's porperty at Kumara, including plan of town se...
Date: 1932-1945
From: Seddon family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1619-100
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Encyclopaedia of NZ. Geographic Section - Research notes arranged by place - K
Date: [196-]
From: Dollimore, Edward Stewart, 1904-1973 : Papers
Reference: 83-145-121
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence with A W Reed
Date: 1953
From: Mueller family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0448-45
Description: Concerns the naming of Kumara Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Byrne, Stafford 1901-1976: Papers
Date: [ca 1935-1972]
By: Byrne, Percival Stafford, 1901-1976
Reference: MS-Papers-5227
Description: Drafts of novels, short stories, radio talks and plays, some of which were written for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Many of his literary works are set in Britain, but others draw on his childhood memories of the West Coast, particularly around Kumara, and have New Zealand settings. Also includes a draft autobiography, and contract, reports and correspondence from his time as artistic director of the New Zealand Players Theatre Trust and some private correspondence. Most of the drafts are undated. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 35 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts
Letters from R J S Seddon
Date: 1906, 1913
From: Seddon family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1619-138
Description: Includes material re 1906 by-election, Rudkin Memorial and Kumara etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Family history research essays
Date: 1994-1995
From: Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand Inc : Records, including family history research essays
Reference: MS-Papers-5551
Description: Four prize-wining essays from the 1994 and 1995 GRINZ competitions by Jennifer Pierson (on Charles Pierson), Vaudine Barnes (on Frances Clarke), Antonia Jones (on Elizabeth Pickering, nee Wooding); and Marjorie Harris (on George Edmonds) `Boom and bust; a businessman on the goldfields' by Jennifer Pierson. The story of American-born Charles Anson Crocker Herrick Philetous Pierson who arrived in New Zealand about 1860 and spent the rest of his life on the South Island goldfields as a cordial maker. In his forties he was forced to abandon his properties at Stafford and begin again in Kumara. `Elizabeth Wooding, 1854-1920' by Antonia Jones. The story of Elizabeth Wooding who came to Canterbury on the Zealandia in 1858 as an assisted immigrant with her parents and brother John. She married Richard Pickering at Kaiapoi in 1874. `Frances Clarke nee Stelfox, 1847-1924; raising a family in Russia and New Zealand' by Vaudine M Barnes. The story of Frances Clarke who arrived in New Zealand on the `Kaikoura' in 1886 accompanied by eight of her nine children; her family background, growing up in Northwich, marriage to engineer Thomas Plummer Clarke and move to Russia. Her life in the British community centred on Moscow, raising her family and moving from one textile town to another, migration to New Zealand, life in Onehunga, Auckland, the move to Waihi and later life. Includes photographs `The Labouring immigrant' by Marjorie Harris, the story of immigrant George Edmonds who arrived in New Zealand in 1863 on the `Brother's Pride' with his wife Martha Johnson. They settled at Kaiapoi Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photographs (some photocopies)