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Proceedings of native meeting held at Thames on 11th and 12th of December 1874
Date: 11-12 Dec 1874
Reference: MS-Papers-2520
Description: Account of a meeting held at Thames on 11 and 12 Dec to discuss payment for the Ohinemuri goldfield. The meeting was attended by Sir Donald McLean, James MacKay, Edward Walter Puckey and chiefs and members of the Ngati Maru, Ngati Tamatera, Ngati Whanaunga and Ngati Paoa tribes. Source of title - Transcribed Authorship of the document is unknown Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: No details about the provenance of the document are available other than that it was found under a pile of newspapers in a cupboard in a house at Te Anau in about 1975. How it came to be there could not be established at that time.
Cartoon of commissioner James Mackay addressing gold miners at Thames
Date: 1868
From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
By: Auckland punch (Periodical)
Reference: MNZ-0427-1/4-F
Description: Undated and unsigned cartoon published in an unidentified edition of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari' dated 1868. Depicts commissioner James Mackay, also known as "The Thames Autocrat" addressing gold miners at Thames from a small stage: "Proceed good people with your buildings and improvments; continue to behave yourselves, and at the end of seven years I will raise everybody's rent." Published in 'Making New Zealand' Vol 1, No 8, page 21 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Item from an issue of 'Punch or the Auckland Charivari', 1868, lent to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.