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Date: [1914?]

By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-

Reference: MS-0832

Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 1744-1887

By: Berkshire Record Office (Reading, England)

Reference: qMS-0162

Description: Contents list precedes papers, which contain records of families immigrating to Australia and New and the Pacific. Material relating to Crawford family has been incorporated with Crawford papers (MS-Papers-1001). Remainder of recods appears to be related to Australia. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (32 cm, blue buckram hinged-lid box) Finding Aids: List of contents at beginning of printout.

Date: 1977-1980

By: Simonsen, Innes Ross, 1919-2002

Reference: MS-Papers-8126

Description: Copy of Wallstrom's `Vattenrymden; soderhavet 200 ar efter kapten cook' (1977) with correspondence and translations from it by Gunnar Gerring. The translated material relates to Pat Lawlor and Baron Vaea (formerly Georg Albert Tupou). Wallstrom travelled the Pacific visiting Tahiti, Hawaii, North America, New Zealand, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Australia, Kealakekua Bay, and North America and Yorkshire Language - Volume is in Swedish with translations of parts that relate to Simonsen Source of title - Transcribed from item and supplied by Library Other - Volume is not held in Printed collections of ATL or WN Quantity: 1 volume(s) (with folder of loose papers included). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with typescripts Provenance: Purchased from second-hand bookshop in Blenheim, 2004

Date: 1788

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-464-034

Description: Shows a variety of waeapons, tools and jewellery used by Maori. Also shows implements from Australia (New Holland), including necklaces made with shells, an axe, knife and spear, and a canoe Other Titles - New Zealand. Plate 28. Weapons from Murderers Bay. Fish-hooks from Astrolabe Bay. Earrings from Astrolabe Bay. Mortar and pestle for pounding fern roots. Pounamu pendant. Boar's-tooth pendant [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on wove paper, 360 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, April 2014

Date: [1950-1955]

By: Nicol, I H, active 1950?-1991

Reference: MS-Papers-5628

Description: This history gives information about the development of postal services in a number of Pacific Islands along with reproductions of various postal marks for each island Other - This essay was entered in an international exhibition to celebrate 100 years of postal services in NZ and won a silver medal Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with interleaves of postmarks Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - I Nichol, Australia, 1991

Date: 8 Dec 1768-22 Jun 1770

By: Hicks, Zachary, 1739-1771

Reference: qMS-0954

Description: Log written by Hicks on the voyage of scientific discovery of the `Endeavour' to New Zealand, 1768-1771. The first page of the log contains copies of two letters by James Cook to the Admiralty relating to Cook's vessel the `Grenville' which had its rig changed in Debtford in 1764. Also three letters to Cook from the Admiralty Office, the Navy Office and the Victualling Office. At some point this page has been tipped into the log. First entry in the log is Thursday the 8th December 1768 recording the departure of the `Endeavour' from Rio Janerio. Daily entries include course position of the vessel, wind and weather conditions, bearings of the ship when at anchor, and general observations of life on deck as the ship made the trip around Cape Horne to King George Island then onto the South Pacific. Continues with the mapping of New Zealand and voyage to the eastern coastline of Australia. On 11th June 1770 the `Endeavour' ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and eventually made its way to a river mouth (Endeavour River). Repairs were carried out over the next seven weeks. Last entry in the log is Friday 22nd June 1770. The log does not include the page containing entries for the crew's first sighting of New Zealand, October 1769. Publication - Further information regarding Hick's log is published in `The Journals of Lieutenant Cook's Officers', by James Cook. Other - Page(s) for the log entries for 14-24 January 1769, 13-18 August 1769, and 6-15 October 1769 are missing from the manuscript, either cut or torn out. See reference in `Cook Journals Vol 1, The voyage of the Endeavour', edited by J C Beaglehole, 1955. Zachary Hicks (Hickes) was a Royal Navy officer and second-in-command (second lieutenant) on Cook's 1768 voyage to New Zealand on the Endeavour. Hicks Bay in the Gisborne region is named after Zachary Hicks. The Endeavour sailed into the bay on the 31st October 1769 where they were meet by two canoes of fifty Māori each who dared the English to fight. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33cm; cream vellum boards in navy morocco case) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Bernard Quatrich in London, in 1900, for £110