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Scrapbook No 2 :Notes and clippings on New Zealand genre
Date: 1929-1941
From: Stowell, Henry Matthew 1859-1944 :Scrapbooks, nos 1 and 2
Reference: qMS-1931
Description: Contains clippings on prominent people, organisations and issues of the time in New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph Printed matter
Shepherd, Frances, b 1813? : Letter to her mother and father
Date: 10 Dec 1843
By: Shepherd, Frances, 1813?-
Reference: MS-Papers-8817
Description: Letter written by Mrs Shepherd from Beuaha Valley, Motueka District to her parents in London. Shepherd describes in brief detail her voyage to Nelson which lasted 18 weeks aboard the New Zealand Company vessel, `Indus'; landscape and flora; wildlife, particually birdlife; local Maori and colonial living. Further she details the price of commodities and their availablity; the Great March Comet of 1843 and the June earthquake of the same year. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Transcribed typescript (photocopy) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms R Aldridge, Hampshire, England, 2007
Hill-Trevor album 1
Date: 1897-1904
From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly
By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934
Reference: PA1-f-142
Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Maori notebook No 9
Date: 1897-1906
From: Best, Elsdon, 1856-1931 : Papers
Reference: qMS-0187
Description: Various topics, including birth, whakapapa, women, medicines, customs, Ngati Awa and Tuhoe fights, flora, place names, birds, etc. Also notes from records of the Native Land Court, Pokohu, Whirinaki, Matahina, and Tuara-rangaia Blocks, etc. Some information recorded from - H Pio of Ngati Awa, Tame Ranapiri (Ransfield) of Ngati Raukawa, Wi Patene, Penetito Hawea, Te Whatanui, Rawiri Parakiri, etc. The index to this is - Index to Maori Notebook no 9 (spine title) qMS-0188 Source of title - Spine title Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph