MANUSCRIPT
Miscellaneous papers
- By
- Merchant, J W A, active 1890
- Reference
- MS-Papers-1187-301
- Description
Maori vocabulary giving names of vegetation and their corresponding botanical names.
Correspondence with the Department of Lands and Survey about a letter of complaint by J W A Merchant, Chief Surveyor, Wellington, 1889-1890; and about landless Maori of Ngatimaru (and the related Purangi Landless Natives Bill of 1909).
Various handwritten notes: note contributed by an Aopouri [Aupouri?] Maori about Kaimatangi, of Three Kings Islands, an early voyager to Sydney; a note about a large ancient cedar log seen at the Chatham Islands in 1868; a note about the road built by the `Dromedary' crew ca 1820; a note about Maori traditions of Lake Waikaremoana; a note about a eighteenth-century battle between Waikato and Ngati Raukawa; and other notes relating to his books.
Other Titles - Purangi Landless Natives Bill
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Polynesian Society: Records / Deposited papers - Stephenson Percy Smith
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Manuscripts
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