MANUSCRIPT
Various accounts about the Whanganui River
- Date
- [1905-1977]
- By
- Biggs, Bruce Grandison, 1921-2000; Smith, Elsie, 1881-1968; Pokiha, Rangi, 1895-1980; New Zealand Canoeing Association; Batley, Robert Anthony Leighton, 1923-2004; Milne, Ian W, active 1977; Cummins, Thomas Dick, 1846-; Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938
- Reference
- MS-Papers-7403-10
- Description
Notes and articles by Mead and others; includes holograph account of canoe trip, Bruce Biggs and Mead (1954); Koroniti compiled by Sister Elsie Smith and Rangi Pokiha (1941); notes on Mangapuru settlement by Delaney; `Canoe cruising the Wanganui River, 1885-1963; rapids, Otaehanga Reach; Horowhenua rapid; MOW rapids survey (Mar 1950); Tarepokiore Rapid; notes by Cumming; discrepancies in T W Downes' `...guide to the Wanganui River'; report of Downes to Wanganui River Trust (Aug 1934); accounts which include several rapids
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Sketch maps of rapids included with accounts
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers / 1 Whanganui River history
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Illustration: Sketch maps of rapids included with accounts
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