Land use - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1851-1853

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: Micro-MS-0048

Description: Relationship complexity - Typescript copies of these letters are included in Canterbury Association Letters 1848-1851 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Physical Description: 48 pages

Date: 1845-1870

From: Hempleman, George, 1799-1880 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0067-3

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs

Date: 2012

By: New Zealand. Department of Conservation. Canterbury Conservancy; Clucas, Rosemary, active 2013-; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHColl-1062

Description: The O Tu Wharekai oral history project was commissioned by Rosemary Clucas, Department of Conservation. The collection comprises interviews with Jim Harris, Ian Sowden, and Ossie Symons. Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 3 printed abstract(s). 3 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 3 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Department of Conservation, Raukapuka Area Office, 2012

Date: 1989 - 7 Apr 1998

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001; Bradley, Michelle, 1958-

Reference: OHColl-0463

Description: 1989 interview is difficult to hear. A sketch abstract of the interview and additional notes are bound in to the abstract. Avice Hill was born in Christchurch in 1906. Gives an account of her family history with an emphasis on the immigration of her maternal grandparents, the Crosbie family, in 1863. Avice Hill reads from notes about the Crosbie family's voyage to New Zealand on the ship `Brothers pride'. Discusses the daughters, Agnes and Jane, who were tailors and milliners and operated a successful business in Christchurch in the 1870s. Notes that Agnes Crosbie became Agnes Francis on her marriage but that her husband died and she continued to live with her sister Jane Crosbie. Describes their home on the corner of Armagh and Durham Streets and later on a large property in Withells Road. Discusses the purchase of a piece of land on Memorial Avenue which has been donated to the Christchurch City Council and is now the Avice Hill Reserve. Recalls growing up at Withells Road under the care of her aunties Agnes and Jane and travelling by trap and tram to attend St Margarets school in Cranmer Square. Discusses her passion for bug breeding as a child and later attending Canterbury College (university) to study science. Talks about getting her Master of Sciences degree and writing a thesis on the dobsonfly, an insect that lives in rivers. Describes working on insect pest eradication at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson in the 1930s. Recalls meeting distant relative Frank Hill again while visiting a mutual relative Maud McDowell. Describes their courtship, getting married, a trip to Great Britain and starting to grow and sell herbs at the Memorial Avenue property. Describes the growth of the business, involvement of Frank Hill and establishment of the house and herb gardens. Recalls the formation of the Canterbury Herb Society by Avice Hill, Peggy Fitts and one other person. Notes that the Withells Road land is now Crosbie Park. Talks in some detail about the Avice Hill Reserve. Accompanying material - Information on the Crosbie family; information on the property at Memorial Ave; information on the replanting of the enclosed herb garden as a scented garden; article `Bugs, lavenders and ginger cats' by Avice Hill, article `Queen of herbs' in NZ gardener Apr 1998. These are bound into the abstract. Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 7 Apr 1998

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/02

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1765. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 1989

From: Interviews with Avice Hill

By: Hill, Avice, 1906-2001

Reference: OHInt-0463/01

Description: Quantity: 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other Brief summary and notes are bound in with abstract of second interview. Number of interviews/events: 1

Date: 28-29 Mar 1856

By: Brittan, William Guise, 1809-1876

Reference: qMS-0271

Description: Three letters to H J Tancred, President of the Canterbury Executive Council, and J E FitzGerald, Superintendent of the Canterbury Province, dated 28 and 29 Mar 1856, concerning his possible appointment as Chief Commissioner of the provincial Waste Lands Board Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 volume(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm, blue pam case)

Date: Jan 1851-Feb 1853

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: qMS-0375-0377

Description: See item records Source of title - Cover titles Quantity: 3 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (31 cm; green vellum, marbled end-papers and edges, in ½ green calf hinged-lid boxes)

Date: 1974

Reference: MapColl-834.48bjl/1974/Acc.45879

Description: Air photograph showing the surface of inland rural country divided by the Clyde and Rangitata Rivers. Printed information overlaid on the air photo shows a rectangle with an arrow pointing into it from the written figures R.S. 8178. Land blocks identified as Run 112 Erewhon, and Pt. Run 114 Mt. Potts are also shown. Different coloured unbroken lines and one broken line are drawn on the air photo to indicate roads and access routes. A legend identifies the meaning of the lines as being "formed road; unformed legal road; alternative access routes; private access to river". The legend also includes a scale and the information "Air photo S.80/3B Flown 22.3.74". Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Air photograph, photographic paper, hand coloured, 59.5 x 42.2 cm. Transfers: From Other - Conservation Section.

Date: Apr 1850-Nov 1853 [ie 1852]

By: Canterbury Association

Reference: qMS-0379

Description: Lengthy abstracts of the despatches (1/50-102/52) are given. The last letter although dated Nov 1853, should be 1852 as a further note indicates that it was received in May 1853. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (176 pages). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (31 cm, ½ red roan, marbled boards in green hinged-lid box)

Date: 1845-1870

From: Hempleman, George, 1799-1880 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0067-3A

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopy