New Zealand. Crown Lands Department

Date: 1913

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012243-G

Description: Government department building in Stratford with (employees?) standing outside. The windows advertise the following: Registrar of Brands, Inspector of Stock, Department of Agriculture - Industries & Commerce, Inspector of Noxious weeds, Land & Survey Department, Crown Lands Ranger and Public Works Department. Taken by James McAllister in 1913. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1856 - 1866

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Stone, (Mr), active 1953

Reference: MapColl-832.3991a/[ca. 1861]/Acc.333

Description: Drawn on a base map of the Waipawa Borough, the annotations depict properties with block number, acreage, Crown grant reference numbers and names of purchasers. The properties vary in size from 10 to 30 acres, and are made up of several streets of suburban sized sections. The names are Robert Mixer Skeet, James Fougere, Thomas Dawson Triphook and Edward George Wright, Louis Noel Du Noyer, William Fannin, Frederick Sedgwick Abbott, Christopher Lockyer, Thomas Gill, Allan MacMaster, Algernon Gray Tollemache. See accompanying one page note entitled 'Schedule of persons who purchased from the Crown the lands comprised in the township of Waipawa'. Patangata Crown Grant District.' Lists block number, purchaser, purchase date, Crown Grant reference, and includes annotated note regarding donor and annotated corrections. Base map: 'Plan of Borough of Waipawa' ([s.l], Lands and Survey Department, [s.d]). Stamp on top right hand corner of map: 'L&S' Series 25, no. 214. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:4 752], 76 x 97 cm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Stone, Lands and Survey Department, 28.8.1953.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Holland family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6630-1

Description: Title continues:`...written for the information of my dear Wife and family'. The typescript memoir is incomplete, ending with page 17. March writes of his early life and family, schooling at Greenwich, joining the merchant navy, maiden voyage of `John Taylor' to Bombay and return trip to London, voyage to and from Melbourne in the same ship, brief description of voyage on same ship to Lyttelton in 1853 (after which he remained in Christchurch), his entry into the local Immigration Department office, marriage, appointment to Crown Lands Department and ending with the death of John Ballance. Also includes letters from E J Wakefield to March (1878) and from John Ballance to March (1888). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.4799a/[1848?]/Acc.37420

Description: Cadastral map of Wellington, from Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, to Lavaud Street, Newtown, showing numbered residential sections, reserves, a proposed canal, and named streets. Includes two very hard to read tables, the first showing a summary of acreage. The second, larger reference table shows more detailed section ownership information, (colour coding not visible on this copy), including Native (Maori) reserves, Crown and public reserves, the town belt, Botanical Reserve, proposed canal and European claimants. Includes the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Jewish cemeteries. Annotation on map before copying: No. 1 Copy of Plan of town of Wellington attached to Crown grant filed in Colonial Secretary's Office. A Dowell (?) Colonial secretary Annotation on map before copying: Date of CG 29th Jan 1848 (some text indecipherable) Signed by W Wakefield, Principal agent to the New Zealand Company (under title). Also signed by Fitzgerald and Lt Col C Loverty (? - difficult to decipher). Stamped with Crown Lands seal Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Signed by Fitzgerald and C Loverty (?) Lt Col to Deputy ? Master General (difficult to decipher) See also similar copy, MapColl-832.4799gbbd/[1840]/Acc.3003-4 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 85.6 x 58.3 cm.

Date: [1943-1972]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8179-78

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, clippings, drafts, accounts of trip to Farewell Spit, competition entry and related papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep-Oct 1888

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-149

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes a small plan of land blocks probably near Rakaia Station Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 4 Oct 1864

By: New Zealand. Crown Lands Department

Reference: MSI-Papers-2391

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). Physical Description: Printed form completed in ms

Date: Aug 1892

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-188

Description: Corrrespondents entered in the Name field; includes letter relating to baby farming; and letter from Broken Hearted Mother relating to the Marriage Bill Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level list available.

Date: Jul 1889

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-157

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; includes an instruction sheet on steps to be taken with regard to a parcel mail from India on arrival in London, at the Albert Docks, and at the General Post Office, St Martins-Le-Grand Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Aug 1891

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-179

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes private circular from the Australian Mail from London; letter from A [?] MacKeig, Rakaia; petition relating to formation of the Farm Homestead Association signed by Arthur Wilson, Leeston, Arthur Greenwood, Alexander Knox-Callagag, Leeston, Henry Hamilton, Edward George Small, John Grierson Doyle, Thomas Blanch, Andrew Foster, James Crawford, James Huston and Walter Chapman; telegram from Westport regarding A H Turnbull's retrenchment from Public Works signed by Gilmer, Colvin, O'Brien and 30 others; letter from `A Broken-hearted Mother' regarding the 1889 bill legalizing marriage with deceased, husband, brothers; resolution from the Anglican diocese of Dunedin regarding the proposed change to marriage laws in the Divorce Bill; plans relating to sale of land relating to Falsgrave and Junction streets and East Town and South Town Belt. Much correspondence relates to the passage of the women's franchise bill. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jul 1890

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-166

Description: Correspondents identified and entered in the Name field; also includes telegram sent by several people from Christchurch regarding the New Zealand Trotting Association Bill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Sep-Oct 1891

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-180

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2 Jan 1890-26 May 1896

From: Wilson, James Glenny (Sir) 1848-1929 : Leonard J Wild collection of Sir James Wilson papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0137-02

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory summarising contents of letters available.

Date: Sep-Oct 1886

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-130

Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name below; also includes letter from the Hon Dr Grace, initials possibly M and S; and W Hall, Hall's nephew, writing from Invercargill Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1913

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-009395-G

Description: Government department building in Stratford with employees standing outside. The windows advertise the following: Registrar of Brands, Inspector of Stock, Department of Agriculture - Industries & Commerce, Inspector of Noxious weeds, Land & Survey Department, Crown Lands Ranger and Public Works Department. Taken by James McAllister in 1913. Source of descriptive information - Library client Two-storied Edwardian structure, formerly the province's Public Works headquarters, housed a number of government agencies for around 90 years. The building was finally purchased by the adjacent Stratford Club for redevelopment, but instead was sold for relocation and in 1993 was transported in four parts to Maitangi, near Hamilton, to become a residence. (Information from Stratford: Shakespearean Town Under the Mountain, by David Walter) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: May 1860

Reference: 1/2-022720-F

Description: Christchurch, in May 1860. Looks south, with the Avon River in the middle ground and a bridge over it at Worcester Street on the right. The old land office is left of the bridge. On the left is a short stretch of what is known as either Durham Street or Oxford Terrace. Inwood's flour-mill is beyond the land office and St Michael's further in the background, to the right of the mill building. Taken by Alfred Charles Barker. This photograph is published in Johannes C Andersen's book `Old Christchurch in Picture and Story', 1949, page 165, from which much of the Scope and Contents information is taken. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Transfers: Other photographs in this series include (1/2-022712 to 022714, 022719, 022720, 022722, 022733).

Date: 1913

From: McAllister, James, 1869-1952 :Negatives of Stratford and Taranaki district

Reference: 1/1-012636-G

Description: The 15 employees of the Public Works Department outside the government department building in Stratford. The windows of the building advertise the following: Registrar of Brands, Inspector of Stock, Department of Agriculture - Industries & Commerce, Inspector of Noxious weeds, Land & Survey Department, Crown Lands Ranger and Public Works Department. Taken by James McAllister in 1913. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - P.W.D. Stratford Dec 1913 Two-storied Edwardian structure, formerly the province's Public Works headquarters, housed a number of government agencies for around 90 years. The building was finally purchased by the adjacent Stratford Club for redevelopment, but instead was sold for relocation and in 1993 was transported in four parts to Maitangi, near Hamilton, to become a residence. (Information from Stratford: Shakespearean Town Under the Mountain, by David Walter) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864-1884

From: Rees, William Gilbert, 1827-1898 : Papers

By: Marryatt, Rosemary Grace, 1940-; New Zealand. Crown Lands Department

Reference: MSI-Papers-12817

Description: Original deed, Crown grant, for a parcel of land in the Province of Otago, Queenstown, Block 3, Section number 7, Grant number 4527. The grant appears to be on parchment and includes a paper seal and ribbon, issued under the Waste Land Act 1858. The grant was awarded to William Gilbert Lees and signed by the Secretary for Crown Lands, Sir George Grey, 24 August 1865. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: One single leaf parchment with paper seal attached, 340 x 445 mm Provenance: Rosemary Grace Marryatt is a Great-granddaughter of William Gilbert Rees.