Auckland (N.Z. : Province). Provincial Council
Auckland Provincial Government
Formed in 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.
Auckland Provincial Council and General Assembly Buildings - Built in 1854. Completed in time for the meeting of the first General Assembly in May. The Auckland Provincial Council held sessions in the building until the Provinces were abolished in 1875. The Auckland University College Council subsequently came into possession of the building and extended it along Eden Street, absorbing also, for the work of the College, the old District Courthouse near the water front. The site and buildings were acquired by the Auckland City Council in 1918, in connection with the formation of a main road from Customs Street to Symonds Street. (Information from 1/2-023115. File print in Turnbull Library Pictures at 11. Auckland. Houses. Parliament)
Image
Date:
ca 1860s
From:
Urquhart album
Reference:
PA1-q-250-14-1
Description:
Provincial Council and General Assembly buildings, as seen from Alten Road, Auckland, circa 1860s. Photograph taken by John Kinder.
Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - House of Assembly, Auckland
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Albumen print 6.1 x 6.7 cm, with rounded upper corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm
Manuscript
Date:
1854-1861
By:
Auckland (N.Z. : Province). Provincial Council
Reference:
AI-80-094
Description:
Inwards despatches to the Provincial Superintendent from Alexander Ridgway, the Provincial immigration agent in London.
Includes passenger lists for the Egmont, 1855; Joseph Fletcher, 1855; Bank of England, 1855; Egmont, 1858; Lord Ashley, 1858; Tainui, 1925; pay and acquitance rolls, 1859-1861 for surveying and Armed Police staff.
Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Mss (encapsulated)
Transfers: Transferred from J Grainger papers (MS-Papers-1964) Acc 79-147.
Manuscript
Date:
1841-1890
By:
Allom, Albert James, 1825-1909
Reference:
qMS-0061
Description:
Describes in detail Allom's career as a surveyor for the New Zealand Company in Wellington, then as a settler in the Wairarapa, his return to England and employment as private secretary to E G Wakefield, then to several colonial governors, before becoming Genreal Manager of the Great Barrier Island Company and his return to New Zealand; he describes life on the Thames goldfields as a storekeeper, and later his work as an official in the Auckland Provincial Government
Source of title - Transcribed
Quantity: 1 volume(s) (24 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Typescript (35cm, brown buckram)
Manuscript
Date:
1872-1886, 1869-1885, 1835-1874
From:
Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference:
Micro-MS-Coll-20-2240
Description:
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
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