Engineers and contractors of Christchurch in 1892
McLaren, William A, active 1892
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Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Dec 1892, n d
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-192
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece level list available.
Other
Mannering album
Date: [Circa 1890s]
By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-325
Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Nov-Dec 1899
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-236
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from Lewis [?] Hotop, Queenstown; telegram from Turnbull, Christchurch; and letter from the Patriotic Fund chairman, Christchurch Other - See also letter books MSX-0922 and MSX-0923 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Aug-Oct 1896
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-220
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Feb 1898
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-227
Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; also includes letter from [?] Garke (JG?) about leopard skin tanning Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jun-Jul 1898
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-229
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: May-Jul 1896
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-219
Description: Identified correspondents entered in the Name field; includes staple patent sample (n13); letter from [F] Johnson re Inspector [?] Brohamn; analysis of superphosphate from Odams Manure, London; minutes of meeting of Cloathings subscibers; telegram from [?] Hamilton re funeral; and telegram from Berkely [sic], Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).