GROUP
1 Whanganui River history
- Date
- [1910]-1977
- Reference
- Series-3097
- Description
Papers reflecting Mead's interest in Whanganui River history, particularly the rapids
Quantity: 23 folder(s).
- Part of
- Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
- Format
- 23 folder(s)
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Research papers
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-02
Description: Essays and articles, and small pieces by Mead on aspects of Whanganui River history. Includes letters to `New Zealand herald' and `Evening post'; bibliography of the river compiled by Mead; summary of river levels at Pipiriki; notes from conversation with David Barr on Pepe Turoa and pa on the river; transcripts of reports and accounts on the river from official and personal sources; piece on discrepancy in information on the gunboats on the river; 1908 inspection trip report, notes obtained from W Salt, Roman Catholic mission; Parikino, the tidal reach, hydro-electric development, canoe accounts; the 1865 Pipiriki skirmish; notes compiled for F W Furkert by J R Cade; Lands and Survey report summaries and other accounts including proposed charter for the river. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
File of W H Gavin's Whanganui River research
Date: [1900-1953]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: fMS-Papers-7403-2
Description: Correspondence, summaries, notes and extracts relating to W H Gavin's 1917 report on the Whanganui River; includes many hand-drawn maps Quantity: 1 folder(s). Includes hand-drawn maps of the Whanganui River
Various research papers
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-03
Description: Notes from J W Stack's, `Koro'; account of canoe trip by Bruce Biggs and Mead on the Whanganui River (1954) and various notes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Papers relating to Whanganui River rapids
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-06
Description: Notes and articles about the rapids on the Whanganui River Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Articles and essays
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-04
Description: Essays and articles by Mead; includes `The Manganui-a-te-Ao Valley; a Maori travel route'; `Canoeing on tributaries of the Wanganui River'; `A Question of river history'; `An earthquake, and a matter of translation'; `The Hadfields on the Wanganui River'; `The story of the Wanganui River', (holograph and typescript) read by Mead at a meeting of the Anthropology and Maori Race Section of the Auckland Institute and Msueum (23 Aug 1949) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Unidentified correspondence and letters to the editor
Date: [1946-1976]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-18
Description: Card from Arthur and Noreen, Levin; card from Carl, Merle and family; membership card for Ruapehu Ski club; part of letter, psosibly by family member; part of letter, possibly form Marguerite Crookes Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Accounts by various people
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-07
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence (O-Z)
Date: [1936-1976]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-17
Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Includes photocopy of map, Maraekowhai to Waipahihi; letter from Frank, Wanganui, to Betty, possibly Searle and letter from Mead to Mr Thompson. Other Titles - An introduction to the Wanganui River Scenic Reserves Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Map, Maraekowhai to Waipahihi.
Research notes
Date: [1930-1977]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-01
Description: Notes relating to aspects of Mead's research; includes rainfall data, notes and summaries from historical accounts, map fragments and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A H & A W Reed file
Date: [1954-1972]
From: Mead, Arthur David, 1888-1977 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7403-20
Description: File of correspondence relating to Mead's publications with A H & A W Reed Quantity: 1 folder(s).