Legal documents

Date: 1877-1886

By: Rusden, George William, 1819-1903

Reference: MS-Papers-0722/4

Description: Contains copy of shorthand notes of summing up of High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, Bryce v Rusden (12 March 1886); correspondence between F A Weld and Rusden about material for Rusden's history, chiefly concerning Maori and the Waitara land dispute(1877-1880). Included is a statement by C W Richmond on Waitara, and a photograph of Rusden with Rewi Maniapoto. Other - NB: Black and white negative (C 16368) of photograph of Rusden with Rewi Maniapoto contained in this folder available through the Pictorial Reference Section Other - For a summary of other material relating to Rusden held at the Royal Victorian Historical Society see AT 10/11 15 December 1992 (W L Renwick) Quantity: 1 folder(s) (157 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopy)

Date: 1935-1975

By: Marshall, John Ross (Rt Hon Sir), 1912-1988

Reference: MS-Papers-1403

Description: Papers cover entire political career: Ministerial files and correspondence, with large sections on EEC, UK trade negotiations, and NAFTA; Cabinet and Cabinet committee papers; Prime Ministerial papers; party, electorate and constituents' correspondence; campaign and reference material. Also early personal and legal papers, papers concerning society memberships, desk diaries, press cuttings and photographs Arrangement: The basic arrangement of these papers is chronological. See inventory for further details. Member of Parliament (National), 1946-1974; Cabinet Minister, 1949-1957, 1960-1972; Prime Minister, 1972 Quantity: 3184 folder(s). 32 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Processing information: 1984 accession yet to be described.

Date: 1891

By: Mullon, Matthew John, active 1891

Reference: MS-Papers-10872

Description: The patent application is for a non-conducting cover for land, marine and stationary steam boilers and pipes Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 piece). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1900 - 1905

From: Edwards-Sextus, Patricia, active 1999-2019: Collection

By: Fisher, Thomas William, 1851-1920; Edwards-Sextus, Patricia Joyce, active 1999-2019

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbbe/[ca.1900?]/Acc.27678

Description: Cadastral map of properties in the Waitara (Block IV), Upper Waitara (Block I), and Mimi (Block X) Survey Districts, depicting North Rd, Nopera, Clifton, Waiiti and Mokau Rd and the Mimi River. There are pencil annotations of names on some of the properties, including Parsons, Skinner, Glassford, ?Fucth. Shows cheese factory. Some properties are highlighted in red, some green, some are not highlighted. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, [1:15 840], 57 x 50 cm. Provenance: Donated by Patricia Sextus, 1999 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Fisher MSA A99-191.

Date: 1967

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MapColl-834.1gbc/1967/Acc.31194

Description: Plans from the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, from the chairman, lawyer and senior magistrate Mr Patterson. Index of miners' working places at the time of the accident. List names of those on day shift and night shift. Identifies position of persons killed in the mine on the plan, their names and the injuries they died from. Identifies structural elements of the mine, for example stoppings, air crossings, goaf areas, elevations, falls. Plan shows where at least nineteen people died. Removed from donor's study after the sale of his house Quantity: 2 map(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 56.8 x 77.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967.

Date: [1930-1960]

By: Harcourt, Charles James Stanton, 1877-1965

Reference: 73-154

Description: Comprises deeds, correspondence and other papers relating to real estate in Wellington Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 box(es) (hollinger). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Processing information: Not yet listed

Date: 1894-1928

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1139

Description: Comprise correspondence with Lord Leverhulme and others 1904-1927, reports on island properties and trading stations, including Captain Langdale's report to the Pacific Islands Company on the `Rob Roy' expedition to the Solomon Islands 1902; incorporation documents and financial records relating to Levers Plantations and purchase of Solomon Islands land, accounts and other papers of related companies, and photographs. Source of title - Transcribed An enthusiastic supporter of the copra industry in the Pacific, Meek purchased 51,000 acres of freehold land in the Solomon Islands for Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd from Captain O Svenson in 1905 for copra growing. Quantity: 4 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMBU, 1999

Date: 1902-1903

By: W & G Turnbull & Company

Reference: qMS-1768

Description: Collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, arbitration decision, and application for enforcement of an award Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter (34cm, phase box)

Date: 1893-1971

By: Wellington Convalescent Home

Reference: 80-025

Description: The records comprise minute books, 1893-1967, legal documents re titles, licences, bonds, contracts; Trustees correspondence, annual reports, from 1895; rules for the home; correspondence, reports etc on buildings, rights of way, roads and plans of buildings The Home was opened in 1893 in Wadestown Road and then moved to Bayview Terrace (Hay Street), Oriental Bay in 1894 where it operated until 1971 Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, and printed matter Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Architectural plans (see list in back file).

Date: [1857-1863]

By: Cheesman, Robert Suckling, 1803-1879

Reference: MS-0500

Description: Comprises record of accounts (1857) and detailed record of clients attended both in offices and court (1863); includes loose papers Variations in title - Spine lettered Ledger Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (19 cm, full calf, light brown)

Date: Apr 1925, 1924-1927

From: Hill, Henry Thomas, 1849-1933 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0172-047

Description: Also includes papers concerning block of land at Waipahihi Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1859

By: Morsfield, Edward, active 1859

Reference: MS-Papers-10070

Description: Leases signed in 1859 to Mr Edward Morsfield to smelt iron sand from the foreshore in Taranaki, one for the foreshore of New Plymouth, the other relates to three separate areas in Omata and Grey Districts, Fitzroy District, and Hua District, Taranaki Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: [1916]

By: Grant, Andrew Alexander, active 1900-1916; Olsen, B A, active 1981

Reference: MS-Papers-7054

Description: Comprises original statement by Grant, a constable involved in events relating to the capture of Rua Kenana, and original statements of other infringements by Kenana, with transcriptions Language - Two of the statements are in Maori and have been translated Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (with photocopies), typescript and photographs

Date: 1900-1979

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1254

Description: Administration records of the court, judgements of the criminal tribunal at Port Vila, decrees and decisions of the Court President; conferences and proceedings; Correspondence in English and French. Source of title - Transcribed Relationship complexity - See also Micro-MS-Coll-08-1145 The Joint Court of the New Hebrides was set up in 1906 under the Condominion of France and Great Britain. The court consisted of a judge from each of the powers under a neutral president, appointed by the King of Spain. The President also appointed the other court officials. Civil and criminal suits between Europeans were tried in the national court of the defendant or accused. The Joint Court tried land cases and civil and criminal cases between Ni-Vanuatua or between Ni-Vanuatua and Europeans, as well as offences against the Convention of the Condominion. The Joint Court was replaced by the Supreme Court of Vanuatu in 1978. Quantity: 17 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/. Printed inventory also available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2006

Date: [ca 1920-1980]

By: Patterson, John Kenneth, 1914-2005

Reference: MS-Group-0940

Description: Papers of a lawyer and senior magistrate, who practised in Reefton, and then in the Hutt Valley. They comprise notes and records of decisions and cases heard before him, partnership and legal papers, and the records of the Strongman Mine Committee of Inquiry, 1967, which Mr Patterson chaired. Also included are papers and notes of his father, the lawyer, Isaac Patterson, who lived in Reefton and specialised in mining law. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 98 folder(s). 1.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescipts, printed matter. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr J K Patterson, 2000 Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Plans of Strongman Mine, 1967..

Date: 1850-1913

By: Mowat, Alexander, 1813-1875

Reference: MS-Papers-0126

Description: The papers include some legal documents, accounts, and family papers, but consist mainly of station journals. Included are four letters from the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Printouts of station letterbooks held on microfilm (Micro-MS-0011) are also included. Source of title - Supplied title Mowat was a runholder in Marlborough, where he took up the Altimarloch and Middlehurst runs. Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.15 Linear Metres. Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Ten photographs (donated in 1963).

Date: 1885-1886

By: Paske, Edward Lake, 1857-1886

Reference: qMS-1633

Description: Comprises diary or report of a surveying expedition 27 Oct-21 Dec (nd) which left Nelson for the Marlborough Sounds via the Boulder Bank, Croiselles, Anakiwa, the Rai and Whangamoa in which Paske (presumably the writer) mentions meeting settlers and local Maori, food collected and eaten (including fuschia berries), records the death of Simon (a Maori) and the Maori reaction to it and other details. Letters from Lucy Jervois, possibly Paske's aunt, to her sister and brother re Paske's death (12 Jun 1886), and to her sister-in-law Amelia re same (19 Jun 1886); letter from Mr Jervois probably to Paske (snr). Includes court record re Paske being intestate. Also contains `Report on the surveys of New Zealand 1885-1886', by James McKerrow, referring to the death of Paske on a surveying expedition. Maps of the Clarence-Waiau-Spenser region where Paske died: (1) track on day of snow storm marked red; (2) Map of Canterbury and Westland with inset of survey area; (3) one copied from an original (very fine condition), `Portion of the Rainbow Survey District', copy C P Carrington, Feb 1887 Photographs of the region, portrait of Paske and photographs of the church and cemetery where he was bured and his tombstone Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (38 pages). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (34 cm; marbled end papers, ½ brown calf, brown linen)

Date: 1838-1872

By: Treadwells (Firm)

Reference: MS-Papers-2634

Description: The documents mostly relate to land purchased in the NZ Company settlement of Port Nicholson. Series one consists of conveyances and enfeoffments, series two of leases, and series three of powers of attorney given by English purchasers. A fourth series consists primarily of documents relating to the career of Robert Hart, one of Treadwells' first partners. Some of the legal documents include examples of Maori moko. Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: Some folders have been reprocessed into larger folders, and may have been assigned new reference numbers Treadwells was established in Wellington in 1840. Quantity: 57 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Finding Aids: A detailed inventory, with a precise of each piece is availale in the backfile which can be requested from the archivist on duty. Names have been spelt as they appear on the documents. Provenance: These records from the firm of Treadwells originally were deposited with the General Assembly Library, then passed to National Archives.

Date: [ca 1919-1959]

By: Beamish, Frederick Noel Hamilton, 1888-1969

Reference: MS-Papers-0578

Description: The papers include correspondence, documents, circulars, and reports relating to his activities in local and national farmers' organisations. Arbitration court material and miscellaneous newspaper clippings. Source of title - Supplied Hawke's Bay sheepfarmer Quantity: 12 folder(s). 0.12 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 21 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1891-1945

By: Broad, Charles John, 1858-1942

Reference: MS-Papers-10541

Description: Newspaper clippings, invoices, deeds etc relating to C J Broad, other members of his family, and the business known as Broad, Small & Co, Invercargill Source of title - Transcribed Broad, Small & Co were wholesale and retail ironmongers, hardware, woodware, timber and crockery merchants of Invercargill Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by E Thompson, Palmerston North