2/6 Daniel Henry Strother Riddiford - Community and personal business matters

Date: [1902]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MSX-4507

Description: Comprises record of fatigue duties, misdemeanours and publishments; list of books (?read) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [1920-1958]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-047

Description: Comprises correspondence re Riddiford's association with polo, circular re re-establishment of Wairarapa Polo Club (1920), sale of polo ponies account with Tattersall's (12926), list of players' handicaps (1928-1930, 1937) records, draft outward letters, programmes for tournaments including Savile Cup, annual Yankee tournament, Australsian Gold Cup, Gymkhana meeting (Feilding, rules and notes for umpires Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1951]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-043

Description: Comprises applicants 2-20 for position of headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, John George Day, Colin William Elliott, Arthur Maynard Holden, James Dovey Fairs, Derek Robert Gurth Seymoor, Robert William Mitchell, Kenneth Patrick Howard, Daniel Griffin-Warwicke, Rupert Francis Browne, Edwin Alan Reilly, Eric Daniels, Thomas Symmons Magson, Bernard John Holloway, Keith Douglas Anderson, Rev Richard Kinghorn, Henry Edmund Doyle-O'Neill, Charles Herbert Alan Armstrong and Herbert Alexander Horace Insull (only NZ applicants indexed) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1957-1959]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-042

Description: Comprises report re Mrs Hutcheson's move from Wanganui to Nelson and her financial situation, correspondence, minutes, financial reports, clippings, annual reports, circulars and other papers relating to Wanganui Collegiate School, the old boys association and the Whanganui College Board of Trustees; and some minutes for Nga Tawa school (1959) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1903-1964]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-045

Description: Comprises papers relating to both Wanganui Collegiate School, the Whanganui Board of Trustees and Nga Tawa. Including letters, programme for Speech Day (1926), material re Frank W Gilligan's appointment as headmaster of the collegiate (1935), a review of the industrial school estate (1940), board appointments, the false accusation against Mr Empson (1903), share application form for board of trustees (1949), retirement of Rev C F Pierce (1931), circulars, fundraising, Riddiford's resignation from the board (1950) and other papers. Most is for Wanganui Collegiate-related matters but some letters etc for Nga Tawa. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1953]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-044

Description: Comprises applicants no 22-51, and finalists, for position of headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School: Monroe Peaston, Leonard Montfort Leakey, John James Hawken, Eugene Dumont Robins, Alfred Douglas Jones, David Ronald John Cox, Geoffrey Severin Anthony Feiling, John Leonard Henry Hewland, James Newton Rolfe, William Henry Mason-Cox, Arthur Wilcock Penrose, Clive Bateman Sage, George Kenneth Brown, Ronald Osmund Jennings, James Wallace Ackroyd, Cecil Albert Sayer, Frank William Dutton, John Raymond Hawthorn, Kenneth Lachlan Mackintosh, Benjamin Edward Noble Fawcett, Michael Searle and Gordon Albert Leary (only NZ applicants indexed) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1912-1965]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-039

Description: Correspondence, membership cards, draft letters, circulars, papers and other material including NZ Police pass for Riddiford to represent the Gear Meat Company during the Royal Visit (1956) and notice re proposed amalgamation of Wairarapa Age Company and the Wairarapa Daily Times Ltd (1936). Also papers re the Repform Party and the Reform Club. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935, 1955-1960

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-041

Description: Comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the appointment of Reginald Henry Owen as bishop of Wellington (1935); and papers relating to the preservation of the Cathedral Church of St Paul (Wellington) (1955-1960) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1919-1964]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-5714-5

Description: Comprises letters of institution for Riddiford as a lay canon of the Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Wellington (1947); correspondence and papers re Riddiford gift of land for Marsden School and other related matters (1920-1964); amended list of Masterton Club members (1922); clipping re Lower Wairarapa Development Scheme (Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 Mar 1963); and financial papers re Ruamahanga Station (1919) and letter and memo from Wheeler [?] re Te Awaiti (1921?) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1896-1960]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-051

Description: Comprises Collegiate School, Wanganui, reports for a Riddiford (unidentified) (1896) and for D Riddiford (1901) and confirmation card for D H S Riddiford (1898); firearms registered by Riddiford (1921-1927); certificate of registration, the Arms Act (1920) (1921); draft letter to Police re rifles (1941); summary of Daniel Riddiford (1814-1875); draft death notice for Meta Riddiford (1963); draft in memoriam notice for Daniel Riddiford (1814-1875) and Harriot Riddiford (d 1891); lists of D H S and J M Riddiford's children, with descendants, up to 1958; and description of farms owned including Te Awaiti, Tablelands, Glenburn, Ruamahanga and Orongorongo and family for Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co Quantity: 1 folder(s).