Personal papers 1906-1948; Maori Affairs - Native Land Court - 1920-1943, including formal studies on Maori land tenure, theses, etc.; Judge Acheson's relations with the Native Affairs Dept, 1933-1943
Two letters: The 1942 letter is in French and records the transfer of land in Akaroa from La Compagnie Nanto-Bordelaise to Joseph Libeau, and is dated 4 October.
John Allison was a Christchurch accountant.
These papers mainly deal with the family of R M Daniell whose ancestor Charles was a prominent businessman in Masterton around 1880.The family owned sawmills and hardware outlets.
1. The Auckland Harbour Board operated the Ports of Auckland and Onehunga from 1871 to 1988 and was dissolved in 1989. 2.
David Billborough was an Historian, Archivist and Vintage car collector. He owned 'Crewe Cottage' near Gladstone and had a strong interest in local history.
Margery Blackman is a Dunedin weaver and textiles expert. She was on the executive of the Crafts Council of New Zealand.
The Canterbury Association was set up by John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakefield in 1848 to plan a Church of England colony in New Zealand.
Captain William Walter Cargill a soldier, merchant, coloniser and provincial superintendent was born in 1784. Cargill married Mary Ann Yates in 1813 and they had seventeen children.
Edward Reginald Chudleigh died without children in 1920.
Research materials gathered for the book "East Tamaki including the adjoining areas of Flat Bush and Otara", Papatoetoe Historical Society, 2002.
The collection includes papers relating to Clarke's term as Chief Protector of Aborigines, journals and letters to the Church Missionary Society, letters to his family, and Clarke family papers.
Clippings book of examination papers, results and memorabilia (1908-1914); and three photograph albums (life in New Zealand before the war, during the war, and in England and Cambridge after the war
Williams was born on 11 February 1792 and was baptised on 13 April at Gosport, Hampshire, England. He entered the Navy in 1806, retiring on half pay in 1815.
William Henry Cutten was born in London in 1822, the eighth of nine children of Charles and Rebecca Cutten.
This is a collection composed of a typescript of Daniell family history, and items copied from two scrapbooks compiled by C. E. Daniell.
These items were given to the donor Ralph Hopkins by T H Daniell who was a Masterton based architect with a strong interest in local history Included in this collection are, publications - Rangituma
This collection includes de Beer, Hallenstein and related family photographs and albums.
Dixon Investment Company, an English company set up in Birmingham during the 1860's was initially run by George Dixon.
A copy of the Minute Book of Gabriel Elliott who was a Native Agent in Te Kuiti from the 1840s to about 1860. This is a personal record including notes on cases in the Maori Land Court.
Minute Book-
