Hocken Collections

Scope and Contents Sets out "briefly the early history of Purakanui and also some chief points about the whaling stations at Waikouaiti and Otakou". Contents include: a poem by Mr A.

The Association was formed in 1942. Headquarters were transferred from Auckland to Dunedin later in 1942.

A. & T. Burt Limited was a firm of plumbing and electrical engineers, metal founders and manufacturers.

Dr William Aitken was originally from George Street, Andersons Bay, Dunedin. He later farmed at Patearoa in the Maniototo.

Alexandra School was established in 1864. In 1912 it became Alexandra District High School, incorporating primary and secondary schools.

All Saints Anglican Church, situated in Cumberland Street, Dunedin, first opened for worship in July 1865. The church formed part of the Dunedin All Saints Anglican Parish.

The collection includes baptismal, burial, marriage and service registers, vestry minute books, correspondence, financial records, publications and Mothers' Union records.

The collection includes a baptismal register (1961-1978), a burial register (1871-1942), a register of service (1932-1977), cemetery records and some photographs.

Sir James Allen was Minister of Defence from 1912 to 1920. Scope and contents: The collection consists of papers relating to Allen's time as Defence Minister.

Connie M. Hopkinson, originally from Suffolk England, worked as a trained nurse for the Presbytarian Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Foochow, China.

This collection contains admission, progress and withdrawal registers (1880 -1973), registers of progress and achievement (1960), record of survey (1950), School Committee material including minute bo

The Anglican congregation at St Leonards was established in the 1950s, through the Port Chalmers-Warrington Parish.

Prior to 1869, the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin (Otago and Southland) formed the southern part of the Diocese of Christchurch.

In 1869, St Peter's Anglican Church in Caversham became a parochial district, and the Parish of Caversham traces its origins to that time.

The Riverton Anglican Parish was renamed in 1999.

The Araiteuru Marae Council was first established at a meeting of the Ao Tea Roa Maori Club on the 28th April 1964 (later known as the Arai Te Uru Maori Club).

The Archerfield School for girls was opened in Dunedin in 1913, and an Old Girls' Association was established in 1920.

James Hume, a trained male nurse and administrator, joined with Dr E.W. Alexander to found Ashburn Hall in 1882. It was known as Hume's Asylum and was a private psychiatric institution.

Dunedin Churches of Christ began in 1858 with the arrival in Port Chalmers of the 'Strathalen' and the 'Palmyra'.

The world's first properly organised athletic meeting was held in England in 1866. New Zealand was not far behind, our first championships being held in 1888.