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New Zealand (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1181 Collections and/or Records:

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Twin Waterfall near the Matukituki River, Otago, New Zealand, 1876

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/69
Scope and Contents

360 x 266 mm. A view looking towards a cliff face, down which drop two waterfalls, presumably from the same source.

Dates: 1876
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Uncaptioned Print], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/56
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194 x 139 mm. A view looking along a river valley with steep wooded hillside rising on either side.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Uncaptioned print], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/58
Scope and Contents

194 x 135 mm. A view looking along a river towards a valley and a mountain in the distance. Exact location unidentified, but probably somewhere in the Lake Wakatipu region.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Under many flags: my pilgrimage

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents

An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.

Dates: 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Underneath the wire suspension bridge. The Hooker River in flood, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7080
Scope and Contents

[No print]. [Missing]. Half-plate.

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Unidentified river, NZ], 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/100
Scope and Contents

72 x 59 mm. A view looking down onto a river which winds between steep, tree-covered hills.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Union Bank of Australia, Auckland], 1870

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/7
Scope and Contents

240 x 208 mm. A view showing the front of the Union Bank in Queen Street, c 1870, with numerous passersby standing on the pavement watching the photographer. This brick building with four tall Corinthian arches screening the entrance was designed by Leonard Terry of Melbourne and built between 1862-1864.

Dates: 1870
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/8-12
Scope and Contents Letter from Arthur Witley (13 Westbourne Road, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC (House of Commons) regretting that WSC's recent letter in the Nation "betrays a tendency towards State Socialism". Gives his view of the distinction between a Radical and a Socialist and follows Henry George in advocating a system of taxation which distinguishes between value created by the community and that created by the individual, and the nationalisation of "all natural monopolies" such as transport...
Dates: 10 Mar 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/26-28
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Letter from Arthur Witley (13 Westborne Road, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC (House of Commons) advocating the taxation of land values, which he sees as a pre-requisite for Free Trade, and attacking taxation of capital and the earnings derived from it. Describes the good economic effects of the taxation of land values in New Zealand and New South Wales [Australia] and urges the Government to take on the House of Lords by including such taxation in the Budget. Signed typescript.

Dates: 07 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jan 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/15/29-30
Scope and Contents

Letter from P.J. O'Regan, Member New Zealand General Assembly, to WSC, support for free trade campaign, listing probable effects of Chamberlain's reforms on N.Z. trade, enclosing cutting from the Wellington Evening News, 20 Oct 1902, with account of election meeting.

Dates: 12 Jan 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/38
Scope and Contents

Letter from Charles F. Lawson to WSC, on support for the free trade movement in New Zealand.

Dates: 26 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1934 - 18 May 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/77-90
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Press cuttings of Robert Forbes's correspondence with the Nelson Evening Mail [New Zealand] defending WSC's part in the Dardanelles Campaign. [Covering letter CHAR 2/234/76].

Dates: 24 Apr 1934 - 18 May 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/394/54-55
Scope and Contents Letter from Major-General Bernard Freyberg [General Officer Commanding New Zealand Forces] (written at sea) to WSC, regretting that he could not dine with WSC on 5th January, but had already left on his way back to New Zealand, and was now with the First Echelon 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, a day from Sydney [Australia]. Freyberg gives his impressions of New Zealand: in particular, they had not had a good response to the call for recruits, due to various causes, but he hoped that the...
Dates: 08 Jan 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/173/70
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Telegram from Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC asking for WSC's personal assistance in obtaining the Thackeray Hotel [London] for New Zealand prisoners of war.

Dates: 21 Oct 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/128-129
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser]: recites telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding American reinforcements for Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific [see CHAR 20/71B/101-104]; comments on plans to ship British divisions to the Middle East or India; states that presence of United States forces in ANZAC [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area will lead to United States naval protection and...
Dates: 10 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/138
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East: comments on the plan to deploy United States troops in Australia and New Zealand thereby allowing Australian and New Zealand divisions to remain in the Middle East; comments on plans to deploy five British divisions in the period March to July using British and American shipping.

Dates: 12 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/160-162
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC regarding reinforcements for New Zealand: comments on dates for the despatch and arrival of United States troops; comments on the difficulties in leaving a New Zealand division in the Middle East; comments on the strength of proposed reinforcements for the Far East from the United States and Britain.

Dates: 14 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/167
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] commenting on troop and naval reinforcements for the Far East and expressing doubts about the likelihood of a Japanese invasion of Australia or New Zealand.

Dates: 15 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/179
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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC disputing his view that a serious invasion of New Zealand or Australia is unlikely and renewing representations that their position be strengthened.

Dates: 17 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71B/183-193
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: states that he has not yet heard from Australia and New Zealand but that in principle there are great merits resulting from the United States controlling the Pacific sphere and Britain controlling the Indian sphere; comments on the need for the American and British navies to work to a common strategy; describes British naval force in the Central Indian Ocean; comments on the need to co-ordinate all naval commands...
Dates: 17 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/2
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Telegram from WSC to John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] regarding proposals by the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] for dividing the commands [into United States Pacific and British Indian spheres] and stating that this will not absolve Britain from a duty to aid Australia in the event of an invasion. Annotation indicates that the telegram was also sent to Peter Fraser [Prime Minister of New Zealand].

Dates: 17 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/18
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC accepting proposals by WSC and the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, for the establishment of unified control for the conduct of the war in the Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Atlantic, and welcoming the appointment of General Douglas MacArthur as [Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces, South West Pacific area]; hopes that the close collaboration between Australia and New Zealand will not be weakened.

Dates: 19 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/94-95
Scope and Contents

Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC accepting proposals for the direction of war in the Pacific, but commenting on some areas which may require further clarification. Received 23 March 1942 British Time.

Dates: 24 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/111
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Peter Fraser [Prime Minister of New Zealand] to WSC regarding the opposition of the New Zealand Government to plans by the United States to create separate command areas for Australia and New Zealand.

Dates: 26 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/39/24-25
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Telegram from Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand at Cairo [Egypt],to WSC requesting extra naval and air support for General Bernard Freyberg [Commander Allied Forces in Crete] and New Zealand troops in Crete [Greece]. With attached filing slip, dated 24 October [?1941].

Dates: 24 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.