New Zealand (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Sub-Series
Tongariro National Park, 1900
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC New Zealand/282-287
Scope and Contents
Monochrome postcards depicting Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe, including one of Mount Ngauruhoe in eruption (284).
Dates:
1900
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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[Top of the Pink Terrace, Rotomahana], 1880
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089E/18
Scope and Contents
210 x 148 mm. A view of the top of the terrace, with steam rising from the geyser (not visible).
Dates:
1880
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand Scenery
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Town Hall, Wellington, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6933
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. North Island, New Zealand. [View from harbour].
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).
File
Transcript of interview: George Fergusson, 2024
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 236
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Dates:
2024
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
File
Travel notes, 1976 - 1980
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/5
Scope and Contents
This file contains a large number of detailed notes by Smedley on his various visits throughout New Zealand and beyond, including a lengthy report on a visit to the Pitcairn Islands, Tahiti and Samoa, as well as visits to Taranaki, Manawatu, South Island, Ashburton, Waioru, Hawkes Bay, Northland, Rotorua, South Canterbury, Palmerston North, Nelson, Waikato, Auckland, Stratford, Southland, Tauranga, Kawerau and Gisborne. This material is accompanied by two colour maps of New Zealand (circa...
Dates:
1976 - 1980
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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Tree fern, near Wellington, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/82
Scope and Contents
85 x 140 mm.
Dates:
1948
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).
Fonds
Trip to Australia and New Zealand 1888-1889
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A
Scope and Contents
An album containing mounted photographs of various sizes, by various photographers, with either handwritten captions or captions on the prints. The captions may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The photographs were bought during a tour to Australia and New Zealand, breaking down into geographical units thus: 1-8 Suez Canal and Aden; 9-127 Australia; 128-135 New Zealand; 136-137...
Dates:
1888 - 1889
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Tuari Netana Ngatimaru. Maori chief, 1900 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/48
Scope and Contents
140 x 200 mm. Photographer’s copyright statement and catalogue number etched into foot of photograph: ‘TUARI NETANA NGATIMARU. CHIEF. ILES PHOTO. AUCKLAND REGISTERED. No.145’.
Dates:
1900 - 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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Turning wheel for rope-making : flax drying all about on the ground, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6966
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 6787-7005 (originally there were 173 in the album). Added numbers are: 6933-7005; not used: 6791, 6821, 6834 and 6872; missing 6790, 6792-6794, 6802, 6809, 6812, 6814, 6848-6849, 6936-6937, 6941, 6944, 6947, 6981, 6984, 6989-6890, 6992-6993 and 6995.
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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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
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/56
Scope and Contents
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
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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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
Fonds
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Underneath the wire suspension bridge. The Hooker River in flood, 1910
Item
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), 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
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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
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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
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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/26-28
Scope and Contents
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
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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:
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(Untitled), [Jan] [1912]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/55
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand, stating that if there were further increases to the German Naval Building Programme, the Admiralty wished to transfer the battle cruiser HMS New Zealand from the China Station to the Home Fleet for service in the North Sea, and that if the New Zealand Government approved, the armoured cruiser Defence would be sent to the China Station, and HMS Zew Zealand would have a three month visit to the...
Dates:
[Jan] [1912]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/56
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lewis Harcourt, Colonial Office, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, admitting the desirability of transferring the battle cruiser "New Zealand" from the China Station to the Home Fleet, for service in the Home Fleet, but requesting that the matter be brought before the Cabinet, because of opposition from the New Zealand Government, and possible adverse press publicity, with manuscript note by WSC, that he did not feel it worthwhile to start a long Cabinet discussion, and that...
Dates:
01 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/57
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir William White [former Director of Naval Construction] (Cedarcroft, Putney Heath [London]) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, suggesting meeting.
Dates:
02 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 05 Feb 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/58
Scope and Contents
Letter from 1st Lord Haldane (28 Queen Anne's Gate, [War Office]) to WSC, asking for details of Britain's shipbuilding programme, and a note of additional ships and money that would be required if the new German Naval Law was adopted, and asking if Britain could have any reasonable objections to the new German Squadron in full commission.
Dates:
05 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open