New Zealand (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1182 Collections and/or Records:
Item
North Island: New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7069
Scope and Contents
Bees on the same estate. [Showing hives among long grass on slope with young girls standing by].
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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North Island : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7070
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. The Boom at Aroa Wharf.
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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North Island : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7071
Scope and Contents
Landscape format. Kahekiatia (white pine logs) at Aroa. [Logs by railway tracks on wharf with wooden sheds in background].
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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Northern journey, 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/7
Scope and Contents
A handbook on New Zealand's Middle and Far North.
Dates:
1953
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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Norwegian Sailing Ship loading timber at Aroa for Liverpool : New Zealand, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 27/7072
Scope and Contents
[Ship moored along wharf].
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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Oamaru, Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand, 1876
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089B/50
Scope and Contents
360 x 265 mm. A view from a hill to the south of Oamaru looking northwards towards the town, which stretches along the curving bay at the right of the picture. The houses mainly consist of small wooden bungalows with larger buildings towards the centre of the town. The railway station can be seen near the beach. In the first half of the nineteenth century Oamaru, which lies on the east coast of Northern Otago, was mainly used as a landing place for whalers; the town itself began to develop...
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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Official: Cabinet: Chanak Committee., 15 Sep 1922 - 30 Sep 1922
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Hugh Trenchard, Air Chief Marshal, Chief of Air Staff, on diverting RAF men aboard the "Braemar Castle" from Iraq to Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey] in case of war with Turkey (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on stopping Turkish arms traffic; 10th Lord Cavan [Chief of Imperial General Staff, earlier Lord Kilcoursie]; General Sir Charles Harington, [General Officer Commanding -in-Chief, Allied Forces of Occupation in Turkey] on...
Dates:
15 Sep 1922 - 30 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the representation in the Dominions of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain., 12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/179
Scope and Contents
Includes committee minutes of statements made by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, on schemes of representation suitable for the circumstances in the dominions New Zealand,...
Dates:
12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Industrial Control: papers., Sep 1915 - Oct 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/63
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects including: a report of the industrial control committee on shipping; notes on the shortage of shipping due to World War I and its effect on the trade of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa; problems of transporting wheat to the United Kingdom from North America; freight rates; state control of coal mines and profits and export of coal; and comparison of imports (of food, minerals, etc) before and after the war.
Dates:
Sep 1915 - Oct 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 26 to 49., 02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/192
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: [1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the 'indianisation' of the Indian army and relations with Afghanistan; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on reaction to his taxation scheme, Irish loyalists and railways in Iraq; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on the local authority emergency provisions act; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on relations between France and the...
Dates:
02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 to 220., Jul 1927
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/161
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the position of the heavy steel industry; the report of a committee on the representation of the British government in the dominions including notes on the situations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; a report on affairs in the Soviet Union; the Committee of...
Dates:
Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure., 20 Dec 1927 - 06 Feb 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/214
Scope and Contents
Includes papers relating to the overseas settlement schemes including copies of agreements between the British Government and Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and copies of correspondence including letters from [14th] Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser].
Dates:
20 Dec 1927 - 06 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: All Red Route: papers., 1907 - 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/52
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Charles Rey [Secretary to All Red Route Committee, Board of Trade] (3); Sir James Mackay [later 1st Lord Inchcape]; Sir Alfred Jones (2); Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada]; David Lloyd George [President of the Board of Trade].Subjects include: steamship services and subsidies; matters concerning the choice of route for the Imperial Route: Great Britain to Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and Hong Kong); the inter-colonial railway of Canada.Also...
Dates:
1907 - 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: Colonial preference: notes and printed papers., 1907
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/30
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; statements and reports of House of Commons business; Colonial Office, Board of Trade and Foreign Office notes and printed papers (including by 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] and WSC); Commonwealth of Australia papers; resolutions of the Australian, Cape Colony [South Africa], and New Zealand governments for the conference; details of decisions of previous conferences; WSC's hand-written...
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: printed papers., Jun 1902 - Aug 1902
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/1
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to a conference between the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Joseph Chamberlain] and the Prime Ministers of self-governing colonies, held in London, at which discussions took place on subjects including: political relations between Great Britain and the colonies, imperial defence, commercial relations within the Empire, naturalisation and settlement in South Africa, and relations of the Commonwealth and New Zealand with the islands of the Pacific. [indexed].
Dates:
Jun 1902 - Aug 1902
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Samuel [High Commissioner in Palestine] on the sentiments of the Jews and difficulties in Palestine (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure on British troops in Transjordan [later Jordan]; Sir Lawrence Guillemard [Governor of Straits Settlements (later Singapore and part of Malaysia) and High Commissioner for the Malay States, later part of Malaysia]; Stanley Baldwin [President of the Board of Trade] on payments to...
Dates:
06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 05 Mar 1922 - 30 Apr 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/23
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Guggisberg, Governor and Commander in Chief, Gold Coast [Ghana]; Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Private Secretary to WSC, Secretary of State for the Colonies]; 1st Lord Forster, Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia, on the position of Sir Francis Newdegate [Governor of Western Australia]; Newdegate on the importance of the position of Governor to preserve British interests and on the expense of maintaining the...
Dates:
05 Mar 1922 - 30 Apr 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: supplementary estimates for St Helena, and notes and papers on the New Zealand Hemp Industry at St Helena., 1907
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/40
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Colonial Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, a position held from December 1905 to April 1908. The papers have been divided into correspondence (until the end of 1907 only) and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Colonial Office material covers WSC's routine ministerial duties as well as the specific issues of the period...
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Telegrams regarding Chanak [later Cannakkale, Turkey]., 16 Sep 1922 - 14 Oct 1922
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/28
Scope and Contents
Copies of telegrams mainly between WSC and the Governor Generals of the Dominions, Lord Byng, Governor General of Canada, 1st Lord Jellicoe, Governor General and Commander in Chief, New Zealand, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Governor General and Commander in Chief South Africa, 1st Lord Forster, Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia about the Chanak crisis.Subjects covered include: bulletins describing negotiations with Turkey and with Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk];...
Dates:
16 Sep 1922 - 14 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Prime Minister: African, Mediterranean, and Middle East theatres, 1939-43: proofs of contemporary despatches and reports, to be published as supplements to the London Gazette, and a copy of a pamphlet on the New Zealand Division in Egypt and Libya in 1942, with accompanying correspondence. [some material probably used in the production of WSC's "Second World War"]., 1942 - 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/246
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This class comprises correspondence and papers relating to Churchill's wartime premiership. It includes: private office correspondence; personal telegrams; printed copies of personal minutes, telegrams and reports; correspondence relating to appointments and patronage; some family correspondence (for which see also CHAR 1); and some engagements cards and diaries. No distinction has been attempted between the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The former title has been deemed...
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Sub-Series
Official visits outside Wellington, 1976 - 1980
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Archives relating to Smedley's service as High Commissioner in New Zealand and concurrently Governor of Pitcairn Island and High Commissioner in Western Samoa (1977-80).
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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Official visits outside Wellington 1976, 1976
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/4/1
Scope and Contents
This file contains itineraries and other material relating to the Smedleys’ official visits and entertainment outside Wellington, including Auckland; Christchurch; Turangawaewae Marae; Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu; South Island; and Western Samoa (circa 60 sheets).
Dates:
1976
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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Official visits outside Wellington 1977, 1977
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/4/2
Scope and Contents
This file contains itineraries and other material relating to the Smedleys’ official visits and entertainment outside Wellington, including Nelson; Auckland; New Plymouth; Christchurch; Makino Rotary Club; St John’s Women’s League; Tauranga; Kawerau; Fielding; Gisborne (with report by Lady Smedley on her visit to sheltered workshop for ‘intellectually handicapped’ in Gisborne run by Women’s Division of Federated Farmers); Hasting; Napier; and overall programme for Smedley during visit of the...
Dates:
1977
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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Official visits outside Wellington 1978, 1978
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/4/3
Scope and Contents
This file contains itineraries and other material relating to the Smedleys’ official visits and entertainment outside Wellington, including Whangerei; Ashburton and West Coast of South Island; Waiouru and Hawkes Bay; Auckland Travel Club; Christchurch; Women’s Division of Federated Farmers of New Zealand, South Canterbury; Palmerston North; Hamilton; Nelson; Western Samoa; Waikato; Stratford; Dunedin; and Southland (circa 80 sheets).
Dates:
1978
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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Official visits outside Wellington 1979-80, 1979 - 1980
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 389/8/4/4
Scope and Contents
This file contains itineraries and other material relating to the Smedleys’ official visits and entertainment outside Wellington, including Auckland; Antarctica; Hastings; Western Samoa; Marton; Timaru; Christchurch; Invercargill; Northland; Rotorua; Napier; Dannvirke; South Island; Hamilton; and Oamaru (circa 60 sheets).
Dates:
1979 - 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).