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New Zealand (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1182 Collections and/or Records:

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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
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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
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
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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
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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
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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), 19 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/122-123
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Telegrams from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] and to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] with a proposal for a Far Eastern council in London to co-ordinate the governments of Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands in the conduct of war against Japan.

Dates: 19 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/134-135
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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC acknowledging the new arrangements for the ABDA area [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian], suggesting that the United States, which has naval responsibility for the Pacific and Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] areas should be on the consultative committee and asking for improved communications with General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific].

Dates: 20 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/151-152
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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC accepting proposals of 14 January [see CHAR 20/68B/87-89] on the establishment of an Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] and ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] area and closer contact with United States forces; hopes co-operation will extend beyond the purely naval to fully defeat Japan.

Dates: 22 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/83-84
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Telegram from WSC to the Government of New Zealand [and Peter Fraser, Prime Minister] with figures for air reinforcement of New Zealand.

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/87-89
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] with proposals agreed by the United States Naval Staff and the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] for establishing a new Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] naval area, including a definition of the area and allocation of forces.

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/90-93
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Telegrams from WSC to John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, on the safe arrival in Singapore of a convoy including the United States transport ship Mount Vernon; with proposals agreed by United States Naval Staff and the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] for establishing the new Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] naval area, including a definition of the area and allocation of forces.

Dates: 14 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/24-26
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] clarifying the proposal for a Far Eastern Defence Council in London and explaining that no decision can be taken either in Washington [United States] or in London which does not take full account of the views of the Australian, New Zealand and the Netherlands Governments.

Dates: 23 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/36-37
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Telegram from Government of New Zealand to WSC regarding their representation in the war against Japan, requiring confirmation that New Zealand would be entitled to make representations to the Far East Council, including affairs in the Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] and Pacific areas; also on the importance of direct contact with the United States and on the necessity for one co-ordinating authority for land, sea and air forces in the war against Japan.

Dates: 26 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/42-44
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with details of the replies of the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, John Curtin and Peter Fraser, to proposals for a Far Eastern Council in London: "I should be glad to know whether in your opinion these observations ... affect the view ... that co-ordination of the views of these two Governments with those of the Governments of Great Britain and the Netherlands should be effected in London".

Dates: 27 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/52-53
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] regarding arrangements for military co-operation within the Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area.

Dates: 28 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/70-71
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Telegram from the Government of New Zealand to WSC requesting fighter aircraft to meet the likely Japanese attack from 1 division, 2 aircraft carriers and other naval units and to protect the main ports of Auckland and Wellington; provision is being made for a network of RDF [radar] air warning stations, the development of an air observer corps, and of new aerodromes with runways suitable for heavy United States bombers.

Dates: 30 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69B/79-80
Scope and Contents Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC: looks forward to receiving message from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] regarding "our man" [Admiral Thomas Hart, United States Admiral in the Pacific], and suggests the "Dutch man" [Vice-Admiral Conrad Helfrich, Commander-in- Chief, Netherlands Naval Forces in the East] as a replacement to command ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] naval forces; suggests...
Dates: 31 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69B/87-88
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt]: is enclosing message from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Supreme Commander, South West Pacific] of 29 [January]; comments on likely ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] command structure; comments on Roosevelt's telegram [see CHAR 20/69B/79-80]; thanks Roosevelt for his kindness, "I cannot tell you how sorry I was to leave the White House". Annotated: "not to be repeated to Lord Halifax" [British...
Dates: 01 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Feb 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69B/94-95
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin]: quotes a telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] regarding the political and military representation of Australia, New Zealand and Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia] [see CHAR 20/69B/79-80], and asks for comments.

Dates: 02 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1942 - 09 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/43-44
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] on United States naval responsibility for south-western Pacific; regrets not consulting Fraser more fully; also includes covering note by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].

Dates: 08 Jan 1942 - 09 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/51-54
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin] on the co-ordination of defence between Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, including the need to incorporate the United States contribution into the south western Pacific, and the defence of Australia itself; Australian, New Zealander and Dutch representatives will report via London to Washington until a Supreme Commander has been appointed.

Dates: 09 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/57
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Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC thanking him for essential arms and equipment for the defence of Fiji and New Zealand.

Dates: 12 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open