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New Zealand (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1183 Collections and/or Records:

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Tuari Netana Ngatimaru. Maori chief, 1900 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089FF/48
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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
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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
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
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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), 02 Aug 1914 - 03 Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/35/69-70
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Telegram from 2nd Lord Liverpool [earlier Arthur Savile-Foljambe], Governor of New Zealand, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lewis Harcourt] asking if it was desirable to form a New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Includes copies of telegrams between the Colonial Office, [?] Rear-Admiral Arthur Leveson, Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick) Doveton Sturdee, Chief of Staff, Prince Louis of Battenberg [later 1st Lord Milford Haven, 1st Sea Lord] and WSC. [Carbon].

Dates: 02 Aug 1914 - 03 Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jul 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/6
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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] on New Zealand's naval policy. [Printed].

Dates: 31 Jul 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Aug 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22B/177-182
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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand], on the naval defence of New Zealand. [Carbon copy].

Dates: 25 Aug 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22B/277-284
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval defence of New Zealand and Australia, including the British attitude to Japan. [Carbon copy].

Dates: [Dec] [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22B/285
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Admiral Sir Henry Jackson], on the naval defence of New Zealand and the necessity of keeping in touch with James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand]. [Carbon copy].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21A/96
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Letter from WSC to the Town Clerk, Auckland City Council [New Zealand] thanking him for the gifts sent on behalf of the Maori race.

Dates: 21 Feb 1941
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
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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), 12 Jan 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/15/29-30
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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), 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
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(Untitled), 12 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/60-66
Scope and Contents Telegram from the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] to WSC reviewing recent developments, including: an anticipated German attack in North Africa; the feeling that Britain is less concerned with the Pacific than with Europe; WSC's discussions with the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt; the definition of South West Pacific; the division of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean into different theatres; the need for naval supremacy against Japan which has already...
Dates: 12 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68B/105-106
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] sympathising with his complaints about lack of support [see telegram T 42/2, CHAR 20/68A/60-66] and explaining developments for defence of the Anzac [Australian and New Zealand Army Corps] area, especially a representative council in London, and the scope of the ABDA [Australian, British, Dutch and Australasian] area.

Dates: 17 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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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