Wellington printing and publishing in the 1840s and 1850s
- F2560
- Item
- 1985
Includes significant dates in New Zealand history, list of Australian-New Zealand connections, lists of publications, tables, and sample pages.
Coleridge, K. A. (Kathleen A.)
Wellington printing and publishing in the 1840s and 1850s
Includes significant dates in New Zealand history, list of Australian-New Zealand connections, lists of publications, tables, and sample pages.
Coleridge, K. A. (Kathleen A.)
Letters, 1865 Dec 6 -1866 Nov 6 : to A.C. MacMillan.
The private letters contain instructions and advice about departmental procedures, work in progress, staff engagement and deployment, budgetary matters, parallel official correspondence. Most of the work was concerned with surveying for new roads.
Accompanied by reprint of article 'Archibald Campbell Macmillan' from Cummins & Campbell's monthly magazine, June 1934.
Byerley, Frederick J.
[Draft] of letter, 1865 July 28 : to to F. J. Byerley.
Letter reports author's arrival in Rockhampton and execution of instructions re road surveys.
Author could be A.C. Macmillan, but draft appears to be in a different hand.
Macmillan, Archibald Campbell
Letters, 1976-1981 : to Veronica Kelly.
Letters to Veronica Kelly from Federal Parliamentarians in response to her representations re funding for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and La Boite Theatre, Brisbane.
Six letters are dated 1976 from Queensland MPs and senators, and relate to T.E.A.S. funding ; two letters from Prime Minister's Office and Leader of the Opposition, dated 1981, relate to funding for La Boite.
Two letters enclose responses from Minister for Education.
Kelly, Veronica
Memo to the people : a comment of peace / by Budger Davidson.
An open letter to fellow Aborigines to return to their ancestors' wisdom in dealing with problems instead of banners and placards.
Includes a poem entitled: Where is love by Nurunderi.
Davidson, Budger
Diary kept at Banka Banka Station, 1959
Records daily weather conditions, station activities, work undertaken. Written in a Week on a Page Invicta Australian Economic Diary No. 7 : 1959. For almost every day there is an entry giving the temperature for the day, wind direction, rain and weather details. Activities noted for each day include who went to do which farm repairs, what creeks were running, goods and mail deliveries, illnesses, arrivals and visitors. There is a brief entry on 17 March, saying Philip (Ted) Ward had died in Longreach. There are general references to Australian Aboriginal people employed on the station, without names. Daily entries have been written by several people, some in third person and some in first person. There are no financial or asset statements or lists of workers. Inside cover has contact details for selected friends and relatives, like DL and V Edwards.
Includes colour negative of painting of Banka Banka Station by Hilda Tuxworth.
Banka Banka Station (N.T.)
Tagebuch fur Ferdinand Kleinschmidt : Yatala, zwieundzwanzigsten Mai 1876.
In his diary, Kleinschmidt gave details of weather, wind direction, tidal levels of the Logan River, his routine work on the barge, and some special social events in the district.
Kleinschmidt, Ferdinand R. F., 1849-1935
Photographs taken during a world tour by G. M. L., an Australian.
G.M.L.
Letter, 1969 Mar 26 : Unley Park, SA, to Mr. G. Farmer.
Includes 3 copies each of the following hymns (music and words) by Jas. Richards : 'Rapture', 'The King of Glory', 'Christians, awake', 'Hark! hark! what news the angels bring'.
Letter contains information on James Richards, a fiddler of Moonta; also how the hymn 'Rapture' was set to music by Maurice Paternoster, the organist at St. Augustine, Unley South Australia; how the tune used to be sung at funerals at Moonta.
Also contains information on poem by Shelley on p.17, 'To the late Charles Marguet' of Moonta, father of Claude Marguet, cartoonist to the Labor Party.
Perry, Edward Leighton