The Arrangement & Description team sits in the middle of Alexander Turnbull Library. Completing our tasks to help make ...

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Looks at how the Scottish immigrants of the Doran family came to be changed to the Dorreen family as they emigrated to New Zealand, with thousands of descendants now from Peter Dorreen and Laetitia ...

Recounts the history of the Quinn's Arcade (Quinn's Arcadia) and the Waimate Regent Theatre, both cinemas in Waimate. Looks at the activities of the Waimate Regent Theatre Trust in purchasing and ...

A collection of traditional Māori stories and legends from various iwi developed as a resource for people learning te reo. Notes Hinemoa & Tūtānekai -- Ngā ahi a Tamatea = Tamatea -- Kupe -- Rangitoto ...

Eulogises the late Ngati Kahungunu leader, who died aged 77 at his home in Napier. Recalls his accomplishments, including his investiture in Nov 2005 as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ...

Established in 1926. The company included: Lester Brown, Len Barnes, Grace Macdonald, Lionel Inch, Vin Wilton, Robert Mayne, Amy Woodward, Jim Cooke, Tom Forrester ...

Negative strip of four copy negatives showing rural settlements. Two identical images show Maungapohatu in December 1934, photographed by Flora Johnston. A further two identical images are ...

"The story begins with the migration of ancestral peoples out of South China, some 5,000 years ago. Moving through the Pacific, these early voyagers arrived in Aotearoa early in the second millennium ...

Reports the success of Ngāti Porou Hauora's Winter vaccination campaign 'Tomo Mai'. Spotlights the collaboration between Ngāti Porou Hauora and the Ngāti Porou East Coast Rugby Union in providing ...

Writing to Hoani Wiremu Hipango from Waerenga-a-hika in 1862. Died 9 Jun 1865 at Nukutauma. Ordained to Anglican deaconate by Bishop Williams in Dec 1864.