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Box 18

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

National Historical Committee. Atlas Sub-Committee. Minutes, 17 May 1938 - 10 Aug 1939. Includes agendas and notices of meetings. Folder also contains draft and final copy of a report of the Atlas Sub-Committee, June 1938. 12 items, cyclostyled., 1938 - 1939

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS. Archives. A-42. Series F
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Centennial Act of 1938 set up numerous committees to organise and publicise the celebration of New Zealand's centennial in 1940. One of these was the National Historical Committee, which was responsible for the publication of books and surveys, including the Dictionary of New Zealand biography (published 1940), the Centennial Surveys and a proposed comprehensive historical atlas of NZ, to be called the Centennial Atlas. The Government appealed to the...
Dates: 1938 - 1939