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Bruce Biggs Rohe Pootae land case transcript.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-C-36
Scope and Contents
A transcript made by Professor Bruce Biggs of portions of vols. 6 and 7 of W.G. Mair's Native Land Court Notebooks, 1883-91, concerning the Rohe Pootae case, a contest for ownership of a block of land in the King Country by five tribes. The hearings were conducted in Otorohanga and were notable for their orderly proceedings. Judge Mair was commended for his handling of the case. Professor Biggs has attempted some analysis, by hyphenation, of many of the place-...
Dates:
1986
Jasper Buse papers related to Cook Islands Maori dictionary.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-97/7
Scope and Contents
Includes mss of Jasper Buse who began the work of compiling a Cook Islands language dictionary in association with Raututi Taringa. After he died in 1985 Bruce Biggs and Rangi Moeka'a undertook the task of editing the unfinished manuscript for publication. The papers include mss of both Biggs and Buse.
Dates:
1957 - 1995
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