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Baron Charles De Thierry letters.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS Archives-Maori 89/4
Scope and Contents

Letters concerning Maori land. Two folders of photocopied letters. All material is handwritten. Almost all are in Maori and a few in English.

Dates: 1879 - 1925

Sir Keith Sinclair collection relating to the Waitara land dispute of 1860.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-305
Scope and Contents

Collection includes plan of Pekapeka Block, 1860, and sketches showing ownership of various portions. Accompanying notes include translations of Maori language inscriptions on the sketches.

Dates: 1860 - 1861

The Tihoi land purchase.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-278
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript with handwritten annotations. The following description of the typescript is taken from correspondence between the author, lawyer N.D. Ferguson and Professor Keith Sorrenson of the Department of History at the time that the item was donated to the Library.The account is in two parts, the first starts in 1919 with the first approach to the [Maori] owners by the crown and ends in 1951 when the crown having obtained by purchase about 95%...
Dates: 1972