Manuscripts, Patrick Grant

Maker
Grant, Patrick John
Production date
Circa 1990

Object detail

Brief Description
Manuscripts and maps attributed to Patrick Grant regarding research for his publication of Hawke's Bay Forests of Yesterday. Circa 1990.

a) Photocopy of a manuscript entitled: Norman Elder, Extract from Tripbook 1, September 1934 to 3 January 1944, Trips 57-236. Includes notes on flora on trips.

b) Manuscripts regarding early travellers, Berry Library, southern Hawke's Bay and northern Wairarapa forest, records of notes and references.

c) Photocopied manuscript entitled: Early Stations in Hawke's Bay by M MacGregor, 1970. Includes names of stations and types of trees and flora in the surrounding area.

d) Photocopied manuscript entitled: An Historical Geography of Forest Policy and Management in New Zealand, 1840-1930 by M M Roche. Original fated 1983.

e) Typed manuscript entitled: The Hanger and is noted as being supplied by Patrick Grant, who received it from J A Absolom, and handed on to AC on 7 July 1987. Includes years with notes on events that occurred.

f) Photocopied manuscript entitled: Indigenous Vascular Plants of Gwavas Bush, Hawke's Bay. Includes a grid reference. Original and revised by A P Bruce from 1974 to 1976 and based on visits in 1966, 1974 and 1976.

g) Notes on forest areas in 1840 including total acreage and specific zones. Dated 13 May 1996.

h) Letter from Ash "Edelweiss" Cunningham to Patrick Grant regarding withdrawal from the Tutira Hanger Management Committee, depositing some of the Committee's papers at the Berry Historical Library and the return of Guthrie Smith's early notes. Dated 7 February 1988.

i) Two copies of a map entitled: Takapau, Te Aahua O Te Aourarawa from A and R Hilson, 1976. Includes a legend showing wool scour, meeting house, fortified pa, kainga, cemetery, school, shop, hotel, stockade, dairy factory, church, brick kiln, flaxmill and sawmill.

j) Hand copied map originally made by August Koch and dated 1874. Shows the area between Takapau, Norsewood, Dannevirke and Woodville known as 40 Mile Bush.

k) Hand copied map originally made by August Koch and dated 1874. Shows the area around Otane.

l) Photocopied map entitled: Seventy Mile Bush (After Koch, 1874). Shows the area between Waipawa, Takapau, Norsewood, Dannevirke and Woodville. Shows the confluence of rivers at Waipawa and Ruahine Ranges. Scale is 1 to 390 000.
Production date
Circa 1990
Production place
Production period
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Handwritten, typed and printed ink on paper.
Measurements
Largest Document: Height x Width: 305 x 215mm
Subject period
Subject date
Circa 1990
Credit line
from the estate of Patrick J Grant
Other number(s)
m2010/99/54, 87424

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