Otago. Oceania - New Zealand. Region.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of Francis Goode Cuningham`s trip to New Zealand, with related news cuttings and two photographs.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13089
Scope and Contents
Francis Goode Cuningham`s journal describes an ill-starred venture to export 2000 sheep from Australia to New Zealand, an entreprise which he undertakes with a New Zealand sheep farmer called A.G. Chalmers, who had already secured a station near Otago. Cuningham is to take a half share and see what New Zealand might hold for him in the way of a future. His journal contains many observations about the landscape and geography of parts of New Zealand which had not been properly surveyed....
Dates:
March-September 1858.
Transcripts of records of migrant ship 'Canterbury' sailing from Glasgow to Otago, New Zealand.
File
Identifier: Acc.12967
Dates:
1878.
Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.
File
Identifier: Acc.12825
Scope and Contents
Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.
Dates:
1850-1865.