Miscellaneous Papers Not Listed in the Catalogue

Papers Held:

Abortion Papers
Anti-Apartheid and Race Relations Archive (a.k.a. Michael Law Collection)
(Gabriel) Elliott Minute Books (Native Land Court)
(William Henry) Grace Diaries
Huntly Mine Papers
Pei te Hurinui Jones Papers
Opotiki Confiscation
Ormsby Family Papers
Phillips Family Book
Ringatu Church Papers
G.J. Schmitt Papers
Bishop Selwyn Collection (a.k.a. Selwyn Collection of Early Māori Documents)
Douglas Seymour Papers
Rosemary Seymour Collection
Sim Commission Papers
Tainui/Coalcorp Case (1989)
Tauranga Confiscation
Waikato Confiscation
W.G. Whittlestone Papers
Raupatu Box 1
Raupatu Box 2

Abortion Papers

Presented By:	Professor Ian Pool, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Nine cartons of papers, largely reprints.
Finding Aids:	List of articles available.
Location:	Off Campus (Crown) Storage
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Anti-Apartheid and Race Relations Archive
(a.k.a. Michael Law Collection)

Presented By:	Michael Law, Centre for Labour and Trade Union Studies, University of Waikato, in 1990.
Brief Description:	30 numbered boxes containing material relating to the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Race Relations in New Zealand and covering the period c.1969 to 1982.
Finding Aids:	A schedule identifying the contents of each box is attached to box number 4 and is also available from the University Librarian (Significant Donations file).
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

(Gabriel) Elliott Minute Books (Native Land Court)

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	A copy of the Minute Book of Gabriel Elliott who was a Native Agent in Te Kuiti from the 1840s to about 1860. This is a personal record including notes on cases in the Māori Land Court.
Finding Aids:	None
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

(William Henry) Grace Diaries

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Copies of the diaries of W.H. Grace for the years 1882 and 1884. W.H. Grace was a son of the CMS missionary T.S. Grace. He lived at Kihikihi and operated as a Native Agent and Licensed interpreter.
Finding Aids:	None
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Huntly Mine Papers

Presented By:	Dr Philip Hart, Department of History, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Coal industry information and mining papers, with special reference to Huntly and the explosion at Ralph's Mine in 1913. Papers were from D.G. McRae.
Finding Aids:	None
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Pei te Hurinui Jones Papers

Presented By:	Brian Jones, son of the late Pei te Hurinui Jones.
Brief Description:	80 boxes of papers, manuscripts and photographs, and many books relating to the interests and work of the late Pei Jones, 1898-1976.
Finding Aids:	An excellent typed inventory held in the New Zealand Collection Office.
Location:	Level 4, Mahi Māreikura.
Access:	Access is available to bona fide researchers. Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Opotiki Confiscation

(List of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information)

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	One box (containing the contents of three original boxes) of copies of papers comprising the Opotiki records of the Compensation Court set up under the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863 and Amendments and includes Minutes of the Court Sittings, etc.
Finding Aids:	38 pages of notes list the organisation of the three original boxes and the arrangement of the original folders within each box.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Ormsby Family Papers

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Copies of papers comprising some Māori materials relating mainly to Ngāti Maniapoto and the King Country and compiled by John Ormsby of Otorohanga.
Finding Aids:	Three pages of notes held with papers.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	No access without the permission of the Ormsby family.

Phillips Family Book

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	A copy of a book containing the record in Māori of the investigation of title by the Native Land Court for Whakamaru and Rotomahana-Parekarangi Blocks.
Finding Aids:	Sheet outlining division by pages.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	No access without the permission of the original donor, the Phillips family, and the Ngati Tahu Tribal Trust.

Ringatu Church Papers

Presented By:	Robert Mahuta, Centre for Maaori Studies and Research, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Two folders: Nga himene ngapanui me nga kupu whakaari Nga waiata me nga inoi Text is in Māori.
Finding Aids:	Index only to Nga himene (hymns).
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	No access at present time. Enquiries should be addressed to the University Librarian in the first instance.

G.J. Schmitt Papers

Presented By:
Brief Description:	Geoffrey Schmitt was a member of the Steering Committee of the Task Force on Tax Reform. These four boxes of papers relate to that Committee and taxation in New Zealand.
Finding Aids:
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Bishop Selwyn Collection

(a.k.a. Selwyn Collection of Early Māori Documents)

Presented By:	The Late Rt Rev W.J. Simkin, retired Bishop of Auckland, in 1967.
Brief Description:	Some 210 documents, largely letters written in Māori to Bishop Selwyn during the years 1842 to 1872. There are also thirty-seven miscellaneous items. All letters have been translated into English, and typed copies made of the translations and the original Māori.
Finding Aids:	A list of letters is available. It is chronologically arranged and the name of the writer is given. An author (i.e. writer of each letter) index is available. Copies of these are held in the New Zealand Collection Office.
Location:	Original letters and documents and copies of the majority of letters are held in archival boxes in the Rare Books Room.
Access:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books. Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Douglas Seymour Papers

Presented By:
Brief Description:	Three boxes of papers from the late Douglas Seymour, a Hamilton lawyer. They relate to the founding of the University of Waikato and other matters.
Finding Aids:
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Rosemary Seymour Collection

Presented By:	Dr William Sewell, son of the late Rosemary Seymour, in 1985.
Brief Description:	Some 220 boxes of the late Dr Rosemary Seymour's (1919-1984) papers. The chief emphasis of these papers is on women's studies, interpreted in its widest sense.
Finding Aids:	Excellent inventory in two folders.
Location:	Inventory is held in the New Zealand Collection Office. Papers are held in Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Access is available to bona fide researchers but only after consultation of the Inventory so relevant papers can be extracted for the researchers. Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday.

Sim Commission Papers

(Confiscated Lands)

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Copies in five folders. These papers represent mainly miscellaneous notes on petitions, hearings and historical references prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, for the assistance of the Royal Commission to Inquire into Confiscations of Native Lands and other Grievances alleged by the Natives, headed by Sir William Sim. (See Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR) 1928 G7 for Report). Papers refer only to Waikato, Tauranga and Bay of Plenty (Opotiki) Confiscations within the South Auckland Land District.
Finding Aids:	Two pages of explanatory notes.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Tainui/Coalcorp Case (1989)

Robert Mahuta and members of Tainui and the Tainui Maori Trust Baord's case in the Court of Appeal against the sale of Coalcorp in 1989)

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	Copies of all papers relating to this case. 2 boxes 4 volumes relate to Plaintiffs 16 volumes relate to Defendants
Finding Aids:	Indexes only on cover of each volume. Brief explanation of contents held in the New Zealand Collection Office.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Tauranga Confiscation

List of records held in the Hamilton Office of the Department of Survey and Land Information

Presented By:	Dr Evelyn Stokes, Department of Geography, University of Waikato.
Brief Description:	One box containing 33 folders of copies of papers concerning the administration of Tauranga lands. The records cover the period from December 1864 to 1886 and include papers, reports from Mackay, Clarke and others and lists of 'awards' made before the Tauranga District Land Act was passed, correspondence, the allocation of reserves and the issue of Crown grants.
Finding Aids:	Tauranga Confiscation - Index of folders Two pages of explanatory notes and a list of the contents of each folder - a copy of which is held with the papers.
Location:	Storage - New Zealand Rare Books.
Access:	Request through the staff of New Zealand Collection 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday. One day's notice is required.

Waikato Confiscation