W E L C O M E T O T H E H O C K E N FRIENDS OF THE HOCKEN COLLECTIONS : BULLETIN NUMBER 6 : SEPTEMBER 1993

Parliamentarians and their (often missing) papers Rags and riches would be a fair description of the Hocken Library’s holdings of New Zealand parliamentarians’ papers. Far too many rags — yet a few surprisingly good holdings for the use of present and future researchers. The real tragedy is the number of old-time southern New Zealand political heavyweights of whom not a scrap is held. ’s Vogel and Bracken, Central ’s Pyke, Southland’s Joseph Ward, and many others are not there at all. Even Stout is represented only by virtue of his widow’s papers. Many of the existing scraps are not much better. Imagine Robert Campbell, noted run- holder and politician, represented by only a few cheque butts; Hyde Harris by a mere handful of letters; Sir John McKenzie by two notes to his storekeeper; Sir Thomas McKenzie by a single reply to a wellwisher. Nor does parliamentary material figure much in the papers of such former MPs as W.Cargill (mainly N.Z.Company correspondence), G.M.Thomson (natural history papers), or Sir James Mills (shipping interests). There are some notable compensations, though. The two biggest local collections to come into the Hocken before 1970 were those of The Hocken Library has several original Murray J.T.Paul and W.Downie Stewart. Paul — unionist, Webb cartoons of parliamentarians, including Labour member, wartime censor and one-time this ‘interpretation’ of Stan Rodger, donor of an important set of parliamentary papers and editor of the — left a valuable Vice-chairman of the Friends. selection of personal and party papers. And the 22 metres (about 80 boxes) in the Downie Stewart to Dunedin, Mr Walls had consigned them to the collection not only represent a different political Wellington tip. standpoint, but also cover a diverse range. Instead, an approach was immediately made to The Hocken scored a coup when the significant the new Member for Dunedin North, Stan papers of E.J.Howard (MP for Rodger, and thus began an annual deposit of par- South 1919Ð39) and his politician daughter, liamentary and constituency papers that Mabel, were unwanted by Christchurch institu- continued over the next two decades. When tions and Michael Hitchings brought them to historian Michael Cullen later joined the Labour Dunedin. We may not have Mabel Howard’s parliamentary team and learned of the deposit famous bloomers, but we do have her handbag! arrangements, he in turn organised an annual The modern trend began when archivist Peter deposit of his papers. Between them, these two Miller, aware of the need for a good set of par- Dunedin Cabinet Ministers have provided liamentary papers, approached Richard Walls invaluable coverage of their own era. Although when he had lost the Dunedin North seat. He some restrictions are to be expected, both are missed by 48 hours. Having no means of bring- already prepared to allow access to the bulk of ing the contents of three filing cabinets back the material, allowing more and more political research to be undertaken from Dunedin. The papers of D.G. and Ethel McMillan have added Museum. further strength. Cargill, W.W. (1784Ð1860); MHR Dunedin The Hocken Archives contain, of course, other Country 1855Ð59. important papers obtained from the various MS 95, Letterbook 5 May 1848 to 14 August political parties and other sources, but a still wider 1851, 105p, official letters; coverage of parliamentarians’ papers is obviously Misc. MS 665, Family tree, 1 large sheet, desirable. National Party Members are not well photocopy, four generations; represented; nor are the Otago-Southland rural Misc. MS 724, Letter to Clutha River Board, 31 constituencies. January 1859. When one looks back at the pitiful remnants Cullen, M.J. (1945Ð ); MHR St Kilda 1981Ð ; left behind to represent the hard work and social Minister. prominence of the region’s earlier parliamentari- MS 1267, Parliamentary papers, Cabinet and ans, the desirability of preserving much more constituency papers; some restrictions; 63 informative archives on the contributions of our metres. political representatives is all the more self- Cutten, W.H. (1822Ð83); MHR Dunedin evident. Country 1853Ð55, Taieri 1878Ð79. MS 1235, Cutten family papers c.1858Ð1923, Reference list 26cm, land sales, legal documents etc. Gillies, John L. (1832Ð97); MHR Waikouaiti A preliminary detailed listing of manuscript 1873Ð75. archives held by the Hocken from (or relating to) MS 1064, Papers 1884Ð86, 10cm, family letters, parliamentarians representing past and present speeches to two Otago schools; constituencies south of the Waitaki River is: [Misc. MS 268], Biography of J.L.G. by Colin Lillie Gillies, 1975, 82p. Allen, Sir James (1855Ð1942); MHR Dunedin Gillies, T.B. 1828Ð89; MHR East 1887Ð90, Bruce 1892Ð1920.Minister. 1860, Bruce 1861Ð65; Mongonui 1870, MS 1088, Minister of Defence papers 1912Ð20; Auckland City West 1871Ð75; Minister. MS 138 N.Z. and Naval Defence paper, Misc. MS 359, Autobiography for my children, Dunedin 1919, 3 leaves of MS notes inserted; 1885, 9 leaves, photocopy. UN 77, newspaper cuttings and notes, England, Hallenstein, Bendix (1835Ð1905); MHR 1910Ð12; cuttings, N.Z., 1913Ð20; Wakatipu 1872Ð73. MS 140 A-B, C.R.Allen’s biography of Sir UN 139. Hallenstein Bros papers contains James, 1943, 26p; and supplementary notes to Bendix Hallenstein’s letter–books 1866–1904, Lois Voller’s thesis on Sir James, 90 leaves. business and private, permission required; Bathgate, John (1809Ð1886); MHR Dunedin 40cm. 1871Ð74, Roslyn 1881Ð84; MLC 1885Ð86. Harris, J.Hyde (1825Ð86); MLC 1858Ð64, Misc. MS 554, Diary of his voyage to Otago on 1867Ð68; Minister. the Star of Tasmania, 1863, c.200p; and an Misc. MS 378, Letters 1874Ð78, 9 items. unidentified journal, possibly from Bathgate’s Hodgkinson, S. (1817Ð1914); MHR Riverton youth, 1825, 11p. 1876Ð79, Wallace 1887Ð90. Bedford, H.D. (1877Ð1918); MHR Dunedin Misc. MS 605, Papers 1837Ð1909, 23 items 1902Ð05. (letters, accounts, clippings); Misc. MS 788, Miscellaneous papers concerning MS 756, Papers 1842Ð1902, 7.5cm his life, mainly written about the time of his (autobiography, accounts of sea voyages, death. clippings); Bell, Sir Francis Dillon (1822Ð98); MHR Hutt OER5++D, Letter to T.Daniel re public meeting 1855Ð56, Wallace 1859Ð66, Mataura 1866Ð75; in Riverton on abolition of the provinces, 24 MLC 1854Ð56, 77Ð80; Minister. August 1875, bound in T.Daniel Scrapbook, See Reid, Donald. Vol.1. Buchanan, Andrew (1806Ð87); MLC 1862Ð74. MS 374, Sheat, A.J.L. ‘Short account of S.H.’s Misc. MS 773, Diaries 20 July 1865 to 10 voyage to Nelson … and early days there,’ January 1866; 13 April to 17 May 1873. 1956, 5 leaves, largely transcript of part of MS Campbell, Robert (1843Ð89); MHR Oamaru 756. 1866Ð69, MLC 1870Ð89. Kettle, C.H. (1820Ð62); MHR Bruce 1861Ð62. Misc. MS 346, Otekaike Station cheque butts MS 68, Account of surveying activities in 1865Ð66, c.250 items, photocopied. Wellington 1840Ð43, bound in James Hamlin, Cargill, E.B. (1823Ð1903); MHR Bruce ‘Letters and Journals’, Vol.1; 1862Ð65. MS 83, Letterbook (Otago) 1846Ð50, c.450p; MS 172, Notes on family history, 1897, 33p. MS 211/4b, Provisions or rations served out to Copy of original in Auckland Institute and ‘Nice to see you, Mr Talboys. Don’t call us, we’ll call you! — one of Sid Scales’ Otago Daily Times political cartoons in the Hocken. survey parties at New Edinburgh, 24 Feb. to congratulations on his knighthood, 1916, 2ÊNov. 1846; 2Êleaves. MS 211/4c, Correspondence relating to his McMillan, D.G. (1904Ð1951); MHR Dunedin position and salary, 1849Ð53; West 1935-43; Minister. Misc. MS 41, Letter to A.W.Shand repurchase of MS 1269, political and personal papers a section near Sawyers Bay, 1853, 4p; 1921Ð50; some restrictions, 90cm. Micro. 77, Instructions … laying out of Dunedin McMillan, Ethel E. (1904Ð1987); MHR Dunedin and Port Chalmers, among W.B.D.Mantell, North 1953Ð75. Miscellaneous memoranda 1845Ð46; MS 1268, political and personal papers, [T2], Martin, M.J. ‘The life and work of c.1938Ð83; some restrictions; 3.7 metres. C.H.K.’, 1934, 116 leaves, MA thesis. McNab, Robert (1864Ð1917); MHR Mataura Macandrew, James (1820Ð87); MHR Dunedin 1893Ð96, 1898Ð1908, Hawkes Bay 1914Ð17; 1853Ð60, Bruce 1865Ð66, Clutha 1866Ð70, Minister. Port Chalmers 1871Ð75, Dunedin 1875Ð79, MS 608, Papers relating to afforestation, Port Chalmers 1879Ð87; Minister. 1895Ð1902, 1 volume; Misc. MS 619, Arithmetic book 1832Ð33; [T2], Fleming, M.S. ‘Dr McNab and His Work’, [T2], Ellis, M.A. ‘James Macandrew and His 1930, 71 leaves, MA thesis. Times’, 1926, 48 leaves, MA thesis. Mantell, W.B.D.; Wallace 1861-66; Minister. McGlashan, Edward (1817Ð1889); MHR Micro 155/8Ð16, 18, 124Ð427, 454Ð462, Papers Dunedin 1860Ð62, Roslyn 1871Ð75. 1842Ð95. Includes official papers relating to References only in the John McGlashan papers, land purchases, native affairs, defence, general no separate holdings. politics; extensive private inwards McKenzie, Sir John (1838Ð1901); MHR correspondence; diaries, notebooks. Copies of Moeraki 1881Ð87, Waihemo 1887Ð90, Waitaki originals in the Alexander Turnbull Library. 1890Ð93, Waihemo 1893Ð1900; Minister. 1.7m; MS 532, Letters to James Arkle, storekeeper, MS 402 and Misc. MS 424, Names of the Palmerston, June 1878, 2 items; Kai-Tahu hapu inhabiting Otago, 1848; [T2], Downes, C.R.D. ‘Lands for the People. Misc. MS 552, Outline of journey, Kaiapoi to The life and work of Sir John McKenzie’, Otago 1848Ð49, 110p. Copy of original in 1954, 345 leaves, MA thesis. Turnbull Library; McKenzie, Sir Thomas (1854Ð1930); MHR Misc. MS 726, Correspondence relating to Clutha 1887Ð96, Waihemo 1900Ð02, Otago 1852-54, 16p. Copy of original in Waikouaiti 1902-08, Taieri 1908Ð11, Egmont Turnbull Library. 1911Ð12; Minister. Menzies, J.A.R. (1821Ð88); MLC 1858Ð88. Misc. MS 9, Letter thanking Mrs Moore for her Misc. MS 420, Diary 1853Ð57, 42 leaves, photocopy of a typescript. 2 volumes; Mills, James (1847Ð1936); MHR Port Chalmers UN 83, Additional papers 1898Ð1920s, 3 boxes; 1887Ð93. Misc. MS 248, Address book 1920sÐ30s, AG 292, Archives of Union Steam Ship Co., c.350p.; private letter-books and papers, 1841Ð1930; [T2], Denford, H.D.L. ‘Sir Thomas Sidey, his permission required; 30cm. life and times’, 1937, 84 leaves, MA thesis. Monro, Sir David (1813Ð77); MHR Waimea Stewart, W.Downie (1878Ð1949); MHR 1853Ð55, 58Ð60; Picton 1861Ð66; Cheviot 1914Ð35; Minister. 1866Ð70; Waikouaiti 1872Ð73. MS 985, Papers c.1890Ð1945, 68 boxes; MS 509, Journal on the New Zealand coast, MS 304, Letter to Helen Longford, October 1842, 65 leaves. Copy of original in Turnbull 1937, literary matters; Library; MS 830, Correspondence with F.L.W.Wood, Misc. MS 307, Notes on the Wakefield system. 1938Ð41, 30 items; Copy of original in Medical Library, Dunedin; MS 200, Obituary of M.C.Keane, journalist, see also Reid, Donald. 1929, 2 leaves; Paul, J.T. (1874Ð1964); MLC 1907Ð19, 46Ð50. [T2], Dale, S.M. ‘Gentleman of politics. A life MS 982, Main body of papers, 1882Ð1964, 12 of W.D.S.’, 1981, 212 leaves, MA thesis. metres. Stout, Sir Robert (1844Ð1930); MHR Caversham MS 963, McCarthy, A.P. Papers 1912Ð22 1875, 1875Ð79, 84Ð87, connected with his secretaryship of the United Inangahua 1893, Wellington 1893Ð98; MLC Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and 1926Ð30; Minister. WEA, 50cm. Correspondents include J.T.P.; [MS 244Ð278], Stout, Lady Anna. Collection of Misc. MS 30, Gregory, J.L. ‘A History of Otago books, clippings, letters and other material, Printing’, c.1957, 89p, includes chapter written c.1896v1919, 60cm. Largely on suffrage in part by J.T.P.; movement in England; Misc. MS 117, Dominion Settlement and [Misc. MS 283], Bodkin, J.P. Papers collected Population Assn, Wellington, 2 letters to J.T.P. for a projected thesis on Sir Robert, re his endorsement of a pamphlet and draft of educationist, 32 items. his reply, 1958, 3 leaves. Strode, A.R.Chetham (1823Ð90); MLC Pillans, F.S. (1810Ð99); MLC 1863 Ð73. 1865Ð70. MS 616, Diaries 1849, 1850Ð52, 3 volumes; MS 33, Letters from Dunedin 1848Ð50, c.60p. Misc.MS 380, Certificate … of allotment of rural Taverner, W.B. (18??Ð1958); MHR Dunedin land in Otago, 1849; mortgage, 1858. South 1928Ð31; Minister. Prendergast, Sir James (1826Ð1921); MLC MS 760, Instruments of appointment to the 1865Ð67; Attorney-General 1866Ð74. Executive Council and as Minister, 1928Ð30. MS 730, Letters to him as AttorneyÐGeneral and Thomson, G.M. (1848Ð1933); MHR Dunedin Chief Justice re appointments and legal matters, North 1908Ð14; MLC 1918Ð32. including reform of the Privy Council appeals MS 218, ‘Tongues in Trees…’, a description of machinery, 1863Ð1901, 48 items. the watershed of Otago Harbour, 1901, 32 Reid, Donald (1833Ð1919); MHR Taieri leaves; 1866Ð69, 71Ð78; Minister. MS 436, Natural history newspaper articles Misc. MS 178, Political correspondence largely c.1915Ð21, 163p.; concerned with his activities as MP and MS 1090, Papers, 40cm, including scientific Minister, and member of the Otago Harbour notebooks, outward letters, clippings; Board 1869Ð1910, 13 items. Correspondents Misc. MS 177, Papers relating to a catalogue of include Sir Francis Dillon Bell and Sir David fungi, c.40 leaves. Monro. Walls, R.F. (1937Ð ); MHR Dunedin North Rodger, S.J. (1940Ð ); MHR Dunedin North 1975Ð78. 1978Ð90; Minister. Misc. MS 559, Points raised by a deputation on MS 1236, Parliamentary papers 1978Ð90, proposed zoning changes for secondary Cabinet, party and constituency papers, general schools in Dunedin, 1977, 4p, photocopy. correspondence, files on local body elections; some restriction on access; 42 metres. Sidey, Sir Thomas Kay (1863Ð1933); MHR Researched for the Friends of the Hocken Caversham 1901Ð08, 1908Ð28; Collections by Michael Hitchings (with further Minister. notes by Beverley Booth), introduced and edited MS 605, Papers 1884Ð1931, 3.6cm; by George Griffiths. Layout by Gary Blackman. MS 713, Business letterbooks 1889Ð90, 95Ð98, September 1993.