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441408
  • Title
    Cook Islands Library and Museum Society - Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1933-1970
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PMB 1065
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    441408
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 1065
  • Physical Description
    microfilm reel 35 mm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Independent society established in 1963 with initial New Zealand Government support
  • Scope and Content
    1. Shipping notes compiled by by W.G Coppell, 1962-67, nos. 1-149 (MS 72). Extracts from various primary and secondary sources referring to ships which have visited the Cook Islands. 2. A.B. Donald and Co. Cook Islands Shipping Register, May 1949 to Nov. 1970. 3. Narrative of Charles James Ward (1856-1933) of Rarotonga, prepared by G.H. Davis, Postmaster, 1933 (11 p. ; MS 16). Ward first visited Rarotonga in 1881. He later settled there, working initially as a skipper of island schooners and later as a storekeeper. 4. Correspondence of William McBirney (1871?-1976), 1947-55, relating to the introduction of plants to the Cook Islands
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1065
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of original held by Cook Islands Library and Museum Society, Rarotonga
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