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932534
  • Title
    James Harrop Griffin journal, 1 July 1855-30 December 1858; with private accounts 1 July-30 August 1873 and tally of game killed, with indication of locality 12 January 1853-26 September 1878
  • Creator
  • Call number
    B 1321
    MAV/FM3/54
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1853-1878
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    932534
  • Physical Description
    1 volume of textual material
  • Scope and Content
    Several newscuttings are inserted

    Griffin was Assistant-Commissioner for the Gold District at Tuena. Later he became an elected representative of the gold miners at the Central Mining Board established under the 1874 act. Griffin seems to have acted as a magistrate, the diary records all his business transactions in his capacity of Gold Commissioner and also the cases that came before him
  • Finding Aids
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-132A) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
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