Printed key: Mount Hobson. Mount Eden, the land for miles round these two mountains have been purchased by Europeans from the Natives and being excellent soil it promises to be covered with farms in twelve or eighteen months. Captain Scotts farm. The…
Lower left (l.l.) on stone: F. Johns; on mount in ink: North East Valley, from View Street 1862; on mount in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dunedin about December 1861 (Taken from View St); label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: In the foreground & running up to…
On stone: Supplement to NZ Public … [lacunae] Saturday Nov.r 17th 1883. Nemo Me Impune Lacessit. Flagstaff. Silverpeaks. Mout Stoker. Licence. Cottesbrook. A lion in the path. Law versus lawyers or husbandmen v. warreners. Otago NZ November 8th…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: RTR [monogram, first R reversed]; l.r. in pencil: TR Redmayne Aug 1864; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: View of Dunedin &c. from the Anderson’s Bay Road T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand:…
Margin above image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Key plan to Mr G.B. Shaw’s View of part of Dunedin &c from Stafford St. Nov 1851; through image in ink: [numerals] 1. Rev. T. Burns’ farm, Grant Braes (now Waverley.) 2. Anderson’s Bay, figure…
"In the 1960s Wellington's long settled inner suburb of Thorndon was threatened by the proposed construction of a motorway through it. Old houses were pulled down and Wellington's first cemetery was demolished." "When plans for an extension to the…