RECENT MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

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RECENT MANUSCRIPT ACCESSIONS

New Zealand Shipping Company Early in 1973 P. & O. (New Zealand) Ltd, began the transfer of many of the early records of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The material has arrived in several lots during the past eighteen months and further additions are expected. The collection includes early balance sheets with supporting financial material (1873-1879), letterbooks, minute books, miscellaneous financial ledgers and printed material. New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association On 16 July, 1974, the officers and members of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association gathered for a social function in the Alexander Turnbull Library to mark the formal transfer of its early

records to the Library’s manuscript section. The material transferred included correspondence, minute books, programmes, annual reports and volumes listing record performances by New Zealand athletes dating from 1887. It is hoped that this will be the first of many collections added to the library, documenting New Zealand sporting activity. Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand An extra dimension was added to the Library’s manuscript collection with the acquisition, earlier in the year, of the records of the Royal Forest and Bird Society. The files of the Society reveal its wide interests and accomplishments—native birds, national parks, animals, conservation matters, and more recently the Manapouri issue. New Zealand Farmers’ Union Papers Negotiations begun in 1973 resulted in the Library acquiring the records of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union from its establishment in 1904 to its succession by the Federated Farmers of New Zealand in 1944. The collection includes the minute books of both dominion and branch meetings, and should prove an invaluable record of early farmers’ organisation.