A Circulation Department staff member stamps the date slip in the back of a book. An electronic management system was introduced to the library in 1989 and prior to this, patron details were entered onto cards that were alphabetically filed at the…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Douglas, 1721-1807, Bishop of Salisbury. A friend of Captain Cook’s who, at the request of Lord Sandwich superintended the publication of Cook’s Second Voyage. T.M. Hocken.
On mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Born at Greenock Aug 25 1799, educated at Glasgow University, died at Sydney Aug.t 8 1878. He arrived at Sydney in 1823 introducing the Presbyterian church & school system & in 1832…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Montagu fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-92, First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Cook called the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Island. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Margin below image ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Henry Samuel Chapman (of the Inner Temple.); on mount: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Edited the New Zealand Journal until appointed in 1843 to judge of the Supreme Court at Wellington.…
In 1929, Kathleen Chang became the first person of Chinese descent to graduate from the Otago Medical School.See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (1941-1960), Volume 5, Wellington, 2000, and Eva Ng's biography of Kathleen Chang in D. Maxwell,…
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; verso in ink: Capt. King’s; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Early in the last century Kororareka was resorted to by the South Sea Whalers to refresh & refit their vessels.…
An extract from the 1989 Capping Show called Peter’s Pantomime. The Capping Sextet sing a tango with lyrics that describe the terrible effects of catching leprosy at university.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Lieut. Willoughby Shortland, R.N., Drawn for me by his niece from a portrait. Landed…