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Mss Eur F252/62
- Record Id:
- 040-002291282
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000df
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/62
- Title:
- Australia and New Zealand
- Scope & Content:
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Diary includes:
- Folio 1 verso: map of Australia and New Guinea (scale 2 inches = 500 miles) drawn and reproduced by the National Mapping Office, Department of the Interior, Canberra A.C.T.
- Folio 2 recto: photograph showing a view of Port Moresby
- Folio 2 verso: postcard showing a reproduction of a colour picture of a Qantas Skymaster DC-4 passenger aircraft
- Folio 2a: cutting from an undated typescript on Indian authorities having trouble ‘catering for an influx of people not accustomed to modern ways of living, particularly as regards use of sanitary facilities provided for them’ [loose item]
- Folio 3 verso: photograph of a view of Port Moresby from the guest house
- Folio 4 verso: photograph of native boats at Port Moresby
- Folio 5 verso: photograph showing a view of Cairns sugar fields from Atherton
- Folio 6 verso: photograph of ‘our’ Dakota aeroplane on the sloping airstrip at Bulolo
- Folio 7 verso: photograph of Gold Dredge No.5 “flown in” (Bulolo)
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of virgin stand of Araucaria klinki pines at Bulolo, New Guinea
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of klinki felling and loading at Bulolo
- Folio 10 verso: photograph of the loading of klinki logs with an Aldis-Chalmer tractor on auto-cat and trailer
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of the butt log of a 223ft Araucaria klinki tree (Bulolo)
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of Araucaria nursery (1950 plantation, natural forest)
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of a balsa tree (Ochroma) of 3 years old and 5ft. GBH (Keravat, New Britain)
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of a Pandanus tree in Lae Botanic Garden
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of recent volcanic cone at the end of Rabaul airstrip
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of Araucaria cunninghamii trees of 26 years and 88ft. at Gadgarra, North Queensland
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of a lunch party at Gadgarra R.Q., North Queensland
- Folio 19 verso: colour photograph of Little Millstream Falls, Ravenshoe, North Queensland
- Folio 19 verso: colour photograph of kauri pine logs, Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland
- Folio 19a: section of a map of Australia, showing T.A.A. travel routes to Brisbane, Newcastle and Sydney, and on the reverse, showing Cairns, the northern tip of Australia and the Gulf of Carpentaria [loose item]
- Folio 19b: section of T.A.A. map No.3 of Australia, showing travel routes to Brisbane, Maryborough, Rockhampton and Perth, and on the reverse, showing travel routes to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle and Darwin [loose item]
- Folio 19c: section of T.A.A. map No.8 of Australia, showing travel routes to Adelaide, and on the reverse, showing travel routes from Brisbane to destinations in Queensland [loose item]
- Folio 19d: section of a T.A.A. map of Australia, showing travel links between Townsville, Ingham, Innisfail and Cairns, and on the reverse, showing routes from Sydney [loose item]
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of the Laportea moroides species of plant (S.F.R. Western, near Atherton)
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of a party of visitors in a forest area (S.F.R. Western, North Queensland)
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of Agathis palmerstoni trees, 41 years, thinned in 1946 and 1952 (S.F.R. 191 Barrow, near Atherton, north Queensland)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of high shade nursery for Hoop pine (Danbulla, near Atherton)
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of Tully Falls Gorge, Ravenshoe, north Queensland, and the rain forest populated with Agathis palmerstoni emergents
- Folio 24 verso: photograph of 19 year old Araucaria cunninghamii trees, 18 year old Agathis palmerstoni trees and teak (Tully Forest School plots)
- Folio 24 verso: coloured photograph of the Gorge, Tully Falls, Ravenshoe, North Queensland
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of a Melaleuca species of tree by the roadside, near Kennedy (near Atherton)
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of a Pinus radiata tree (1927-Dieback, Mount Gambier)
- Folio 27 verso: photograph at a Pinus radiata natural regeneration experiments site (group felling at Panola, Mt. Gambier) showing ‘Lewis’ in a trilby hat
- Folio 27 verso: photograph at the 1923 Pinus radiata un-thinned control plot (Panola)
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus oblique with Xanthurhoea (Xanthorrhoea) species of plants, about to be cleared for pine (Mount Burr, South Australia)
- File 29 verso: photograph showing a party of visitors assembled near Pinus radiate trees in Panola F.R., Mount Gambia, South Australia
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of Pinus radiata tree logs (dated 1925) in a forest area during removing third thinning work
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of Pinus radiata tree logs, dated 1945, being loaded during first thinning work (Wanslilo, Mount Gambier)
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus camaldulensis species of tree over pasture land
- Folio 32a: newspaper cutting, dated 27th August 1957, showing a report on ‘More Private Forests Urged at Conference’ [loose item]
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus camaldulensis species of tree over irrigated pastures
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus regnans trees of 110 years old and 250ft high (Ū Yarra Forest Division, Big Rocks Road, Victoria)
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus regnans trees of 110 years old and 250ft high (Ū Yarra Forest Division, Victoria)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus regnans trees, dated 1938, burnt from the fire shelter dugout (Ū Yarra Forest)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of the peeling of Eucalyptus obliqua logs for poles for the G.P.O. (General Post Office)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus sideroxylon logs being sawn for sleepers by a Rushworth mobile circular saw
- Folio 38 verso: photograph showing a climber climbing an Eucalyptus regnans tree in order to top the tree before felling (Ū Yarra Forest)
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of a beech forest with Mount Yule, of 10,000ft., in the distance
- Folio 40 verso: photograph showing the large tree trunk of a Eucalyptus pilularis tree of 227ft. high and of an estimated age of over 300 years (Mount Brother south forest)
- Folio 41 verso: photograph showing a view along Bird Tree Road with Eucalyptus pilularis trees (Mount Brother south forest)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of lunch at Herons Creek Timber Mills
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of ‘1927 hoop’ (pine) ‘beaten up’ with Pinus taeda trees
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of G Rodger speaking at the Norman Jolly Tree (Eucalyptus microcorys) in Moompa S.F.
- Folio 45 verso: photograph at the Norman Jolly Memorial (Eucalyptus microcorys) Tree
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of the Norman Jolly Memorial Stone
- Folio 47 verso: photograph showing Castanospermum, Archetophoenix and Ficus Watkinskii species of plants in rain forest (Tamborine Mountain, Queensland)
- Folio 48 verso: photograph showing the Crooked Neck and Beerwah peaks of the Glass House Mountains (Queensland)
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of Agathis robusta trees (1937 plantation, Mary Valley, Queensland)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of hoop pine veneers for plywood cut from a pruned tree (Mary V., Queensland)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of hoop pine and Agathis robusta poles at Heyne’s sawmill (Mary V., Queensland)
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of the regrowth of Eucalyptus pilularis trees after heavy logging in 1923 (Booboulabri S.F.)
- Folio 53 recto: photograph of hoop pine poles at Heyne’s sawmill (Mary V., Queensland)
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of 160 year old Eucalyptus regnans trees of 250ft. (Ū Yarra Forest District, Victoria)
- Folio 54 recto: photograph of Eucalyptus obliqua 40 year old poles with Eucalyptus goniocalyx just thinned and girdled
- Folio 54 recto: photograph of Eucalyptus regnans felling with axe and chainsaw (Ū Yarra Forest District, Victoria)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus obliqua 40 year old poles
- Folio 55 verso: photograph showing the reading, by a party of visitors in a woodland area, of “information from the Director-General”
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of 85 year old Eucalyptus pilularis trees after a fire at a tree reserve (Bellangry S.F., New South Wales)
- Folio 57 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus pilularis tree regeneration from broad casting after a burn (Bellangry S.F., New South Wales)
- Folio 58 verso: untitled photograph showing a party of visitors walking on a path at a tree regeneration area
- Folio 59 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus pilularis (black butt) with Casuarina trees and Imperata grass (Manning R.S.F., New South Wales)
- Folio 59 verso: photograph of a 227ft. Eucalyptus pilularis tree
- Folio 60 verso: photograph showing the fire tower at Mount Brother south forest, New South Wales
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus pilularis forest logged and under regeneration
- Folio 61 verso: two photographs showing the trunks of Eucalyptus rossii scribble gum trees (Black Mountain, Canberra)
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus pilularis (black butt) species of tree at Bellangry Forest
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus grande trees broad cast after strong burn thinning progress at Bellangry Forest
- Folio 63 verso: photograph of 20 year old Agathis robusta trees (Mary V)
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of a Phytolacca tree at City Garden, Auckland, New Zealand
- Folio 65 verso: photograph of tree ferns in Waitakere Range, near Auckland, New Zealand
- Folio 65a: cutting from a tourist map showing New Zealand inland travel destinations [loose item]
- Folio 65b: undated pamphlet, by the New Zealand Forest Products Ltd., on the subject of the Treaty of Waitangi [loose item]
- Folio 66 verso: photograph of a temperate rainforest by Big Kauri, with Rimu, Cordyline, Dicksonia, Raodalostylus (Waitakere Range)
- Folio 67 verso: photograph of the entrance to Wood Hill Forest, Auckland
- Folio 68 verso: photograph of Pinus radiata trees, at a very heavily thinned plot with Cordyline palms
- Folio 69 verso: photograph showing a river view near Auckland
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of the planting of Radiata near the cover of Muhlenbeckia behind littoral dune
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of marram grass planting
- Folio 71 verso: photograph of the river at Wairake
- Folio 72 verso: photograph at the Tasman pulp and paper mill at Kamerau, near Rotorva, showing a crane lifting a whole wagon load of poles (and showing Mount Edgecombe behind)
- Folio 73 verso: photograph of a Podocarp Dacrydioides (Rimu) tree (Waitakere)
- Folio 73 verso: photograph of “graphing the borehole” (with ‘Takle,’ ‘Jenkins,’ ‘Begley’ etc.)
- Folio 74 verso: photograph of Pinus radiata trees (dated 1920) of 100 stems per acre and thinned 1941 and 1951 (Kaingaroa S.F.)
- Folio 75 verso: photograph of thinned Corsican pine under clear felling by Tasman Pulp and Paper Co. (Kaingaroa)
- Folio 76 verso: photograph of 1920 Pinus radiata (dated 1920) with natural regeneration and ferns (Kaingaroa S.F.)
- Folio 77 verso: photograph showing reforestation of the Nothofagus hills with pine (Ashley F., Christchurch)
- Folio 77 verso: photograph of 94ft. high Douglas pine trees (dated 1921) after first thinning (Kaingaroa)
- Folio 78 verso: photograph of the reforestation of Nothofagus trees with pine
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of a loading gantry moving logs from trucks to railway wagons (Tasman Pulp and Paper Co., Kaingaroa)
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of Le Tourneaῡ electric arch
- Folio 80 verso: photograph of a loading gantry at Moruya, Kaingaroa
- Folio 82 verso: Teal Menu card showing breakfast menu alongside a colour photograph of a Maori girl and carved Pou
- Folio 85 verso: photograph of 10 year old Pinus radiata trees, first thinning (Berwick Forest, Southland)
- Folio 86 verso: photograph in Papatuwai Scenic Reserve, South Island
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of the making of nursery beds at Milford Nursery, South Island
- Folio 87 verso: untitled photograph showing an expanse of water with hills and mountains in the background
- Folio 89 verso: photograph of log sorting at Conical Hill
- Folio 89 verso: photograph of seeding felling in Nothofagus (showing Menziesii trees)
- Folio 90 verso: photograph of a view up the Hollyford at Milford Sound Road crossing
- Folio 91 verso: photograph of red beech on Milford Sound Road
- Folio 92 verso: photograph of silver beech 70 year tree poles after logging and first thinning
- Folio 93 verso: photograph of log sorting at Conical Hill Mill
- Folio 94 verso: photograph of logs stacked at the mill yard, Conical Hill (Invereargill)
- Folio 94 verso: photograph of silver beech pole crop with Blechnum species of ferns, at Rowallan S.F.
- Folio 94a: newspaper cutting (Rotorua Post, dated 2nd October 1957) showing a report on ‘Critical Appraisal by Experts of Forest Plantations’ [loose item]
- Folio 95 verso: photograph of 1914 Sitka spruce trees at Conical Hill
- Folio 95 verso: photograph of a general view of a plantation at Conical Hill with Pinus radiata in the foreground, Pinus Nigra trees behind, and Nothofagus trees on the hills
- Folio 96 recto: photograph of Corsican pine, just thinned (Conical Hill)
- Folio 97 recto: photograph of afforestation of a littoral dune (Pinus radiata in marram wood hill, Auckland)
- Folio 98 recto: photograph of Lake Forest, 55,000ft., showing Nothofagus trees, a scattering of Dacrydium and Podocarpus and some Castanopsis trees (Wau, New Guinea)
- Folio 98 recto: photograph of a Nothofagus forest above grassy slopes (Port Moresby, Wau, New Guinea)
- Folio 98 verso: photograph of Araucaria klinkii species of tree and Cunninghamii pines (Bulolo)
- Folio 99 recto: photograph of klinki logs at Wau (with Mount Kainda behind)
- Folio 99 verso: photograph of a typical natural klinki tree
- Folio 100 recto: photograph showing a remnant of 1941 hoop pine replanting in progress (Wau)
- Folio 101 recto: photograph of the collecting of klinki pine cones
- Folio 101 recto: photograph of the logging of klinki (Kessel March Orchard)
- Folio 101 verso: photograph of a recent volcanic cone at Rabaul
- Folio 102 verso: photograph of 1950 hoop and klinki trees at a heavily thinned sample plot (Bulolo)
- Folio 103 recto: photograph of hoop pine, 6 years old, showing drooping leader (Bulolo)
- Folio 104 recto: photograph of snails on a Pometia tree trunk (bridge logging area, Keravat N.B.)
- Folio 104 recto: photograph of Eucalyptus deglupta logs at Keravat, with 9 year old plantation behind
- Folio 105 recto: photograph of 9 year old 100ft. Eucalyptus deglupta trees (Keravat N.B.)
- Folio 105 recto: photograph of 7 month old teak plants ‘from stumps’ (Keravat N.B.)Folio 106 recto: photograph at a rain forest regeneration area showing Flindersia cryptocarya, Darlingia (Plot 1, S.F.R.W., Atherton, North Queensland)
- Folio 106 recto: photograph showing a plantation of hoop pine, 1939, Flindersia, 1939, with Ageratum (Gadgarra, North Queensland)
- Folio 107 recto: photograph of Agathis palmerstonii pine, 20ft G.B.H. (near Atherton)
- Folio 107 recto: photograph of 1952/53 plantation of Araucaria cunninghamii (Sawmill Creek, Bululo) with a klinki preservation plot on the skyline
- Folio 108 recto: photograph of Bidwilli pine trees (Barron, North Queensland)
- Folio 108 recto: photograph of Bowenia spectabis plants (Silkwood, North Queenland)
- Folio 109 recto: photograph of 40 year old (1918) hoop pine (Barron, North Queensland)
- Folio 109 recto: photograph of Pinus elliotti, 1950 (Silkwood, North Queenland)
- Folio 110 recto: photograph of Grevillea teretifulia with Xanthorrhea plants (Kennedy S.A.)
- Folio 110 recto: photograph of high shade nursery with hoop in ‘G.I. tubes’ (Danbulla, North Queensland)
- Folio 111 recto: untitled photograph showing a forest area
- Folio 112 recto: untitled photograph showing a party of visitors assembled near coaches and cars on a road with trees either side
- Folio 113 recto: untitled photograph of three men standing in front of a large tree trunk
- Folio 114 recto: untitled photograph showing a party of visitors in a forest area assembled before a long ladder standing against a tall tree
- Folio 115 recto: untitled photograph showing visitors in a wooded area with stumps of felled trees
- Folio 116 recto: untitled photograph showing a party of visitors assembled near coaches on a road with trees either side
- Folio 117 recto: photograph showing a group of Pinus elliotii trees, dated 1932
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291282 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/62 : Australia and New Zealand - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0066]/040-002291282
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume and 142 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1957
- End Date:
- 1957
- Date Range:
- Aug 1957-Oct 1957
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 117 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)