PIONEER RECORDS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30212, 17 August 1963, Page 15

PIONEER RECORDS

Offer To Museums Records kept by a former owner of Mount Torlesse rtation, Mr Edward Curry, more than 100 yeans ago, and ledgers owned by New Zealand's first doctor. Dr. John Panker, who landed at Akaraa some years betore toe arrival of the First Four Ships will be submitted to “The Press” within the next few months for handing over to the Canterbury Museum and Akaroa Museum respective!. . Mrs M. Olney, of 56 Elizabeth street. Timaru, onlv daughter of the tele Mt Herbert Parker, a san of Dr Parker, said she would et aside papers, books, and other articles preserved by her father that might be of historical interest to the proposed Banks Peninsula museum and items such as diaries written by Mr Curry a fomer banker, who purchased Mount Torlesee station n 1862, for presentation to toe Canterbury Muaeum