DR. HOCKEN'S LIBRARY.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION.
[BY TELEGRAPH. OWN correspondent.]
Dunkdin, Tuesday. Efforts are being made to provide efficient housing, in. order • that the city may avail itself ofVadJ, offers made-some time ago by Dr. Hock en to present to the citizens his library and other collections. The collection is of great value monetarily, and unique and inestimable as connected with New Zealand history; also to agree with that of New South Wales and other adjacent colonies and elsewhere. Old bound newspapers fro» earliest date form an especial feature, and number 150 or 200 volumes. Pamphlets are by the thousand, all of great value, and very f many of extreme rarity. Manuscripts are numerous, and includo journals of Marsden, and the earliest missionaries and some of the first colonists, documents connected with the New Zealand Company and the Otago and Canterbury settlements, and a series of letters from Governors, officials, and many eminent colonists. The pictures, old drawings, maps, plans, etc., would alone fill a gallery if properly displayed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 5
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169DR. HOCKEN'S LIBRARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 5
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