VALUABLE DIARY FOUND
GIFT TO AUCKLAND (Special) AUCKLAND, Novembei' 25. A diary which gives many hitherto unknown glimpses and sidelights on the life and character of Sir George Grey, early New Zealand Governor, is to be presented after the war to the Auckland Old Colonists’ Library by the finder, Mr Trevor Ross, formerly on the reporting staff of The New Zealand Herald, and now night editor of the Australian Associated Press in London. The diary is in several volumes, and is leather-bound. It covers five years spent in New Zealand in the ’seventies by a niece of Sir George Grey when she lived with her husband on Kawau Island after Sir George’s retirement as Governor, and before his entry into general politics. Mr Ross found the diary while he was visiting an English village and looking through boxes of books being sold in the market-place for a patriotic cause. He discovered that the books had been donated by a woman, and when the latter heard that he was a New Zealander she presented him with the volumes for ultimate donation to the Old Colonists’ Library.
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Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 4
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185VALUABLE DIARY FOUND Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 4
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