Cyclostyled papers from the second Waigani Seminar, 1968, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Most of these papers are published in "The History of Melanesia' (Port Moresby), Canberra [Date unknown].

Contains handwritten notes to the British Commonwealth Meeting London 1945.

Decolonisation of Western Samoa notes : handwritten and copies

Box contains:

newspaper clippings conference and seminar papers offical reports, these include: - report of Lord Shepherd's visit to Fiji. 1970 - The Fijian People: economic problems and prospects 1959 (The Spate Report) - Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Natural resources and Population trends of the Colony of Fiji, 1959 (The Burns Report)

Official reports include:

- Supreme court of Western Samoa in the matter of the Constitution, the Electoral Act 1961, and the Judicature Ordinance 1961 - Offprints, including articles by Guy Powles and Colin Aikman - VUW course material in Pacific History and Politics - Newspapers and newspaper clippings - seminar and conference papers, including: V.D. Stace Problems of the money economy in Western Samoa

J.W. Davidson "The Transition to Independence in Western Samoa : the final stage" - Correspondence with Guy Powles re J.W. Davidson

Samoa mo Samoa : the emergence of the independent state of Western Samoa - correspondence with Barrie MacDonald and Jennifer Terrell (Journal of Pacific History) re Mary Boyd's article on "Coping with Samoan Resistance after the 1918 Influenza Epidemic vol 15 (1980)

DRAFTS

"Decolonisation in the South Pacific" "The San Francisco Conference"

-offprints of Mary Boyd's article on Western Samoa

Western Samoa : official printed documents, various, including the 1947 report to the Trusteeship Council by United Nations Mission to Western Samoa

- Typed notes on Western Samoa

-J.W. Davidson "The Government of Samoa " 1947

VUW Pacific History Course Material - photocopying and offprints - course outlines and handouts - MS papers by other Pacific historians including I.C. Campbell and Stephen Odgers - maps

Research essays by Jonathan Scott 3rd year student 1979 Honours student 1980

Papers from: Workshop on Decolonisation: African lessons and Pacific Experience"

Australian National University August 1982

Decolonisation - notes, drafts, correspondence, offprints

Folder of Correspondence.

From: David Stone Colin Aikman Guy (Dick) Powles J.W.Davidson Dick Gilson Angus Ross - mostly concerning Boyd's contribution to "New Zealand's record in the Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century" (ed Angus Ross) includes letters from T.R. Smith and J.C. Beaglehole.

Also correspondence and reports re Carnegie Social Science Research grant for Boyd's project on "A Historical Study of the Transition from trusteeship to Self-government in Western Samoa c.1945- c.1960

Correspondence re Voelcker papers

Also Pacific Island history information in a brown file box: - bibliographies - newspapers - VUW course outlines - photocopies of articles - NZIIA papers - Pacific Studies Centre papers

This group of files was all originally contained in a drop down filing structure which concerned Mary Boyd's work in writing about the Trusteeship situation in Western Samoa. The individual files contain a variety of information on many issues and include handwritten notes, copied reports, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters. The files have been re-boxed in original order as below:

1) Aikman . Davidson: Relations betwenn Cabinet and Legislative Assembly. 1965. 2) American Samoa 3) Boyd M. Political Development in Western Samoa [paper] 1955? 4) Boyd M. Timing Self-Government in Western Samoa [paper] 1957 5) Cook Islands 6) Co-operative Studies 7) Constitutional Convention 1954 [photographs of the convention. All attributed and wrapped in tissue] 8) Constitutional Convention - notes and papers 1954. 9) Constitutional Convention 1954 - debates 10) Constituional Convention 1960 11) Council of State 12) Development Plans - Powles 13) Economic Development. 14) Education 15) Executive Council 16) Finance Committee 17) Fono of Faipula 18) Goodwill Mission and Aftermath 19) Gozar : A political Report : Poutasi and Gozar 20) Grossman : An Appeal for Samoa

This group of files was all originally contained in a drop down filing structure which concerned Mary Boyd's work in writing about the Trusteeship situation in Western Samoa. The individual files contain a variety of information on many issues and include handwritten notes, copied reports, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters. The files have been re-boxed in original order as below:

1) Independent State of Western Samoa. 2) Island Territories Department 3) J.W. Davidson : Samoa mo Samoa - contains letters from Powles, Davidson, Mackay, and Ross 4) Land and titles 5) Legislative Assembly 6) Local Government 7) Mau - London Missionary Society 8) Mau - 1926-1936 9) Mau - League of Nations I.T.25/1/1 10)Military Occupation- General headquarters despatxhes. Contains letter from Doug Munro

This group of files was all originally contained in a drop down filing structure which concerned Mary Boyd's work in writing about the Trusteeship situation in Western Samoa. The individual files contain a variety of information on many issues and include handwritten notes, copied reports, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters. The files have been re-boxed in original order as below:

1) NZ Institute of International Affairs Conference papers 1955 -Culture and Conflict, Contact and Development, Economic Development in South Pacific 2) NZ Institute of International Affairs - paper on Western Samoa Mandate in German Colony 3) Niue 4) Plebiscite - 1961 5) Political Development 1933-1959 6) Powles, confidential letters and reports etc 7) Richardson 1923-1926 8) Schulz E. Samoan Family Laws and Laws of Inheritance 9) Self -Government for 1944-47. Letter from Derek Freeman?) 10) Social System 11) Solf Dr. "Samoa" The People, the Missions, The Europeans" 12) Stace V.D. "Problems of the Money economy in Western Samoa 1957" 13) Tokelau Islands 14) Voelcker letters [copies marked secret and confidential circa 1947] 15) Working Committee on Self-Government 16) United nations - Trusteeship Council

This group of files was all originally contained in a drop down filing structure which concerned Mary Boyd's work in writing about the Trusteeship situation in Western Samoa. The individual files contain a variety of information on many issues and include handwritten notes, copied reports, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters. The files have been re-boxed in original order as below:

1) Proceedings of Constitutional Convention 1954 [ photocopy] 2) Mandated Territory of Western Samoa plus 2 maps of Western Samoa 3) Letter from Governor-General of NZ, Liverpool in 1918 to Seceretary of State for the Colonies. Marked confidential copy. Plain yellow OHMS envelope. 4) Notes on the Nash papers - Trusteeship file. Plain brown envelope 5) Offprints from Doug Munro on Pacific History plus articles and letters. Brown envelope. 6)Transcripts of radio discussions between Mary Boyd, V.D. Stace and Guy Powles. 7) Papers and talks by M. Boyd and J.W. Davidson 8) Notes by J.D. Gray on Keesing's Modern Samoa 9) NZ's University Student's Association interim report and questionnaires on visit to Samoa - 1965 10) M.Boyd - Western Samoa papers 11) Decolonisation - notes on paper by B.M. Brown 12) Western Samoa - Notes and Reports on Matai 13) Military Administration of Western Samoa by M. Boyd. @nd copy plus letter from Ministry of Defence 14) Western Samoa Legislative Assembly debate - 1958, notes

This group of files was all originally contained in a drop down filing structure which concerned Mary Boyd's work in writing about the Trusteeship situation in Western Samoa. The individual files contain a variety of information on many issues and include handwritten notes, copied reports, pamphlets, newspaper articles and letters. The files have been re-boxed in original order as below:

1) Racial Attitudes of NZ Officials In Western Samoa - article/drafts/style guide/letter from Judith Binney. 2) Richardson and the Genesis of the Mau - article/draft/notes 3) Colonel Tate in Western Samoa - research handwritten notes 4) NZ Race Attitudes in Samoa - handwritten notes, Alexander Turnbull Library information, reports. 5) Pacific History Conference - 1985, Victoria. Conference papers 6) Publications - UN Conference on International Organisation 1945 - South Pacific Commission. report from 1947 - Government of Western Samoa report 1951 - Universal declaration of Rights -between the United Nations and Western samoa - Resolutions adopted by the Constitutional Convention of Western samoa 1960 - The Constitution of the Independent State of Western Samoa 7) Folder containing Pacific History and Anthropology course material from 1970's and 1980's. VUW, Massey and Flinders Universities

Information gathered in Mary Boyd's study leave in London in 1950-1951 .

London Missionary Society - information gathered in Mary Boyd's study leave in London in 1950-1951.

- notes by Mary Boyd on 5" x 3" cards containing basic details on European missionaries in the Pacific - 'Senior Service' cigarette tin containing notes for bibliographic details on publications relating to missionary work in the Pacific - folder of handwritten notes

Red and white shoe box which contains a card index pertaining to mainly Pacific History but which also contains some World History. Resource for the course which she taught in world history?

Doug Munro's note - Themes covered include colonisation, imperial expansion, self-government and war

Blue folder - Pacific History Workshop conference. Auckland 1986 - on top of the folder are copies of the Pacific History Association newsletter Nos 30-39 (1993-99).

Cook Islands 1950-1980

- official printed documents - newspaper clippings (including folders on the trial of Albert Henry and its aftermath) - University of the South Pacific. Student essay "The United Cook Islanders - 1968-1972 by Niki Vini - Conference and seminar papers, addresses and broadcasts by C.C. Aikman, Mana Strickland, R.P. Gilson - Reports by T. Clifton Webb and H. Belsham and V.D. Stace.

Course Material relating to Pacific History.

-includes course material relating to History 403 - Decolonisation of Oceania

- includes course outlines and readings, and several papers from the 1982 Workshop on Decolonisation: African lessons and Pacific Experience, Australian National University.

South Pacific Commission

Notes, newspaper clippings and offical material relating to the South Pacific Commission, including the papers from the 1971 South Pacific Commission.

Newspaper clippings.

These clippings are sorted out in two different ways, both thematically and chronologicaly. After consultation with Malcolm McKinnon it was decided that the newspaper clippings have value in their own right as they offer a complete snapshot of events as they occur.They are mainly from the and the . There is a full list below of the envelopes and their headings.

1) Samoa clippings dating from 1950 to 1990 [brown cardboard box] 2) Pacific Issues in New Zealand (overstayers) 1976 3) Pacific Islanders in NZ 1966 4) Pacific islanders in NZ 1967-1970 5) Pacific islanders in NZ 1971 6) Overstayers in NZ 1976-1980 7) Pacific Islander isuues -1978 8) Overstayers, Work Permits, Immigration Act 1976 9) Pacific Issues 1980-1 later 10) Pacific Issues 1972 11) pacific issues 1973 12) Tongans in NZ 1974 13) Pacific Issues in NZ 1975\ 14) Pacific Issues in New Zealand (overstayers) 1976 15) W. Samoa, Niue, Tokelau - Pacific Issues in NZ 1971-73

[Many of these clippings were collected for Mary Boyd by Ruth Ross in Auckland]

Newspaper clippings.

These clippings are sorted out in two different ways, both thematically and chronologicaly. After consultation with Malcolm McKinnon it was decided that the newspaper clippings have value in their own right as they offer a complete snapshot of events as they occur.They are mainly from the and the . There is a full list below of the envelopes and their headings.

1) Pacific Issues 1978 2) Pacific Issues 1974-5 3) Pacific Issues 1977 4) Pacific Issues in NZ - overstayers 1979-1980's 5) Cook Island Newsclippings - 1960's - 1980's 6) Pacific Issues 1975-76 7) Nuie and Tokelau clippings 1975-1980 8) Fiji clippings circa 1970 9) Pacific 1973

[Many of these clippings have been sent to Mary Boyd as collected by Ruth Ross in Auckland]

This box contains a series of folders about the Pacific, arranged by subject. The folders mainly contain newspaper clippings, but there are also some handwritten notes, reports, articles, and brochures.

1) Niue 2) Tonga 3) Tokelau 4) South Pacific - Australian Aid 5) Tahiti 6) British Solomon Islands Protectorate 7) Papua New guinea 8) University of South Pacific 9) NZ - Pacific - Education 10) NZ - Pacific - French Nuclear Tests 11) NZ - Pacific - United nations 12) New Hebrides 13) Micronesia 14) New Caledonia 15) Cook Islands 16) Fiji 17) Nauru

These are the papers to some of the conferences about Pacific History that Mary Boyd attended.

1) Pacific History association 9th Annual Conference (Theme - 'Conflicts and Continuities'), 1992 - includes handwriiten notes, lecture notes, and letters.

2) Pacific History Association Conference, 1987, Canberra.

3) Conference on US - Australia - New Zealand Relations. Canberra, 1970.

4) Australia and New Zealand relations - Foreign Policy School, Otago, 1978. Includes news clippings.

5) Turnbull Conference on NZ Social History - 'New Directions'. Wellington 1978.

6) Stout Research Centre Annual Conference - 'Migration and New Zealand Society'. Wellington 1989 (also contains Stout Research Centre newsletters) - contains original letter re Tainui presence at Court 1989 by Wendy [Pond?] perhaps applicable to Mary's Waitangi tribunal work.

7) Institute of Commonwealth Studies Conference Papers 1965. Postgraduate Seminar. Also contains a selection of Commonwealth Studies Conference Papers from 1950-1975.

Also includes some research essays from Mary Boyd's Masters students re Pacific History, ca. 1960-1970.

Contains details of Mary Boyd's research at the London School of Economics in 1950-1951. Also contains Mary's letters of recommendation from New Zealand including one from Professor Wood.

Contains drafts and reports

'Amnesty Aroha' was a group that was set up in Wellington in a reaction to the dawn raids of the late 1970's in Auckland. Enclosed are a complete set of their newsletters plus additional information. Unlikely to be captured anywhere else.

History 219 was a course on Pacific History. These three folders contain mainly Mary Boyd's handwritten notes for this course. There are also copies of the exam and some associated reports etc.

These mainly are the readings for this course. There are a number of articles by Peter Munz who may have been co lecturing the course with Mary Boyd.

Box and folder contains readings, newspaper cuttings, and notes from the HIST 317 course - Race Relations in New Zealand. It was decided to keep this information as one set as it contains evidence of her teaching practices and also the newspaper cuttings are of particular relevance to this time and provide a more complete record than can be obtained now.

This box contains the readings for the HIST 403 course. This seems to be a Pacific History course. The readings concern Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and General. Some of the readings come from the Australian National University, Canberra, and we know that Mary Boyd relied heavily upon the Pacific Studies courses at this university for her course readings.

Mary Boyd had an involvement with the Institue of Comonwealth Studies which was based in England. She studied there in 1950-1951 and returned on a number of occasions. Before the start of Pacific History as a subject for teaching in NZ Universities much of the information available from the Institute focussed on African Studies. Mary Boyd incorporated much of this information into her HIST 409 'NZ and the Outside World' course. This bundle of information represents much of the African content that was found in her papers and includes:

1) Envelope titled African History 1966 - Institutions and courses 2) Envelope titled West Africa newsclippings 1965 [mainly overseas newspapers] 3) Brown folder titled African History - Institute of Commonwealth Studies, readings and notes 4) yellow folder titled W.Africa 3 [roman numerals] 1971 - contains readings and notes.

This is a small bundle of papers from the VUW Seminar on 'The Rhodesian Question' which was held in 1970. It includes the course pamphlet, two lectures given, and a newspaper clipping.

This box contains the papers and associated information from the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Conference, Liverpool, 1974. The box includes Conference papers, catalogues, reports etc.

Box and folder contains readings, newspaper cuttings, and notes from the HIST 317 course - 'Race Relations in New Zealand'. It was decided to keep this information as one set as it contains evidence of her teaching practices and also the newspaper cuttings are of particular relevance to this time and provide a more complete record than can be obtained now.

Box 1. A box containing folders of newspaper clippings. Each folder contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes about the subject in Mary Boyd’s handwriting. [There is also a folder which contains details about schools and a school jubilee which occurred after the publication of the “City of the Plains”. I believe Mary was approached by the schools involved after the publication of the book and asked if she could contribute. As the material is similar to the rest of the contents of the box and a very similar subject, it is possibly not necessary to keep it separate]. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 2)Plastic bag of original editions of Hastings newspapers. These newspapers are of no great historical significance and are easily obtainable for future researchers. The exception is the original Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune Centennial edition which was published around the same time as Mary Boyd’s book which is recommended for permanent retention as part of the collection

Box 12)Cardboard file box contains copies of newspapers with features about Hastings. These include copies of the Hawke’s Bay Herald Tribune and also Dominion features. Some of the newspapers date beyond 1984. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR.

Box 4)Small (34 x 31 x 14cm) dark green double filing drawer which has been filled with biographical details of Hastings residents and people of import. The individual cards have handwritten annotations on them, often they also have obituaries and articles attached to them, and are an indication of Mary Boyd’s working methods. They are recommended for permanent retention within JCBR.

Box 5)Box containing handwritten draft notes about the history of Hastings and Napier. They are divided by cardboard by subject and in each subject [chapter?] there may be newspaper clippings and further added notes. Much of the information seems to be collated information by Mary’s students from the original material held in the shoeboxes about ratepayers. Subject headings include such topics as building permits, occupations. Also contains photocopied pages of pre 1900 newspapers. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

boyd00005 contains 2 of the shoeboxes. Boyd00006 contains 3 of the shoeboxes. Box 3)Box of index cards which have been packaged separately in individual shoeboxes. 5 of these shoeboxes contain details of the 1934-1935 ratepayers in Hawkes Bay. These cards all seem to originally come from an index card box. The cards are in no definable order and, though written by hand, they are not annotated. The information held within these cards seems to be information that if not readily available, is available in a lesser time than it would take to sort and decipher the index cards. The lack of annotation implies that the data had been transferred over to Mary Boyd’s working notes and therefore it may not be necessary or practical to retain these permanently.

Box 8)Box containing handwritten draft notes about the history of Hastings and Napier. They are divided by cardboard folder by subject and in each subject [chapter?] there may be newspaper clippings and further added notes. Subject headings include such topics as Education, Welfare, Entertainment. There is also a box of index cards and a small notebook . This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 8)Box containing handwritten draft notes about the history of Hastings and Napier. They are divided by cardboard folder by subject and in each subject [chapter?] there may be newspaper clippings and further added notes. Subject headings include such topics as Education, Welfare, Entertainment. There is also a box of index cards and a small notebook . This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 7)This box contains the photos that Mary Boyd collected for “The City of Plains”. Sources include Alexander Turnbull Library, certain Hastings individuals, and newspapers. The photos come with full metadata [provenance] and in the main seem to be copies. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 9) Box containing handwritten draft notes about the history of Hastings and Napier. They are divided by cardboard folder by subject and in each subject [chapter?] there may be newspaper clippings and further added notes. Subject headings include such topics as Education, Welfare, Entertainment. There is also a box of index cards and a small notebook . This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 6)Two shoeboxes containing index cards. Some of these index cards have been annotated and also have articles clipped to them. One of the boxes contains information about pre 1900 colonial New Zealand. These shoeboxes have been recommended for permanent retention as they show evidence of working methods and processes and also may contain collated information which is not readily available.

Box 9)Box containing handwritten draft notes about the history of Hastings and Napier. They are divided by cardboard by subject and consist of handwritten notes about each subject. Subjects include Local government, general elections. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 11)This is a small cardboard box which contains the handwritten notes and drafts of the book. Subjects include Local Government and General Governance. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR

Box 10) Small wooden card box which contains the bibliography that Mary Boyd used for the book. This box is recommended for permanent retention within JCBR for evidential reasons around research processes.

Contains copies of street plans, plans and maps from Hastings used as a resource in Mary Boyd's preparation for the book "Hastings - A City of Plains" Also contains a mass produced poster from circa 1975? which is in poor condition.

These two boxes contain Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Whanganui River Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

This box contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Te Roroa Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Te Ika Whenua Rivers Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Te Ika Whenua Rivers Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Appointments to the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Appointments to the Tuhuru Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Rating of Maori Land Value Claim. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Contains Mary Boyd's drafts, working papers, and annotated reports pertaining to the Te Whanganio-a-Orotua. They have been appraised, sorted but have not been properly sorted due to time pressures.

Annotated report

This box contains a variety of correspondence, noted-s, awards from Mary Boyd's time at the Waitangi Tribunal. They are listed as follows.

Service Award and 10 year award from the Waitangi tribunal - plus photo Reference for Dr Ngapare Hopa - restricted Treaty of Waitangi conference papers - 1972 and 1990 Ngai Tahu - decision of Maori Apellate Court 1990 - annotated Tribunal report 1995 Rangatiratanga - Annotated reports and notes Land deeds and claims - reports and notes WAI 381 - Maori Women's Welfare League Heretaunga Purchase - mainly notes, some reports Resource management Act - effect on Maori, annotated reports and notes

Waitangi Tribunal Correspondence 1989-1992

Waitangi Tribunal Correspondence 1993 - 1994

Waitangi Tribunal Correspondence 1995 0nwards. These files of correspondence are an important historical record of Mary Boyd's dealings with other Tribunal members. They also contain important letters.

This folder contains notes and research undertaken by Mary Boyd using old maritime charts of New Zealand -. Most of the charts seem to be from the Alexander Turnbull library

This is a stack of material that seems to contain the original drafts of Mary's thesis on Race relations in NZ which she completed for her masters.

This was a project that Mary was involved with that failed to materialise. However it does give a very good example of the process of commissioning historical publications.

Mary contributed some work about the Pacific Islands(Western Samoa and Tonga) to the Encyclopedia Britannica. This folder contains her drafts and some administrative background work.

This is a yellow envelope of course material and notes from a course Mary did in 1990 at the Centre for Continuing Education. This is possibly in conjunction with her Waitangi tribunal work

Mary Boyd was involved in the battle for Equal Pay from the 1940's onwards. This folder contains articles she wrote about this for the Trade Union History Project. It contains the original PSA Journal from 1947 with an article about Mary and the work she was doing in this area.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

Mary Boyd also had an extensive collection of reference material on both Pacific History and early New Zealand history. These collections were slightly purged. In the Pacific collections, material that was published by the NZ Government and easily available to future researchers was removed. However, anything that was published in the island territories, or that might be problematic to obtain easily for research purposes, was retained. The same is true for publications from NZ history. Many were checked on the VUW Library catalogue and discarded if a duplicate. However time restraints precluded this being done for all the publications and it may be worse to check before disposal.

2 folders containing Hawke’s Bay Working Party papers. Contain notes, correspondence and reports.

1 folder containing Biography in the Pacific working papers. Contains notes and extensive correspondence as Mary was not the lead in this project

White folder marked DNZB – Mary Boyd which holds some original contracts and some background material.

White plastic folder which holds background material re the Dictionary and also some more general historical information that Mary was involved in either writing in or commenting upon.

Original Goodman Fielder Wattie Award given to Mary Boyd in 1991 for the NZ Dictionary of Biography. Wrapped in acid free tissue paper and tied with tape.

This is a further folder of Mary's involvement with the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. It seems to concern the entry that she wrote on Ruth Ross and as such would be of interest to future biographers of both Ruth and Mary. There are original letters between mary and Claudia Orange on file.