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A reconnaissance survey of Lake Ellesmere and its border lands
(University of Canterbury., 1944)
The purpose of this paper is to give a descriptive account of Lake Ellesmere and the land immediately adjacent to it. Ever since the settlement of Canterbury the utilization of this land marginal to Lake Ellesmere has ...
A brief study of problems of acculturation arising from troop-native contact in the area around Fua'amotu aerodrome, Friendly Islands
(University of Canterbury. Philosophy, 1945)
The modern development of the sciences of psychology includes in only the individualistic viewpoint that the secret of the changes in man that can be found by reference to physical and psychical changes within his body, ...
A history of the New Zealand Baptist missionary society, 1885-1947
(University of Canterbury. History, 1948)
The New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society is today a comparatively complex organisation, with its superior administration in New Zealand and doing specific work in two districts of East Bengal (Dominion of Pakistan) and ...
The Right Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett, C.M.G., Bishop of Aotearoa
(University of Canterbury. History, 1948)
I have chosen as the subject of my thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in history a biographical study of the life and work of the Right Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett, C.M.G., Bishop of Aotearoa.
In this research ...
The Study of the Historical Development of Domestic Architecture in Canterbury, New Zealand
(Royal Institute of British Architects, 1941)
The building of the Maori displaced by European designs, methods of construction introduced by the French and British settlements and the influences resulting in the subsequent development of domestic architecture.
The New Zealand Student Christian Movement, 1896-1936
(University of Canterbury. Art History, 1946)
The historian who attempts a research into student life in New Zealand is somewhat hampered by the lonely nature of his quest. He follows a course through virgin territory where few of his sources lie ready at hand. This ...
History of the Anglican church in Nelson from the coming of the white man to the establishment of the West Coast goldfields
(University of Canterbury. History, 1944)
This work has been planned to sketch the history or the Anglican Church from the days of the whalers, before any organised settlement by Whites, up to the opening of the goldfields on the West Coast, and the establishment ...
The work of the third, fourth and fifth sessions of the Fourth New Zealand Parliament, 1868-1870, and its relation to the history of the colony.
(University of Canterbury. Department of History, 1941)
This thesis attempts to show the importance of the work of the New Zealand parliament from 1868-70 the influence on this work of the movements and opinion of the colony as a whole. General histories of New Zealand are apt ...
The "contemporary" aspect of history
(University of Canterbury, 1948)
Laviase once said to his students: “We who live intellectually in the past should not forget that the majority of men live in the present and are concerned about the future”. It was as one of the majority, rather than of ...
The foundation of the diocese of Wellington
(University of Canterbury. History, 1945)
Scope of the work, 1829 to 1859; conditions of life; territorial boundaries and nomenclature; conflicting elements in the population; adherence to the prescribed limits; social, religious and political state of England; ...
