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Gudgeon, Walter Edward Cook Islands
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Papers

  • AU PMB MS 91
  • Collection
  • 1898 - c.1909

Walter Edward Gudgeon (1842-1920) succeeded F.J. Moss as British Resident in the Cook Islands in September 1898. On the annexation of those islands by New Zealand in 1901, he became the first Resident Commissioner. He held this post until 1909.
The papers are entitled:

  1. The Activities of Walter Moss in the Pacific or the Eccentricities of a British Resident, (43 pp. typescript)
  2. Cook Islands Maori Genealogical Tables (15pp. Mss and typescript)
  3. The Kingdom in the Pacific (20 pp. typescript)
  4. Letter to Lord Ranfurly of September 20, 1898 (3 pp. Mss)
  5. The L.M.S. in the South Seas (6 pp. typescript)
  6. The London Mission: Its Policy and Peculiarities (14 pp. typescript)
  7. The London Mission Society in the Cook and Northern Islands (21 pp. typescript)
  8. Message to the Cook Islands Parliament dated September 26, 1898 (3 pp. Mss).

Gudgeon, Walter Edward

[Cook Islands Maori genealogies, collected by W. E. Gudgeon]

  • AU PMB MS 91-02
  • Item
  • date of publication not identified
  • Part of Papers

Contains the genealogies of Arera mua, Tangata, Tangiia nui Iro and Karika, Vaitakere, Rata Ariki, N'Hinerangi, Ngariki and Te Panaehu. Includes some tribal aphorisms and notes on some individuals.

Gudgeon, Walter Edward