Papers of W. Pember Reeves

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File Coll. Misc. 198

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Papers of W. Pember Reeves. The principal correspondents are E. Tregear (Wellington) ff.1-89, M. Cohen (Dunedin) ff. 90-139, Sir Joseph Ward (Invercargill), F. Waldegrave (Wellington), W. Watson (Wellington), C. Wilson (Wellington B. Tillett (Sydney), Sir John McKenzie (Wellington), Sir Henry Atkinson (Wellington), O.T.J. Alpers (Christchurch), R. Seddon (Wellington), Sir Frederick Chapman (Christchurch), Sir William Russell (Hastings). They deal with the New Zealand Government, economy, trade unions, elections, legislation, industrial arbitration, relations between Ministers and officials, press, visit of B. Tillett to New Zealand and Australia in 1897, South African War, Australian Commonwealth celebrations, Chinese in New Zealand, affairs of Sir Joseph Ward, deaths of R. Seddon and Sir John McKenzie, New Zealand reactions to introduction of Chinese labour into Transvaal, travels by E. Tregear in Pacific, 1907 strike, Australian politics; proposed creation of High Commission in London, Reeves' writings and his work as Agent-General.

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