Scope and Contents Francis Goode Cuningham`s journal describes an ill-starred venture to export 2000 sheep from Australia to New Zealand, an entreprise which he undertakes with a New Zealand sheep farmer called A.G. Chalmers, who had already secured a station near Otago. Cuningham is to take a half share and see what New Zealand might hold for him in the way of a future. His journal contains many observations about the landscape and geography of parts of New Zealand which had not been properly surveyed....

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Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.