Jordan, Gibbes Borlase Claude
Production date
1860-1933
Description
G. B. C. (Claude) Jordan was Under Secretary for Justice and Native Affairs to the New Zealand Government 1912-1921 and Secretary for the Cook Islands 1920-1922. He was in charge of the organisation of the Native Reception to HRH the Prince of Wales at Rotorua in 1920.
Family papers including government appointments, includes a ledger used as a scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings about farm management and notes about family gardening, orchard management, and poultry raising. Includes sketches and notes on field and garden plantings and a photograph album for HRH the Prince of Wales visit to Rotorua in 1920.
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Object detail
Box 1
Folder 1. Personal letters. 1860-1918
Certificates including birth and marriage for G. W. (Gibbes Walker)Jordan and G.C.B. Jordan, an obituary for Claude Jordan and a partial family tree. Includes a Wellington and Manawatu Railway Co. half year pass for 1886.
Folder 2. Militia records for Gibbes Walker Jordan, land leases and distributions for the estates of Gibbes Walker Jordan and Percival Walsh, university papers 1860 - 1872 and financial papers.
Folder 3. Government appointments, newspaper cuttings, social invitations and a proposal to submit his name for an O.B.E. (1923)
Book. The illustrated birthday textbook with quotations from Longfellow. Annotation inside cover 'Claude Jordan'.
Album. Photographs associated with G C B Jordan.
Two watercolour pencil sketches, possibly of Gibbes and Lillian Jordan, artist unknown.
Photograph. Claude Jordan [c.1900's] Photographer Crown Studio, Newtown, Wellington.
Photographs associated with Claude Jordan.
Photograph album. Includes photographs of the Jordan house in Ngaio.
Photograph album. Prince of Wales visit to Rotorua 28 April 1920.
Box 2
A ledger used as a scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings about farm management and notes about family gardening, orchard management, and poultry raising. Includes sketches and notes on field and garden plantings.
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