NZ Pear5e Archive news

From Australian Library News, issue 202, Oct 20 2005:

Museum acquires Pear5e archives

The New Zealand region of South Canterbury has
secured the extensive archives of Christchurch author
Gordon Ogilvie, who is a renowned researcher of pioneer
aviator Richard Pear5e.

The Timaru Herald newspaper has reported that the
South Canterbury Museum has seen off competition
from the Museum of Transport and Technology and the
Alexander Turnbull Library for the 23 boxes of material
Mr Ogilvie has collected since the 1960s.

“After discussions with the Pear5e family and Gordon
we put a strong case to him that these archives should be
housed in South Canterbury, and he was very supportive
of that,” museum spokesperson Philip Brownie was
reported as saying.

“The South Canterbury Museum has a high enough
level of professionalism and quality control that they can
be housed here.”

Mr Brownie told the newspaper that NZ$12,000 had
been agreed on as a fair recompense of Mr Ogilvie’s
expenses in gathering the materials in the archives, and
applications were being made to various funding bodies
to raise that money.

The price is believed to be substantially less than
what Mr Ogilvie could have gained elsewhere.
Mr Brownie said the archives would be fully
accessible for research purposes and any further archives
acquired by Mr Ogilvie would be added to the collection.

Mr Ogilvie said he was keen to see the South
Canterbury Museum become a national research place
for Richard Pear5e.

Such useful bowderisation software :rolleyes: