Macdonald Dictionary Record: Arthur E Bird

Maker
George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
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One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for Arthur E Bird. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Christchurch
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Library
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G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies
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B441
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B441
Catalogue number
B441
Marks and Inscriptions
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 44.1. (1862-193) and again '75 Biod , Arthur E. won a Prov. Gor.t. scholar ship in '70. . In about he and Phineas Selig founded the Referee which later became the Official journal of all N.Z . Racing Club and in '91 was bought by the Press and was incorporated with the Weekly Press. In '83 he was Sporting Editor of the Canterbury Times and in Ang. left for Melbourne to take up a similar f sit ion on the Sportsman . Same friends gave him a durer before he left - including C. Hood Williams , See. of Talus sals and committee man of the C. J.C. and he was presented with a gold stop watch . He was the only son of J.A. Bird of ChCh. marr. at St Luke's by Rev. E.A. Lingard 20.10.85 to Georg ina Adams adopted dau Cof John Martin Thompson of Woolston. He wrote sporting news under the grame of Sir Lancelot Educ. X's Coll . 73-74 He. d. At Auck land 18.10.93 ged 31 LT. 15.8.83 : 19.10.93: X's Coll Sch. hist.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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