Papers collected by Ernest Alexander Moore Leaver consisting of booklets, programmes, press clippings and other papers, mostly about Christchurch.

Includes a notebook of minutes of meetings of representatives of the Engineers', Elite and Woolston Bands, 1901 (manuscript), copies of Ernest Hoben's The city of Christchurch (1914), of Christchurch illustrated : 62 views of city and surroundings (no date; late 19th century), of Glimpses of New Zealand (excerpts from the full publication, Christchurch, 1896, with advertisements added), and of the Lyttelton Times, January 11, 1851 (the first issue; could be early facsimile).