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9780473124762

1st BattalionNZR (1957-59) (OUT OF PRINT)

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Author: Unknown

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A record of incidents, anecdots and stories of the First NZ Regiment in Malaya during the years 1957 - 1959. The
stories come from battalion members, their wives and families as well as some who served the unit as civilian labour.The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Battalion's deployment in Malaya.

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9783639008777

A Constitutional History of the New Zealand Monarchy

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Author: Noel Cox

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Dop 2008, Germany
325pp
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The twentieth century saw the evolution of the former British Empire into a collection of independent countries. Many of these retain the Sovereign of the United Kingdom as their Queen. Using New Zealand as an example, this book examines the development of the Crown as a distinct constitutional entity. The concept of the Crown has often been of greater importance than the person of the Sovereign, or that of the Governor-General. The existence of the Crown has also contributed to, rather than impeded, the independence of New Zealand, and other realms, through the division of imperial prerogative powers. The very physical absence of the Sovereign, and the all-pervading nature of the legal concept of the Crown, have also contributed to development of that institution as a truly national organ of government. In New Zealand in particular this has been encouraged by conceptual confusion over the ... more

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9780908562015

A Fruitful Land

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Author: John McCraw

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9780908608720

All hands and the cook : the customs and language of the British merchant seaman 1875-1975

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Author: Captain Barry Thompson

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DOP 2008, Auckland
383pp
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The customs and language of the British merchant seaman 1875-1975

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9780473140564

All Saints Anglican Church Matamata: A centennial history 1908-2008

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Author: Joan Stanley

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Dop November 2008, Matamata
100pp
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A history of All Saints Anglican Church in Matamata. Joan Stanley is a well known local historian who has contributed to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

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9781877372216

Amassing Treasures : Sir George Grey - Colonial Bookman and Collector

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Author: Donald Jackson Kerr

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Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing the development of British colonies into politically autonomous entities. Less well-known of Grey is that he was also an obsessive collector of rare books and artefacts, which he selflessly bequeathed to the people he governed.
This study, written by a former librarian of the Auckland Grey Collection, sheds desperately needed light on the genius and magnanimity of an increasingly controversial figure, demonstrating the complex humanity underlying his apparent remoteness. It is the first study on Grey of its kind.

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9781877346071

AMAZING THAMES, THE: THE STORY OF THE TOWN & THE FAMOUS GOLDFIELD FROM WHICH IT GREW

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Author: Grainger, John

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The discovery of gold at the Thames in the Coromandel Penninsula in 1867 brought prosperity to the city of Auckland and the whole province. Presenting some of the area's history, gleaned from old newspaper files, talks with old-timers and from Grainger's personal experience as a resident of Thames. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1953 publication.

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AMBITIOUS

Ambitious fun: The Journey of GirlGuiding in New Zealand

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Author: Carol Dawber

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DoP 2008, NZ
255pp
A history of the New Zealand Girl Guide's that tells the story of what guiding meant to the girls and women who joined the movement; what they did, how and why they did it and what happened next.

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9781869642563

A narrative of discovery of the West Coast gold-fields/Reuben, Waite

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9780473129729

Ancestors and Descendants of James and Elizabeth Evans

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Author: Jennifer Clark

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DoP 2009 Auckland
486pp
Tracing the 19th century emigration of the Evans family from Portsea, Hampshire, England to New Zealand and Michigan, USA. Jennifer Clark's 30 year interest in genealogy has culminated in the publication of this book on her maternal grandfather's family tree.

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9780473115326

... And Then Somme

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Author: Walter Horn

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9781869621599

A New Zealand Christmas : Three Centuries of Kiwi Christmas Celebrations From the Alexander Turnbull Library

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Author: Sarah Ell

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This book is a treasure trove of Christmas Kiwiana from down the years. Drawing on the Turnbull's extensive collection, the selection of utterly charming Christmas cards, Christmas Day dinner menus, photographs, recipes, advertisements and poster art show the various ways in which we've celebrated Christmas and our nation over time.

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9780143011231

A Short History of New Zealand, A (revised edition 2009)

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Author: Gordon McLauchlan

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This highly regarded book has been in print since 2004 and has proved popular with tourists, students and ordinary New Zealanders as a lively and reliable short history of New Zealand. It has proved a handy and succinct alternative to bigger books such as Michael King's The Penguin History of New Zealand. The timeline at the end of the book has proved particularly popular. Gordon McLauchlan has been assiduously reading New Zealand history, biography and fiction for more than fifty years. He knows New Zealand as intimately and affectionately as anyone alive and has set out in this updated edition of A Short History of New Zealand to provide for the general reader an historical narrative that is personal and colourful, and stamped with the authority of a lifetime of deep interest. This revised edition includes events since the turn of the twenty-first century, including the results of the 2008 General Election.

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9780790001906

Ask That Mountain : The story of Parihaka - out of print

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Author: Dick Scott

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Journalist and historian Dick Scott broke new ground with Ask That Mountain. The book draws on official papers, settler manuscripts and oral histories to give the first complete account of what took place at Parihaka, the small settlement at the foot of Mount Taranaki where the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu opposed the colonial government in the latter half of the nineteenth century - making one of the world's first recorded campaigns of passive resistance.
First published 1975.

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9780143020516

A Society of Gentlemen : The untold story of the first New Zealand Company

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Author: Richard Wolfe

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Most New Zealanders have heard of the New Zealand Company and the Wakefield brothers, and the planned English colonial settlements of Nelson, Wellington and Christchurch. But very few people know that in 1825/26, very early in the story of the European settlement of New Zealand, there was another attempted New Zealand Company settlement - and it was a disaster.
In 1826, two ships containing English would-be settlers sailed into Hokianga Harbour and purchased land illegally from a local chief. The transaction has since been described as a swindle. Very quickly the settlers got cold feet and abandoned the settlement. They demanded to be taken back to Sydney and eventually most of them returned to the UK; five of the tougher ones came back across the Tasman and settled in the north. A spit of land at present-day Rawene has always been called Herd's Point, after the skipper of one of the two ships.
In this 'window on history' ... more

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9781869536145

A Taste of History : Stories behind our favourite foods

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Author: Bryan Bruce

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Full of stories true and fantastical about where foods and their legends come from.What spice was more valuable than gold?Which vegetable started a social revolution, where did tomatoes come from?. Chocolate and sex- who started the rumour?Highly entertaining and full of fascinating facts.
Where did the first tomato come from? What spice was once more valuable than gold? Chocolate and sex - who started the rumour? Which vegetable began a social revolution? Develop a taste for history with this fascinating illustrated book on travel, food and cooking. Open your pantry door and discover a world of mouth-watering tales of love, lust, jealousy and hate, enterprise and folly - all based on the discovery and development of everyday cooking ingredients. The foods covered are: Pepper & chillis, onions & garlic, tomatoes, potatoes, coffee, bread, chocolate, olive oil and sugar. Explore the stories of the origins and history of our favourite ... more

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9780958261746

A Very Publick Reserve

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Author: Gareth Winter

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DoP 2009, NZ
Masterton's Queen Elizabeth Park sits on a 'publick reserve' set aside when the town was first surveyed in 1854. It has hosted the town's stockade, the district's first Pastoral Show and, for a period in the 1920s, the world's fastest time for a mile run on a grass track.
Gareth Winter, archivist and garden writer, traces the development of the park and its associated reserves, including the town cemetry, from its days as a rough paddock leased for grazing to today's expansive reserve.
Along the way he tells of the man who dug his own grave, of the hunt for the corpse with a missing hand, the town's near-fatal fling with early ballooning and the thousands who gathered in the park for the many civic ceremonies held there. It tells how the park has developed and changed over the years, to meet the changing leisure needs of the community, while retaining the sense of a Victorian park, complete with towering trees.

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9780958331548

Banks Peninsula : Cradle of Canterbury (3rd edition 2007)

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Author: Gordon Ogilvie

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This book has been out of print for nearly fifteen years.This reprint is due to considerable demand from those interested in the early history of Canterbury.
The book was awarded a JM Sherrard award for writing on regional history.

First published 1990; this 3rd edition 2007.

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9781869404208

Beauty Queens and Physique Kings

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Author: Caroline Daley

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Dop 2009, Auckland
Publication abandoned

In the summer of 1902, Miss Rose Bull posed in front of 2000 people at Zealandia Hall in Invercargill and was presented with a gold watch and chain for winning one of New Zealand's first beauty contests. At the same venue, Mrs T B Mortimer's ten-month-old child won a perambulator in the baby show. And just down the road, for a shilling, the people of Invercargill could see Lex McLean, 'the modern Hercules', show off his bulging muscles and lift a 200-pound weight with one hand. From these first beauty contests for men, women and babies on through the enthusiasm for Miss New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s, Beauty Queens and Physique Kings tells a story of New Zealand that changes how we see our past. New Zealand men, our history books tell us, were farmers, soldiers and rugby players, not beauty contestants. Likewise, New Zealand women were farmers' wives, mothers and tireless community ... more

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9780958225298

Blind Bay Hookers : The Little Ships of Early Nelson

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Author: Fred Westrupp

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Nelson's "Mosquito Fleet" of little sailing vessels played an important role in the first century of European settlement, not only in Blind Bay but around the whole top half of the South Island and across Cook Strait. From the Deal boats that came from England with the First New Zealand Company ships to the Tasmanian ketches and the Auckland built scows that carried timber, coal and other cargoes in and out of the bays, these vessels were the lifelines of a rugged and isolated region and their story is told in the context of the pioneers who built them, sailed them and depended on them.

Fred Westrupp's forebears were Nelson sailors and boat builders and his family continues to follow the call of the sea. This book is history viewed from the foredeck. It is a story of achievement, complemented by a detailed chronology of Nelson vessels, illustrated from museum and private archives and enhanced by personal memories and ... more

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