Nolan, Tony,  1923-2003 <br/><br/>
The bad old days :  a century of life in the young colony of New Zealand / 
Tony Nolan. 
 - viii, 112 pages :  illustrations, portraits ;  27 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-112). 
<br/><br/>The first of the first -- Immigrants at sea -- Getting acquainted -- The battered environment -- Souls for saving -- Town and country -- Delights of early travel -- Medical affairs -- Law and disorder -- Government and misgovernment -- Wars and warriors. 
<br/><br/> The good old days, or the bad old days? What were they really like? Tony Nolan has choses some 250 passages from more than eighty early books, journals, magazines and newsoaoers to illustrated the point of view that the good old days were really the bad old days. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0589012835 9780589012830 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New Zealand--History--Anecdotes
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>993.02 993.100207