TY - BOOK AU - Nolan,Tony TI - The bad old days: a century of life in the young colony of New Zealand SN - 0589012835 U1 - 993.02 22 PY - 1979/// CY - Wellington [N.Z.] PB - A.H. & A.W. Reed KW - New Zealand KW - History KW - Anecdotes N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-112); 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 N2 - 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 ER -