Tales of pioneer women /
collected by the Women's Institutes of New Zealand ; with forewords by A.E. Jerome Spencer and by Amy G. Kane ; edited by A.E. Woodhouse.
- xxviii, 337 pages, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
Includes index. Whitcombe and Tombs job no. 77220.
Auckland: The Bay of Islands -- Mrs. Henry Williams -- The flour train -- Tauranga -- Early days at Port Albert -- A Maori mother's love -- Mrs. George Moon of Raglan -- Memories of a Hamilton pioneer -- First aid at Taupiri -- Ivy Torr, back-blocks school teacher -- A Hauraki bride -- Hawkes Bay: Danger from Te Kooti -- Old Waikari -- Frances Bee -- History of Petane -- Omatua -- Rissington -- The story of John and Mary Hameling -- History of Waikopiro block -- Taranaki: Trials of a pioneer family -- Mrs. Sole's memories 1841-1926 -- Brave missionaries -- Early settlement in Taranaki -- A Maori's gratitude -- Early recollections of Auckland and New Plymouth -- Carving a home out of bush in the King Country -- Wellington: Early Wellington -- Hunted -- Masterton -- An early accommodation house -- Two pioneer mothers of the Wairarapa -- Pohe's gratitude -- Settlement of the Alfredton district -- Early settlers and bush fires at Apiti -- The linking of east and west -- The huia -- Nelson: The settlement of Nelson -- Granny's new start -- A schoolmaster's wife -- The brick oven -- Karamea pioneers -- A story of a flood -- Marlborough: Betty Guard -- The Wairau massacre -- Whaling and settlement in Queen Charlotte Sound -- Havelock in the sixites -- Development of the Wairau valley -- Early Awatere -- Burtergill station -- Westland: Early days in Greymouth -- Hokitika: the romance of gold -- Grandmother looks back -- Grandmother looks back (cont.) -- Memories of Moana -- Tragedy at Brunner -- Mrs. Williams of Weheka 1873-1935 -- Canterbury and the Chatham Islands: Tales of old Wairewa and Pigeon Bay -- Catherine Macfarlane of Coldstream -- Jane Deans of Riccarton -- Arrival of the "Charlotte Jane" -- Journal of Priscilla Torlesse -- Early settlement of the Ashburton county -- The first Mrs. Tripp of Orari Gorge -- History of the Arowhenua Kainga Pa -- Early days at Arowhenua -- Catherine Burnett of Mount Cook station -- Burning of the Waimate bush 1887 -- Early days on the Chatham Islands -- Otago, Southland, and Stewart Island: Isabella Anderson and Janet McKay -- Arrival of the "John Wickliffe" and "Philip Laing" -- Journal of Catherine Orbell -- Purakanui pioneers -- Taieri pioneers -- Pioneers of the Clutha district -- The '78 flood, Clutha river -- Coaching days in Otago -- Naseby in the "Golden age" -- Southland: Jottings from Southland -- From English village to Southland -- Life on a Southland farm in the early days -- Southern missionaries.
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