TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moleta,Vincent
TI  - Family business: an Italian-New Zealand story 
SN  - 1927145333
U1  - 929.20993 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Christchurch, N.Z.
PB  - Canterbury University Press
KW  - Barnao family.
KW  - Barnao, Bartolo,
KW  - Italians
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Wellington
KW  - Biography
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - History
KW  - Fishers
KW  - Island Bay (Wellington, N.Z.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The end of the golden weather: San Bartolomeo, Æolus, Archduke Ludwig Salvator --; 2; The boy already shows the composure of the man: Stromboli, Wellington, Palmerston North 1889-1910 --; 3; Barnao Bros of Main Street West: Palmerston North 1910-30 --; 4; I have a tribute and confession to make: Wellington 1930-40 --; Bartolo you're a fool, that's what you are: Wellington 1940-50 --; 6; Valete atque valete - farewell and again farewell: the Barnao parents and their children 1950-2004
N2  - "Bartolo Barnao first sailed into Wellington in 1902, aged 13, and began work in the fish trade. Eight years later he revisited Stromboli to marry the bride who had been chosen for him by the parish priest in his village. Bartolo and Giuseppina returned to New Zealand and raised their five children in Palmerston North and Wellington. In this fascinating book, Italian literary scholar Vincent Moleta traces the story of his grandparents' childhood on Stromboli at the end of the 19th century; of Bartolo's year as a cabin boy on a steam trawler sailing out of Napier; of his two years driving a cart of freshly caught fish through the night from Makara Beach to the fish market in Wellington; of the death in 1911 of the couple's first child, of the family company set up by Bartolo and his brother Giuseppe, which came to dominate the fish trade in the central North Island. We learn of the serious family rupture in 1930 that saw Bartolo sell up and move to Wellington, settling in Island Bay and establishing, in the teeth of the Great Depression, Barnao's Fish Market in Lambton Quay, which became a Wellington institution. Vincent Moleta paints a lively picture of life in Island Bay, New Zealand's 'Little Italy', from 1900 to the 1960s: of the Catholic tennis club socials and the Fascist club meetings of the 1930s; of Italian weddings; of the New Zealand tour of the Italian grand opera company in 1949. He weaves these events and themes into a moving account of the family's moments of joy and sorrow, taking their story up to 2004 and the death of his mother, Rosina Barnao Moleta. The book sheds light on a little-understood strand in New Zealand's post-colonial history, and the rich culture the Æolian migrants brought with them."--Book jacket
ER  -