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• A First Year in Canterbury Settlement With Other Early Essays

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• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 1 — Formation and Training in New Zealand
  • CHAPTER 8 — Rebuilding after Battle
  • CHAPTER 11 — Ruweisat Ridge
• 21 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — To the United Kingdom
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 2 — Maleme, Crete
  • Appendix — RUGBY MEMORIES
• 23 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — ‘What's in a Name?’
  • CHAPTER 19 — Marching On!
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — Trentham—Voyage Overseas—Training in Egypt
• 26 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 1 — In Burnham and Journey Overseas
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Canal Zone
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 15 — Advance on Florence
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • Brigadier Miles, the First CRA
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
  • CHAPTER 3 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 14 — Mule Pack Company
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • Editorial Advisory Panel
  • Preface
• Bardia to Enfidaville
  • Editorial Advisory Panel
• Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
  • New Zealand English
  • Publishing in the 20th century
  • Education and training
  • The businesses
  • The people
  • Regional publishing: Otago
  • Newspapers
  • Directories
  • People
  • The National Library of New Zealand
  • Book collectors
  • Literary prizes and book awards
  • Sources and resources
  • French
  • German
  • Greek (Ancient) and Latin
  • Scandinavian
• Chaplains
  • CHAPTER 6 — LIBYA 1941
  • CHAPLAINS IN THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY
  • [section]
• Crete
  • V: Preparations of 2 NZ Division: 30 April–19 May
  • II: Other Fronts and Creforce
  • Index
• Divisional Signals
  • CHAPTER 2 — To Egypt and the United Kingdom
  • CHAPTER 4 — Concentration of the Division
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III
  • Editorial Advisory Panel
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • Evacuation of Singapore
  • No. 67 Fighter Squadron
• Fulbright in New Zealand
  • Chapter 3 — Captain of — the Chalkies
  • Chapter 5 — A Return Air Ticket — and a Little Prestige
  • Chapter 6 — A Process of Global — Enlightenment
• History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
  • Contents of Vol. III
  • Chapter XVII. — 1872–1874. — Mclean and The Maoris
  • Chapter XVIII. — 1874—1877. — Session of 1874
  • CHAPTER XIX. — 1877—1881. — THE “WAKA MAORI” NEWSPAPER
  • CHAPTER XX. — 1881—1882. — THE RAID UPON PARIHAKA
  • Index
• Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
  • [backmatter]
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • CHAPTER 12 — SYRIA
  • CHAPTER 13 — WHILE SHEPHEARD'S WATCHED
• Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One
  • Roads Around Home: Dan Davin Re-visited
• Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 16 June 1927
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
  • 4 Field Ambulance
• New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
  • Maps and Diagrams
  • Tables
  • 2 — The Setting of the Pyre
  • 4 — Taranaki and the Stratford Fire Storm
  • 8 — The South Island
  • The virgin forest harvest, 1885
  • Case study—Canterbury and Little River
  • Town, country and bush
  • Runholders and feldon yeomen
  • Feldon yeoman districts
  • Runholder districts
  • Town, country and bush
  • Nelson (1886 population 7,315)
  • The work of the railways
  • The roadless north and the kauri timber trade
  • The village and the globe?
  • The ‘Our Own Correspondents’
  • The weeklies and their agricultural pages
  • [section]
  • South Taranaki 1881–86: farming for what?
  • Subject Index
  • 1 The Interprovincial Timber Trade, 1885
  • 11 Rush
  • 15 Nerves
  • F Books and pamphlets
  • G Articles
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • CHAPTER 5 — The Campaign in Crete
  • Index
  • [section]
  • The Field Companies
  • [section]
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Battle of Britain
  • CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
  • CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 13 — Pathfinders and Raids on Italy
  • CHAPTER 16 — Day Fighters During 1942
  • CHAPTER 17 — Night Fighters, 1942
  • Appendix I — Principal Events of the Second World War 1939–42
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
  • CHAPTER 1 — Introduction
  • CHAPTER 8 — Night Fighters
  • CHAPTER 10 — Normandy
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 4 — Western Desert—The Third Year
  • CHAPTER 6 — Malta
  • CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
  • CHAPTER 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Retreat from Burma
  • CHAPTER 13 — Fighting Back from India
  • Index
• Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā
  • Nga Tikanga Pai a te Maori
  • He Iwi Rangatira te Maori
• Petrol Company
  • [backmatter]
• Prisoners of War
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Reception of Liberated Prisoners in the United Kingdom and Their Repatriation
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • FLYING SCHOOLS
  • ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
  • DECISION TO EVACUATE AIR FORCES
  • EVACUATION
  • DEVELOPMENT OF RADAR
  • establishments in new zealand, august-september 1943
  • Index
• Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
  • Farewell to Kaponga
  • A Flurry of Maps
  • John Finlay's ‘Trip to the Bush’
  • The Farms
  • Kaponga and New Zealand
  • Factory Dairying
  • The Roads and Transport
  • The Role of Schools
  • Days of Glory, 1909–14
  • APPENDIX 1 — Biographical Notes
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • Lament for a Lost Age
• Sport 11: Spring 1993
  • [section]
• Sport 12: Autumn 1994
  • Contributors
• Sport 13 Spring 1994
  • Owen Marshall — Recollections of MKD
  • David Eggleton — Death of the Author
• Sport 3: Spring 1989
  • Tunes For Bears To Dance To
• Sport 5: Spring 1990
  • Bill Pearson — Beginnings and Endings
• Sport 8: Autumn 1992
  • ♣ Shelagh Duckham Cox — The Goblin Farm
• Sport 9: Spring 1992
  • ♣ Contributors
• The Adventures of Kimble Bent
  • Chapter XX — A Scouting Adventure
• The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
  • Illustrations and Maps
  • Preface
  • 1 BROGDENS' NAVVIES
  • 3 AGENTS AND EMIGRANTS, 1871–73
  • 4 THE FLOOD TIDE OF 1874
  • 5 COLONY AND HEARTHLAND, 1874–80
  • 6 OXFORDSHIRE AND WYCHWOOD FOREST
  • 8 THE MIDLAND VALES
  • 9 KENT
  • 10 CORNWALL AND DEVON
  • 7 LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE NORTHERN WOLDS
  • 11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMMIGRANT
  • 12 NEW ZEALAND — FELDON
  • 13 NEW ZEALAND — ARDEN
  • 14 AFTERWARDS
  • 15 THE QUALITY OF THE IMMIGRANTS
  • SUBJECT INDEX
  • INDEX OF PLACES
  • 2 THE VILLAGE WORLD AND THE LABOURERS' REVOLT
  • 3 AGENTS AND EMIGRANTS, 1871–73
  • 4 THE FLOOD TIDE OF 1874
  • 7 LINCOLNSHIRE AND THE NORTHERN WOLDS
  • 9 KENT
  • 11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMMIGRANT
  • 12 NEW ZEALAND — FELDON
  • 13 NEW ZEALAND — ARDEN
  • 14 AFTERWARDS
  • 15 THE QUALITY OF THE IMMIGRANTS
  • 16 THE FARTHEST PROMISED LAND
  • Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Books and Pamphlets
  • Unpublished Theses
• The Home Front Volume I
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER 2 — Impact of War
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves
  • CHAPTER 4 — Response from the Home Front
  • CHAPTER 5 — Pacifism
  • CHAPTER 6 — A Dissenting Minority
  • CHAPTER 7 — Conscientious Objectors and Defaulters
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Menace of Japan
  • CHAPTER 12 — Defence by the People
  • CHAPTER 13 — Russia and the War
  • CHAPTER 14 — The American Invasion
• The Home Front Volume II
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER 15 — Manpower is Directed
  • CHAPTER 16 — The Shoe Pinches
  • CHAPTER 17 — More Shortages
  • CHAPTER 18 — Aliens
  • CHAPTER 20 — Camp Followers
  • CHAPTER 21 — Women At War
  • CHAPTER 22 — Education
  • CHAPTER 23 — The Arts Survive
  • Index
  • C. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
• The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
  • The Art of Agriculture
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • McCowan to Finn, 27 November 1941:
• The New Zealanders at Gallipoli
  • To My Old Comrades
  • The Mobilization
  • [section]
  • Our First Battle
  • Straight into the Battle
  • A Desperate Night
  • The First Landing at Suvla
  • Straightening the Line
  • The Daisy Patch
  • [section]
  • The Mounted Rifles repulse a determined Attack
  • The Taking and Losing of “Old No. 3 Post.”
  • The Death of Major Quinn
  • A Sortie from Quinn's Post
  • Bauchop's Hill
  • The Right Assaulting Column
  • We Lose the Crest of Chunuk
  • The First Attack on Kaiajik Aghala
  • Second Assault on Kaiajik Aghala
  • Preparing for the Big Bluff
  • The New Zealand Mounted Rifles
  • [section]
  • New Zealand Transports of the Main Body
  • Transports Carrying the New Zealand and Australian Division from Alexandria to Gallipoli, April 1915
  • The Place-Names of Anzac
  • A Gallipoli Diary
  • A Note by the Author
  • [section]
  • Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. (C.B.)
  • Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. (C.M.G.)
  • Companions of the Distinguished Service Order. (D.S.O.)
  • Military Cross. (M.C.)
  • Distinguished Conduct Medal. (D.C.M.)
  • Mentioned in Despatches
• The Pacific
  • II: Tonga
• The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
  • Chapter VI. The English Church
  • The Geography of New Zealand
• The Relief of Tobruk
  • Editorial Advisory Panel
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 2 — The Second Echelon
  • [backmatter]
• War Economy
  • Editorial Advisory Panel
  • List of Illustrations
  • Early Wartime Troubles on the Waterfront
• Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
  • Literary, Literally
  • [bio]

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