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Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
2 The Making of Livings, the Quality of Life, the 1880s
2 The Making of Livings, the Quality of Life, the 1880s
1. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, Wellington, 1994, p. 28.
2. Ibid.
3. Star, 27/8/81, 17/9/81.
4. Star, 12/10/82.
5. AJHR, 1883, C-2, p. 37.
6. Star, 1/10/83.
7. Star, 13/1/83.
8. Star, 23/1/83.
9. Star, 30/9/84.
10. Star, 28/7/83.
11. AJHR, 1884, Sess. II, C-1, pp. 60–61.
12. Star, 3/7/85.
13. Star, 31/7/86.
14. Star, 16 & 24/11/86. (All prices are for all trees except ratas.)
15. Star, 27/8/87, 29/11/87, 22/9/88.
16. Egmont Star, 3/11/88; Y, 29/12/88 (Manaia ‘Our Own’).
17. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, pp. 268–77.
18. AWN, 1/6/89, p. 23.
19. AWN, 11/5/89, p. 8.
20. AWN, 16/11/89, p. 22.
21. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, pp. 271–72.
22. Star, 7/10/82.
23. Farmer, Dec. 1889, p. 498.
24. Feilding Star, 27/3/84, p. [2]; Star, 18/10/87 (editorial).
25. AWN, 9/3/89, p. 22 & 110/8/89, p. 22 (both under ‘Eltham’); Farmer, Feb. '89, p. 49.
26. TH, 2/4/89 (Stratford ‘Our Own’).
27. Star, 8/2/88; AWN, 9/3/89, p. 22 (under ‘Eltham’).
28. Star, 29/11/87; Farmer, Feb. '89, p. 49.
29. AWN, 13/4/89, p. 22.
30. Egmont Star, 14/2/85; Star, 29/7/85.
31. Star, 15/6/86.
32. Star, 30/9/86, 8/11/86, 29/12/87; Y, 18/8/88 (Manaia Specials).
33. Rollo Arnold, ‘The opening of the Great Bush, 1869–1891’, PhD thesis, VUW, 1971, p. 448; Star, 6/6/87.
34. AWN, 27/4/89, p. 8.
35. Star, 19/10/83.
36. Farmer, July 1890, p. 269.
37. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, pp. 272–77.
38. Star, 18/12/83 (editorial).
39. Egmont Star, 18/8/88, p. 7.
40. Farmer, Oct. 1890, p. 401; AWN, 27/4/89, p. 8.
41. D.A. Waldegrave, Family Album/Mounsey-Hutchison (1740–1974), Paeroa, 1974, p. 13; Farmer, May 1891, pp. 207–08.
42. Ibid, p. 11.
43. H.E. Combs, Growing up in the Forty Mile Bush, Hamilton, 1951, pp. 34–36, gives a good description of this.
44. Star, 29/7/87.
45. Star, 27/8/85, 6/6/87.
46. Star, 4/1/88 for another example.
47. Star, 24/11/86.
48. Star, 2 & 29/5/84, 15/6/86.
49. Star, 1/11/87 (‘Notes from the Bush’).
50. Y, 14/1/87, p. 13, 18/1/90, p. 7.
51. Star, 3/4/88.
52. Y, 4/8/88.
53. Y, 18/1/90, p. 7.