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Hero Stories of New Zealand
Contents
page xiii
Contents
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| The Last Stand of Te Amotu | 1 |
| The Swimmer: How Te Rau-o-te-Rangi crossed the Strait of Kapiti | 8 |
| The Missionaries of Matamata | 14 |
| The Pirates of the Wellington Brig: How the Chief Mate of the Sisters captured a Convict Crew | 22 |
| The Storming Party at Ohaeawai | 31 |
| Rags of Glory: The Colours of the 58th | 38 |
| The Bugler of Boulcott's Farm | 40 |
| The Dispatch Carrier | 45 |
| Manihera's Farewell | 52 |
| The Swordsman in the Swamp | 58 |
| The Scouts in the Flax Bush: A Von Tempsky Story | 62 |
| How Sergeant McKenna won the Victoria Cross: A Night in the Maori Bush | 69 |
| The Church in the Forest: How the Settlers held Pukekohe Stockade | 78 |
| The Weird of MacGillivray: A Tale of Second Sight | 87 |
| The Defenders of Orakau | 99 |
| Brave Women: Two Heroic Figures—Ahumai te Paerata and Huria Matenga | 111 |
| A Can of Cold Water: The Heroine of the Gate Pa | 120 |
| The Defence of Turuturu-mokai Redoubt: The “Rorke's Drift” of New Zealand | 130 |
| Brown Skin and White: A Tale of the West Coast Frontier | 142 |
| The Midnight Warning | 151 |
| A Meal at Paewhenua | 158 |
| The Last Cartridge: A Memory of the Whakatane Valley | 163 |
| The Defence of the Mill: The Story of a Gallant Frenchman | 169 |
| The Bugle in the Mountains: An Episode of the First Urewera Campaign | 174 |
| Ears in the Forest | 180 |
| A Running Battle: How Gilbert Mair saved Rotorua | 187 |
| Maro and Her Lovers | 193 |
| Patriots of the Taranaki Border | 199 |
| The Missionary and the Hauhau Apostles | 207 page xiv |
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| Farmers of the Frontier: How the Waitotara Settlers Saved their Stock | 212 |
| The Last of the Scouts: Tales of the Guides and Forest Rangers | 221 |
| Te Whiti of Taranaki: The Story of a Patriot and Peacemaker | 236 |
| Explorers and Pathfinders: The Spade of Rakaihaitu | 247 |
| First Over the Alps: The Epic of Raureka and the Greenstone | 252 |
| The Cruise of the Gipsy: A Pioneer Surveyor on the Golden Coast | 258 |
| Explorers of Fiordland: Donald Sutherland and Quinton McKinnon | 270 |
| The Coracle of Disappointment Island: A Story of Sea Heroes | 279 |
| Notes | 286 |
| Index | 287 |