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Repackaging the foreign, Giselle Byrnes

Posted on September 1, 2005 by NZ Books

Caught Mapping: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Early Land Surveyors  Janet Holm Hazard Press, $49.99, ISBN 1877270865 In 1849, less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the assertion of British sovereignty over…

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Pious historians, pioneer ancestors, Rose Lovell-Smith

Posted on June 1, 1993 by NZ Books

Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of North Canterbury Janet Holm, Hazard Press, $59.95 The Voyage of the ‘May Queen’ Margaret Drake Brockman, Merlin Books, price not given   In 1859 George Rutherford bought the lease of a largish…

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