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Open letters, Tim Beaglehole

Posted on October 29, 1998 by NZ Books

Dear Peggy: Letters to Margaret Garland from her New Zealand Friends Peter and Dianne Beatson (ed) Sociology Department, Massey University $35.00 ISBN 0 95836254 8 Peggy Garland came out to Wellington in 1947 with a young family and an unsatisfactory,…

Tagged with: Dianne Beatson, Issue 35, Margaret Garland, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Tim Beaglehole
Posted in Letters, Non-fiction, Review

A slight angle to the universe, David Eggleton

Posted on August 9, 1997 by NZ Books

The Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand Peter Beatson and Diane Beatson Sociology Department, Massey University, $59.95, ISBN 0 908665 83 0 Another 100 New Zealand Artists Warwick Brown Godwit, $75.00, ISBN 0 908877 74 9 Hotere — out the black…

Tagged with: Autumn 1997, David Eggleton, Diane Beatson, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hotere, Issue 29, Massey University, Peter Beatson, Sociology Department, Warwick Brown
Posted in Art, Non-fiction, Review

Imported and adapted, Gavin McLean

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

The Chapman Legal Family Peter Spiller, Victoria University Press, $39.95 Waikato law professor Peter Spiller’s book examines the legal careers of Henry Samuel Chapman and his two sons, Frederick, the first New Zealand-born Supreme Court judge, and Martin, founder of…

Tagged with: Ben Finney, G A Wood, Gavin McLean, Issue 7, Julia Millen, M P K Sorrenson, Massey University, Otago University Press, Peter Spiller, Roy Gipson Millen, Serpent Press, Summer 1992, The Polynesian Society, Victoria University Press
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review