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More pork and potatoes, anyone? John O’Leary

Poenamo Revisited John Logan Campbell (essay and notes by R C J Stone) Godwit, $60.00, ISBN 9781869797980 Most New Zealanders – even those living south of the Bombay Hills – have heard of John Logan Campbell, the Father of Auckland,…
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Absolutely commercially, Jenny Robin Jones

Logan Campbell’s Auckland: Tales from the Early Years R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $45.00,  ISBN 9781869403935 Wellington: Biography of a City Redmer Yska Reed, $44.99, ISBN 0790011077 Auckland illuminated through stories of the past; Wellington reconstructed through careful…
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Localising the global, George Griffiths

From Tamaki-makau-rau to Auckland R C J Stone Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1869402596 Rolling Thunder: the Spirit of Karekare Bob Harvey Exisle Publishing, $39.95, ISBN 0908988176 Remembering Godley: a Portrait of Canterbury’s Founder ed  Mark Stocker Hazard Press, $29.95,…
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Austerity and fecundity, Michael Bassett

James Dilworth R C J Stone Dilworth Trust Books $49.95 ISBN 0 473 02990 1 Plain Living, High Thinking: The Family Story of Jennie and Will Lovell-Smith Margaret Lovell-Smith Pedmore Press $34.95 ISBN 0 473 03033 0 These two books…
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Catching up with the law, Rory Sweetman

The Making of Russell McVeagh R C J Stone, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1991, $59.95 The Story of Bell Gully Buddle Weir 1840-1990 Julia Millen, Bell Gully Buddle Weir, Wellington, 1990, $35 How to respond to the recent publication of…
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