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New Zealand (South Island) - 2014
New Zealand (North Island) - 2014
History of New
Zealand
By G. W. Rusden (Second Edition) in 3 volumes (1895) and by Alfred
Saunders in 2 volumes
History of New
Zealand
From the Arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, to the second
arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861 by Alfred Saunders (1896) in 3
volumes.
The City of
Auckland, 1840-1920
Preceded by A Maori History of the Auckland Isthmus by George Graham
and a Foreword by J. H. Gunson, C.M.G., C.B.E. Mayor of Auckland by
John Barr, Chief Librarian (1922) (pdf)
Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park "If any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I do not
believe it is realized how much that one man, with his leadership,
his calm judgement and his skill, did to save, not only this
country, but the world."
Dunedin Dunedin proudly claims to be the
the most Scottish city in New Zealand. It's very name is Gaelic for
Edinburgh.
Memorandum The abridged version of the
'Memorandum' of Elizabeth Millar PURDIE, wife of the Ship's Surgeon,
of the voyage of the MOOLTAN from Greenock, Scotland to Port
Chalmers, Otago. 1849.
Te Papa's NZ Scots exhibition
Around fifty per cent of
New Zealanders can claim some Scottish ancestry so Te Papa is
expecting lots of visitors to their latest exhibition.
Burns Plaque "Riccarton House", Deans Bush, Christchurch New Zealand on the 25th
of January 2009 for the unveiling and dedication of a plaque,
commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns
and in memory of early Scottish pioneers who settled in our province
"Canterbury".
The Lowland
Clearances and the Scottish Exodus to New Zealand
Explore New Zealand in this in-depth
adventure documentary
This is an adventure movie shot in a spectral and exotic South Pacific
island nation by Rick Howard. Located about a thousand miles off the
south east coast of Australia, New Zealand consists of two large islands
named North Island and South Island. This story begins in the beautiful
sea front city of Auckland on North Island. This is New Zealand's
largest city though not it's capital, and Rick soon discovered that the
best way to see New Zealand was by road, so he rented both cars and
motorcycles and drove, or road, all over this country. From Auckland
we'll drive north to the places in New Zealand that were first settled
by the British in the nineteenth century. In the Bay of Islands the
British established their first town, Russell, where New Zealand's first
church, Christ's Church, still stands. In another place here named
Waitangi, the first treaty was signed between the British crown and the
powerful Maori chiefs of New Zealand. We'll visit the under water world
here, scuba diving with Rick, then we will go beneath the waves again at
Underwater World an aquatic park near Auckland. Then we'll travel south
east to Rotarua, New Zealand's volcanic area. Much like Yellow Stone
National Park in the USA. At Rotarua gazers erupt regularly, mud pools
bubble and mother nature shows off her most vivid natural colors in our
world. Continuing south we'll visit the town of Gisbon where Captain
Cook first landed on New Zealand. In the interior of North Island we'll
see expert rafters challenging the violent river rapids and then to the
west coast to see Mt. Fggmont, New Zealand's most perfectly cone shaped
volcano. Then all the way south to Wellington, New Zealand's capital
city on the southern tip of North Island. From here we'll take the large
ferry south across Cook Straights to South Island. First on South
Island, we'll visit Abel Tasman National Park. Here a water taxi dropped
Rick off on beautiful beaches to explore and then the amazing rock
formations known as the Pancake Rocks of Punikiki. Along the west coast
of South Island are the Southern Alps. The high peaks of this mountain
range are covered with snow all year around. From the city of Christ
Church, we'll take a aide on a legendary train, the Trans Alpine
express, across
The Southern alps to the west coast of
South Island. Another even more exciting was to see the Southern Alps is
by helicopter. We'll fly with Rick very close to jagged ice formations
before landing on Fox Glacier. On this seemingly endless field of ice,
it looks and feels like you're on top of the world. Then to the Waiatoto
River for a thrilling jet boat ride. This fast little boat speeds so
closely by the huge rocks and logs in this river that the people who are
watching this scene will have to remind themselves to breathe. Finally
Rick will take us to the town of Mt. Munganui for the best surfing Rick
has ever filmed anywhere in the world. The surfing is then followed by
the most thrilling scene in this movie. On a tiny flying machine called
an aultralight, a daredevil pilot named Troy takes Rick and his movie
camera on a hair raising ride at a hundred miles per hour only a few
feet above the a beach and breaking waves, and then up to three thousand
feet flying in and out of big white clouds over the sea and town of Mt.
Munganui. This scene concludes this movie in the most beautiful country
that Rick Howard has ever visited and filmed in THE REAL WORLD OF NEW
ZEALAND
New
Zealand Journal
Volume 3 1842 and Volume 4 1843 Otakou
Early Days In and About Otago Harbour by Hannah M. Chapman-Cohen Women in New Zealand
By
John Christie The Story of the Otago Church and
Settlement
By Rev. C. Stuart Ross (1887) (pdf) Sport in New Zealand
By Lieut.-Col. Montagu Cradock, C.B. (1904) (pdf) A Handbook for Travellers in New Zealand
By F.W. Pennefather, LL.D. (1893) (pdf) The Early History of New Zealand
Being a series of lectures delivered before the Otago Institute by Dr.
T. M. Hocken (1914) (pdf) Agriculture in New Zealand
Second Edition by the Hon. Robert Mcnab, Minister for Agriculture (1908)
(pdf) New Zealand and the War
by William Swainson (1862) (pdf) New Zealand at the Front
Written and Illustrated in France by Men of the New Zealand Division (pdf) New Zealand Settlers and Soldiers
Or A War in Taranaki; being Incidents in the Life of a Settler by the
Rev. Thomas Gilbert (1861) (pdf) Station Life in New Zealand
By Lady Barker (1886) (pdf) Glimpses of Old New Zealand
Compiled and Edited by John Rawson Elder (1924) (pdf) Historical Records of New Zealand
Edited by Robert McNab in 2 volumes (1908) The Story of New Zealand
A History of New Zealand from the Earliest Times to the Present with
special reference to the Polical, Industrial and Social development of
the Island Comonwealth; includinf the Evolution Dating from 1870, the
Political Revolution of 1890, the Causes and Consequences.and the
General Movement of Events throughout the Four Periods of New Zealand
History. By Prof. Frank Parsons, Ph.D. (1904) (pdf) The Story of Christchurch, New Zealand
By Henry F. Wigram (1916) (pdf) The Treaty of Waitangi
Or How New Zealand became a British colony by T. Lindsay Buick (1914) (pdf) Old Manawatu
Or The Wild Days of the West by T. Lindsay Buick, J. P. (1903) (pdf) An Old New Zealander
Or, Te Rauparaha, The Napolean of the South by T. Lindsay Buick (1911) (pdf) Old Marlborough.
Or the Story of a Province by T. Lindsay Buick, J.P. (1900) (pdf) Reminiscences of Twelve Months'
Service in New Zealand
As a Midshipman, during the late disturbances in that Colony by Lieut.
H. F. McKillop, R.N. (1849) (pdf) Colonial Experiences
Sketches of People and Places in the Province of Otago, New Zealand by
Alexander Bathgate (1874) (pdf) Up
and Down
Fifty Years Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand,
India, China, and the South Pacific being the Life History of Capt. W.
J. Barry written by himself (1879) Colonial Experiences
Or, Incidents and Reminiscences of thirty-four years in New Zealand by
An Old Colonist (1877) (pdf)
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