Booklet, Looking Backward, New Zealand Fifty Years Ago, Life in Hawke's Bay, Then and Now
Maker
Donnelly, George Prior
Christchurch Press Co. Ltd
Production date
1913
Current rights
Public Domain
Object detail
Brief Description
Looking Backward, New Zealand Fifty Years Ago, Life in Hawke's Bay, Then and Now written by G P Donnelly, 1913.
The author describes the development of the land in the Hawke's Bay area and the arrival of settlers to Central Hawke's Bay. Includes information on: The Advent of Closer Settlement (with a list of landowners and properties cut up during the last twenty years); Soil and Climate; Northern Hawke's Bay - Land Awaiting Development; Native Lands near Railway Survey; Discard the Ballot System; The Class of Settler Needed; What the Pioneers have Done for the People; Possibilities of the Dairying Industry; Second-Class and Waste Lands; Native Troubles in the Early Days; Archives should be Preserved and Future Prospects.
At the front is a studio portrait of the author and his dog.
The author describes the development of the land in the Hawke's Bay area and the arrival of settlers to Central Hawke's Bay. Includes information on: The Advent of Closer Settlement (with a list of landowners and properties cut up during the last twenty years); Soil and Climate; Northern Hawke's Bay - Land Awaiting Development; Native Lands near Railway Survey; Discard the Ballot System; The Class of Settler Needed; What the Pioneers have Done for the People; Possibilities of the Dairying Industry; Second-Class and Waste Lands; Native Troubles in the Early Days; Archives should be Preserved and Future Prospects.
At the front is a studio portrait of the author and his dog.
Production date
1913
Production place
Production period
Media/Materials description
Blue cover with gold lettering, printed in black ink
Media/Materials
Measurements
Height x Width: 245 x 185mm
Signature/Inscription
1/-, Price Sticker/Sticker
Classification terms
Subject period
Current rights
Public Domain
Credit line
gifted by the A'Deane Estate
Other number(s)
47/10, 1705, 62527
Accession number
47/10
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