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The narrator recounts arriving in North New Zealand with family and the practical trials of establishing a household, travel, and adapting to colonial conditions. Episodes alternate between humorous and perilous anecdotes—voyage hardships, housing scrapes, hunts, auctions, and a bushranger encounter—and descriptive sketches of the local environment and economy, including forests, fisheries, bird shooting, and kauri gum digging. Social and civic life receives attention through accounts of dances, a Maori wedding, education, labouring settlers, and county government meetings. The volume blends personal observation, natural description, and practical commentary to portray everyday settler experience.

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Title: Kaipara; or, experiences of a settler in North New Zealand

Author: P. W. Barlow

Release date: December 22, 2020 [eBook #64112]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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KAIPARA.

Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

Kaipara.