The best of New Zealand memories.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cross Creek -- School Milk Scheme 1937-1967 -- Wellington's Athletic Park -- A pair of silk stockings -- Morris Eight -- Laundry -- Heaven sent (washing machines) -- Blackberry picking -- Granity, my home town -- Jo Kum Yung -- Count von Luckner's Motuihe Island escape -- "Half a Barra and a Vienna, please" : Dunmore's Dairy in Berhampore -- Coaching in the South Island of New Zealand -- Cobb and Co. -- Historic flight across Cook Strait by Euan Dickson -- Croatian exodus from Central Dalmacija to El-Shatt 1943-1946 -- Beginnings [British post-war immigration] -- Finch family [Thomas and Jane Finch] -- My grandmothers album [Life in Grey Lynn during the Victorian era] -- Airship mystery never solved (1909) -- New Zealand's worst 20th century shipwreck [Steamer "Penguin" in Cook Strait] -- [Muriel White's] birthday party [Gisborne, c1945] -- Vauxhall Gardens [Dunedin : designed by Henry Farley] -- Bed-sit dweller [Wellington, 1960s] -- Alfred Burton : pioneer photographer -- Westhaven Inlet [near Rakopi, NW Nelson] -- Lancaster Park [Christchurch] -- [Poem] "Engine driver" [by J. J. Fagan] -- Robert Laidlaw and the Farmers Trading Company -- Knucklebones, jacks, fivestones and koruru in New Zealand -- Memories of a childhood on Pararekau Island [South Auckland] -- [A history of the] Pension -- Mikael Pedersen cycle -- Memories of a young postman [1950s Wellington] -- Norma's wedding [Norma Jackson and Bob Evans] -- Nut case -- Getting to Gravesend "Brogden's navvies" [Assisted immigration schemes ; ship Christian McAusland, 1872] -- Sweet memories [Kitchencraft Chocolates, Christchurch ; confectioner, Thomas Naylor] -- Aunt Daisy -- Day ends in tragedy for aeronaut : Captain Lorraines fatal ascent [Ballooning accident, Christchurch, 1899] -- Growing up in the War years [Waipukurau] -- Working farm dogs in New Zealand -- Its a wireless world [radio in New Zealand] -- Last crossing [SS Captain Hobson] -- In my mother's medicine cupboard -- Battle of the River Plate : 13 December 1939, as experienced by Bernard John Sole -- Lets call it quits, Charlotte Hutchins [Whangarei Infant School, 1930s] -- [Church] Bazaar -- Gorse on the hillside [Farming at Karaka, South Auckland] -- Box [Farmers Trading Company catalogue and delivery box] -- Rimutaka Incline -- Washday then and now -- Roskill ragamuffin [Mt Roskill in the 1940s] -- Laconia incident -- Donkey rides -- Girls and games [Aotea Ladies Football Club] -- [Poem] Teaching the girlfriend to drive -- Captain Ninnis and the copper mine on Kawau Island -- Lofty Blomfield (Meynell Strathmore Blomfield] -- Six sets of twins [Emma and Richard Hammond, Wanganui] -- Compulsory military training : recollections of my New Zealand Army Service years 1953-1963 -- Cross a bridge to somewhere or Nowhere [history of the Bridge to Nowhere, Mangapurua Gorge] -- La memoire de l'aviateur Neo Zealandais [Roscoff, Brittany and Frank William McDowell Stout of the RNZAF]

"Over the years New Zealand Memories has had the privilege of sharing hundreds of stories of New Zealand people ... between these pages lie our favourite and best-selling articles, which range from researched historical features through to personal anecdotes" -- P. [2]. -Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Over the years New Zealand memories has had the privilege of sharing hundreds of stories of New Zealand people ... between these pages lie our favourite and best-selling articles, which range from researched historical features through to personal anecdotes"--Page [2] of [volume one].