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Sullivan, Jim, 1946-

Canterbury voices / first-hand memories of Canterbury's past. - Hazard, 2005. - 304 pages

First airmail in New Zealand and first aeroplane in Canterbury -- Canterbury Pilgrimage visits Ashburton -- 'It's an art, if the truth be known' : Arthur Jones, auctioneer -- Ballantynes fire -- Christchurch in wartime : News for the troops -- Music for the silent movies : Violet Capstick -- The days of the cinematograph -- By car to Mount Cook in 1907 -- A Canterbury cop in the 1930s -- The Crippled Boys' Club in Latimer Square, 1939 -- The story of the Fairlie Flyer -- Madam Foreman and members of the Jury -- Christchurch Girls' High School in 1957 -- High country life and the devil's daughter -- The landed gentry of the South -- Memories of a Kaiapoi boyhood in the 1880s -- The kid from Timaru -- Early Lyttelton -- The pantomine journey of 1922 -- 'They thought he was a little bit gone in the upper storey' -- At school and on the land 100 years ago -- The Red Post -- The big game in 1904 and memories of a Canterbury All Black -- Walter Hadlee : One of the cricket greats -- King Dick faces the Christchurch voters in 1905 -- Reconstructing history : the Sod Cottage at Heathcote -- The Canterbury Steam Shipping Company in 1954 -- Sumner at war -- From Sod Hut School to motoring -- The shipwrecks of 1882 and starting work in the 1880s -- The girls on the trams -- Celebrating VJ day in Colombo Street -- Canterbury Pilgrimage visits Waimate in 1950 -- Harry Henderson and the railway at Waipara -- Waimate Wallabies -- 'Bung' Parson at Wigram -- Timaru's motoring pioneer.

ISBN: 1877270989 9781877270987

Subjects--Topical Terms:
New Zealanders--New Zealand--Canterbury--Interviews.
Manners and customs.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Canterbury (N.Z.)--Social life and customs.
Canterbury (N.Z.)--History.

Dewey Class. No.: 993.8