TY  - BOOK
TI  - The best of New Zealand memories
U1  - 993.922 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - New Zealand Memories
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  -  New Zealand
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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
N2  - "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]
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