151 days The Great Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes February 15-July15, 1951 by Dick Scott

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Category: NZ Politics, Social History & Religion

Softback. 205 pages. SECONDHAND

50 YEARS . . A HISTORY Dominion Sawmillers' Federation Incorporated

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Category: NZ Business and Company History

65 Years of Guiding in New Zealand by Marie Iles

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Softback. 122 pages. SECONDHAND

A Blighted Fame: George S. Evans 1802-1868, A Life by Helen Riddiford

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Category: NZ Politics, Social History & Religion | Reading Level: Near Fine

George Samuel Evans, barrister, editor and politician, was a man of his time, born to battle. He was a zealous, driven, extremely hard-working advocate for parliamentary and colonial reform. Reckless and unpredictable, a brilliant scholar with formidable skills in both oratory and journalism, he was bre d to pursue the goals of civil and religious liberty. His passion for reform sprang from a dissenting background and upbringing in his fathers' parish in East London. It led eventually to New Zealand, a colony of ragged uncertainty, ambition, rivalry and deprivation. When Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the architect of the systematic colonisation of New Zealand, virtually abandoned his project, it was Evans who took up the reins. He and a small band of others assured the scheme's continuation and, for better or worse, spurred a reluctant government into taking action to procure the country for the Crown. In those crucial first years of settlement he was the outspoken critic of successive governors at a time when government and missionaries appeared to combine forces to pit themselves against the undertaking of the New Zealand Company. He continued his work for New Zealand in England, and later forged a parliamentary career in Victoria. Today, Evans has become little more than a footnote. He is irrevocably and fatally linked to the New Zealand Company, which has come to be regarded by many historians with suspicion. Yet there were few at the time and for many years after who would have disagreed with New Zealand Premier William Fox's assessment of Evans as 'perhaps the most influential originator of New Zealand Colonization we ever had'. Helen Riddiford's lively and extensively researched biography acknowledges his immense contribution to New Zealand and Australia, and allows his voice to be heard once more. ...Show more

A Braided River of Faith Vol III by edited Nan Burgess

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Category: NZ Politics, Social History & Religion

Softback. 143 pages. SECONDHAND

A Century of Social Work by G.M. Morgan

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A Challenge not a Truce 1885-1985 The New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union by Jeanne Wood

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A Challenge with a Purpose A history of the first 50 years of the Amputees Federation of New Zealand Incorporated by Lorraine Peacock

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A DRIVING FORCE The Laugesen Family and the Midland Group of Companies by Keith Laugesen

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A Dictionary of New Zealand Politics Quotations by Desmond Hurley

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A Fair and Just Solution'? A history of the integration of private schools in new zealand by Rory Sweetman

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Softback. 321 pages. SECONDHAND

A Family Affair by George G. Carter

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Category: NZ Politics, Social History & Religion