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New Zealand’s Industrial Heritage.Geoffrey Thornton. Describes the early development of New Zealand industries including flax, timber and flour milling, ship and bridge building, agriculture and mining. The modern remains of these industries, found throughout the country, are illustrated with the authors own photographs and cover sites from the early nineteenth century to 1907. An excellent and pioneering work of industrial archaeology. A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd., Wellington, 1982.

Includes a brief consideration of the New Zealand Moa extinctions

At the time of the first coach to successfully complete the journey from Christchurch to Hokitika in 1866 the road was rightly regarded as an engineering and construction feat of some significance

all from photographs by the author

First published in 1986 this is a completely revised edition that brings the story right up to date

The text is very authoritative and the flowers are arranged according to the offshore island

clear and methodical

The story of the once bustling West Coast town at the side of the Buller River of which no built evidence remains

a nineteenth century clergyman-scientist

ISBN 0447025102

Audrey Eagle was one of the most important and gifted of New Zealand botanical artists

reaching maturity with that at Vico Morcote in Switzerland where

Author from the Botany Division

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