New Zealand Electronic Text Collection

Experiment Magazine now on the NZETC

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:22:00 +0000

Amongst the expanding collection of VUW student publications we have digitised, is a literary journal called Experiment. Published by the Victoria University College Literary Society, and running from 1956 to 1969, Experiment aimed to publish original poetry and prose contributed by Victoria's students and other local writers.

One regular contributor and editor was Renato Amato, who died suddenly in 1964. Experiment published a lot of Amato's work, including his short stories and extracts from his novels. His talent for story telling was recently acknowledged in The Listener.

Other contributors to Experiment have gone on to become established writers, including:

Gordon Challis (Poet. See NZETC page, see Wikipedia page)

Albert Wendt (Samoan-born novelist, poet, and academic. See NZETC page, see Book Council page)

Norman Bilbrough (Poet, novelist, children's writer. See NZETC page, see Book Council page)

Peter Bland (Poet and actor. See NZETC page, see Book Council page)

Barry Mitcalfe (Writer and printer. See NZETC page, see Wikipedia Page)

Experiment will no doubt be of interest to readers and researchers of New Zealand Literature, and making it available in the NZETC allows researchers the opportunity to easily explore individual writers progress over time and across different publications.

The Victoria University of Wellington Library has published its collection level statement for the NZETC. The statement provides guidance for collection development and management activities for the NZETC. By publishing the statement, the Library illustrates how the NZETC sits beside its other collections, in supporting learning, teaching, and research.

Turbine 12 is live

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:16:00 +0000

This year’s issue of literary journal Turbine is now online and can be viewed here.

Published by Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and guest-edited by Master’s students Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, M. Doyle Corcoran and Gregory Kan, Turbine 12 includes work by emerging and established writers from New Zealand and beyond.

A highlight of the journal is an excerpt and audio recording from Lamplighter, the enthralling novel by newly announced Adam Foundation Prize 2012 winner Kerry Donovan-Brown, but the literary riches don’t stop there.

A generous selection of new fiction and poetry offers grit, surprise and delight. Seed-clouds ripple inside the blood, music falls from back pockets, and a heart turns to mud. Stories about children provoke second thoughts on procreation, and times spent on the Jersey shore or the jellyfish-rich waters off Japan might provide readers with an early summer vacation. Back in the nonfictional world, Ashleigh Young attends a conference on boredom.

The issue also features an interview with prize-winning Young Adult writer Bernard Beckett, this year’s Victoria University Writer in Residence, where he provides an inside scoop on his upcoming work. Another highlight is the long, poignant sequence of poems from former poet laureate Michele Leggott, who tells us ‘there is language for everything but the cost is unspeakable’. And there’s a German translation of James Brown’s poem, ‘I come from Palmerston North’— an unexpected by-product of New Zealand’s closer literary relations with Germany in 2012, the result of our guest-of-honour status at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The ‘Reading Room’ offers insight into the rigours of the IIML’s Master of Arts in Creative Writing via excerpts from student reading journals—one writer likes to procrastinate by reading about Mt Everest; another notes the implausible good looks of a visiting poet. Twenty of this year’s IIML Master’s students have work on display, along with a scattering of graduates and a handful of rising stars from the United States and Australia.

Senior Lecturer Chris Price says, “Turbine has frequently introduced exciting new writers who have gone on to publish acclaimed books and I’m sure this year is no exception. We’ll be hearing a lot more from many of these writers in years to come.”

Pamphlets Galore!

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:56:00 +0000

We have recently started to add texts for one of our larger projects: the digitisation of The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout. We have already added a couple of hundred pamphlets and there are plenty more to come.

Sir Robert Stout

The pamphlets range between 1840 and 1920. The subjects they cover are surprisingly diverse. Here is just a small sample that recently caught our attention:

Dunedin Industrial Exhibition 1881. Catalogue of exhibits

The Proposed Imperial Museum for India and the Colonies

The curse of gold, and the philosophy of currency

Science and the Soul - Featuring this page with fantastic photographs of emotions and thoughts:

Vacancy at Victoria University of Wellington Library

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:54:00 +0000

Victoria University of Wellington Library is seeking a new Associate Director - Library Technology Services. The successful applicant will be responsible for managing, developing and administering all library-based technology services and activities. The Associate Director would also be a member of the Library Leadership Team and actively contribute to the strategic direction of the Library. For more information please see the full job advertisement here: http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/positiondetail.asp?p=6341.

The closing date for applications is the 5^th of November 2012.

The NZETC has a new look

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Victoria University of Wellington Library is happy to announce that the NZETC website has been rebranded. The change of name reflects the change from a centre to a collection now maintained by the Library. The redesign intends to make the NZETC more identifiable as part of the Victoria University of Wellington. We have also endeavoured to make it easier to connect with the NZETC and to share our content.

Users will also notice that the Authors, Projects, and Works pages have been redirected to our Solr search page. It is still possible to visit a Project, Author, or Work page by clicking on the small arrow in the left-hand sidebar next to the name you wish to view. This change has resulted in a faster and more stable website.

The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs by Freda Du Faur

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Recently Radio New Zealand featured a reading of a NZETC text The Conquest of Mount Cook and Other Climbs by Freda Du Faur. If you missed the programme and would like to listen to it you can do so on the Radio New Zealand Website.

Freda Du Faur was the first women to successfully climb Mt. Cook in 1910. She also climbed several other peaks of over 3000 metres in the Southern Alps. Du Faur was known for her strong determination, high level of fitness and climbing skill. She also experienced criticism for being an unmarried women climbing with men. While Du Faur was born in Australia and lived most of her life there she is celebrated for her climbing feats here in New Zealand. Du Faur Peak in the South Island is also named after her.

Du Faur's 1915 account of her time mountaineering in the Southern Alps can be accessed in full here.

NZETC Site experiencing intermittent problems

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:51:00 +0000

The NZETC is currently experiencing a period of instability which we are working to fix. We are very sorry about this and hope to have the website working as it should as soon as possible.

NZETC staff are happy to provide researchers with epub copies of works that cannot be accessed. To do so please contact us here.

Katherine Mansfield texts added to the collection

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:40:00 +0000

We've recently added to the collection The Journal of Katherine Mansfield and Volume II of The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, both edited by John Middleton Murry. When introducing the Journal, Murry suggests that Mansfield intended to publish “a kind of minute note-book” based on her journal entries. You can see why, as there are some fascinating entries inside.

Katherine Mansfield 1921

Also added recently:

The New Zealand journal, 1842-1844 of John B. Williams of Salem, Massachussett. Williams was based in the Bay of Island from 1842-44. Editor of the text, Robert W. Kenny, describes Willams as "a somewhat chauvinistic Yankee, strongly anti-British, and an ardent believer in using the United States Navy to further the commercial interests of her citizens."
Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II. By Dr. Robert McNab. This text compiles significant records relating to early European visitors to New Zealand, including those of Tasman, Cook and De Surville.

Problems with the NZETC Works page

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:26:00 +0000

We are currently experiencing some difficulty with the NZETC Works page. Users trying to reach this page will get an error message. We are sorry about this and are working to fix this problem.

Users can view our works by accessing the advanced search page and then selecting the option 'show more' next to the heading 'Works' at the top of the screen. Users can continue to browse by author, projects or subject. We are happy to help you locate a text if you are having difficulty doing so, please contact us.

We will also be working to improve the functionality of the Works page in the near future.

New Texts to Celebrate Samoan Independence

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:47:00 +0000

The NZETC is proud to announce 8 new texts in our Tidal Pools Pacific collection. 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of Samoan Independence from New Zealand administration and this addition to the collection provides an account of important events prior to independence.

Readers interested in the Samoan language will also find a French and English Samoan dictionary and Thomas William Whitson's account of life in Tonga, Samoa and Fiji.

Reverend John Hunt's specimen book of native paper contains excellent examples of Pacific Tapa cloth and art.

* The Samoan Massacre: December 28th, 1929
* The Truth About Samoa by Olaf Frederick Nelson
* Samoa at Geneva : Misleading the League of Nations : A Commentary on the Proceedings of the Permanent Mandates Commission at its Thirteenth Session held at Geneva in June, 1928 by Olaf Frederick Nelson
* The Revolt of the Samoans by Henry Edmund Holland
* Samoa: A Story That Teems With Tragedy by Henry Edmund Holland
* Dictionnaire Samoa-Francais-Anglais et Francais-Samoa-anglais : precede d'une grammaire de la langue samoa by Louis Violette
* A Cruise In The Islands: Tonga, Samoa, Fiji by Thomas William Whitson
* Specimens of Native Paper from Tongo [sic] and Fiji by Reverend John Hunt

The aim of the collection is to provide texts of interest to researchers investigating Pacific history, language, culture and politics.

Pacific Corpus is back online.

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:23:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that our collection of Pacific texts is back online. We are working to add new texts to this collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Samoan independence.

Please visit the collection here: Tidal Pools

Pacific Corpus is currently down

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:16:00 +0000

Unfortunately due to a technical fault the NZETC Pacific Corpus is currently down. Library staff are aware of the issue and working to restore service, but it may take several days.

Other NZETC corpora are available. If you need access to a particular text, email us at
Library-TechnologyServices@vuw.ac.nz and we can provide you with an epub version of the text.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Additions to the collection

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:53:00 +0000

We are happy to announce the addition of new texts to the collection.

•    SMAD Magazine. SMAD magazine was a student publication at VUW that rivalled Spike.
•    Report on the Geology and Goldfields of Otago by F.W. Hutton
•    King Country ; or, Explorations in New Zealand; a narrative of 600 miles of travel through Maoriland by J. H. Kerry-Nicholls
•    The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, KCB by William Lee Rees & Lily Rees
•    The Life and Times of D. M. Stuart by C. Stuart Ross
•    The Journal of Edward Ward
•    A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 by Herbert W. Williams
•    New Zealand 1826-1827: From the French of Dumont D'Urville

We are making some changes to the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.

The domain name for the NZETC will change from http://www.nzetc.org/ to http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. We are planning on making that change on the 28th of May. We will be maintaining the old Domain URL as a secondary domain name and putting redirects in place so no links should be broken in the changeover.

The name of the NZETC will change from The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre to The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. This is a small change being made to reflect that the Centre as a separate entity no longer exists.

The Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) Library continues to maintain its commitment to open access resources, to maintaining the NZETC content and to building new content.

New Zealand music month

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart Yeates) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:04:00 +0000

To celebrate the first day of New Zealand music month, here are some NZETC music highlights.

The first are sections in "New Zealand Studies: A Guide to Bibliographic Resources" on Music and Māori Music respectively. These are a little dated, but good places to start for those interested in the roots of New Zealand music.

The second is the music coverage in "Spike," a Student magazine here at Victoria, which includes the founding of the Music program, the Glee Club and classic advertising material.

Best New Zealand Poems 11 is now available

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:11:00 +0000

The latest issue of online anthology Best New Zealand Poems is now available. This issue comes with a South Island perspective and Irish rhythm. This year’s editor is Christchurch poet, playwright and fiction writer Bernadette Hall who sums up her top 25 poems, selected from a vast number published in 2011, with a phrase from an Irish wedding song—“They are the crown of good company,” she says.

To access Best New Zealand Poems 11 please follow this link.

Major events have shaken New Zealand in recent times, says Hall, and it is wonderful to see how strong the voice of poetry has been in response. The tragedies of Pike River mine and the Christchurch earthquakes are here, held in words
that have been allowed to ferment and flow. Hall was struck by an irresistible element in the poems she selected—their “capacity for unsettlement, the thing in a poem that works against the expected, against dogma and rhetoric and convention.”

The work spans poetic generations, from The most beautiful love poem of all time by 2011 Adam Prize winner, 25-year-old Hera Lindsay Bird, to In Dad’s Council House, a nursery rhyme for grown-ups by 77-year-old actor and poet Peter Bland, recipient of a 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.

Professor Bill Manhire, Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, has
relinquished his role as overall series editor of Best New Zealand Poems and is now in the happy position of just being a poet. He makes a first-time appearance in the anthology, with an echoing and unsettling poem called The Schoolbus.

The new overall series editor, poet and International Institute of Modern Letters lecturer Chris Price, says “This edition is particularly rich in new voices, poets we can expect to hear more of in future.” A number of the poems are also available as audio recordings. Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright is among the poets who can be heard reading their work on the site.

The Spike Magazine is live

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Fifty years of Victoria University of Wellington’s The Spike student magazine is now available online. The Library has digitised the complete run of The Spike: Victoria College Review which ran continuously from 1902 to 1949, then in 1954, 1957 and 1964. Follow this link to access The Spike.

The Spike records the activities of student life at Victoria University. There are regular contributions of poetry, prose, articles by academics and reviews of cultural and sporting events.

The Spike contains pieces published during the World Wars. With the coming centenary of WWI in 2014 approaching these will be invaluable for researchers.

From the October 1916 The Spike in ‘Extracts From Soldiers Letters’;

Wellington, 21st September, 1916.
Dear "Spike,"—
Extracts from Alan MacDougall's letters will be of abiding interest to his old friends.
These will be pardoned for thinking that when he died, Victoria College lost its most perfect student. In tribute to him, will you publish some extracts from certain recent letters of his which tell of the work he was engaged in and how he viewed it, and which unconsciously body forth those qualities of perception, faith, humour, generosity and noble courage which will keep his memory ever green in the hearts of those who loved him. At the end, with his friends in the line stricken down, he was lonely; and we do well to believe that he has passed into an immortal Fellowship.
I am, etc.,
D.S.S.

“We are well fed and clad; frequently well housed in billets, as now, and always pretty happy. It's just as well to try and be happy in the face of the ever present possibilities of this life. The way we look at the facts is that if a Jack Johnson or whizz-bang is addressed to you, it will find you. The goods are always delivered—fatalism of a cheery sort. How one finds out the real men in this sort of work! the cool quiet ones, the gasbags, the dare-devils, the paralytic, the shirkers. From what I know of other battalions I conclude that we are to be reckoned fortunate beyond most in our personnel, both officers and men. We trust each other and we shall back each other.”

From the editorial in Issue One:

“We be wayfarers together, O Students, treading the same thorny paths of Studentdom, laughing at the same professorial jokes, grieving in common over the same unpalatable "swot," playing the same games, reading the same indigestible books. Let us also pause for a few moments together and stretch out a hand of welcome to a small white stranger, that has come amongst us with little preliminary under the name of The Spike. Hast thou The Spike, fellow-student? If not, I pray thee make all haste to procure it, less worse things befall thee, and thou art impaled on its venomous point.”

Tuatara article translated into Ukrainian

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Around the middle of 2011 we received a request from translator Martha Ruszkowski to translate a Tuatara article into Ukrainian. Initially we were a little surprised by the request, but Martha explained that the article relates to her own professional interests, and that there would be readers interested from Ukraine.

A quick search for Martha's other work reveals she is busy translating content into Ukrainian and Belarusian on various topics from New Zealand gambling to Australian Botanic Gardens and beyond.

Permission was granted and a few weeks later Martha replied with the link to her Ukrainian translation of Plant Pirates by Miriam A Aiken. I think it's great to see NZETC collections reaching new audiences this way.

Turbine 11 Writing Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:33:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that Turbine 11 is now live and you can read it here: Turbine 11.

Turbine 11 contains poetry, short stories, an interview with the playwrite Albert Belz and reading journals. Turbine 11 also features poetry from the recipient of this years Adam Prize for creative writing Hera Bradburn (writing under the name Hera Lindsay Bird). Some of the poets have also been kind enough to record their works if you want to listen.

Turbine is an annual journal, published electronically, to showcase new writing from New Zealand authors. Many of whom are emerging authors. The journal is edited by staff and students from the International Institute of Modern Letters Master of Arts in Creative Writing degree. This years editors were Damien Wilkins, Christopher Howe and Hera Lindsay Bird.

The NZETC works with the IIML to produce and host the Turbine website.

Three new collections on Elsdon Best, student media and Antarctic research

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:21:00 +0000

We are very pleased to announce three new collections:

Elsdon Best is widely known for his work as an ethnographer writing about Māori life and culture. This collection contains 15 of his works ranging from Māori Agriculture to Religion and the Māori concept of time. Some of Best's works were originally published by the Dominion Museum, where Best was employed, as a part of the Dominion Museum Bulletin series.

The Hilltop Literary Paper is the first publication in our student magazine collection. Hilltop contains works from some well known New Zealand authors such as James K. Baxter and Charles Brasch. We also plan to make available:

The Spike
Arachne
SMAD

These magazines discuss student life from 1902 through to the 1950's and cover important events and activities throughout each trimester, for example: capping ceremonies and social and sports events. Student reaction to world wide events, such as the world wars, is also discussed.

For over 50 years Victoria University of Wellington has been sending research expeditions to the Antarctic. The outcomes of these expeditions form the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) Reports collection. The aims of the expeditions were to research many aspects of the Antarctic environment including geology, glaciology, meteorology and biology.

A second poem for National Poetry Day

noreply@blogger.com (Rich) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:06:00 +0000

It's National Poetry Day today and I'd also like to share a poem that I like from the NZETC Collections.

It's called Love poem for a Geek on Dixon Steps by Airini Beautrais, from Sport 35: Winter 2007.

The poem's title caught my eye mostly because I walk up and down Dixon Steps everyday. The poem is short and sweet, and it enticed me to read more of Airini's poems. It is the first poem in Twenty-three Love Poems, all of which I enjoyed and I hope you enjoy too.

National Poetry Day

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart Yeates) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:22:00 +0000

Today is National Poetry Day so I thought I'd share my favourite poem from the NZETC collection.

When I first started at VUW, I'd recently returned from Oxford, where I'd been quite removed, physically and intellectually, from my years as an undergrad at Canterbury. One of my early tasks was assessing our collection with respect to google suite of tools. I'd not yet really had much to do with the Sport journal, but one of the pages was highly ranked for both "fucking poems" and "fucking poetry" and I instantly connected with the poem. The poem reminds me of two wonderful years I spent as part of the Canterbury Writers Group set up by the then Writer-in-Residence Bernadette Hall (whose Wikipedia entry I would later edit). For me those years were filled with poetry that was long on passion, shock value and pseudonyms but short on writing craft and life experience. We edited two anthologies (Find the Red (which ran to two printings) and Eels in a Bucket); we drank cheap red wine; we supported each other at poetry readings; we got to know the AA crowd (they were in the room immediately before us); in short we had a ball. One of my poems from the period eventually washed ashore in the School Journal, so maybe it wasn't an entirely misspent youth.

All that floods back to me when I read Short Poems About Fucking by James Brown from our Sport collection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

stuart yeates

Māori Language Week

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:14:00 +0000

Kia Ora and welcome to Māori language week. The theme for this year's Māori Language week is Manaakitanga or Maori hospitality and Customs. There are several mentions of this term in our collection.

We thought we would take the opportunity to highlight some of our highly used Māori language works.

* A Dictionary of the Maori Language by Herbert W. Williams.

* Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā by Te Ohorere Kaa and Wiremu Kaa.

* 28 Maori Battalion by J. F. Cody.

These three works are in our ten most accessed items for the past 6 months. We are very pleased to see Maori language works being highly used in our collection.

If your currently studying Te Reo Maori you may like to use the 'Māori-English / English-Māori parallel texts only' search function to show works with translations between the two languages.

We are also looking forward to publishing another Māori work 'Te Whakatuwheratanga o Te Tumu Herenga Waka' or The Opening of Te Tumu Herenga Waka. Te Tumu Herenga Waka is the meeting house at Victoria University of Wellington and this work discusses its founding and the Epa, Poupou and Heke found inside.

Best New Zealand Poems Audio

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:56:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that selected poems on the Best New Zealand Poems Website are now available as audio files. Each poem has been recorded by the poet themselves. The audio files correspond to poems selected in The Best of Best New Zealand Poems, an anthology now available from Victoria University Press, edited by Bill Manhire and Damien Wilkins. We have been working with the International Institute of Modern Letters to make these recordings accessible. We hope to have the remaining poems available by mid 2011. You will find audio for many well known New Zealand poets and we hope you enjoy being able to listen to each poem as well as read it.

“Chew and depth” in New Zealand Poetry anthology

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:28:00 +0000

A brand new issue of the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has gone live, containing the best 25 poems from 2010.

The anthology includes work from well known writers like Fleur Adcock, Elizabeth Smither, Ian Wedde, Jenny Bornholdt, James Brown, Gregory O'Brien and Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen as well as some of the rising stars of New Zealand literature.

This year’s Best New Zealand Poems is edited by Victoria University Senior Lecturer Chris Price—a former editor of Landfall and herself a well-known poet. She says she is particularly pleased to have included “two comets long lost from the local poetry firmament”—David Mitchell, who has published almost nothing since his near-legendary Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby in 1972, and John Newton, author of the much admired book about Baxter’s Jerusalem, The Double Rainbow.

She notes in her introduction that she was looking for—and found—“poems with enough chew and depth to make them worth repeated tasting.”

Series editor Professor Bill Manhire says that it’s exciting to see such a strong selection at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. “It’s one of New Zealand’s best kept secrets, just how good we are at poetry – Best New Zealand Poems is one way of telling the world what we all know locally.”

Professor Manhire and his colleague Damien Wilkins have been making a “best of the best” selection from the first ten years of Best New Zealand Poems. It will be published by Victoria University Press, and launched in May at the Auckland Writers’ Festival.

Professor Manhire says that sound files will soon to be added to back issues of Best New Zealand Poems. “We already have authors’ notes and lots of useful links. But everyone tells us that poems make most sense when their authors read them aloud. Now you’ll be able to see the poems on screen and hear the poets read them at the same time.”

New additions to the collection.

noreply@blogger.com (Max) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:21:00 +0000

It has been a while since we updated our front page so we thought we would highlight some new works in the collection. We have a backlog of historical New Zealand and Pacific works that we are working our way through so keep an eye out for more to come. There are two noteworthy additions that maybe of interest.

The Founders of Canterbury provides the intriguing correspondence between Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley and other key figures of the settlement of Canterbury between 1847 and 1850. This addition to the NZETC Collection is timely considering the recent devastating earthquakes which have struck Canterbury and the slow process of grieving and rebuilding. Our thoughts go out to all Cantabrians during these hard times.

Voices of Auckland, is an attempt to redress the unfavourable view of Auckland province that was being circulated in the United Kingdom during the mid 1800s. It includes information about the greater Auckland area from the Bay of Islands to the Bay of Plenty. It also provides a variety of advice to potential emigrants. The following example of advice is from Rev. Richard Taylor:
"To single men, intending to emigrate, I would say, marry before you go out; a good wife is a great treasure and stay to a young man. Many have been ruined, because they have not had a bosom friend to sustain them in times of trial, besides the social comfort thus derived; for none can tell how dreary a young settler's home is without a wife, and how many temptations she saves him from. Therefore, to every single man I again say, marry, for wives are not to be had abroad; property is of little consideration, compared with that of a partner."

Sir George Grey Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands by Geo. C. Henderson
Government in New Zealand by Leicester Chisholm Webb
A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History by James Hawthorne
Voices from Auckland, New Zealand by Alex. F. Ridgway
The Founders of Canterbury by Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Notes on Sir William Martin's Pamphlet Entitled the Taranaki Question by Francis Dillon Bell, Thomas Gore Browne and Frederick Whitaker
The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
Fiji and the Fijians 1835-1856 by G. C. Henderson