Early Manukau Secrets of Yesterday

George Higham, Published by George Higham, 1991, softcover, 64 pages.

Excellent condition.

Contents: Utopia: the Garden of Eden; Early settlers and schooldays; Orchards, fishing holidays and visitors; Activities, pursuits and tragedies; Storms, mills and boat services; Old identities of Huia; Recollections of boyhood days; Local history; Settler's Museum and bush tracks; Those were the days!; Nature's bounty and nature's havoc; Trade, sailing and the sea; Memories and incidents at sea; Our beloved Johnny McInnes; Shellfish and fishing; Weather in the Waitakeres; Poem: " A poem of satire"; George Higham's last letter; The Manukau today.