Making New Zealand Volume One and Two By The Centennial Branch, Department of Internal Affairs.

Two illustrated hard cover volumes in good condition - spine on volume one a bit tatty - published in 1939 and 1940 - b/w photographs and drawings.

Making New Zealand is a pictorial record of New Zealand's first hundred years. It was commissioned by the New Zealand Government and has been produced by the Centennial Branch, Department of Internal Affairs under the direction of the National Historical Committee. The story of New Zealand is published under 30 different subject headings:

The Beginning Tracks and Roads The Maori The Railways Navigators and Explorers Sea and Air Missionaries and Settlers Communications The Voyage Out Houses The Squatters Public Buildings Gold Furniture The Forest Dress
The Mountains Defence Pasture Land Redreation Refrigeration Summer Sports Power Racing Bread Polynesians Manufacturing The Changing Land Index