'James Fletcher: Builder' - Neil Robinson

Hodder & Stoughton 1970, hardcover, 189pp. Dustjacket faded due to age and edges torn, book slight foxing to page edges but otherwise reasonable condition.

'In 1908 a young Scotsman arrived in Dunedin from Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, with a set of carpenter's tools, a few pounds in the bank and a boundless store of optimism. Sixty years later Sir James Fletcher was honoured as founder-president of Fletchers, one of New Zealand's greatest industrial enterprises, a firm which had played a major part not only in building construction but in the development of New Zealand's modern secondary industry. This is the story of a man with faith in his adopted country, a man whose warmth, basic simplicity and straightforward outlook won him friends in every grade of society.' (From the Dustjacket)