BOOK NZ “My Home Town: New Zealanders remember When” North +South Magazine 1991

BOOK “My Home Town: New Zealanders Remember When” North +South Magazine 1991. Forward: Robyn Langwell. No pen, no pencil, no curved edges. Firm spine. Plus extra post to all NZ=$4.90. HarperCollinsPublishers, Auckland. Bad Point: Book got wet in Cyclone Gabrielle, Northcote, Auckland. Dried out at once, but has four each dark 3cm x 4cm marks on six pages. Page edges are curved, dried rain.
Good Points: This book was highest on bookshelf, when flooded in Tonar Street, Northcote, 5th Feb 2023. True 23 stories of NZ families from 1920 to 1960, retold in 1991. Black and white photos go with each article: Tapu Time and Tides: Margaret Jefferies. Hard But Happy Times in Hunterville: Lorna Entwistle. Papanui-State House Heaven: Roger Green. Hastings-Flat City:Bruce Morley. Campbells Bay-Baches by the Sea: Rod Melville. Dunedin-A Sentimental Journey: Cecilie Geary. Wellington: Streets of My City: Spiro Zavos. Four Seasons in Methven: Nicola Holmes. Te Awamutu’s Fighting Family: Christine Scales. Waianiwa-Before The World Went Mad: Lindsay Yeo. Hawera Heroes: Pat Booth. A Finger on the Trigger in Cambridge: Joan Faulkner Blake. Geraldine, Geraldine…Prettiest Town I’ve Ever Seen: Jenefer Mitchell. Rock-Solid Dargaville: Wendy Laurenson. Waipu-A Quite Exceptional Little Town: Fiona Kidman. I Yearn for Wairio: Peter Giddens. Greenmeadows-Where I Long to Be: Lauris Edmond. Matata-Shake, Rattle and Roll: David McGill. Scenes From a Waimate Life: Jack Hepburn. In the State of Merrilands: Dorothy Murray. Gonville-So God-Blessed Lucky Were We: Elizabeth Kereopa. Katui-At the End of the Dargaville Line: Ivy Pratt. New Plymouth-Underneath the Mountain: Patricia Reesby. Excerpt, page 2: “Cows and the occasional bull wandered along the side of the steep hillside rising directly behind the property, separated from us by only a few strands of barbed wire. I clearly remember my big sister’s dilemma when one day a large bull started bellowing furiously.” Book measures: 22.6cm x 15.3cm x 1.1cm. No cigarette. In Birkenhead.