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The story of Birkenhead / Margaret McClure.
- Title
- The story of Birkenhead / Margaret McClure.
- Author
- McClure, Margaret.
- Publication
- [Auckland, N.Z.] : Birkenhead City Council, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DU441.A8B5M3 1987 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Birkenhead (N.Z.). City Council.
- Description
- 223 p. : ill., facsim., maps, ports.; 19 x 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Birkenhead's story is one of Kawerau fishermen and pakeha adventures, strawberry growers and orchardists, sugar workers and gumdiggers, city merchants and suburban commuters. it is also the very human story of early settlers' struggles to establish themselves in an inhospitable enbironment, of the first horticulturalists' attempts to wrest their living from the steep, scrubcovered hills and their eventual success in turning the district into a major strawberry and fruitgrowing centre, and of the lives of the sugar workers- residents of Chelsea, the company town"-- Back cover.
- Subject
- Birkenhead (Auckland, N.Z.) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Il. on lining papers.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 211-217.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The Kawerau -- Adventures -- Settlers -- Strawberries and sugar -- Suburban retreat -- Independence -- Apple, Peach, Strawberry, Plum -- Turn of the century -- Losses -- Dancing years -- Hard times -- Wartime and flowers -- The harbour bridge -- Transformation -- City on a Hill.
- ISBN
- 0908704046 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- zbn88035384^
- OCLC
- 35287486
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library