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Colonial tales of old New Plymouth / Murray Moorhead.
- Title
- Colonial tales of old New Plymouth / Murray Moorhead.
- Author
- Moorhead, Murray.
- Publication
- New Plymouth, N.Z. : Zenith Pub., c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DU430.N4 M65 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- v, 171 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A signwriter's goldmine -- When the train crossed Devon Street -- From Raupo Chapel to city landmark -- Laughter to chase away the gloom -- The man who censored the Herald -- A fraction too much friction in colonial firefighting story -- To oil or London -- One monument in stone -- the other grazing the lush Taranaki grass -- Moturoa -- cradle of city's history -- Dry feet for Bell Blockers or a gaol of civic proportions? -- Second life -- triumph and tragedy -- The Redcoats' favourite watering hole -- A saga in sand and cement -- A biggish fish in the communal pond -- No 'deadwood stages' in Taranaki's coashing story -- Iron eyesore in a timber townscape -- Early mails didn't always get through -- All for a drop of amber brew -- A special chapter in the Taranaki story -- From hospital to hotel, with a genuine hold-up along the way -- Bones to puzzle some future legal fraternity -- Quiet village grew to join urban fold -- Brougham Street classic -- Pioneering not easy for those who were 'different' -- Here a church, there a church... -- The sport of kings and colonists -- Zaccheus Wells -- a man of few words -- The gospel according to Captain Marsland -- Column comment, Puketapu style -- Crime times in old New Plymouth.
- ISBN
- 1877365084 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005415370
- OCLC
- 61303659
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library