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Rotorua : mirrors of time / Connie Haggart.

Title
Rotorua : mirrors of time / Connie Haggart.
Author
Haggart, Connie, 1916-
Publication
Double Bay, N.S.W. : Longueville Media, c2006.

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Description
xii, 200 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Constance (Connie) Haggart was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1916. Her long association with the Rotorua district spans over eighty years, having first visited Rotorua in 1918 during the First World War at the age of two. ... Mirrors of Time presents a collage of history and legends that have had a deep impact on Connie's early life in Hawke's Bay, and, since 1938 in Rotorua ..."--Back cover.
Subject
  • Haggart, Connie, 1916-
  • Women > New Zealand > Rotorua > Biography
  • Te Arawa (New Zealand people) > New Zealand > Rotorua > History
  • Pioneers > New Zealand > Rotorua > History
  • Kōrero nehe
  • Rotorua (N.Z.) > History
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The legend of Maui -- Shadows of the past -- Perceptions of Maori ancestry -- Cradle of our nation -- Waitangi -- Early European settlement -- Captain George Grey -- Te Kooti -- Maori women -- Formation of a Maori kingship -- Snippets of news from the 19th century -- Birth of a tourist town -- Whakarewarewa and the Whaka guides -- Transformation of 'The place of blood' -- Education -- Pukeroa -- Mokoia Island: Kapi-te-Tangata (Covered in blood) -- Hongi's track and Hinehopu's tree -- Legends of the taniwha -- Tarawera -- My early days -- School days in Hastings -- Recollections of early Taupo -- We move to Havelock North -- The Hawke's Bay earthquake -- Fond memories -- Early involvement in amateur dramatics -- We move to Rotorua -- Wheels of progress -- Entertainment and community involvement -- Steam trains: beasts of progress -- War contribution, 1942-1946 -- The Blue Baths: Waiariki Waiora -- Operatics -- Adventure into business -- Walking through the streets -- Rotorua's Christmas carnival -- Rotorua becomes a city: the pageant -- City Coat of Arms -- Rotorua's art festivals -- Rotorua personalities -- Mt Ruapehu erupts -- St John's Church: one hundred years of history -- Parksyde -- Epilogue.
OCLC
  • 156776723
  • SCSB-12331769
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library