SOUTHERN PIONEERS
SQUATTER AND SETTLER IN THE WAIPARA COUNTY, by Douglas Cresswell; published for the Waipara County Council aad Pegasus Press, Limited, Christchurch; (NE hundred years ago the northern part of the South Island and the south-east part of the North Island formed more of a geographical unit than did the whole of either island alone. Communication across the Strait was relatively good and regular; consequently, from Wellington as an importing centre, settlement, trade and sheep moved easily to either district, or between the districts, and not a few early settlers had interests in both. Of all these, Weld and Clifford with holdings
in the Wairarapa, Marlborough and North Canterbury were the most famous, and that not only because of the part that each came to play in politics. But Pioneering on the north-east coast of the South Island took place also from Banks Peninsula as a base, and went on ahead of and outside the bounds of the Canterbury Block. The story of this pioneering is the main theme of Mr. Cresswell’s book: the story of the Greenwoods of Motunau; of Caverhill and Waitt, who at one time had a licence or lease of a quarter of a million acres north of the Waipara River; of Weld and Clifford of Flaxbourne and Stonyhurst; of Mason, the Sidey Brothers and Dampier of the Upper Hurunui; of Mallock and the Lances of Heathstock and Horsley Down; and ‘the remarkable Moore of Glenmark. This part, comprising about half the book, is of the greatest geneetal interest. Most of the rest is an account of the author’s recent tour through the county for the purpose of collecting information, reminiscences, and anecdotes from old identities and later settlers. This is a valuable record of more recent history of developments in the Waipara County, and both author and County Council are to be congratulated on its publication. There is, however, some room for criticism, arising, I should think, from hurried preparation for the press. There are excellent air-photo-gtaphs of the country; but the map showing county ridings would be the better if a scale were» provided ‘and a few
place-names added.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 12
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358SOUTHERN PIONEERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 671, 16 May 1952, Page 12
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