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AT HOME IN NEW ZEALAND: an illustrated history of everyday things before 1865. by Alison Drummond and L. R. Drummond Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. $2.80 reviewed by Margaret Orbell This attractive and very readable book consists of ‘an illustrated history of everyday things before 1865.’ There are interesting descriptions of the possessions that the first colonists brought to New Zealand, the food that they ate, their homes, and the clothes that they wore. The first Europeans to settle in New Zealand were the missionaries who came to the Bay of Islands in 1814. Though they took with them only the most essential possessions, they did their best to maintain the standards of civilized life; a few months after their arrival,

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Te Ao Hou, December 1967, Page 61

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AT HOME IN NEW ZEALAND: an illustrated history of everyday things before 1865. Te Ao Hou, December 1967, Page 61

AT HOME IN NEW ZEALAND: an illustrated history of everyday things before 1865. Te Ao Hou, December 1967, Page 61

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