Ngamatea
Subtitle: the land and the people
By: Hazel Riseborough.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781869403690
Subjects: Ranch life -- New Zealand -- Ngamatea.; Farm life -- New Zealand -- Ngamatea.; Hill farming -- New Zealand -- Ngamatea.; Sheep ranchers -- New Zealand -- Ngamatea -- Biography.; Ngamatea (N.Z.) -- Social life and customs.; Ngamatea (N.Z.) -- Biography.; Ngamatea (N.Z.) -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Ngamatea is a name which evokes visions of the high country of the central North Island [of New Zealand]. Bounded by the Rangitikei and Ngaruroro rivers, the sheep station is high, remote and often snow-covered in winter. Ngamatea recounts the history of the land from Maori occupation, through the early leasehold years to the era of development from tussock and scrub to highly productive grassland. Above all it is the story of the families who worked the land, and of musterers and packhorse teams, drovers and dogs, cooks and shearers, truck and tractor drivers, poachers and cops who became part of the mystique of the place.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296) and index.