Soaring bird
Subtitle: a history of Manurewa to 1965
By: Gwen Wichman
Publisher: Manurewa Historical Society
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Manurewa, N.Z.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.167-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Manurewa: the early history; title: Independent Manurewa; title: The Great South Road; title: Military mileposts; title: Churches; title: Schools; title: The railway at Manurewa; title: Manurewa Post Office; title: Some historical buildings (Sunlands ; Oxford Lodge ; Manurewa Town Hall ; Butcher's shop, corner Great South and Hill Roads ; Manurewa Children's Home ; Beaumont's Bridge ; No. 3 Scenic Drive ; Coxhead Home ; Manurewa Picture Theatre ; Pegler's Building); title: Short histories (Manurewa Town Clock ; Manurewa's libraries ; Daffodil Day ; The cat-on-a-pole ; Reotawhiti, Massey Road ; Southmall ; Recreation Centre ; Combined Schools Festival ; Meals-on-wheels ; Manurewa doctors); title: Fires and fire brigade ; The police in Manurewa ; Banks ; Parks ; Clubs and societies ; Manurewa in war-time ; Memorials ; Old residents look back; title: Ray Butterworth (Manurewa's native bush ; Brookvale ;Nathan Park ; Totara Park ; North of Brookvale ; The Costar property ; Martin's Bush); title: Mrs Joyce Heyworth (Manurewa today); title: Alice E. Phillips (Early Manurewa; the story of a whirlwind and a waterspout ; Manurewa memories ; History in the making at Manurewa); title: Samuel Craig (Early days at Manurewa School); title: Manurewa's outlying areas: Weymouth, Wiri, Alfriston, Takanini.