Early Manukau
Subtitle: secrets of yesterday
By: by George Higham
Publisher: G. Higham
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Papakura, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780473010720
Subjects: Men; Biography; History
Description: "This book is intended to be a tribute to the early colonists and settlers in this "Neck of the woods""--Taken from the deciation.
Notes: Available from G. Higham, 12 Renwick St., Papakura, Auckland, N.Z.

Ill. on inside front cover ; port. on inside back cover.
Table of contents: title: 1. Utopia: the Garden of Eden!; title: 2. Early settlers and schooldays .; title: 3. Orchards, fishing holidays & visitors.; title: 4. Activities, pursuits & tragedies.; title: 5. Storms, mills & boat services.; title: 6. Old identities of Huia.; title: 7. Recollections of boyhood days.; title: 8. Local history.; title: 9. Settler's Museum & bush tracks.; title: 10. Those were the days!; title: 11. Natyre's bounty & nature's havoc.; title: 12. Trade, sailing and the sea.; title: 13. Memories and incidents at sea.; title: 14. Our beloved Johnny McInnes.; title: 15. Shellfish and fishing.; title: 16. Weather in the Waitakeres.; title: 17. Poem: " A poem of satire".; title: 18. George Higham's last letter.; title: 19. The Manukau today.