Port Chalmers and its people
By: Ian Church
Publisher: Otago Heritage Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dunedin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: History; Port districts
Description: "This fully illustrated history, published in the year of the 150th anniversary, also commemorates the Port Chalmers Borough Council, which was amalgamated into the enlarged Dunedin city in 1989"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Koputai, the Port of new Edinburgh; title: Establishing a town, 1848-1861; title: The impact of the gold-rushes, 1861-1866; title: A maritime society; title: Borough, docks and railways, 1866-1875; title: The entrepreneurial spirit; title: Institutions, amenities and organisations; title: Shipping companies and martime unions; title: From the Boer war to the Great War; title: The blighted years, 1919-2939; title: War, lockout and factions, 1939-1956; title: The J.S. Thorn mayoralty, 1956-1989; title: A matter of identity; title: Appendices: Place-names ; Street-names ; Town Board members ; Mayors ; Borough Councillors ; Town Clerks ; Community Board.