Title: The elms & other poems
Description: A collection of poems which turns historical facts into imagery and rhyme. Mrs Hawkins was specially interested in the first missionaries who came to Tauranga, and in the Land Wars with the tragic loss of life on both sides.
Subjects: New Zealand missionaries, colonialism, Pakeha pioneers
Places: Katikati, Tauranga, Mount Maunganui
People: Archdeacon Brown
Time periods: 1860's