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The Catholic missionary in Te Wahi Pounamu
(University of Canterbury. History, 1929)
The object of this work is to depict the life of pioneer missionaries in a new and remote country. It may help those who live in an age of comparative comfort to realise the hardships endured by those who came to “sow the ...
A history of Presbyterianism and the Presbyterian Church in Canterbury
(University of Canterbury. History, 1924)
A History of the Presbyterian Church of Canterbury has not hitherto been attempted, except for three chapters on the Early Days in Christchurch, North Canterbury and South Canterbury, in the Rev. J. Dickson's book, The ...
The newspaper as a public service : forty years of "The Lyttelton Times", Christchurch, New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury. Department of History, 1929)
At a time when, in Canterbury, journalism has risen to the dignity of an academic career, when it represents and moulds the public opinion which makes and unmakes governments, it may be fitting to enquire into the origins ...
The history of Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand, from earliest times to 1921, including a review of its future prospects
(University of Canterbury. History, 1921)
In order to enable the reader to see in his mind's eye the history of Lawrence unfolding itself before him, he must first become acquainted with the history of the district in which the future town is to arise. As the ...
The history of early Lyttelton from a social aspect
(University of Canterbury. History, 1929)
Half way down the east coast of New Zealand’s’ South Island there is a large peninsula, well wooded and indented with lovely bays and inlets full of shadow and sunlight. But in the matter of harbours and anchorage Nature ...
A comparison between the immigration into New Zealand by the New Zealand Company and that undertaken by the Canterbury Provincial Government
(University of Canterbury, 1927)
No consecutive account of the Immigration into New Zealand and the policy regulating it has yet been attempted; and though the subject has been treated of in more than a cursory manner by the numerous writers who have dealt ...
The psychology of laughter and the comic
(University of Canterbury, 1923)
Laughter may for the present, be defined as a movement of some or all of the muscles of the face, especially those of the lips accompanied by deep inspirations and interrupted expiration of air from the lungs producing ...
The history of the first New Zealand Parliament : being an account of the two houses of the Legislature, 1854-5
(University of Canterbury, 1923)
A history of the Chatham Islands.
(University of Canterbury. History, 1924)
In writing a history of the Chatham Islands the actual story of white settlement seems to pale into insignificance beside that of the occupation by the Morioris and their subsequent displacement by the Maoris. The origin ...
