Waitanguru: The Great Transformation: A Collection of Memories Depicting Optimism, Disaster and Progress of the Waitanguru, Mangaotaki, Ngapaenga and Mairoa Districts BY Stan Frederikson.

Published by Waitanguru Jubilee Committee, Taumarunui, NZ, 1990. First Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket. Name to half-title page. Jacket is laminated and has shelf-wear and marks.

WAITANGURU The great transformation is a pictorial style book, 208 pages with 350 photographs, which includes the stories of families, schools, halls, and community organisations, over the period 1900 to 1990, in a scattered rural farming district west of Te Kuiti. The reader is taken from the early balloting of farms, through the pioneering years to the abandoning of much of this land, due to men being called up for WWI service, and later, the effects of bush sickness (cobalt deficiency), the depression, and finally to the great transformation. The catalysts for these changes were, crawler tractors and bulldozers, aerial topdressing, electricity, and the settling of many returned WWII servicemen onto their own farms. A full index is included.

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