Digital resources
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- Complete book (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Part 1 (pdf 448.8 KB)
- Part 2 (pdf 528.4 KB)
- Part 3 (pdf 446.8 KB)
- Part 4 (pdf 437.4 KB)
- Chapter 1, The Maori and contents (pdf 2.9 MB)
- Chapter 2, Exploration (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Chapter 3, Early Kaiapoi (pdf 2.1 MB)
- Chapter 4, The Rangiora Bush Settlement (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Chapter 5, The Native Reserve (pdf 996.4 KB)
- Chapter 6, Woodend and Waikuku (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Chapter 7, The Early Kowahi Settlement (pdf 4.6 MB)
- Chapter 8, The Kowai Railway Settlement (pdf 1.9 MB)
- Chapter 9, The Ashley Country (pdf 5.1 MB)
- Chapter 10, The Eyre Country (pdf 4.9 MB)
- Chapter 11, Cust (pdf 2.1 MB)
- Chapter 12, Harewood Forest Oxford (pdf 5.9 MB)
- Chapter 13, Kaiapoi, Port and Borough (pdf 4.8 MB)
- Chapter 14, Rangiora Market Town and Borough (pdf 4.3 MB)
- Chapter 15, Communication (pdf 4.8 MB)
- Chapter 16, The Railway (pdf 2.1 MB)
- Chapter 17, Farming (pdf 6.3 MB)
- Chapter 18, The Churches (pdf 4.5 MB)
- Chapter 19, Education (pdf 4.4 MB)
- Chapter 20, The News (pdf 1.2 MB)
- Chapter 21, local Government (pdf 1.8 MB)
- Chapter 22, Social Interludes (pdf 4.8 MB)
- Index and Appendices (pdf 5.9 MB)
- Complete book (pdf 4.1 MB)
- Chapter 1, The Land (pdf 77.5 KB)
- Chapter 2, Maori Women (pdf 302.4 KB)
- Chapter 3, Colonial Women (pdf 389.5 KB)
- Chapter 4, Woman win the vote in 1880s and 1890s (pdf 144.9 KB)
- Chapter 5, Sportswomen of the Waimakariri (pdf 530.3 KB)
- Chapter 6, Women and the Arts (pdf 521.5 KB)
- Chapter 7, Women in Health and Education (pdf 781.1 KB)
- Chapter 8, Political Women (pdf 404.2 KB)
- Chapter 9, Women and the Land (pdf 241.8 KB)
- Chapter 10, Business and Women (pdf 172.5 KB)
- Chapter 11, Women's Organisations (pdf 191.0 KB)
- Chapter 12, Women! (pdf 489.3 KB)
- Index (pdf 103.0 KB)
- Introduction (pdf 234.4 KB)
- Chapter 1, Breaching into the Unknown (pdf 620.2 KB)
- Chapter 2, The Northern Survey (pdf 873.2 KB)
- Chapter 3 - The First Year at Rangiora (pdf 977.0 KB)
- Chapter 4, The Early Agricultural Freeholders (pdf 689.5 KB)
- Chapter 5, Fernside (pdf 723.9 KB)
- Chapter 6, Land Purchase (pdf 3.7 MB)
- Chapter 7, The Founding of the Township (pdf 4.7 MB)
- Chapter 8, The Early Mandeville and Rangiora Farms (pdf 1.1 MB)
- Chapter 9, The making of a Market Town (pdf 1.5 MB)
- Chapter 10, The Struggle for Status (pdf 1.0 MB)
- Chapter 11, The Eighteen seventies (pdf 4.2 MB)
- Chapter 12, Town and Country (pdf 4.7 MB)
- Chapter 13, The Foundation of the Borough (pdf 795.6 KB)
- Chapter 14, The Early Work of the Borough (pdf 924.5 KB)
- Chapter 15, The Difficult Years 1878-96 (pdf 1.5 MB)
- Chapter 16, Changing Times (pdf 8.0 MB)
- Chapter 17 - The Nineteen-Twenties (pdf 1.7 MB)
- Chapter 18, Depression and War (pdf 969.5 KB)
- Chapter 19, The Fire Brigade (pdf 769.7 KB)
- Chapter 20, The Call to Arms (pdf 3.7 MB)
- Chapter 21, The Churches (pdf 4.4 MB)
- Chapter 22, The Schools (pdf 1.1 MB)
- Chapter 23, The Arts (pdf 712.4 KB)
- The Sport Clubs (pdf 1.6 MB)
- The Epilogue (pdf 255.2 KB)
- Appendix (pdf 420.5 KB)
- Index (pdf 843.2 KB)
Brockelbank, C (Comp) (1941). Old Kaiapoi - a collection of memoirs
Hawkins, D N (2001). Beyond the Waimakariri
Pauline Wood (1983). Women of the Waimakariri
Hawkins, D N (1993). Rangiora