Levin - The Making of a Town

Horowhenua District Council, Levin, 2006. Good secondhand condition.

Levin, lying between two cities, the mountains and the sea, was created in 1889 as the quintessential New Zealand rural centre. In the 1950s it transformed into an industrial town, the darling of the insulated economy, but vulnerable to the policy revolution of the late 1980s. This readable account of how a town grew in the midst of a forest, commissioned by Horowhenua District Council, is stunningly designed and lavishly illustrated, with 16 colour pages, bibliography and index.