Do Nought Without a Bishop - Life of Henry John Chitty Harper

Published by The Timaru Herald Company Ltd in December 1956.

Harper was among a community of Anglican settlers who sailed in from faraway Britain in the 1850s and set about building Christchurch on a swampy landscape halfway up the eastern edge of New Zealand's South Island.

He was the first bishop of Christchurch in New Zealand and battled to build the Anglican cathedral that, for more than a century, was the city's centerpiece, its greatest landmark.

On 22 February 2011, the cathedral's spire came crashing down.