Wise's New Zealand Index - Every Place in New Zealand - 10th edition

H. Wise & Co. (NZ) Ltd, 1948
Good condition, binding tight, red cover faded particularly on spine, fold-out map intact, pages bright, minimal foxing

New Zealand is full of history and romance, and this index is full in the telling of it. Not in one continuous story is it told, but in a series of paragraphs put under the name of each place. The work bristles with information. It tells of the old days of early settlement, of the events of Maori wars and of the days of peace, and the rising into being of each locality...