Two Lost Threads

Bateson Publishing Ltd, 2003.

People look at you with blank faces today when you mention either homeservicemen or town clerks. They are part of New Zealand's history that has been forgotten.

Maurie Nolan was in the New Zealand Defence Forces - a homeserviceman - during World War II. He became a town clerk in the years following the end of the war.

Iris Nolan has produced a well-researched and fascinating account of what life was like for Maurie in those two fields of endeavour.