New Zealand Yesterdays - The Illustrated Story of How We Lived, Worked and Played

David Bateman, Auckland, 2001, Second Edition. Good secondhand copy. Creased title page.

This richly illustrated survey of life in the 20th century New Zealand begins in the days when King Dick Seddon ruled over what he called 'God's own country.' It shows how ordinary New Zealanders lived in town and country, how they made ends meet, how they took care of one another from the cradle to the grave and how they lived at home while their young men fought overseas in three wars. It shows how people enjoyed themselves and how they worked to develop the country. The story of New Zealand is told in more than 360 articles in 320 pages and almost 1000 photographs, drawings, maps, and diagrams, many of them in colour...