Books
A selection of titles from our shelves:
PRE-EUROPEAN / MAORI
Te Whangaui-a-Tara, A. Ballara In: The Making of Wellington: 1800-1914 (1990)
The Great Harbour of Tara, G. Leslie Adkin (1959)
Te Whanganui a Tara me ona Takiwa (Wai 145), Waitangi Tribunal (2003)
Perfect Vale In: Ngā Uruora (Ch. 2), Geoff Park (1995)
LOWER HUTT
Lower Hutt: Past & Present , Lance Hall (1941) Index / A. Carey (1999)
Once upon a village: a history of Lower Hutt (1819-1965), D. P. Millar (1972)
Past days in Lower Hutt & Petone, J.M. & B.M. Kenneally (1983)
Bygone days in Lower Hutt, George Kaye (1987)
More bygone days in Lower Hutt, George Kaye (1989)
Lower Hutt: the first garden city, David McGill (1991)
Woburn (Te Umumamaku), Warwick Johnston (2002)
Lower Hutt street names, Alison Carey (1992)
Pages from our past, George Kaye (1999)
EASTBOURNE
Okiwi: European occupation of the Eastern Bays Port Nicholson, A.G. Bagnall (1972)
Stories of York Bay, Ann Paterson (1983)
Eastbourne: A history of the Eastern Bays…, A. Beaglehole & A. Carew (2001)
HAYWARDS
Five generations in Haywards, Ray Richards (1985)
HUTT COUNTY
Hutt County Council centenary 1877 – 1977, James M. Daley (1977)
HUTT RIVER
The Hutt River: its history & its conquest, C.A.L. Treadwell (1959)
The Heretaunga/Waiwhetu River Mouth, Janet Bayly (1988)
KOROKORO
Calling Korokoro home: a history of the hill, 1800 to 2003, Kate Malcolm et al. (2003)
MOERA
Moera, Sleeping In the sun, Warwick Johnston (2001)
NAENAE
Naenae through the years, Marion Mills (1990)
NORMANDALE
Glimpses into early Normandale, Rosemary McLennan (1993)
PETONE
Petone’s first hundred years: 1840 to 1940: progress & prosperity, Ed: W.B. Nicholson (1940)
Petone: a history, Susan Butterworth (1988)
Britannia by the river, Warwick Johnston (1999)
Petone foreshore, Warwick Johnston (2002)
‘Til the day breaks : World War 1 Memorials in Petone, Gerald Davidson & Sherril McNabb (2006)
SOMES ISLAND
Somes Island: Matiu, T.R.K. Burgess et al. (1990)
Island of secrets, David McGill (2001)
STOKES VALLEY
Stokes Valley: through the years, Milton Watts (1953)
This was Speldhurst: the story of an early Stokes Valley family, Poppy Watts (2001)
TAITA
Guardian of the Valley: Christ Church…, Miles Erwin (2004)
WAINUIOMATA
Wainuiomata: these passing years, J.M. & B.M. Kenneally (1982)
Tales from the swamp, Vicki Alexander (2000)
WELLINGTON
The city of the Strait: Wellington & its province, Alan Mulgan (1939)
The making of Wellington: 1800-1914, Eds. David Hamer & Roberta Nicholls (1990)
Wellington: the first years of European settlement, 1840–1850, Gavin McLean (2000)
Wellington: a capital century’, David McGill (2003)