Contents

Contents : going on the whale -- first furrow -- stone store at kerikeri -- pit-sawing -- gold prospectors -- Thomas Brunner - explorer -- first railway -- Von Tempsky -- overland electric telegraph -- rural delivery-- Sutherland - monarch of milford -- Surveyor Thomson -- frozen mutton for Britain -- The kauri-gum diggers -- The Jacker -- coaches of cobb & co -- coastwise carriers -- threshold -- drawn in state -- how the land was won -- cutting the fall scarf -- bridging the valleys -- beef cattle -- high country shepherd.