Contents

Contents :
Cover : Schoolboys and shoppers returning home to Mornington on an afternoon cable tram;
Appetiser : A watercolour depicting Miner’s slab huts in Coromandel by John Barr Clark Hoyte
Kawau Revisited - Mansion House, Kawau Island, New Zealand [Pat Barron and Joan Monahan step back in time];
New Zealand Memories;
Foiled by Hitler [Alan Turley documents the unexpected sequence of events that befell the 1939 Kiwi rugby league team];
Images from the Regions : Northland - Waipu / Oakura / Opua / Kaeo / Home Guard In the backblocks of New Zealand during the 1930’s [Times were hard and children made their own fun during the Depression years according to Rex Ridgway];
Pukerangi - end of the line [Railway memories from Kathy Baynes];
Slice of Life [Not all fingers and thumbs ...];
Riding the Rails - Part II [Hugh Hickman looks at tramway travel of the past];
Phone Frolics from the fifties [Gwyneth Jones reminds us of the telephone exchanges of the ‘50s];
Readers’ Responses [Mystery photography identified];
Death in an Extraordinary Manner [Colin Townsend uncovers a tragic twist of fate near Paekakariki];
The Ref’s Whistle [John Sinclair uncovers the story of the 1905 whistle];
Images of the Regions : Bay of Plenty and the Coromandel [Tauranga / Mount Maunganui / Omokora / Whakatane / Te Kaha Bay / Kaimai Range];
Keeping in Touch [the postcard];
The Day the Manuka went down [Documented by Bruce E. Collins, Maritime Historian];
Genealogy List, Index and Bibliography;
In Print [book reviews];
The great days of New Zealand Radio [Brian Humberstone takes us on a journey back to the ‘golden age’ of the wireless];
Editor’s Choice [50 varieties of spud];