Reading Age: 5 to 12 Years

The history of the early settlers struggles to establish dairy factories, stores, churches and sports and social activities. It includes biographical details of about 90 families as well as lists of all burials, teaching staff, dairy company managers and directors. While specific... to the area the names of the settlers and their activities are common to many districts throughout NZ and make the book of interest to a much wider audience than just the local area
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In a post-modern world, it's easy to lose imagination. In dreams there is always hope and in dreams we can find the courage to make the fight real.

Alice Turner Curtis (1860-1958) was an American writer of juvenile historical fiction. She was probably best remembered by young readers of her day for The Little Maid's Historical Series (which comprises twenty-four books, starting with A Little Maid of Province Town). She has w...ritten at least sixty published books. She went to public schools in Maine and Massachusetts, but was also tutored privately. She was a Republican in 1936, and a supporter of women's suffrage. She was also a member of D A R. (Tea Party Chapter, Boston), and the New England Women's Club, Boston. Curtis was a salaried contributor to Youth's Companion. Although her earliest-known book (Marjorie's Way) was published in 1904, she had been in the literary profession by 1895 according to her marriage record.
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Edwin Legrand Sabin (December 23, 1870 - November 24, 1952) was an American author, primarily of boys' adventure stories, mostly set in the American West. Sabin graduated from Clinton High School in 1888. He attended the University of Iowa until his senior year in 1892, when he l...eft to begin his career as a newspaper reporter. He returned to graduate with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1900. At the University of Iowa, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and the school's first rugby team. From 1913 to 1931 he published dozens of critically acclaimed adventure books about the American West and though aimed at an audience of boys, Sabin conducted copious research, even visiting institutions like the Bancroft Library and state historical societies and conducting interviews with people who had interacted with historical figures like Calamity Jane and George Armstrong Custer.
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