Notes

"Decade by decade the coastal settlement of Campbellton is described through the eyes of young people living in the place at the time. Beginning with the culture of the tangata whenua a succession of 12 and 13 year old observers decribe daily life in the pa, the arrival of European explorers and settlers, land clearances, gold rushes, work in the early factories and farms, the impact of war, economic depression and Think big economic development"