Pages xiii–xivin printed edition

Contents

photograph Mahurangi Regatta 1901 Henry Winkelmann Auckland Museum;  linocut Mahurangi River Valerie Pendred;  design David Livingtston CAPS Digital Colour; concept Cimino Cole

• About the author
• Foreword to the online edition
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Link with the Mahurangi

Part 1 Beginnings

• Introduction
• Jade River
• Laying the foundations
• How the harbour got its name

Part 2 Māori history of Mahurangi

• Māori occupation of Mahurangi

Part 3 Pioneer Pākehā

• The missionaries
• Gordon Browne and his spar station

Part 4 Surveys and settlement

• Introduction
• Surveyor-general calls
• • Consulted character of the land
• The Mahurangi purchase
• Squatters, surveyors and settlers
• Founder of tidehead town
• Last chief of Mahurangi and his iwi
• Waikato war comes to Mahurangi

Part 5 A maritime community

• Introduction
• Art of the chartmaker
• Shipwright settlers
• New Nova Scotia coast
• Boatbuilding begins in the Mahurangi
• Thomas Scott and sons
• Darrochs and Darrachs
• Darrochs of the Clyde
• Darrachs of Prince Edward Island
• Lesser boatbuilders of the Mahurangi
• Early end to 1800s’ Mahurangi boatbuilding
• Cutter era
• Steamboat era
• Steam comes to the Waitematā
• Steam comes to the Mahurangi
• Casey’s empire
• Deadly rivals
• Lifeline of the north
• Mahurangi’s elegant punt
• Extraordinary rowers
• Memoirs of a scowman
• Tudor Collins taped
• Life aboard the Kasper scows
• Kauri logger to back aboard
• As mate of the Jane Gifford

Part 6 Settlers and services

• Introduction
• Joseph Gard – a first farmer
• The schoolmaster
• The first doctor and others
• Scott House – saving a landmark
• The demon drink
• The Mahurangi mails
• The Great North Road
• • Coastal path and the ferrymen
• The gumdiggers
• On the Hustings
• Rodmersham
• Motuora
• The Point
• • ‘Mountain Chief’
• Growing up at the turn of the century
• Rex and friends
• Mahurangi Regatta 1865 –

Part 7 The entrepreneurs

• Introduction
• The Irish–Māori
• • John Sullivan
  • Daniel Sullivan and family
  • William Sullivan and family
  • William Jackson and family
• Daldy and Combes and the Pulham family
• The limeburners
• The brickmaker and his family
• Nathaniel Wilson cement maker
• The Red Bluff Orchard
• Parrys of the Pukapuka

Part 8 Passing parade of journalists

• A view from the fifties
• Views from the sixties
• Fete days in the seventies
• The turn of the century

Part 9 A personal view

• My grandparents
• My grandparents’ place
• Two sons, two wars
• Uncle Charlie

Part 10 Personal account of the river

• The run of the tide
• Window on the world
• The Saddle
• Preserving the Mahurangi

Appendix

References

Index

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