From shire and parish they came, from croft and hamlet, country cottage and city terrace. For 90 anxious days they trod the decks under creaking canvas, dashed sea spray. And when they stepped gratefully ashore, it was to see Auckland as a raw town in a harsh frontier-land ....
"King Dick" - who was to write his name indelibly in our political history as a Liberal Premier, was only 25. Married only a year, he kept a store and a hotel in Kumara ...
Up the Waitemta came the clipper ships with such cargoes as bacon and salted butler from Ireland, oats and evenly from Scotland ...
young women were seen shopping in Queen Street ...
