James BeattieUniversity of Waikato Successive waves of migrants – first Polynesian, then European and others – released into Aotearoa/New Zealand a Noah’s Ark of animals and a cornucopia of cultivatable…
Editor’s Comment
Welcome to a new look ENNZ Volume 3, Issue No. 1. This issue includes a facsimile of an article by William Gorrie from 1880, which lists a number of New…
Editor’s Comment
The second issue for the year features a number of articles and reviews of topical interest. David Calderwood examines the history of A Rocha, a Christian environmental organisation, and explores…
Conference Review: James Hector Colonial Man of Science (1834-1907) Symposium
Conference Review: James Hector Colonial Man of Science (1834-1907) Symposium, 8 November 2007, Te Papa Tongarewa / The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington John P. Adam UNITEC This one day…
Review: Wetlands of New Zealand
REVIEW: Janet Hunt, Wetlands of New Zealand: A Bitter-Sweet Story. (Auckland: Random House, 2007), ISBN: 978-1-86941-904-2 (hbk). Julian Kuzma From coast to mountain tops, huge areas of New Zealand once…
Improving on Nature? A Critical History of the Hamilton Beautification Society
Petra Jane Edmunds University of Waikato The archives of the Hamilton Beautifying Society, some three boxes in the Hamilton City Council archives, contain every conceivable piece of correspondence from the…