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A river rules my life

<em>A river rules my life</em>

In the early 1960s, Mona Anderson wrote A river rules my life (1963) – an account of her life at Mt Algidus, a high-country sheep station in Canterbury. The river was the unpredictable Wilberforce, a braided river with occasional high flows. The book was very popular and a sequel, The good logs of Algidus, appeared in 1965.

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Penguin Random House

Reference: Mona Anderson, A river rules my life. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1963

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David Young, Rivers – Rivers and culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/14712/a-river-rules-my-life (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by David Young, published 1 March 2009.

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joe crowley
11 December 2010
In 1962 I shore for a Leo Taylor at Oxford, Canterbury Plains. His wife said a relitive wrote this book. Iwas unable to get it in Aust[although getting married and starting a family was a distraction] Mrs Taylor also was interested that I had aunts who were Josiphites, as she said she was a niece of Mary Mcillops. I have not visited NZ since 1964, I reside in Parkes NSW