More links and websites
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Katikati mural town
Katikati’s website has interesting information on the town’s people and distinctive history.
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Memorials
The register of memorials on nzhistory.net.nz includes First World War memorials from most of New Zealand’s country towns.
More suggestions and sources
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Arnold, Rollo. Settler Kaponga, 1881–1914: a frontier fragment of the western world. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
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Bell, Claudia, and John Lyall. Putting our town on the map: local claims to fame in New Zealand. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1995.
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Cant, Garth, and Russell Kirkpatrick, eds. Rural Canterbury: celebrating its history. Wellington: Daphne Brasell and Lincoln University Press, 2001.
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Franklin, Harvey. ‘The village and the bush: the evolution of the village community.’ In Social process in New Zealand: readings in sociology, edited by John Foster. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1969.
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Somerset, H. C. D. Littledene: patterns of change. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974.