Finished reading Ruakaka (A Brief History), compiled by Judy Richards, 1984, $25 from the Post Office shop. Hard to believe it was written 40 years ago!
The book takes us from a presumed first settlement around 1,000 years ago to the early 1980s. 📚
While there is no certainty about the actual date of arrival of the earliest migrants to New Zealand from Eastern Polynesia … Radio-carbon dating techniques suggest that human occupation could have begun as early as 800 or 900 A.D.
There were numerous interesting snippets. Now I just wish there were a book to cover the 1980s to present day.
