Notes

Anthology Beginnings. The enchanted trees of Baks Peninsula / Bill Gillies. Hills of fairy / James Cowan. Maui and Banks Peninsula / Antoine âEdouard Foleèy. Presqu'ãile / Warwick Harris. Banks Peninsula / Felix Maynard and Alexandre Dumas. Early days / Blanche Baughan. Bush tracks / James Hay. A Banks Peninsula bay / Barbara Strang. Whangaraupo : Lyttelton harbour of yesterday / Arthur Te Rangihiwinui Couch. At Dead Low Water / Allen Curnow. The secret life of Arana Kohu Rau / Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. Lyttelton / Frederick Page. Early days afloat / George Brasell. The grey ones kaitorete / David Gregory. The hills / Ngaio Marsh. Unseasonal / David Howard. Akaroa / Basil Dowling. Shag rock / Paul Henderson (Ruth France) -- Place. Evolution / Karen Zelas. Beyond / John Allison. Lyttelton / Joe Bennett. Mary Shelley's window / Lyn Davidson. Otanerito ; Falling in love on the way home / Fiona Farrell. Banks Peninsula place names / Arthur Te Rangihiwinui Couch. Compleat strategist / Rangi Faith. (from) Quail Island Connection / Rob Jackaman. Hinewai / Hugh D. Wilson. Akaroa / Harvey McQueen. Forest : Banks Peninsula / Jan Hutchison. Their lasting shore / Maurice Shadbolt. At Koukourarata/Port Levy ; At Governors Bay / John O'Connor. Charteris Bay / Apirana Taylor. Sudden hills / Errol Braithwaite. Coach journey / Anonymous. A chime of the bell-bird / T.H. Potts. Waiata / Michael Brown. For better for worse... / Mary Stapylton-Smith -- People. At the sign of the packhorse I stand like a tree and sing my song of joy / Robert McLean. Harry Ell of the Summit Road / John Jameson. Matters of land / Rangi Faith Up before the judge / Tania Atkinson. Heartwood / Bernadette Hall. Little river remembered : Isabel's story / Penny Walker. Earth / Fiona Farrell. The ketch 'Crest', Captn Ellis master and part-owner / D.S. Long. Captain Bruce laments / Eric Mould. Remittance men / Pat Keegan. Colin McCahon / Nick Williamson. Letters home / Chrissie Ward and Ira Robinson. Harry Head / H.C. Jacobson. Uncle Balfour / Frankie McMillan. Kaikoura George / George Brasell. Flea Bay homestead / Barbara Strang. A selfish idea / Stuart Payne -- Work. Drought / Joan Drewery. Akaroa in 1864 / Louis Thiercelin. The signalmen / Mary Stapylton-Smith. The cocksfoot harvest / Pat Keegan. The grass-seeders' song / J.H. Thompson. The billy boy / F.C. Newton. The day of the bonfires / Jane Chetwynd. A place to put your foot down / Elsie Locke -- Holidays. In dust road days / Jennifer Barrer. Wainui summers / Penelope Todd. The train / Harver McQueen. Akaroa revisited / Sandy McCutcheon. Of penguins, pioneers and plenty of puff / Judith Doyle. Memories from the cradle of my forebears / Heather Hapeta -- Weather and seasons. Antique / Graham Lindsay. Hang gliders off whitewash ; Above the estuary / James Norcliffe. Weather signs / Syd Cormack. Deserted beach / Ruth Dallas. Peraki / Denis Glover. Autumn 1838 / George Hempleman. Wainui / Victoria Broome. Hill walk / Helen Jacobs. Port Hills mid-summer / Greeba Brydges-Jones. Embers / Te Ruru. Land you can play with / Joe Bennett. Hilda / Coral Atkinson. Sea-mist / Lorna Staveley Anker. Poem by the clock tower, Sumner / James K. Baxter -- Endings. Birds / James Hay. Taylors Mistake / Graham Lindsay. Back to Okains / John Summers. Drought / Patsy Turner. Fire! / Ian Menzies. The destruction of the forest / T.H. Potts. He was a pretty good dog / Joe Bennett. Sonnet XVIII from 'Lyttelton Harbour' / D'Arcy Cresswell. Death of the ward brothers / Charlotte Godley. Port Levy hilltop / Harvey McQueen. The long harbour / Ursula Bethell