[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I: VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND.
CHAPTER II: THE NEW COUNTRY.
CHAPTER III: BUSH SETTLER.
CHAPTER IV: ANXIOUS DAYS
CHAPTER V: WAR BEGINS.
CHAPTER VI: THE FOREST RANGERS.
CHAPTER VII: SETTLERS DEFEND THEIR CHURCH.
CHAPTER VIII: MAUKU IS ATTACKED.
CHAPTER IX: BATTLE OF RANGIRIRI.
CHAPTER X: THE ADVANCE CONTINUES.
CHAPTER XI: THE YEARS AFTER THE WAR.
Acknowledgement is made for the following illustrations:--
Cover, painting by J. C. Hoyte, "The Great South Road near Shepherd's Bush" by courtesy of Mr. W. M. Bell.
Page 79 Auckland, 1858, painting by J. Bunny, by courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library (Rex Nan Kivell Collection).
Page 79 Present day photograph of historic Pukekohe East Church -- "The Weekly News".
Page 78 Queen's Redoubt, Pokeno, from a drawing by Lt. H. S. Bates -- Alexander Turnbull Library.
Page 78 Lithograph of The Bluff, Havelock, and of Ngaruawahia -- by courtesy of Mr. E. J. Hinton.
Printed by Perry Salmon, Wills & Grainger Ltd, 379 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland.
