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| Appo Hocton, New Zealand's first naturalised Chinese immigrant, arrived in Nelson in 1842. As a nine-year-old he had left China to become a cabin boy on English sailing ships. In his early 20s he jumped ship in Nelson he was employed as a housekeeper but eventually saved enough money to buy a bullock team and established a carting business. |
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| Young Country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burnt bush and rising buildings. |
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| If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. |
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