The New Story of the Kauri
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- 363 pages
- Publisher: A H & A W Reed
- 1964 Revised and Reset Edition
- Numerous b/w photos
- Condition: Book Center Stamp on the first page, a few light stains on the title page, dust jacket with a tear on the bottom & some wear to the edges
The New Story of the Kauri
- A. H. REED, who is known from one end of New Zealand to the other as "the walker", and who has written many unusual books of travel about his own country, is also a popular historian, and has written, and edited several books of biography. In his youth, he spent some years as a gum digger on the site of extinct kauri forests in Northland. His book, The Gumdigger, was published in 1948. This was followed by The Story of the Kauri, first published in 1953 and reissued the following year. It was an exacting but rewarding task to trace the history of the great kauri forests of northern New Zealand, and the thrilling story of the intrepid bushmen of past generations. This involved endless correspondence, delving into old records, gathering photographs, and visiting the diminishing band of old-timers.
The author was elected to life membership in the Pre-War I Kauri Bushmen's Association, and the A. H. Reed Memorial Kauri Park, at Parahaki, Whangarei, adjoining the old Reed Homestead, was named in his honour. The New Story of the Kauri is the outcome of further research and correspondence to provide much new and valuable material.
- TUDOR W. COLLINS, old-time bushman, and Prince of Kauri Photographers has, as an outcome of his love of the Monarch of the New Zealand forest, assembled a magnificent and unrivalled collection of Kauri trees, and every phase of work in the kauri bush—the felling of trees, and jacking of the logs, the work of rolling-roads, bullock-teams, catamarans, the building of dams and chutes and tramways, and rafting logs to the mills. The illustrations include scores of photographs of well-known members of the Pre-War I Kauri Bushmen's Association.
- Tudor Collins has had a varied career as bush-, man, seaman, farmer, contractor, and served in World War II in the Navy under Lord Mountbatten. He is also well known for his exploits as a big-game fisherman.
- By placing the choicest of his collection of thousands of kauri photographs at the service of this book, Tudor Collins has rendered an invaluable service to posterity, for he has preserved for the nation a record of a chapter in our history which can never be repeated.
Author: A H Reed