Albertlanders ( NZ) background (General)

by jhopkins , Saturday, January 30, 2010, 00:21 (5492 days ago) @ unknown

Kia ora e hoa!

I have ordered the book from the local library so I can search it for your Dufty tipuna. It will be available early next week. I should have read it years ago because Dick Scott is a great historian and author, so this is going to be a double pleasure. If you have any tipuna from the Cook Is, Niue, or Parihaka, Dick Scott has written great books on all those places and their politics in relation to Pākehā colonialism.

That sounds really good info you have found on Papers Past. I have never come across the Dufty name before so I suspect there can't have been many here either then or now.

Coal mines in the Bay? Seriously? I have not heard of any up there, but I will see what I can find out.

Hey now, don't ever apologise for your reo Māori, to me in particular, but neither to anyone else. It is only through practice that we learn (oh well, I have found I have little ability in languages, so perhaps that isn't true in my case!).

I will get back to you when I have had a squizz at the book.

Noho ora mai, na John