Story: Country towns

More links and websites

• Katikati mural town

  Katikati’s website has interesting information on the town’s people and distinctive history.

• Memorials

  The register of memorials on nzhistory.net.nz includes First World War memorials from most of New Zealand’s country towns.

More suggestions and sources

• Arnold, Rollo. Settler Kaponga, 1881–1914: a frontier fragment of the western world. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
• Bell, Claudia, and John Lyall. Putting our town on the map: local claims to fame in New Zealand. Auckland: HarperCollins, 1995.
• Cant, Garth, and Russell Kirkpatrick, eds. Rural Canterbury: celebrating its history. Wellington: Daphne Brasell and Lincoln University Press, 2001.
• Franklin, Harvey. ‘The village and the bush: the evolution of the village community.’ In Social process in New Zealand: readings in sociology, edited by John Foster. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1969.
• Somerset, H. C. D. Littledene: patterns of change. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1974.