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  • Ausubel, David P. The fern and the tiki: an American view of New Zealand: national character, social attitudes and race relations. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.

  • Dekker, Diana. ‘Are manners dead?’ Dominion Post, 19 May 2012, pp. 8–11.

  • Hansen, Penelope. Special occasions. Auckland: Viking Pacific, 1990.

  • Phillips, Jock. A man’s country? The image of the Pakeha male, a history. Rev. ed. Auckland: Penguin, 1996.

  • Porter, Frances, Charlotte Macdonald, and Tui Macdonald. ‘My hand will write what my heart dictates’: the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends. Auckland: Auckland University Press; Bridget Williams Books, 1996.

  • Tauroa, Hiwi, and Pat Tauroa. Te marae: a guide to customs and protocol. Auckland: Raupo, 2009 (originally published 1986).

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Nancy Swarbrick, Manners and social behaviour, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/221919/sources (accessed 19 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 16 May 2013.