More suggestions and sources
Brickell, Chris. Mates & lovers: a history of gay New Zealand. Auckland: Godwit, 2008.
Daley, Caroline. ‘A gendered domain: leisure in Auckland, 1890–1940.’ In Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie, eds. The gendered kiwi. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.
Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. Pleasures of the flesh: sex & drugs in colonial New Zealand, 1840–1915. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
Laurenson, Helen B. Going up, going down: the rise and fall of the department store. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005.
Phillips, Jock. A man’s country?: the image of the pakeha male, a history. Rev. ed. Auckland: Penguin, 1996.