THE HISTORY OF PORT NELSON

AUTHOR - Ruth Allan

PUBLICATION - Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd Wellington 1954

CONDITION - Good condition, age discoloured, otherwise clean and tidy. Some foxing on page edges. Previous owner stamp on front endpaper and on top page block edge. A little foxing on page edges. Dustwrapper poor with large portions of front cover missing and replaced with tape.

PRICE - $24

DESCRIPTION - This history of Port Nelson was produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the harbour board formation in 1901, although shipping activity at Nelson had begun much earlier when it was recognised as being important to settlement by the New Zealand Company in 1841. Those early years are thoroughly traversed by the author to include the numerours small craft that provided coastal services, to those that travelled further afield within the NZ enviroment to the larger ships with overseas origins. Engineering challenges faced by the harbour board, and its predecessors, are also covered as is the social and economic importance of the port to Nelson's urban and provincial areas.

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