A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1966. Book covered in plastic with black tape along top and bottom edges, bleeding through of brown tape stains to inner end pages, otherwise good secondhand condition.

What were the backgrounds, and what were the new problems of our early settlers, the fore-runners of the immigrants who come equally hopefully to our shores today? In these sketches, some brief, some longer, of a cross-section of pioneers who came to the central provinces readers may find these questions answered.