Between the River and the Hills - Waikato County 1876-1976

Wilson and Horton, Auckland, 1976

Waikato County is a lively, progressive and beautiful district traversed by lond sections of the Main Trunk railway line, the Southern Motorway and State Highway 1, and having on its borders three boroughs and the city of Hamilton. It extends from th Firth of Thames to the outskirts of Cambridge and from the Waikato River to the hills on the east, where part of its boundary is still the old confiscation line laid down after the Land Wars. This book tells the story of the Waikato County Council and the county itself, its people and industries...