Ray Richards & Rotorua District Council, Rotorua, 1988. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, faded spine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12 tall. 428pp with over 200 illustrations. Green hardcover has white titles on spine.

A comprehensive local history from 1900, a companion volume to The Founding Years in Rotorua.
This second part of Stafford's expansive history of Rororua (a sequal to The Founding Year in Rotorua) picks up the story in 1900, taking it through to 1988. In that time the population grew from 2200 to about 65,000 and the small borough had become an important provincial city. This growth was matched by equally dramatic expansion of business and industry, agriculture, tourism, the milling of the vast exotic pine plantations. On the other hand Rotorua also felt the impact of the two world wars and the Great Depression. All facets of Rororua's advancement, civic services, cultural and community are given detailed attention by the author, Rotorua's most prolific and distinguished local historian.