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Paeroa (N.Z.) -- History

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Reminiscences of a country blacksmith / written by Harold Curtis-Smith.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-230
Scope and Contents The first part of Reminiscences of a country blacksmith is autobiographical and covers the author's childhood and youth on a farm north of Auckland (an accompanying note tells us the author lived at Maungatoroto though the text speaks only of Northland). He begins work at his uncle's smithy, works for a time in the goldfields district at Paeroa, then returns to his home district in 1914 to buy the smithy from his uncle and set up business for...
Dates: [189?-1919].