JUDITH BINNEY VOL.38, No.2, OCTOBER 2004 OCTOBER No.2, VOL.38

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Vol.38, No.2 October 2004

CONTENTS

Caroline Daley Deborah Montgomerie Editorial Introduction: Nga ra o mua 125

Judith Binney Selected Essays

The Heritage of Isaiah: Thomas Kendall and Maori Religion 127

‘Whatever happened to poor Mr Yate?’ An Exercise in Voyeurism 154

Maungapohatu Revisited: or, How the Government Underdeveloped a Maori Community 169

Maori Oral Narratives, Pakeha Written Texts: Two Forms of Telling History 203

Tuki’s Universe 215

Some Observations on the Status of Maori Women 233

Te Mana Tuatoru: The Rohe Potae of Tuhoe 242

Songlines from Aotearoa 256

Damon Salesa

Korero: A Reflection on the Work of Judith Binney 272

A Bibliography of Writings by Judith Binney 299 Reviews 306 Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking, eds, Environmental Histories of New Zealand (Brad Patterson); Stuart Macintyre, The History Wars, (Luke Trainor); Rawiri Te Maire Tau, Nga Pikituroa o Ngai Tahu (Jim Williams); Christine Tremewan, ed., Traditional Stories from Southern New Zealand (Michael Reilly); Paul Goldsmith, The Rise and Fall of Te Hemara Tauhia (Danny Keenan); Steven Fischer, A History of the Pacific Islands, Deryck Scarr, A History of the Pacific Islands, Ian Campbell, Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands (Doug Munro); Lloyd Maepeza Gina, Judith A. Bennett, eds, with Khyla J. Russell, Journeys in a Small Canoe: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islander (Hugh Laracy); Tom Brooking and Jennie Coleman, eds, The Heather and the Fern: Scottish Migration and New Zealand Settlement (Malcolm Campbell); Ian McGibbon, ed., The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History (Adam Claasen); Matthew Wright, Italian Odyssey: New Zealanders in the Battle for Italy 1943–45 (John Crawford); Linda Bryder, A Voice for Mothers. The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare 1907–2000 (Margaret Tennant); Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page, eds, Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives (Megan Woods); Anne Trotter, Mary Potter’s Little Company of Mary: The New Zealand Experience, 1914–2002 (Chris van der Krogt); Kirsty Carpenter, Marsden Women and their World: A History of Marsden School 1878–2003 (Peter Lineham); Greg Ryan, The Making of New Zealand Cricket 1832– 1914 (Douglas Booth); Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon, eds, ‘Madness’ in Australia: Histories, Heritage and the Asylum (Warwick Brunton); Diana Beaglehole, Learning to Lead — 50 Years On: A History of the New Zealand College of Management 1952–2002 (Malcolm McKinnon); David Grant, Those Who Can Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective (Colin McGeorge); John-Roy Wojciechowski and Allan Parker, A Strange Outcome: The Remarkable Survival Story of a Polish Child (Simone Gigliotti).

Research 336

Erratum Due to a printing error several paragraphs in Jim McAloon’s article ‘Class in Colonial New Zealand: Towards a Historiographical Rehabilitation’, NZJH, 38, 1 (2004), pp.3–21 were omitted. The complete text is available at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/his/nzjh/index.cfm?fuseaction=mcaloon_article Judith Binney COMMUNITY (5)

Either side of the harbour not so many years ago hope was not a word which signified in worldly terms, expectation a word which could be used in place of resignation, pessimism, or fatalism.

New plants enter gardens, new gardens are made. Meeting houses are being built, old ones done up, churches too. (At many places was no tradition of making much physical show of churches or houses.)

Going back after years away particularly notice signs of care for burial grounds. Do not, please, misunderstand me: I do not mean to say, No care before this. Only, the manner of showing care has changed, fence wires tightened, battens painted, intrusive grasses kept down. The dead have been reinstated? No, their state was never forgone. Perhaps rehabilitated? but this sounds over much like a social welfare/security programme. Yet in a way that may be it.

Never the less, the poor remain.1

KENDRICK SMITHYMAN

1 Kendrick Smithyman, Atua Wera, Auckland, 1997, p.358. Reproduced with the permission of Auckland University Press and Margaret Edgcumbe.