THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORYTHE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY VOL.43, No.1 APRIL 2009 VOL.43, No.1, APRIL 2009 APRIL VOL.43, No.1, THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND TE WHARE WÄNANGA O TAMAKI MAKAURAU NEW ZEALAND Editors: Caroline Daley & Deborah Montgomerie Associate Editors: Judith Bassett Judith Binney Malcolm Campbell Raewyn Dalziel Aroha Harris Review Editor, Books: Greg Ryan Review Editor, History in Other Media: Bronwyn Labrum Editorial Assistants: Jennifer Ashton Barbara Batt Business Manager: Nisha Saheed Editorial Advisory Group: Tony Ballantyne Washington University in St Louis Barbara Brookes University of Otago Giselle Byrnes University of Waikato Cathy Coleborne University of Waikato Bronwyn Dalley Ministry for Culture and Heritage Anna Green University of Exeter Chris Hilliard University of Sydney Kerry Howe Massey University, Albany Jim McAloon Victoria University of Wellington John E. Martin Parliamentary Historian, Wellington Philippa Mein Smith University of Canterbury The New Zealand Journal of History is published twice yearly, in April and October, by The University of Auckland. Subscription rates for 2010, payable in advance, post free: domestic $50.00 (incl. GST); overseas $NZ60.00. Student subscription $30.00 (incl. GST). Subscriptions and all business correspondence should be addressed to the Business Manager New Zealand Journal of History Department of History The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand or by electronic mail to: [email protected] Articles and other correspondence should be addressed to the Editor at the same address. Intending contributors should consult the style sheet at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/his/nzjh/ Back numbers available: $10.00 (incl. GST) per issue in New Zealand and $12.00 overseas. PRINTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ISSN 0028–8322 © 2009 The New Zealand Journal of History The New Zealand Journal of History Vol.43, No.1 April 2009 CONTENTS Nadia Gush The Beauty of Health: Cora Wilding and the 1 Sunlight League Francis Reid The Sumner Cave Controversy Reconsidered: 18 Provincialism, Identity and ‘Colonial’ Science Rachael Bell ‘Texts and Translations’: Ruth Ross and the 39 Treaty of Waitangi Graham Hucker ‘The Great Wave of Enthusiasm’: New Zealand 59 Reactions to the First World War in August 1914 — A Reassessment Reviews (Books) 76 Chris Brickell, Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand (Caroline Daley); Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Diggers Hatters & Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes (Terry Hearn); Kirstie Ross, Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century (Tom Brooking); John Crawford, ed., The Devil’s Own War: The First World War Diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart (Graham Hucker); John Crawford and Ian McGibbon, eds, New Zealand’s Great War: New Zealand, the Allies & the First World War (Michael McKernan); Sandy Callister, The Face of War: New Zealand’s Great War Photography (Jock Phillips); Mary Logan, Nordy: Arnold Nordmeyer: A Political Biography (Jim McAloon); Michael Bassett, Working with David: Inside the Lange Cabinet (Malcolm McKinnon); Paul Goldsmith, We Won, You Lost, Eat That: A Political History of Tax in New Zealand Since 1840 (Keith Rankin); John E. Martin, Parliament’s Library (J.E. Traue); Angela McCarthy, Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921–65, ‘For Spirit and Adventure’; Enda Delaney and Donald M. MacRaild, eds, Irish Migration Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1700 (Lyndon Fraser); John Barrington, Separate but Equal? Maori Schools and the Crown 1867–1969 (Colin McGeorge); Conal McCarthy, Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display (Giselle Byrnes); Iain Sharp, Heaphy (Simon Dench); Richard Quinn, Samuel Marsden, Altar Ego (Peter Lineham); Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham, eds, The Amazing World of James Hector (Elinor Harris); Jill Trevelyan, Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life (Doug Munro); Joanne Drayton, Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime (Bruce Harding); Graham W.A. Bush, ed., The History of Epsom (Hugh Laracy); David Veart, First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking (Greg Ryan); Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, eds, Australia’s Empire (Malcolm Saunders); Peter Kenilorea, Clive Moore, ed., Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, KBE, PC, Solomon Islands’ First Prime Minister (Michael W. Scott). Reviews (History in Other Media) 112 An Impressive Silence: Public Memory and Personal Experience of the Great War. Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, 10 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington. An Impressive Silence. http://exhibitions.archives.govt.nz/AnImpressiveSilence/ Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga (Kirstie Ross). Te Ara o Nga Tupuna Maori Heritage Trail. Wellington City Council, the Wellington Tenths Trust and Ngati Toa. http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/heritage/pdfs/teara.pdf Te Aro Pa, 39 Taranaki St, Wellington. Wellington City Council in partnership with the Wellington Tenths Trust and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (Conal McCarthy). Notes on Contributors 118 New Zealand Journal of History Goes Online We are pleased to announce that recent issues of the New Zealand Journal of History can now be accessed online. Articles published since 2005 can be accessed through the EBSCO ANZ Reference Centre. Back catalogue will be added to the collection in due course..