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Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps page9
Foreword by K. M. Baxter, Esq., County Chairman 17
Foreword by D. O. Digby, Esq., Mayor of Ashburton 18
Introduction 19
Acknowledgements 21
1 Settlement, 1853–78 25
Travellers through a desert land 26
The Canterbury Settlement 30
The early pastoralists 31
Early land purchase 46
Communications: mails, coaches, the Rakaia River and the railway 51
Ashburton township 59
The beginning of larger farms 63
Local and general government 67
2 County and Borough Through the Depression, 1878–1903 79
The high country runs 79
Wheat on the great estates 83
Ashburton farmers and the freezing industry 87
Putting men on farms 91
Water for the plains 97
County Council and road boards 105
Ashburton becomes a borough 111
Business under difficulties 116
Some local businessmen 119
Improvements to the town 125
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