Home of Compassion Crèche (1914) Charity for the urban poor Sweated pay rates and dirty, dangerous workplaces were not the only problems faced by female Victorian- and Edwardian-era shop and factory workers.

Auckland Town Hall (1911) Municipal magnificence in an urbanising society Welcome to the best and the worst of civic pomp and circumstance. Just metres away the Aotea Centre skulks in its pit. Camouflaged

Frank Sargeson’s Bach, Takapuna (1931) New Zealand fiction finds its voice No Heritage New Zealand registration form could improve on writer Kevin Ireland’s assessment of this place. ‘That tiny fibrolite

Former Union Steam Ship Company Headquarters (1883) New Zealand’s first multinational Certain streets earn themselves international reputations. Wall Street, New York, is an international financial magnet

Auckland Harbour Bridge (1959 & 1969) Aucklands driving force The Auckland Harbour Bridge picked up where the ferries left off. There was talk of a bridge across the Waitematā as early as 1860 and

Auckland Ferry Building and Tees (1912) Steam transport opens up the suburbs We see these lucky people waiting at the lights at the foot of Queen Street…. There is a vague aroma of salt and diesel oil

Auckland University Old Arts Building (1923—6) A Maori Gothic, un-British pile Poet A.R.D. Fairburn suggested that Roy Lippincott and Edward Billsons design would scare old ladies in the park. The Education

Why did surveyor William Mein Smith select this shallow swamp for a dock when Port Nicholson could cater for any ship likely to come here? But draw it in he did, making it the Basin, or Dock Reserve. The

Steamships appeared on the interprovincial and trans-Tasman routes in the 1850s. Coal-guzzling and subsidy-swilling, they were too inefficient to compete seriously on the New Zealand-Britain run until

Only two of the ships that brought British settlers here in the 19th century survive. San Diego has preserved Shaw Savill & Albion’s Euterpe (1863) immaculately as the Star of India. Picton has the

Auckland War Memorial Museum (1929) A Parthenon on a hill of bitter memories Between the wars governors-general and other dignitaries unveiled hundreds of memorials to the dead of what everyone hoped had

Dunedin Railway Station (1906) Rail nears its zenith ‘Gingerbread George’ Troup’s magnificent Flemish Baroque-inspired railway station does not (yet?) sit near ‘the last buffers before the Southern Ocean’,

Do not bother crossing the road for this one - in fact, you can only fully appreciate the true awfulness of this travesty from the eastern side of Queen Street. It confirms American historian Mike Wallaces

The southern bastion of Irish Catholicism You have George Bernard Shaws word on it. This is/was Christchurchs finest building. In 1934 when the writer stopped at Christchurch on his New Zealand tour, he

When the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 became British law, the colonys 30,000 European inhabitants found themselves ruled by a governor, a two-house General Assembly, six elected provincial superintendents

Not all missionaries disliked whalers. Bishop Selwyn felt that the whalefishers impart a considerable amount of civilisation to the natives, and praised the mens love for their children, the half-caste,

![matakitaki-pa.jpg]( musket entered intertribal warfare in 1807 as Ngāpuhi traded food, timber and sex for guns. Many early guns were notoriously inaccurate but their surprise value demoralised opponents

The Church Missionary Society (see entries 9 and 13) had no monopoly on folly. Their Papist rival Bishop John Baptiste François Pompallier could match them. Catholic missionaries had landed in the Hokianga

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In Kupe country at the other end of the island from Ōtuataua, people were building similar walled gardens along a narrow coastal strip of stony soils, creating a typical East Polynesian settlement pattern