THE NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY KORERO IN HONOUR OF JUDITH BINNEY THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND TE WHARE WÄNANGA O TAMAKI MAKAURAU NEW ZEALAND VOL.38, No.2 OCTOBER 2004
Editors for this issue: Editorial Board: Review Editor: Editorial Assistant: Business Manager: Editorial Advisers: Ann Parsonson Margaret Tennant Erik Olssen Charlotte Macdonald Jock Phillips Jeanine Graham Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie Judith Bassett James Belich Judith Binney Malcolm Campbell Caroline Daley Raewyn Dalziel Peter Gibbons Peter Hughes Deborah Montgomerie Greg Ryan Barbara Batt Gabrielle Fortune University of Canterbury Massey University University of Otago Victoria University of Wellington Ministry for Culture and Heritage University of Waikato The New Zealand Journal of History is published twice yearly, in April and October, by The University of Auckland. Subscription rates for 2005, payable in advance, post free: domestic $40.00 (incl. GST); overseas $NZ50.00. Student subscription $24.00 (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: nzjh@auckland.ac.nz 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 2004 The New Zealand Journal of History
The New Zealand Journal of History 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.