History book back in print

The committee of the Ōmokoroa History Group (OHG) is delighted that their 2020 grant application to the Centre Trust has been accepted.

This will enable a reprint of the Ōmokoroa history book, first published by Jenny Woods in circa 1980 and extended by Colin Pettigrew through 2014-15. From a small book of 170 pages, Colin expanded it into a larger format of 246 pages that contains three sections of additional material, together with 350 photographs, maps and diagrams, many of these coloured, where the earlier book had just 47.

The August 2015 print run of 200 copies quickly sold out and a second run of 125 books followed in November 2015.

However with stocks exhausted, the book has not been available for purchase since early in 2016. There is a reference copy in the Ōmokoroa Library.

This year the committee of OHG explored the idea of a re-print. With a quote from Kale Print for over $7000.00, this was beyond the means of this small group. But now, with the Centre Trust grant for $3000.00 together with OHG funds and other personal contributions we are able to progress.

We intend to print 200 copies which we will sell for $45.00 (the same price as in 2015). We hope that profit from these sales will go towards the production of two other books that we have been researching for some years, one on early twentieth century farming families and another on beach and bach life.

Residents who were unable to purchase a copy in 2015, and the many new arrivals to Ōmokoroa since that time, will finally be able to get their hands on a copy and learn something of the first Europeans to live and farm on this peninsula from the late nineteenth century.

To order a copy, contact Jo and Don Cameron 548 0655, Colin Pettigrew 548 1485 or Chris and Warwick Wright 548 0088.

The 2015 edition of Colin Pettigrew’s expanded book ‘Ōmokoroa’ soon to be back in print.