Stuck for Christmas gift ideas?
Then remember the Ōmokoroa history book which covers the farming and orcharding history of the Gellibrand and Captain Crapp years.
This has been reprinted and is now available at the same price of $45.00. This is a great idea for new arrivals to familiarise themselves with this period of Ōmokoroa's history.
First published by Jenny Woods in circa 1980 and extended by Colin Pettigrew through 2014-15, this grew from a small book of 170 pages with just 47 photographs and maps, into a larger format of 246 pages which contains three sections of additional material, together with 350 photographs, maps and diagrams, many of these coloured.
The August 2015 print run of 200 copies quickly sold out and a second run of 125 books followed in November 2015, but again sold quickly. The book has not been available for purchase since early in 2016 although there is a reference copy in the Ōmokoroa Library.
This year the committee of Ōmokoroa History Group asked Kale Print for a reprint of a further 200 copies. After some corrections were made and an additional page that gives one person's memory of the fire that destroyed the large kauri home that Tice and Selina Gellibrand built on the Point, this new, improved and extended book is now available.
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 1870s till Arthur Algernon Crapp's death in 1928.
To order a copy, telephone either Jo and Don Cameron (548 0655), Colin Pettigrew (548 1485) or Chris and Warwick Wright (548 0088).