Current Books

Remembrance is the story of the author’s grandmother, Elizabeth Welsman Dawson 1877-1932. It covers her childhood in a large Victorian family in London, her emigration and life in New Zealand through to the time of her death in 1932. The book contains a number of photographs, some from recently re-discovered glass plate negatives taken in the 1900s. The book features her poetry, most of which was written while she was living at Takapuna Beach, on Auckland’s North Shore.

Islands like giant stepping stones surround the bay

Where Rangitoto towers, old and grey

With purple shadows etched ‘gainst glowing sky

Girded by a sea of lapus-lazuli.

Over scarred cliffs pohutukawas fling

Green mantles decked with crimson blossoming

And flitting softly through the gloaming come

Small craft like white-winged birds returning home.

 

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Understanding The Family Court

The Family Court is New Zealand's most controversial and criticised court of law. Family Law now invades all aspects of our lives. The very young, couples of all ages, family members of the elderly and disabled can at any time become embroiled in Family Court litigation. You need to know how the court operates and to avoid costly legal mistakes. Understanding the FamilyCourt - what lawyers would tell you, if they had the time, and you had the money, is a paperback packed full of need to know information, written for the layperson in a clear and understandable way, by a lawyer with over thiry years experience practising in the Family Court.. If you spent time with your lawyer to get only a fraction of the information contained in Understanding the Family Court, it would probably cost you hundreds of dollars in legal fees.

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