His perceptive use of statistics, his interest in Maori physical anthropology and health [?] his journey, his contacts with officials and politicians [?] his almost unique recourse to documents and official papers (footnoted) as well as to books and pamphlets underpin a text which takes its strength from his own perception and character. He gives, repeatedly, cogent and piquant summaries of aspects of New Zealand life and events such as pakeha Maoris, the pettiness of provincial government, the New Zealand Company's brazen impositions which would repay a reading by even modern historians. The bibliography, a worthy milestone, listed over 500 publications."-- Bagnall 5537