Ruth is an experienced social studies teacher and the author of numerous social studies publications.

CONTENTS 1 How much do you know already? 2 First arrivals 3 Tasman saw New Zealand in 1642 4 Captain Cook arrived in 1769 5 Early visitors 6 The Treaty of Waitangi 7 The arrival of European settlers 8 Hone Heke and the flagpole 9 The first Maori king 10 The 19th century land wars 11 Gold rushes in the 1860s 12 The story of Parihaka 13 Taming the forest 14 Refrigeration 15 Tarawera and White Island 16 Women were allowed to vote 17 Old age pensions 18 The Boer War of 1899-1902 19 Life in the 19th century 20 Richard Pearse’s flying machine 21 The 1905 rugby tour 22 World War 1 23 The terrible flu 24 Two famous dolphins 25 Napier earthquake of 1931 26 The great depression of the 1930s 27 Ernest Rutherford 28 Jack Lovelock’s gold medal 29 ‘Our Jean’ was a famous flyer 30 World War 2 31 Edmund Hillary and Mt Everest 32 The Auckland Harbour Bridge 33 Entertainment 34 The move from imperial to metric 35 The Wahine disaster 36 The great Maori land march 37 The Bastion Point Protest 38 The Mt Erebus plane crash 39 The Springbok tour of 1981 40 The Waitangi Tribunal 41 Kiwi hero Sir Peter Blake 42 The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985 43 NS’s first America’s Cup win in 1995 44 The Helen years 45 NZ becomes Middle Earth 46 New Zealand’s first VC 47 All Whites make history 48 New Zealand’s first Super City 49 Pike River 50 Christchurch earthquake 51 New Zealand 100% Pure You 52 Just a few reasons NZ is special 53 Final challenge Answers Removable section in the centre of the book