Title: Settlers and Pioneers

Author: James Cowan

Publication details: Department of Internal Affairs, 1940, Wellington

Part of: The New Zealand Centennial Publications

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The sight of the pioneer homes in the north Taranaki bush appealed many years ago with peculiar page 90force and interest to an American writer, who said of one of the Government's new farm-settlements which he visited on the border of the Taranaki and King Country forests:

'The gardens, the galvanised-iron tin houses, the wooden chimneys built outside, the doorways filled with groups of children growing within, and the flowers and vines without, make a landscape which may have too many sharp edges, and colours too incongruous to delight the eye of the landscape artist, but it is a picture any statesman might be proud to sign his name to. Every home here is an adventure, the goal of a Pilgrim's Progress.'