The Handbook for New Zealand. Compiled for the Use of Intending Colonists—by a late Magistrate of the Colony–(1848)

The author was E. J. Wakefield who had previously written Adventure in New Zealand referred to above, and his handbook gives a useful history of each settlement together with particulars of all 82 of the New Zealand Company's emigrant vessels up to 1848. Regarding Nelson harbour Wakefield remarks on the great rise and fall of the tide and the "unusual facilities of dry docks, which might easily be made there, thoroughly available for steamers of the largest size."

Previous reference was made to another publication by this author –