Bay Centennial Book

Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 9

Bay Centennial Book

KAIKOHE, This Day. Written in readable style, punctuated with humorous descriptions of former customs and days, and marked by an atmosphere of colonisation, the Bay Centennial Committee’s historical book, “The Day Before Yesterday,” is a worthy record of the coming of civilisation and colonisation to this Dominion.

Written by the Rev. M. H. Wybert, of Waimate North, the book is on private sale throughout the Bay, and is in demand.

It is unfortunate that the fact that i the publication is a Centennial effort is not recorded in the book itself, for it appears as if the book is only another of the ever-growing series on New Zealand’s early days. Unfortunate, too, is the fact that the book should be dedicated to two children, whereas it should have undoubtedly been dedicated to the pioneers of the Bay of Islands. However, despite these two omissions, the book is .an excellent record of the Bay’s early history and its subsequent growth. The book is pleasing to old and young alike, and the limited number of vblumes available should soon be sold. As a descriptive writer, Mr Wybert capably deals with numerous interesting occurrences which have never before been recorded in book form, and the result is a continuous flow of the entry to and exit from Now Zealand of men who, not recorded in history, had a great deal to do with the establishment of British sovereignty in the Dominion.