The Invasion of Waikato By Harold Miller Pauls Book Arcade, 6s 6d

Te Ao Hou, November 1964, Page 55

The Invasion of Waikato By Harold Miller Pauls Book Arcade, 6s 6d reviewed by Wiremu Herewini This excellent book contains the text of a public lecture delivered by Mr Miller on the occasion of the centenary of the invasion of Waikato. Most appropriately the lecture was given in the centre of Waikato, at Hamilton. Mr Miller is to be complimented on this timely study, which says with eloquence and scholarly accuracy a great many things that badly needed saying. His discussion of Wiremu Tamihana, that far-sighted stateman, teacher and Christian leader who took up arms so reluctantly, is of particular interest. A reader who may be a descendant of Tamihana can be excused for the pride he must feel in the qualities of vision and integrity which this great leader possessed, and perhaps one can be generous and tolerant if in one's reading some hostility is aroused at the thought of the needless bloodshed which ended his endeavours.