Conversation in Print among Children and Adolescents in the South Island of New Zealand, 1886–1909

Peter Holland, 1939–2019

“…He later published a monograph, Home in the Howling Wilderness , the culmination of his research on how colonial settlers came to terms with the environment in southern New Zealand (Holland, ). He continued to work most days in the Hocken Library, latterly using stock and station agents' records to assess rural landscape change from late colonial times, the basis of an ongoing set of publications with Sherry Olson (Holland & Olson, ; Holland, Olson, & Garden, ). His last public presentation was on this theme, when he spoke at a symposium to mark the retirement of Professor Tom Brooking, the co‐leader of “Empires of Grass,” at the Hocken in November 2018.…”