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Coromandel MP Scott Simpson attended the book launch at the Tairua
Library with editors Anne Stewart Ball, Pat Kake, and David Rushforth
(who previously wrote Tales of Tairua ).
Second regional “tales of...” series
TRUE TALES of the
Coromandel’s
Eastern Seaboard
Word was spreading: True tales were being
collected to capture stories and memories of
the Coromandel’s rich history. Now the 177-
page, 64-story True Tales of the Coromandel’s
Eastern Seaboard has been published, with
celebratory book launches mid-December at
the Tairua Library and the Whangamata RSA.
Anne Stewart Ball, one of the Eastern Seaboard
editors, noted, “These stories are not about the
legends of logging nor the giants of goldmining,
but are stories experienced, or heard handed
down, by every day people”.
Included in this collection are tales (many with
photographs) – about a special fishing lure,
a shipwreck, camping before the settlement
road was built, road surveying - from areas
stretching from Whiritoa in the South to
Matarangi and Kennedy’s Bay in the North.
In the works are other “tales” series books,
and the Eastern tales joins the already-
published True Tales of Northern Coromandel
(actually in 3 volumes) from the Coromandel
Heritage Trust.
In 2011, Tairua’s David Rushforth published
Tales Of Tairua: Extracts From 29 Interviews
By The Tairua Oral History Group from 2004
to 2011. He is also one of the editors of the
Eastern Tales book.
Books may be purchased for $35 at The
Treasury and Carsons Bookshop in Thames,
the Tairua Information Centre, and Take Note in
Whangamata.
Tales are still being collected for other books
covering Thames, Hauraki Plains, Paeroa/
Karangahake, east of the Waihou River, and
Waikino/Waitekauri.
See story guidelines:
images/truetales.pdf
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