Author(s): Ian Hunter (ed.); Diana Morrow (ed.)

Rotorua Books

From its earliest days the city of Auckland has thrived on business; it quickly became and still remains the commercial and financial capital of the country. This important book, published to celebrate the centenary of the University of Auckland Commerce Faculty and the opening of the new Business School, sets Auckland business history in the wider context of New Zealand's economic growth and also includes cutting-edge studies on aspects of that history. Written by leading scholars, chapters cover Maori enterprise, maritime history, leading companies such as the Auckland Gas Co, the Farmers Trading Co and Ross and Glendinning, the timber trade, the stock and station industry, newspapers and accounting. This handsome book, which is introduced by the doyen of historians of Auckland, Russell Stone, is part of a larger project to reinvigorate the research, teaching and dissemination of business history. It vividly demonstrates the insights as well as the lively interest this type of history, too long neglected, can provide.