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Dr Neville Ritchie qualified as an archaeologist at the University of Otago in 1968. He retired in 2018 after 32 years with the Department of Conservation, Hamilton as Regional Archaeologist. His major research projects have been on the Chinese miners in Central Otago, the archaeology of Scott’s and Shackleton’s huts in Antarctica and the New Zealand Wars; Ian Barton is a retired forestry consultant, he has written or edited several books about the North Waikato region including Auckland’s South Eastern Bulwark: A History of the Hunua Ranges and The Shuker Story: From Shropshire to Otaua, 1913–2013. He was a founding member of the Queen’s Redoubt Trust.

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P.G.Rob is an author, illustrator and publisher with an International art award [ New York] for excellence i drawing. She prefers to work in original watercolours for children's books and has illustrated over 30 books. The Captain Bera series will be available as both a hard cover and e book series.

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Graeme Robb grew up in Waimauku and worked as a journalist and advertising media director before spending time with Fairfax Newspapers in New Zealand. He is now retired and lives in Auckland.

James Robb was born and raised in Wellington. In 1978 he graduated from Victoria University, and for several years worked in car assembly plants, meatworks and other factories, and wrote articles for the socialist press. More recently he was a high school teacher for fifteen years, living in Auckland with his wife and three children, and is now working in a metal recycling plant. James’s novel The Chain was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in 2012, and he writes regular posts for his blog A Worker at Large.

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