Authors

Andy Buchanan is a semi-retired structural engineer who grew up on the Port Hills of Christchurch. After obtaining a Civil Engineering degree at the University of Canterbury in 1969, he alternated between engineering jobs and study abroad. He completed a Masters degree in California and a PhD in British Columbia, before establishing a structural consulting firm in Christchurch. Andy moved to the University of Canterbury in 1987, where he specialised in earthquake resistance, fire safety, and the carbon footprint of multi-storey timber buildings. He taught thousands of students before stepping down in 2014. His busy retirement activities include part-time structural engineering and the pursuit of interests in family, forestry, and conservation, as well as frequent trips to the mountains to seek images for his oil paintings.

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Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck, 1877-1951) led a busy and distinguished life - variously as an MP, leader of the Young Maori party, doctor, medical officer for Maori health, anthropologist and director of the Bishop Museum, Hawai'i. He was knighted in 1946 for services to science and literature. His best-known books are Vikings of the Sunrise and The Coming of the Maori.

Gay Buckingham is a regional writer – her work is set firmly in southern New Zealand — and she revels in describing the coast, bush, wildlife and farming community of the area in which she grew up. In 2013 she completed a degree in modern letters at Victoria University. This is her first novel.

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Dr Roger Buckton and his family moved to Puhoi in 1990 and discovered the rich world of Bohemian music Kiwi style. His professional music career and interest in early European music helped him appreciate that in his neighbourhood there was a wealth of European music which had been undergoing a transformation since the arrival of the early settlers in 1863. He quickly went about recording this music, and two cassettes (later CDs) and a documentary film for the University of Auckland were produced from 1993 to 1996. After years of research and performances of the music, Buckton's book Bohemian Journey: A Musical Heritage in Colonial New Zealand was published in time for Puhoi's 150th anniversary in 2013. The simultaneous publication of Judith Williams's book It Takes a Whole Village: the People of Puhoi showed Buckton the cultural value of her collection of song and verse texts and was the catalyst for matching song texts and music to realise the rich heritage of song which was fast disappearing with the loss of the language. Buckton was an Adjunct Associate-Professor at the University of Canterbury and lectured in ethno-music, musicianship and music education. He continues to perform on the dudelsack, alongside other instruments of early music. His aim is to promote the songs and music in this collection so that these unique Kiwi-Bohemian musical gems take their place in the multicultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand. Judith Williams lived her early years in the village of Waiwera and started her schooling at the Puhoi convent school. She formed friendships with local Bohemian families and these early relationships fostered her interest in the local dialect, its songs and dances. She trained as a teacher and studied German to Master's level at the University of Auckland, followed by three years teaching English at secondary level in Oldenburg, Germany. Williams was intensely proud of being a descendant of the early settlers in the area (Pittner) and her decision to learn German and to live in Germany derived from her early links with Puhoi families. So it was unsurprising that later she returned to Puhoi, and developed a smallholding there with sheep and chickens. At this time, Williams began a second career, in journalism. She helped establish

Allan McDonald is a lecturer in photography at Unitec, Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka. He works with an archive of images spanning more than 50 years from which he curates narratives of social history and place. These often appear as small publications, most recently Between the Silence and the Flame 2016, Carbon Empire, 2017 and The Holding 2020. Carbon Empire won the New Zealand Photobook of the Year Award. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Auckland Art Gallery, Te Papa and the Chartwell Collection. He is represented by the Anna Miles Gallery in Auckland

About the author Born in the Netherlands, Ton Buhrs graduated with a Drs in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He moved to New Zealand in 1984 and completed a PhD in Environmental Policy and Politics with the Department of Political Studies at the University of Auckland. In 1991, he joined Lincoln University, where he was an Associate Professor in Environmental Policy and Politics until his retirement in 2014.

Terrence Bull has been a marketing and business consultant for over 35 years. He has built, from ground up, more than one global company and has helped thousands of businesses and businesspeople build their companies and achieve their business aspirations. Terrence has run seminars globally and been a global thought leader. He has published many articles and self-help tips for businesspeople over his career. His breakthrough theory of Doctrine Marketing (i.e., marketing centered on beliefs: Marketing=Perception) is now widely taught and accepted as core to modern day marketing practices. Likewise, his Blueprint for Business has become a standard for many businesses when self-diagnosing issues or growing their company. After the COVID-19 lock-down in 2020, many businesspeople reached out to Terrence for help. In order to rapidly solve his client’s primary issues and to make his business coaching services more accessible worldwide, he developed the Magic Beans program. He brought together all the material he had been teaching people over 35+ years as a business & marketing consultant, then created a way to turn people’s thinking and beliefs about business around in just 12 hours—through twelve 1-hour sessions. The Magic Beans program gives people the same thinking and beliefs that has enabled Terrence to grow global companies in a way that still frees him up to pursue his many other passions.

Hannah Bulloch

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