1. Star, 5/3/01.

2. Star, 12/8/01, 28/9/01.

3. Star, 13/9/02.

4. Star, 12/9/05.

5. Star, 26/2/04, 28/5/05, 29/12/04.

6. Star, 31/5/00.

7. Star, 2 & 6/4/01, 6/5/01, 15/7/01, 18/3/02.

8. Star, 2/4/03, 16/3/04, 8/4/04, 1 & 15/8/04, 6/4/05, 17/7/05, 7 & 8/8/05, 28/3/06, 14, 18 & 19/4/06.

9. Bill Murray, Football: A History of the World Game, Aldershot, England, 1994, p. 19.

10. Star, 14 & 16/8/06, 3/9/06.

11. Star, 26/2/07, 4 & 11/3/07, 7 & 8/4/07, 6/5/07.

12. Star, 25/4/06.

13. Star, 28/10/02, 16/12/02, 25/6/03, 1/7/05, 4/3/08.

14. Star, 23 & 27/10/05, 5/5/06, 17/12/06, 23/3/07.

15. Star, 6/4/08; TDN, 3/7/57.

16. Star, 28/5/08 (no reason is given).

17. Jock Phillips, A Man's Country? The Image of the Pakeba Male—A History, Auckland, 1987, Chapter 3 (the quotations following are from here).

18. Star, 30/11/08, 11/1/09.

19. Star, 12 & 22/3/09, 27/4/09.

20. Star, 31/8/12.

21. Star, 26/8/13, 12/9/13, 3/9/14.

22. Star, 8/3/07.

23. Star, 28/3/12.

24. Star, 22/3/13, 28/4/13, 19/8/13, 10/3/14, 28/7/14.

25. Star, 5/4/09, 14 & 17/9/10.

26. Star, 17/2/02, 3/3/02, 1/4/02, 14/6/02, 12/8/02, 2/4/03, 11/5/04.

27. Star, 6/8/03, 7/6/05, 1/7/05.

28. Star, 25/6/03.

29. Star, 5/11/11, 1/6/12.

30. Star, 23/9/10.

31. ‘Kaponga’ is listed in the 1891 and 1901 returns (but not in 1896) but the figures obviously refer only to the minority who did not live on either Eltham or Manaia roads:

32. David Rubinstein, ‘Cycling Eighty Years Ago’, History Today, 28, 2, Aug. 1978, pp. 544–47.

33. Rollo Arnold, New Zealand's Burning, pp. 214–15.

34. W.T. Doig, A Survey of Standards of Life of New Zealand Dairy-farmers, Wellington, 1940, p. 20.

35. Star, 7/1/01, 23/10/05.

36. Star, 25/6/03.

37. Winifred Davies, ‘I remember, I remember, the house where I was born’, MS 202, Taranaki Museum.

38. Carole Dyhouse, Girls Growing up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, London, 1981, pp. 24–26.

39. The Kaponga signatories were: Rose Blaymires, Alice J. Frethey, Barbara Gibson, Martha Gibson, Cecilia Hay, Emilie Mackie. Signatories on the fringes of the Kaponga district were: Jeannie Candy, Elizabeth E. Luscombe, and Mary Watkins of Kapuni; Jane Henry of Duthie Road; Ann Burgess of Awatuna.

40. Caroline Daley, ‘Gender in the Community: A Study of the Women and Men of the Taradale Area, 1886–1930’, PhD thesis, VUW, 1992.

41. Ibid., pp. 88–89.

42. Elizabeth Roberts, A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890–1940, Oxford, 1984, esp. pp. 110–21, 203.