PREFACE

My name is Russell Cyril James Stone, Emeritus Professor of history of the University of Auckland. I was born and educated in Auckland. I hold an MA degree (first-class honours) from the University of New Zealand and a PhD from the University of Auckland awarded on a thesis dealing with Auckland's nineteenth-century business community.

Between 1964 and 1989 I worked as a full-time teacher in the history department of the University of Auckland. Since my academic retirement I have worked as a full-time history consultant. In the last eight years I have had three book-length monographs published; I have also written two reports on Maori lands issues: the first, in conjunction with Professor Alan Ward, on the railways lands of inner Auckland, commissioned by the Crown/Congress Joint Working Party (1992); and the second, on the sale by Ngati Whatua of the Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill block, commissioned by the Cornwall Park Trust Board (1995).

I have worked extensively and continuously on the economic and social history of the Auckland province and the metropolitan area since 1958. In all, I have written seven books on aspects of Auckland's economic, business and social history. Three of these books, Makers of Fortune (1973), Young Logan Campbell (1982), and James Dilworth (1995) have substantial sections on the European purchase of Maori lands and the pressures of the Auckland business community on the Crown to facilitate the process. Four of my 15 journal articles also relate precisely to that issue.

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