The thesis focuses on documentation regarding the historical growth of tourism at Te Wairoa, Rotorua, New Zealand. Te Wairoa acted as a gateway to Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata of Rotomahana which represented an iconic tourism landscape in the nineteenth century. A theoretical engagement with tourism studies and the utilisation of history as an analytical device reveals that the consumption of the tourism landscape is an ongoing, contested, and negotiated cultural construction of place.The history of tourism development at Te Wairoa exhibits the entrenchment of European colonial power in New Zealand. However, within the structures of colonial authority, strategies of survival for the colonised are employed. In this particular case, the strategies include the engagement with Western ethics of capitalism, the manipulation and appropriation of symbols of the 'other', and the control of access through land ownership. The economic and social development of Te Wairoa, based on a tourism economy, also highlights the existent tensions in both a colonial and post-colonial relationship in New Zealand.The research further argues that individual tourism sites reflect culturally ascribed values associated with place. As the combination of exogenous and endogenous social, cultural, political and economic forces evolve so to does the production and consumption of the tourism landscape. Evidence for these considerations is provided by publicly available historical material including archival documents, historical literature, contemporary accounts, newspapers, and government records. The result is an in-depth study which provides an original and thematic interpretation of the history of Te Wairoa as well as supporting a model for investigating change in the cultural construction of place.

This study was undertaken for two reasons. The first was that the New Zealand Falcon was largely unstudied, and research on its basic biology would provide a base-line for further work. The second was that the topic covered a number of disciplines which meant that, as an academic exercise, the scope was broad rather than narrowly specialised. The easiest projects to write up are those in which there are so many data that the figures almost speak for themselves or those in which there are so few data that one is free to speculate. Unfortunately most of the chapters in this study fall into a middle category in which the samples are small and statistical probabilities are marginal. Also, in trying to maintain a broad approach I have been compelled to sacrifice depth and so each chapter tends to reveal more questions than it answers. While writing, I have been acutely aware of the differences between potential readers. Overseas raptor specialists on the one hand may know little about New Zealand's avifauna and ecology, and New Zealand biologists, familiar with New Zealand, may know little about the ways of raptors. Therefore a short glossary of terms has been included. Briefly, the study has set out to answer a few straightforward questions such as 'Is the Falcon monotypic?', 'What is it related to?', 'Why are the females larger?', 'What do they eat?', 'How do they hunt?', 'How big is their range?', 'What is their breeding biology?', 'Will they breed in captivity?', 'What do they die of?', 'Where are they?', 'How many are there?'. Some of these questions, such as the diet, can be answered with some precision; others, such as the problem of sexual dimorphism, can only be answered in a general way. Because I was strongly advised at the start of this project that a study of the New Zealand Falcon was not feasible, I started a subsidiary project on the Australasian Harrier (Circus approximans). This was soon abandoned and although the results have been published (Fox 1977b) they have not been included in this thesis. Certain portions of this thesis, such as 'Rangle' (Chapter 5.15 -5.19), 'Diet values and food consumption' (5.8-5.11) and 'The shape of nesting territories' (8.9) have already been published or are in press, but for the sake of continuity have been kept as an integral part of the thesis. To a certain extent I have been handicapped by lack of raptor specialists in New Zealand with whom I could discuss my work. Another aspect of New Zealand's isolation is the difficulty in obtaining certain literature. Thus Chapter Four has suffered from my not having access to Noel Snyder's and James Wiley's recent monograph on Sexual Dimorphism. The compensation for this isolation has been the' privilege of working on such a magnificent, and unstudied, raptor.

Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Disk includes covers, a book of pictures, fold-out page, exegesis and Appendix 3 entitled 31 months (Appendix 3 not in print). Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (xv, 75 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. + CD-ROM) in City Campus Collection (T 707 WIL)

Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (68 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm.) in City Campus Collection (T 707 CHA)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. Originally published in print: (2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.) Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A. English)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed March 31, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-178)

Thesis (Ph.D. History)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed April 9, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-347)

Thesis (MA--Art and Design) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2003. / Also held in print (23 leaves, col. ill., 22 x 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection (T 730.993 PIP)

Thesis (MHSc--Health Science) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2004. / Also held in print (106 leaves, 30 cm.) in Akoranga Theses Collection. (T 617.585 WIL)

Exegesis (BA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2005. / Print copy accompanied by CD. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (v, 56 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm. + CD) in City Campus Collection (T 725.59701 CHE)