James Herries Beattie

James Herries Beattie was bookkeeper, journalist, historian, ethnologist and bookseller. His early work included a multi-volume history of early settlers called, Pioneer Recollections (1909–1911) and an account of southern Māori traditions, placenames and history, published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society (1915–1922). His other work includes Tīkao Talks: ka taoka tapu o te ao kohatu / Treasures from the ancient world of the Māori (1939), Māori Lore of Lake, Alp and Fiord (1945), and Our Southernmost Māori: Their habitat, nature notes, problems and perplexities, controversial and conversational, further place names, antiquity of man in New Zealand (1954).