Subject ref.	Subjects	Pages	Content
1	Before The Beginning	17 pages	Where we came from.
2	Koitiata Begins	10 pages	A village was started.
3	Village For Sale	17 pages	Getting the people to come and stay awhile.
4	Shaky Start	18 pages	Mother Nature had other ideas.
5	Village Grows	50 pages	Slowly until the 1950s, then it took off.
6	Getting Serviced	44 pages	Adding all the bits we use to the village.
7	Freeholding	25 pages	Owning your bit of the village.
8	Floods	26 pages	Too much water in the wrong places.
9	Recollections	25 pages	People remember their lives at the beach.
10	Hall and Fire Shed	27 pages	Look what we built.
11	Causeway and Ford	46 pages	And look what else we built.
12	Organising the People – Part 1	44 pages	Getting stuff done around the place. (Abridged version).
12b	Organising the People – Part 2	129 pages	All documents collected. If you are keen, it’s informative.
13	Fire Brigade	26 pages	Keeping us safe from too much hot air.
14	Camping Ground	14 pages	For those who travel to stay awhile
15	Socialising the People and Doing Stuff	19 pages	Organising village get-togethers & what we do for fun at the beach.
16	The Piano	7 pages	We were on the World Map for a brief period in our history.
17	Bowling Green	17 pages	Good intentions become a village myth.
18	Domain. Which Domain?	24 pages	The village has claimed land rights.
19	Koitiata Recreation Reserve	71 pages	A research project created by Koitiata resident, Laurel Stowell.
20	Moving River	38 pages	The river is entwined in the history and lives of Koitiata residents.
21	River Diversion Project	16 pages	a.k.a. The great river diversion folly, (always to be an ongoing project).
22	Village Goings On	52 pages	Residents are always up to going on about getting things done.
22b	Going On About Rates	31 pages	a.k.a. Koitiata Fights Rates. 2012, a.k.a. ‘the bear was poked with a stick’.
23	Ship Wrecks – Part 1	30 pages	It’s a coast, so it’s not surprising that ship-wreck-locations are close.
24	Ship Wrecks – Part 2	39 pages	Fusilier and Robina Dunlop, by Mike Johnston.
25	Maps	65 pages	Maps spanning the years from 1910 to 1995.
26	Aerial Photos	21 pages	Aerial photos, bird’s-eye view of Koitiata from 1942 to 2010.
27	Newsletters One	57 pages	20 issues, December 1981–October 1999
28	Newsletters Two	31 pages	22 issues, March 2000–December 2002
29	Newsletters Three	30 pages	21 issues, 2003–2004
30	Newsletters Four	45 pages	20 issues, 2005–2008
31	Newsletters Five	72 pages	22 issues, 2009–2011
32	Newsletters Six	29 pages	14 issues, 2012–2017
33	High-Resolution Aerial Photos & Maps	1 page	10 aerial photos 1942 – 2010, and 9 maps 1909 – 1989

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