Book Review - "Harbour" by Lindsay Knight
18 August 2010

In it's 25th year North Harbour has commissioned a book looking back at it's relative short history.

Imaginatively entitled "Harbour" it is actually a very tidy, well-researched - if not excellent read. The memories came flooding back like a mini Pacific tsunami on the games featured in the mid-eighties and the halcyon days of 1994 - oh marvellous times.

The stats section at the back is superb and for all the rugby train-spotters out there, it is almost pure rugby nirvana.

On the down side, like all NZ rugby books it fails to probe a little deeper and reveal some real interesting incidents. Authors of such publications feel an innate sense of teasing the reader but in essence delivering very little of what could be deemed as shocking, revealing or even just humorous. I wait with great entrepidation,a book about our national game which is a absolute "jaw-dropper".

It has however, managed to show a Union which is just not Buck, Thorburn or a final in the mid-nineties. It has gone out of its way to show the full picture and despite it's lack of pages, I believe it is a fitting tribute to a Union which has a lot to be happy about.

The photos are brilliant and the Union can be well proud of a very sound historic document.