The Kotuku Creek Chronicles

These three comic novels revolve around a gold strike in the local creek, the sudden appearance of a geyser and the theft of a valuable stamp, threatening damnation and salvation for the sleepy New Zealand coastal community of Kotuku. In the first chronicle the 1980s government restructuring has closed the post office, the petrol pumps and the railway station. Ex-postmaster Jack Cavanagh and struggling storekeeper Ron Atkinson are trying to unify the villagers and the retirement home snobs ...