One Lady At Wairakei Author:Rudyard Kipling The fact that Rudyard Kipling visited New Zealand in 1891 is not widely known. That he wrote a short story One Lady at Wairakei while he was here, which was published at the time in the New Zealand Herald, will come as quite a surprise even to the literary world. The story is not contained in any of the standard collections of Kipling's works. ... more » It is now being published for the first time in book form, with an introduction by Harry Ricketts, who has been responsible for rediscovering it. Readers will find that it provides a fascinating glimpse of the overregulated, unstable economy then in existence in New Zealand, and an astonishingly accurate prediction of the development of New Zealand literature during the twentieth century.« less