This is the contents of Rotorua People 1880s to 1940s: Living South of the Old Railway by Peggy (Ford) Allen, 1992, revised 2026. Page numbers in the Index refer to the print edition.
- Introduction
- Rode to Rescue of Survivors
- Rode to Rescue of Survivors – Part 1: The New Township and Ohinemutu's Early Hotels to The Duke of Gloucester
- Rode to Rescue of Survivors – Part 2: Princess Gate and the 1901 & 1927 Royal Visits
- Te Arawa Tribe of Rotorua
- Guides and Entertainers, through 1900s
- Maori Leadership Debates
- Kate Shaw's Rotorua Childhood
- The Cradle of a Suburb
- Lu’s Dream Sound
- Roger Kusabs
- Roger Kusabs – Part 1: War Heroes Commemorated by Street Names — Tilsley, Sumner and Wylie Streets to Mrs Annie White
- Roger Kusabs – Part 2: Verna White
- Roger Kusabs – Part 3: Lloyds Ltd
- Bill Neil
- Cyril Rankin "Darkie" Lloyd
- J.M. Camille Malfroy
- J.M. Camille Malfroy – Part 1: J. Harry Hill — Musician and Restaurateur to King Street Hospital and Nurse Naumann
- J.M. Camille Malfroy – Part 2: The Rotorua Motor Transport Company to Glenholme Villa and the 1927 Rotorua Races
- J.M. Camille Malfroy – Part 3: Recollections of Life at 'Glenholme' to David Edwards, Sophia Street, and the Ranolf–Sophia Streets Area, 1920s–Early 1930s
- Fred Goodson, Carrier, and William Galbraith
- Geyser Lodge Hall, Malfroy Road
- C.H. Worthington
- C.H. Worthington – Part 1: George and Bertha Urquhart to Judge Holland and Family
- C.H. Worthington – Part 2: Albert and Myrtle Brown to Ken and Olive Allison
- Forestry Service
- Forestry Service – Part 1: Survival Days in the Depression — the Wilson Family to Harry Lapwood, M.P., and Family
- Forestry Service – Part 2: The Kingsland Family of Grey Street to Audrey Parlane (later Mrs Gamman)
- Forestry Service – Part 3: Albert and Ethel Ardern to Arthur Bellingham, County Council Clerk
- Forestry Service – Part 4: Arthur Bellingham to Colonel R. F. (Ray) Smith, CBE, OBE (Military), ED
- Forestry Service – Part 5: 'Long Newspaper Career' to Don Stafford — Rotorua Historian
- Forestry Service – Part 6: The Brown Family of Victoria Street to Rex Norman and the Rotorua Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Forestry Service – Part 7: Military Camp, Rotorua, February 1935 to The Atkinson Family of Glenholme
- Forestry Service – Part 8: Ted Atkinson, W.W.2 — the Delegation to Buchenwald to William Wallace, 1908 — Farmer and First Rotorua Borough Councillor
- Forestry Service – Part 9: Wallace Crescent and the Growth of State Housing to The Rotorua Bay of Plenty Hunt Club (continued)
- Forestry Service – Part 10: Glenholme School, Ranolf Street to The Dodson Family – Addie Wedding's Later Years
- Forestry Service – Part 11: Addie and Reg Wedding — Married Life to Newspaper Clipping: "View from the Top" — Mrs Elsie Phipps at Mount Tarawera
- Forestry Service – Part 12: Elsie and Sydney Phipps — Ranolf Street to Springfield Road
- Forestry Service – Part 13: Ken Heaton — Auto-Electrical Business, Old Taupo Road to The Tarawera Eruption, 1886 — The Willmotts' Relief Effort
- Forestry Service – Part 14: Thomas H. Sloane and the Tihiotonga Subdivision to Tihi-O-Tonga Station — Managers and the Flood Family
- Conclusion – Ribbons and Reins
- Appendices
- Index (print edition page numbers)