In Kaitaia and Dargaville on November 19 and 20, meetings were held with members of Dalmatian clubs. The book Their faraway home was presented to them, and in the conversation parts of the research related to these towns were highlighted. In particular, they discussed the possibilities of researching and finding lost publications – for example, the newspaper Glas istine, which is known to have been published in Dargaville at the beginning of the 20th century, but not a single copy has been found to date. In addition to the talks, a visit to the Gumdiggers Park was also organized, where there is a reconstruction of the settlements where the first settlers from Croatia lived in New Zealand. In the museum shop, publications and semi-publications related to Croats were found. The semi-publication The Gumfield Collection: 100 years on: looking back 1898-1940 from 2015 is particularly interesting, on the basis of which a book of the same title was published in 2018, and later (2018 and 2023) the book The Gumfields: Northern Wairoa to the Far North: 120 years on: looking back.
