You may be interested in a historical CD by Jordan Reyne which was just released through sounz. It tells the story of Susannah Hawes (one of New Zealands first pioneering women to be sent out to the Karamea settlement in 1874). Some reviews are below and there is more information on the sounz website at
http://sounz.org.nz/news_articles/show/170?category=current
"A fascinating and intense listen. Reyne's voice, as ever, is a gift and.. she chooses to use it by applying the tools of a story writer and an illustrator... here is something worth celebrating, a song writer who didn't come down in the last shower of record company advances and marketing hype" The Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand)
“a work that delves deeply into the psyche of the land and our European forebears. A soundtrack to the cinema of unease" New Zealand Musician