| Ferrets and stoats, introduced by European settlers in the nineteenth century, pushed the birds further into the backblocks of New Zealand. |
| It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks. |
| She began as Vickie Lynn Hogan, a peroxide-blond waitress from the dusty Texas backblocks. |
| And here let me remark that I have discovered that nobody ever lives in the backblocks. It is always the other fellow whose lot it is to live there. |
| He is the son of a Jamaican father and German mother who bought him a camper van to slog around the backblocks of the lower-level European circuit for four years. |
| In 1909, Kai Tiaki refers to Maori and backblocks nursing but reveals nothing to suggest that Maori nurses were seen as colleagues in the association. |
