Waihau Bay: a sentimental journey. And: An Announcement
When I was six years old, our town of Opotiki (the real-life model for my fictional Ruatane) was flooded. Water went right through our house, leaving a major clean-up job […]
When I was six years old, our town of Opotiki (the real-life model for my fictional Ruatane) was flooded. Water went right through our house, leaving a major clean-up job […]
Tangiwai is a locality to the south of Mount Ruapehu (the North Island’s highest mountain). Tangiwai is ten kilometres west of the town of Waiouru, and the site of a […]
Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer who in 1642 became the first European known to have visited New Zealand. He named the land he had encountered “Staten Landt”, as […]
The New Year arrives early in New Zealand, thanks to our position close to the Date Line. So it’s already eleven hours old as I write this. 2010 has got […]
Last month we spent some time in the pretty little Wairarapa settlement of Greytown. From the time it was bypassed by the railway line, “development” left Greytown behind. As a […]
1 November 1898: the New Zealand Old-Age Pensions Act came into law, the first measure of its type in the British Empire. The pension was modest (£18 a year), carefully […]
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