New Zealand

Remembering Tangiwai

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 […]

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 […]

An Avenue of Lime Trees

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 […]