history

Remembering Tangiwai

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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 […]

An Avenue of Lime Trees

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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 […]

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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 […]