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 […]
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 […]
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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