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• Step back into the past: A journey into the far north August 5, 2018 Touring around the north of Northland is a step back into our earliest history, both European and Māori. It is the story of how the races met and interacted, of colonial days, development, hardship, conflict ...
• Recalling my father’s war April 13, 2018 My father, born in 1911, battered by the depression and by war service, didn’t say much about either when I was growing up. One of the few times I got him talking about his war experiences ...
• Cooking Memories from My Childhood August 18, 2017 One inescapable fact influenced every aspect of our domestic life when I was growing up. My father was diagnosed as a type one diabetic when I was four years old. According to the medical practices of ...
• Up Memory Lane December 11, 2013 The cable car that runs from Wellington’s main shopping street of Lambton Quay to Kelburn, the hill above, is a beloved icon of the city. It is also an engineering feat of some magnitude, a ...
• End of road·for ‘urban myth’ August 7, 2013 As billion-dollar plans to build Transmission Gully proceed, John Bishop looks at persistent stories that US Marines were willing to do the job for nothing. The idea that a northern highway through Transmission Gully could have ...