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• Asbestos and the Chaffeys

  A place to hide was what the Chaffeys sought when they moved to the Cobb Valley in Nelson's remote northwest mountains. It was their desire for solitude, and...

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• Ahumāra - Māori horticulture

  The first Māori immigrants, who came from much warmer climes in the Pacific, were forced to adapt their horticultural methods quickly in order to survive. Kūmara, in particular, required...

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• Ngāi Tara at Appleby Pā

  In the late 1500s when Ngāti Tūmatak[sitetree_link,id=490]ō[http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2014/0019/latest/DLM5214278.html]kiri[sitetree_link,id=490] were consolidating their hold over the western districts of Te Tau Ihu, a section of the closely-related Ngāi Tara iwi from the Hataitai...

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• Hūria Mātenga and Māori Rescues

  Early settlers did not fully understand the hazards posed by New Zealand waterways and death by drowning came to be known as 'the New Zealand death'.1 A role in...

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• Wakatu or Whakatu?

  Many Māori names of localities and landscape features are no longer known, and where they have been preserved, the reason for the name may have disappeared in the...

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