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RANGIKAPITI TRIG STATION
Rangikapiti Pa is a significant site for Ngati Kahu, and the terraces and defensive ditch can still be clearly seen. Legend says that it is named after the wife of the Maori chieftain Moehuri. I am...
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CONTRASTING ARCHITECTURE
old Dargaville Post Office … pity about the building behind it.
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SAILORS FAREWELL
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way, where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,...
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MEMORIES ON THE RIVER…
where the riverboats docked rice grass hides the piles under rotting boards
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A PIECE OF HISTORY
The old sand barge, towed by the Lady Kay, has been a feature of the Northern Wairoa River since 1955. It would leave the sand yard at the mouth of the Kaihu River at the top of the tide to dredge...
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CLOSE UP
Here’s a better look at that little red house among the paddocks. It has always fascinated me. It is on a low-lying area near the Northern Wairoa River, and could be prone to flooding. Maybe that’s...
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BOOKS
We didn’t visit any of the usual tourist haunts in Wellington because our time there was limited – but we did have time to visit our favourite bookshops: Arty Bees, Unity Books, The Ferret and others....
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SIMPLY WELLINGTON
A few more shots of this city on the hills… The lines you see running through most of the pictures are for the trolley buses
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MORE FROM THE ROGUE’S GALLERY
Remembrance always this young to each other as the years rolled by
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REMEMBERING
They met when he was the butcher’s boy and she the downstairs maid neither of them knowing how the game of life was played but they raised six kids, though times were tough and they did the best they...
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DIAMOND JUBILEE
…and everywhere they built Churches A photo from the Diamond Jubilee of the Frieston Methodist Church in 1930. My great grandparents helped to build this Church.
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GOOD BREEDING STOCK
We had a fire in our house in the 1990s, and many of our old photos, though saved, suffered smoke damage. So if you notice smudging in some of the photos I post that’s the reason. This is my great...
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GLASS PLATES
When I was a child, there was a big house opposite us – on the corner of the road – that had seen better days. My first memories of it, in the early 1950’s, were after the owners had apparently sold...
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STANDOUT
Afternoon light and gathering clouds combined to give me this shot of the back of the old Commercial Hotel… In the days of the river boats this was an important establishment with its own wharf, and...
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