Lake Takapo

Pulling the christmas pig by the wrong pair of ears

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December 29th 2007
Hi guys, i'm aware it's been a wee while since i've updated, so i shall try to be twice as interesting as usual to make up for this. So after i wrote last i spent another week working on the building site in the Tui community, hitched down to christchurch, spent the night there, then got a lift to an organic farm just south of Timaru (where there was no internet) spent a week there (from the 22-2 ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more