Emily & Daniels House

East As

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February 1st 2010
Our departure from Wellington was not quite as early as we had hoped, as we have collected so much stuff in the 9 months that we lived there! We ended up piling everything into boxes and chucking them into the car, to later discover that we had about 40 knives and forks, 2 sieves, yet no saucepans or bowls! We finally hit the road at around 6 in the evening for our journey up to Hastings. We h ... 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