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In to the Northlands

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February 2nd 2007
We were picked up outside our hotel at 9am by the Ezy Car rentals people and taken out to their offices near the airport to pickup our Nissan Pulsar for our little touring holiday. Auckland is a reasonably easy place to get around so by 10 we were outside the city heading North for Kumara's and Kauri's. It seems Kumara's are a sweet potato brought to the islands by the Maori sometime during t ... 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