Rae and Gray's Orchard

Honoroak Orchards, Hamilton and Raglan

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March 18th 2008
Saturday 15th March, I did a much needed clothes wash, kept fingers crossed that the weekend tomato pickers in Rae and Gray's tomato crop, didn't make off with my Top Shop favourites and headed into Hamilton for a bit of shopping and lunch with Todd and Tina. Nice dinner in the evening at Rae and Gray's. Sunday 16th March, we drove about an hour west to the coastal town of Raglan for shopping ... 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