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Rangitoto Island

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47. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

October 31st 2008
(N) Now into the final week of Auckland Heritage Festival, the most tenuously-linked event (but one of the best) that we attended was the Heritage Pub Tour. Described as a visit to some of the city’s oldest pubs, we considered it unmissable. Starting off at The Drake, the house pub of my favourite NZ beer Monteith’s, we learnt that in the old days before land reclama ... 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

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