Room with a view

Carol Singing

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December 18th 2012
Christmas is only a 8 days away and showed its face today in Napier with carol singers and decorations ón the main street. That and the coloured lights which adorn the trees and fountain outside our hotel. Napier is a lovely city which owes its current existence to a two and a half minute event on the morning of February 3rd, 1931. It was then that a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed the centr ... 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