The death of 7 high schools students and their teacher on an outward bound course resulted in the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoors Centre being ordered to pay a $40,000 fine and $440,000 in reparations. The tragic deaths stunned the nation when the school party drowned in a rapidly flooding gorge after warnings of heavy rain…
The death of 6 high schools students and their teacher on an outward bound course resulted in the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoors Centre being ordered to pay a $40,000 fine and $440,000 in reparations. The tragic deaths stunned the nation when the school party drowned in a rapidly flooding gorge after warnings of heavy rain…
The Nautilus Building, some call it a blot on the Orewa landscape, others are less kind. You can’t miss it – it’s the tallest and most out of character construction for miles around, rising from the low lying urban sprawl of the little seaside town like a carbuncle that would have a Prince of the…
The Nautilus Building, some call it a blot on the Orewa landscape, others are less kind. You can’t miss it – it’s the tallest and most out of character construction for miles around, rising from the low lying urban sprawl of the little seaside town like a carbuncle that would have a Prince of the…
The New Zealand geographic society, the body charged with gazetting place names, have stumbled upon an interesting fact – North and South Island were never officially named.The board said it was going to consult Maori and then put suggestions forward for the public to decide on in 2010. Present Maori names are Te Ika a…
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