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Food Glorious Food!

Sandra Smith says Over the years I’ve seen some amazing meals being cooked up on the hut bench with aromas […]

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LABELLING OF EGGS

Egg Labelling can be Misleading Mojo Mathers, MP, on the Consumers right to know New Zealand’s current labelling laws do […]

7 years | Conservation

NATIVE HABITATS BOOK LAUNCHED

Mahara Gallery`s First Picture Book By Nicola Easthope 19th June 2012 Children from Kapanui and Waikanae Schools […]

7 years | Conservation

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

The Treaty was first signed in February, 1840, then taken around NZ after February for further signings

The Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement made in 1840 between representatives of the British Crown and more than 500 Māori chiefs. It resulted in the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand by Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in May 1840. Most chiefs signed a Māori-language version of the treaty. The English- and Māori-language versions held different meanings, and Māori and Europeans therefore had different expectations of the treaty’s terms. Ever since, resolution of these differences has presented New Zealand with challenges.