Author name: Rosemarie Smith

Flying history recounted

Meticulous Errol Martyn continues the rich history of innovation, imagination and daring of early New Zealand aviation. This slice titled Passion for Flight: New Zealand aviation Before the Great War Volume Two: New Zealand Aviation Before the Great War still includes a few of the fanciful feathered contraptions, gliders, balloons and parachutes of volume one, but now […]

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Farmers’ heritage: gritty determination

Intergenerational histories are treasures for local communities, telling the stories of the people who built the present. In this case the focus is on a farming enterprise, down and across five generations based primarily at Pukerau-Kaiwera-Waipahi, though also touching on Central Otago. The founding matriarch, Otago immigrant Irishwoman Alicia McKenna, had a hard and tragic

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