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New Zealand Historic Places Trust

Visit New Zealand's heritage sites

Historic places have powerful and provocative stories to tell.  NZHPT's properties are authentic, in their original settings and form a network of places important to our national identity.  The places of significance to our many peoples help us to remember, to learn, to belong and share our stories.  Inspiring and beguiling - experience our history right where it happened.

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Commemorations at Mangungu

Friday 12 February 10am - 4.30 pm

Celebrate the 170th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi at Mangungu Mission, and the single largest signing of New Zealand's founding document.

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Lyttelton Summer Festival

19-28 February 2010

Explore Lyttelton's stories at the Summer Festival. Enjoy three archival films, music, wine tastings, cooking demonstrations and more.

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New Zealand's first permanent lighthouse, Pencarrow is a cast iron building first lit on 1 January 1859. Its first keeper was Mary Jane Bennett, New Zealand's only female lighthouse keeper. The light, at first colza oil, and then kerosene, was discontinued in 1935.

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Item from the Collections

Patty's diary

The NZHPT's collections project is still coming up with pleasant surprises. Information about many of the former inhabitants of the Heritage Destinations properties remains lost in the mists of time, but a recent discovery has shed light on an Alberton character that was somewhat of a mystery.

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Story from the Archives

Mangungu - Treaty commemorations

Although firmly and forever associated with Waitangi, the Treaty that bears its name was signed at many sites around the country. The signing at Mangungu Mission House near Horeke is notable for being that at which more people added their names to our founding document than any other. Today, Mangungu is notable as the focus for a remarkable act of commemoration.

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