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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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Memorial Day Service

Monday 28 May 2.45pm

The New Zealand American Association invites you, your family and friends to a service at Old St Paul's in honour of American Memorial Day.

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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

Weather Observation Book at Ophir Post Office

The Reverend Alexander Don, a Presbyterian missionary whose main concern was the the Chinese miners in Central Otago was also the weather observer for Ophir on behalf of the Meteorological Office. His meticulous observations can be seen in the archives at Ophir Post Office. This small observation book lists weather data for 1928.

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Story from the Archives

Te Waimate Mission

Caring for New Zealand Historic Places Trust properties is a labour of love, but it gives those who do it a very special connection with our heritage and the people who built it. A passion for the past combines with a rare blend of knowledge of conservation and restoration principles, and skills in story-telling that ensure these places are as alive today as ever they were.

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