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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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Harvest Home at Totara Estate

Sunday 28 March 2010 10.30-4.00 pm

The 2010 Annual Harvest Home at Totara Estate features the Topp Twins. Enjoy displays and demonstrations related to the life and times of the Great Estate, the birthplace of New Zealand's frozen meat export industry - and more.

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Ya-Ting Liou

Sunday 14 March 3.00 pm

Taiwanese pianist Ya-Ting Liou will perform works by classical composers Bach, Hummel and Schumann, and Alberto Ginastera.

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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

Ngatokimatawhaourua

Over 500 locals and guests attended the 170th anniversary commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi at Māngungu Mission. The day-long event marked the largest single Treaty signing anywhere in New Zealand and was the culmination of several events held over five days, including a hikoi from the Bay of Islands and a Wānanga Kōrero the evening before the events at Māngungu. One of the many highlights of the day was the ceremonial waka salute from 12 waka taua – including the arrival of Ngatokimatawhaorua.

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