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Manukorihi chairperson Patsy Bodger
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Te Kōhia Pā was bought by the council in 2016 with plans for an education and heritage centre on the site where an attack by British troops kicked off the wars in 1860.
Those plans languish at the bottom of New Plymouth s proposed Long Term Plan, with no more spending till 2030.
The chairperson of Waitara s Manukorihi hapū, Patsy Bodger, said Te Kōhia needed continuing support and should be at the front end of the 10-year plan. We want it done now otherwise it s going to lose momentum. Unless they agree to support it it s a dead duck.
Palmerston North artist Philip Holmes gifts Ereni Te Awe Awe portrait to city
3 May, 2021 11:22 PM
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Palmerston North professional artist Philip Holmes with his portrait of Rangitane wahine Ereni Te Awe Awe.
Palmerston North professional artist Philip Holmes with his portrait of Rangitane wahine Ereni Te Awe Awe.
Judith Lacy is editor of the Manawatū Guardian
Growing up in Hāwera in the 1950s offered Philip Holmes paltry cultural experiences. But it also was a source of inspiration for his lengthy, prolific and successful professional art career. From the age of 6, he knew he wanted to be an artist and he drew constantly. He would search for paintings, drawings and sculptures in his home town.
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The British politician and lawyer Sir John Eldon Gorst (1835–1916) arrived in New Zealand in 1860, shortly after the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars (from 1860 onwards), with idealistic intentions of working with Bishop Selwyn and the Maori. He took on various governmental roles that required contact with the Maori, including those of school inspector, magistrate and, later, Civil Commissioner for the Waikato region, whose powerful chiefs had not signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. In 1864 he published this book analysing the social and economic situation in New Zealand, the rapid deterioration of relations between Maori and Europeans (which he ascribes largely to errors and neglect on the part of the British administration) and Maori demands for self-government. He describes, often as an eye-witness, the comp
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