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SUPPLIED Part of a page from the 1853 ‘Castlepoint – Wairarapa’ Crown Purchase Deed with a detailed map and te reo Māori headings. ABWN 8102 W5279 Box 42/WGN 188, Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga. New Zealand has registered five more items of national significance with UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. Five items were the given honour and registered on Wednesday: Crown Purchase Deeds, literary and personal papers from author Robin Hyde, a collection of Olaf Petersen photos, papers of artist Colin McCahon and his wife Anne, and Wellington nun Suzanne Aubert’s Manuscript of Māori Conversation. ....
A tunnel is the escape route north, steep hills to the south. Everything feels a long way away. We need a reason to leave town. My father thought anything south of the Bombay Hills was the South Island. His kāinga was Pakiri, north of Auckland, with its loose-metal roads and indolent river, its cowsheds and scorching beach. Now there are better roads but many more cars. I visit the cemetery at our marae just beyond Leigh: this is our ‘meeting-place past the end of the world’ where my father waits for me. I rarely make the drive over Pakiri Hill to the valley of ghosts and fragmented memories, of disappeared buildings, of unanswered questions. The beach and the steep island in the distance – Hauturu, or Little Barrier – are contested land. ....