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Home Range magazine on its way!

Yahoo! Home Range magazine is hitting rural letterboxes this week. The 24-page, full colour publication is packed full of local

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Rats!

July 2, 2019May 24, 2021 N8N 3 Comments Rats

OVER the past year David Riddell has been trapping rats in his Gordonton garden, and slowly getting to grips with the tricky business of rat identification.

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You’ve got mail!

November 29, 2018November 26, 2018 N8N 0 Comments Home Range magazine, Michael Blank, Rural mail, Rural posties

Rural postie Michael Blank featured in the latest Home Range magazine. The 24-page, full colour publication is packed full of

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From Gordonton to Oxford and back

November 11, 2018October 22, 2021 N8N 11 Comments 125th anniversary gordonton school, Dr Ngapare Hopa, First Maori woman Phd Oxford, Gordonton history, Gordonton School reunion

The first Maori woman to gain a PhD – from Oxford, no less – began her educational journey at Gordonton School 78 years ago. Meet Dr Ngapare Hopa.

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Working hard in 1909

November 5, 2018June 9, 2020 N8N 0 Comments breaking in swampland photographs, Historic photographs Waikato, old photographs of early farming, old photographs of gordonton, Perry Rice

History in photos – working the land along Piako Rd with bullocks, in 1909. In the background are the original Bridgman farmouse and stable.

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‘Within 12 minutes it was gone’

October 30, 2018September 30, 2019 N8N 0 Comments Courtney and Daniel Thomas, Courtney thomas, Family loseshouse in fire Gordonton

In just two minutes, Courtney and Daniel Thomas’s house on Woodlands Rd, Gordonton, was thick with black smoke. Within 12