With more than two million New Zealand motorists wanting to go faster and in straighter lines, historic sites inevitably find themselves barring the way of progress.
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She's an academic, an award-winning author and speaker, a Captain cook fan and Chairperson of the Historic Places Trust Board. Professor Dame Anne Salmond speaks with Jane Phare.
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Warkworth's old cement works are about to pass into public ownership and nearby historic concrete houses are in good hands.
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To conserve, or not to conserve, that is one of a number of dilemmas facing a multi-milliondollar project to restore and preserve the huts linked to the heroic period of Antarctic exploration.
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Mangakino is a town in a 1950s time warp; a remnant of the pressurecooker expansion of post-war New Zealand as well preserved as if it were ladled into an Agee jar in mother's kitchen.
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Demolition was the likely future of Tolaga Bay's much-photographed wharf five years ago as more and more of it crumbled into the sea.
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A dawn demolition raid on a Greymouth bridge, a quirky post office hogging prime Queenstown space and a glass thorn among the roses of Akaroa are splitting communities over developments in heritage areas.
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