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Railway Pioneer Passes — Death of Mr. C. Crutch - The Trail of Adventure — Pioneer Survey of the North Island Main Trunk Railway. — John Rochfort And The Hauhaus - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 7 (November 1, 1933)
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The death occurred at Wanganui recently of Mr. C. Crutch, one of the few remaining pioneers of railway construction of the last century. (Photo. M. A. Brennan) Nature of the country traversed by the North Island Main Trunk Railway. View taken from a point overlooking the Makohine Viaduct. The lat...
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Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 7 (November 1, 1933)
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( By Tangiwai .) It was bound to come. New Zealand cannot do without horses, however great the craze for motor vehicles. The Waikato especially has been the home of good horses, and the old-time horse markets were a profitable institution. Now the horse fair has come back, and seemingly greater t...
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Mr. Bluecoat of the Marsh - Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 7 (November 1, 1933)
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It is amazing to find Acclimatisation Societies and other bodies which should know better, such as farmers' associations, every now and again demanding the slaughter of the beautiful and harmless pukeko. The latest charge against the pukeko is that it eats duck eggs. Considering that the wild duc...
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The Bush and the Birds - Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 7 (November 1, 1933)
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During the opossum-hunting season, which closed recently, some fifty thousand skins were taken in the Wellington district alone. Some people are disposed to applaud this sort of thing from a commercial point of view; but that is not the most important consideration. The welfare of our forests and...
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On the Gold-Diggings - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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Roberts came of Scottish Highland ancestry an Inverness family. He was born in India and came to Auckland as a boy of fifteen, in 1855. The first eight years of his life in the colony were spent in bush and farming life, on the edge of the great Hunua forest, which extended south and east from Pa...
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The Rangers at Orakau - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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On the march to Orakau, which resulted in the famous siege and the noble defiance by the Maoris of overwhelming odds, Lieutenant Roberts led the advance with a half-company of his Rangers. He led, too his Rangers in one of the unsuccessful attempts to storm the Maori earthworks on the first day. ...
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“Deerfoot” Roberts - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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The Forest Rangers led the pursuit of the retreating Maoris when the pa was evacuated by the despairing garrison. The fast runners in Jackson's and Von Tempsky's companies outdistanced even the mounted men, who were delayed by the rough ground. Lieutenant Roberts was mentioned by Von Tempsky in t...
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The Death of Von Tempsky - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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Four years later, after a return for a time to farming work at the Hunua, we find Roberts holding a commission as Sub-Inspector in the newly-organised Armed Constabulary Field Force, of which Mr. Commissioner St. John Brannigan was the head (though he did not take the field himself). Sub-Inspecto...
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The Retreat Through the Forest - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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Of the many narratives of Te Ngutu that I have heard, by far the most authoritative and connected is Colonel Roberts’ own account, which I heard from his lips at Rotorua in 1919. Roberts had always been rather modest and reticent about his own share in the events of that day and night in the bush...
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A Terrible Night in the Bush - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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“I kept my men together as well as I could in the bush, and got my wounded along; we went very slowly, occasionally turning to fire. I don't think we were travelling more than half-a-mile in the hour. All of us were now very exhausted, and I ordered the men to sit down in the bush undergrowth, fo...
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The Last Years of Service - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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Our Frontier Soldiers fifty years ago. Officers of the N.Z. Armed Constabulary Field Force, at Parihaka, Taranaki, November, 1881. Major Roberts, Commanding Officer.
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Aluminium Locomotives - Famous New Zealanders — No. 11 — Colonel J. M. Roberts, N.Z.C — The Story of the Forest Rangers - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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According to the Natural Resources Department of the Canadian National Railways, railway experts in Canada and in the United States are turning their attention to the possibility oi using aluminium alloys instead of steel in the building of locomotives and railway coaches. Experimental work would...
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Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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( By Tangiwai . ) There are wild horse hunts now and again in the wide fenceless areas in the West Taupo sector of the King Country. That rough territory, one of the few wild corners of the country remaining in the North Island, waiting for the transforming touch of the pakeha settler, is roved o...
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The Wild Horse - Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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There are wild horse hunts now and again in the wide fenceless areas in the West Taupo sector of the King Country. That rough territory, one of the few wild corners of the country remaining in the North Island, waiting for the transforming touch of the pakeha settler, is roved over by many mobs o...
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The Church in the Redoubt - Pictures of New Zealand Life - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 10 (February 1, 1934)
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Something has been written in past issues of the Railways Magazine of the charm of old historic churches in New Zealand. One not previously mentioned comes to memory at the moment. It is, I think, unique in its setting. This is the little English Church in that pretty and old-fashioned township, ...
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Famous New Zealanders — No. 13 — Edward Tregear — Pioneer, Scholar, Humanitarian
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( Written for the “New Zealand Railways Magazine” by James Cowan ) Mr. Edward Tregear, I.S.O. (1846–1931). “He does not die who can bequeath Some influence to the land he knows, Or dares, persistent, interwreathe Love permanent with the wild hedgerows; He does not die, but still remains Substanti...
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Mr. Edward Tregear, I.S.O. (1846–1931). “He does not die who can bequeath Some influence to the land he knows, Or dares, persistent, interwreathe Love permanent with the wild hedgerows; He does not die, but still remains Substantiate with his darling plains.” —Hilaire Belloc. It is given to compa...
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On the King Country Frontier - Famous New Zealanders — No. 13 — Edward Tregear — Pioneer, Scholar, Humanitarian
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Later on, in the beginning of the Seventies, we find Mr. Tregear, now holding a commission as captain in the New Zealand Militia, engaged in pioneer work as surveyor and military roadmaker, in the Upper Waikato, on the border of the King Country. His headquarters were at Orakau, where he stayed w...
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Maori-Polynesian Research - Famous New Zealanders — No. 13 — Edward Tregear — Pioneer, Scholar, Humanitarian
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The interests that are usually styled hobbies often become the things by which a man is chiefly remembered. It was so with Edward Tregear. Apart from his professional and official work, he found time for a vast amount of research. His special enthusiasm was the study of Maori-Polynesian subjects,...
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A Founder of the Polynesian Society - Famous New Zealanders — No. 13 — Edward Tregear — Pioneer, Scholar, Humanitarian
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The Polynesian Society of New Zealand, which for more than forty years has been engaged in the gathering and publishing of anthropological and linguistic knowledge in this country and the Pacific Islands, was established by Mr. Tregear and his great friend and fellow-worker, the late Mr. S. Percy...
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