If you look at this photo from the 1980's and see the same scene today, you could be forgiven for thinking that not much changes on the Main Road through Tūātapere... but if you track the history of the buildings and various owners and businesses, you may be surprised to learn there have been quite a few over the many years:




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Ngā mihi o te tau hou. Happy New Year! I'm off my "holiday" from SM.

Well, we had a great break, I got some of the funding for both my volunteer community projects - the new computer arrived and is set up and now the new scanner has come in the post and is waiting to be picked up Monday, so lots of excitement here, many thanks to the Tūātapere TeWaeWae Community Board for their funding our new equipment.

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The word for Day 17 in English then Māori of

The origin or pūtake of all the wood drying here, was nearby kahikatea stands, virtually decimated to provide wood for the local and national dairy trade as the trees became harder to find. Read more about it here: ehive.com/collections/202139/o




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