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Cape Reinga by Yvonne Rust, QSM

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  Yvonne Rust, QSM, was raised in the 1920s as the only white child in Te Hapua, New Zealand’s northern most community. As a result she spent a great deal of time with Maori and absorbed the Maori way of seeing things and of understanding the natural world. Te Hapua is only 12 miles distant […]

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Review Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit by Laurence Clark

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People who were regarded as “Arty” and/or eccentric by the locals in the Whangarei Heads area were pretty well tolerated from at least as far back as the 1950s; sometimes with bemusement, but often as wise people in their own fields.  Though there wasn’t much interest in those particular fields, the eyes of the locals […]

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