HISTORY

The vanished coal settlements of the Buller plateau Walking through Millerton, you wish someone who lived here could walk beside you and point things out. There are traces of the old town everywhere, but no one to tell you what you’re looking at. The tunnels are still there. So

Cape Foulwind’s fifty years of hand-lit nights On the night of 4 September 1913, the principal lighthouse keeper at Cape Foulwind, Mr MacIvor, was on duty in the tower when a storm broke over the headland. Just before one in the morning, lightning struck the telephone wires outside