Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
26 May 2012 - 8:45 am NZ time
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NZ Society - The Republic of Whangamomona (part three)
from Afternoons on Friday 3 September 2010
If you think Whangamomona is a bit out of the way, then think again. Just a few kilometres away, down what has to be one of the worst roads in the country is the abandoned settlement of Aotuhia. Founded at the very start of the twentieth century, the last settler left the area just forty years later, driven out by the weather, a series of devastating economic crises and the awful loneliness of life in this nearly inaccessible eastern Taranaki valley.
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