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The Archives section is intentionally incomplete – we are offering a timeline of some important moments in our Taranaki history. We invite visitors to learn about the people and moments that have shaped the world they inhabit today, and to consider how their life will be remembered in the future. Visitors are invited to share a memory they want to live on by contacting us & to help us imagine what comes next by declaring a hope for the future.

Lew Pryme

Pryme was born in the coastal Taranaki town of Waitara, where the primary form of employment was the…

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Muriel Kirton

Muriel Kirton moved to Kowhai Street around 1922 with Elsie Andrews. After Elsie died in…

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Rewi Alley

For six years in the early 1920s the activist and writer Rewi Alley and his…

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Rudi Milesi

Rudi Milesi, the famed Patea Gardener of his garden ”Chriesi Wald “. A Life Member…

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