Historical

The stone mason and the tree Historical

The stone mason and the tree

They cut the old totara tree down in 1949, but the quarry named after it continued to live on in a raft of glorious white buildings here and overseas. Hugh de Lacy tells the story. It was probably not the biggest or most handsome totara tree in North Otago, but it had a defining role in the development of not only a signature local...
The first and last Kiwi submarine Historical

The first and last Kiwi submarine

PETER OWENS explains why a 19th century submarine is sitting far inland at Middlemarch in Central Otago. BEFORE GABRIEL READ found gold near Lawrence in Central Otago, Dunedin was a small, Free Church of Scotland settlement of no special mark. With the Central Otago gold rushes beginning in the 1860s after Read’s discovery of gold, it...
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