KATE MOSSE
Written in te reo Māori
New Zealand’s birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators
and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog
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Mr Ward's Map: Victorian Wellington street by street Ken Kalfus KATE MOSSEIn 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south. Updated regularly over the next 10 years, it detailed hotels, theatres, oyster saloons, brothels, shops, stables, Parliament, the remnants of Maori kainga, the Town Belt, the prisons, the lunatic asylum, the hospital and much