Spooners Range News Today

GNS Science announced in April of that year that a plaque had been placed in the Tararua Ranges, 11 kilometres northwest of Greytown, marking what it claimed to be the real Centre of New Zealand. Botanical Hill has long been considered the nub of the nation because it was a central survey point in the 1870s. Until then, there were surveys of various parts of New Zealand, but none of the nation as a whole. The powers that were decided to combine these surveys into a single geodetic version wh...

Wife dies in husbands arms in cycling accident in Tasman ranges 2 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Kana Hirose, 50, and husband Otto Lijzenga, 57, from Blenheim. Hirose died on December 24, 2020, during a cycle ride the couple made on the Great Taste Trail in the Spooners Range. Photo / Supplied Tom Dillane is a reporter at the New Zealand Heraldtom.dillane@nzme.co.nz@tomdillane1 Otto Lijzenga and his wife Kana Hirose were cycling through Spooners Range on Christmas Eve when a hanging branc...

Wife dies in husbands arms in cycling accident in Tasman ranges I just sat with the body and cried: Wife dies in husbands arms in Christmas Eve accident Sun, 3 Jan 2021, 9:46AM Kana Hirose, 50, and husband Otto Lijzenga, 57, from Blenheim. Hirose died December 24, 2020, during a cycle ride the couple made on the Great Taste Trail in the Spooners Range. Photo / Supplied I just sat with the body and cried: Wife dies in husbands arms in Christmas Eve accident ...

Centre of New Zealand from above. Promotional material aimed at domestic and international tourists says the centre of New Zealand is up a hill in the centre of Nelson City with a commanding view of the Nelson Tasman area. It is sort of true, and information on the Nelson City Council’s sites both back and qualify the claims. The country’s main tourist site NewZealand.com says: “The Centre of New Zealand, on Botanical Hill at the start of the Maitai Valley, is an iconic walk in Nelson...