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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 which took the curvature of the Earth into account, and Nelson’s chief surveyor, John Spence Brownin...

Simon Maude/Stuff Firefighters were called out to a vehicle fire and a truck rollover in the Tasman District on Monday. (File photo) Firefighters across the Tasman District have been called to a ute on fire in a forestry block and a truck rollover on the Spooner Range. The incidents occurred within half an hour of each other on Monday morning. A police spokesman said police were called to a vehicle crash on Kerr Hill Rd, Golden Downs at 10.30am. The road was not blocked and there were no injuries. Southern fire communications centre shift manager Brent Dunn​ said fire crews from Wakefiel...