Where did the Maori patu come from? There was no such club in the Pacific Islands. We have long said the patu was something the...

New Zealand nearly ended up French – half of it anyway. In 1838 French whaling captain Jean Langlois bought most of Banks Peninsula, just...

The tiki has a name familiar around the pacific but always refers to a stone statue not a neck ornament...except in NZ. So where did this...

Cook arrived in Northland in 1769 but he wasn’t the only European to arrive here. The French were keen on all new lands and the Maori...