Art-deco gem that grew from disaster (Guardian Unlimited)
New Zealand was your favourite long-haul country in the our 2009 Travel Awards. We focus on Napier, flattened by an earthquake but rebuilt in glorious 1930s style ‘Grandad was on the loo when the earthquake struck,” says Gill, a chirpy Ne w Zealander w ho grew up in Napier. In 1931 this genteel port on Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of North Island, was struck by a tremor measuring 7.8 on the …
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Art-deco gem that grew from disaster (Guardian Unlimited)


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