Category Archives: DOC

Heaphy Track MTBs Irk IRD

DOC Brands One-day Riders “Tax Evaders” Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray The Inland Revenue Department today acted on a report by the Department of Conservation that mountain bikers cycling the Heaphy Track in a single day … Continue reading

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MTB Adventures on the Heaphy Track

  By Paul Smith   By late June, when I finally got to the Heaphy, it had been open for seven weeks and eight weekends. In that time an estimated 1000+ mountain bikers had travelled the trail, around 150 each … Continue reading

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Have You Been To Sunny Karamea Yet?

    Off the Top of my Head   By Paul Murray   Don’t be surprised if everyone waves to you as you pass by in Karamea…it’s that kind of place. If you’re among the growing number of travellers who … Continue reading

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Rongo TV: There’s So Much to Do in Sunny Karamea

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Wild Wild West Coast Towns

Off the Top of My Head By Paul Murray   Karamea Way up north as far as you can drive; you’ll arrive at the warmest, driest place on the wonderful West Coast. Karamea has a great climate year round and … Continue reading

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There’s More to the West Coast than Dairy

The Press August 21, 2008
 Off the Top of my Head By Paul Murray   The use of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) by the Animal Health Board (AHB) on the West Coast is indeed a contentious and emotive issue and one … Continue reading

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Off the Top of my Head: Musings on Morality

By Paul Murray New Zealand today is a rather pious place, but it was more so in the recent past. Apparently, up to around 1950 it was illegal for farmers to permit their animals to copulate in the public, so … Continue reading

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