Marie Hazledine-Barber

Found in New Zealand a pocket watch with an extraordinary history and links to a remarkable family  and time of the British Empire.  Captain James Cook and his wife Elizabeth Cook (Batts)

Signed by John Cragg.  Engraved Northhampton Sq London. Full History and enquiries on the following link.

http://hazledinebarber.com/time-links-found-in-new-zealand/125/

Being connected globally today is as important as breakfast living in the rural lands or bush of New Zealand.  Transmission by satellite for internet, uninterrupted, no matter the density of the bush or the hill one is sitting on. Or how rugged the country, as many parts of New Zealand are.

Armed with the laptop the connection to world is one of ease, i.e. the connection is reliable, no underground cables, no mega multi- corporation control mixed with regular events of failures: or consult with  technicians of the national tele-communications taking days, then engaged conversation does not make sense.

Promises of  ‘fixing the problem’  from the latter, ( multi-corporations) last effort (intermittent  connection) for smooth running took over 14 days, all down the East coast  South Island  New Zealand.

Rural districts struggle with limited and reliable internet connection, poor phone reception, reliability and cell phone reception if any at all.

Satellite Broadband, surfing the net in seconds at a constant, reliable broadband speed faster than the mosquito surfing the bush in the Koromiko hills, sits a satellite dish surrounded by indigenous bush, some buttered blooming broom serviced by http://www.inzonecorp.com/Ruralinzone.htm from Taupo (North Island New Zealand).

Many busy rural folk farming the land, developing eco-environmentally friendly accommodation, for example www.offgridecostay.com ,   Department of Conversation staff collecting data, caring for the wild life sometimes in very wild rugged parts of New Zealand, today reliable internet is essential. Service or technical problems the staff of the service provider solving ability have responses within a matter of minutes or advice is invaluable.

Tuaropaki Communications (izonecorp.) has a broad range of interest in agriculture, geothermal, and horticulture industry in New Zealand raising their awareness the struggle rural folk’s frustrations for a service of sustainable interaction for internet that supported the selected rural business many the back-bone of the country.

Connectivity to this back-bone so valuable to the veins of goods and services to the cities and exports, Tuaropaki Communications is like the shining light warm and welcoming from the bush mans hut in the hills on the winter nights.

Export Logging Koromiko.

Jason McElwain the Enviromental Logger

Pine plantations scattered throughout the Marlborough Sound  hills reaching maturity the loggers, unlike Jason, contracted to fell the plantations, leave behind a scarred landscape of clearfelled land.

Clay ribbon tracks like veins criss-cross the landscape. Laid naked to the wind, rain, sun the exposed landscape provokes thought of the indigenous plants, creatures that have scurried away or died in the process of the felling.

Sitting on a felled pine log a Weta “God of Ugly Things” (Translation from the Maori name wetapunga) appearing alone and lost.

So bare are the hills a rabbit would have to take a cut lunch. A saying taken from the local farmers leaning on the fence feet squarely planted in the lush paddock of green grass sporting the latest in gumboots.

Chips of wood go flying from his chain-saw, logger, Jason McElwain works an environmental approach, choosing only the best matured trees, cuts so the angle is such that the tree falls with little impact on the bush. Care taken to ensure young indigenous trees had no impact in the felling.

The road into the bush that was graded by the  Jason serves as a road and possible link to Department of Conservation walking tracks.  Well graded with gentle curves it meanders through a heavily laden pine tree hill: a mix of indigenous growth and wild life.

The hauling out the logs are chained together pulled to the new road then to a clearing for stripping the bark and cutting to size then stacked.

Being aware of the environment the art form of an environmentally caring logger preserving as much of the bushland without clearfelling, seems to give strength to the land and promotes the possible seeding of natives that would have a chance to take hold and grow.

As many parts of New Zealand rural land for cattle or sheep are bare of a tree it is thought provoking as all animals like shade or shelter more trees should be planted. New Zealand natives.

Buttered coloured hills of broom on some previously clearfelled areas undergrowth compete to take hold, perhaps taking into account the bare hills, the environmental caring loggers the bush land and the logging for timber could co-exist.

The rural districts benefit from trees planted in the paddocks offering shelter or shade. So does the Nation and those that care for the land or promote the growth of indigenous species require a louder voice hand in hand with funding/investment?

For the future maybe the rabbit will not need to pack a cut lunch.