Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 11, 2020 2:57:44 GMT 12
FRUIT TREES, TRADITIONAL PLANTS PLANNED FOR NEW COMMUNITY PARK
The $223,800 park, on Inuwai Street in Dixon Heights, will celebrate the area's previous life as a food bowl for Māori and English settlers. The surrounding areas were used by tangata whenua to grow wheat, corn, kumara, taro and hue and, later, by English settlers as a market garden with fruit trees.
Mana whenua were keen on the proposed name Inuwai Park. The moniker will be considered at the council's community committee meeting in April. There is also space for a pou to be installed at a later date.....
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/120155161/fruit-trees-traditional-plants-planned-for-new-community-park
The $223,800 park, on Inuwai Street in Dixon Heights, will celebrate the area's previous life as a food bowl for Māori and English settlers. The surrounding areas were used by tangata whenua to grow wheat, corn, kumara, taro and hue and, later, by English settlers as a market garden with fruit trees.
Mana whenua were keen on the proposed name Inuwai Park. The moniker will be considered at the council's community committee meeting in April. There is also space for a pou to be installed at a later date.....
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/120155161/fruit-trees-traditional-plants-planned-for-new-community-park