Dalmatians


by Carl Walrond

Dalmatia is dramatic: rocky islands and a strip of coast in the Adriatic, with rugged mountains and wild rivers. But for many 19th-century peasants there was not enough fertile land for them to survive. They dreamed of the riches beneath New Zealand’s soil – gold nuggets at first, and then a new kind of gold: kauri gum.

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Main image: Inaugural Tarara Day, Henderson, Auckland, 1999

A Tarara Day band


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