Notes

Vaccines - Polio killed at least 835 New Zealanders and paralysed many more. It was only banished by a vaccine decades in the making.

The Tree Hunters
Out there in forest reserves, down remote back roads and tucked away in corners of small towns hide giant totara, matai and rimu

In search of Summer
More than a century ago, people were granted temporary leases to buil baches on Rangitoto Island, and a thriving community grew around these rudimentary dwellings.