10 Mar 2025

Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 10 March 2025
The Jack Morgan Museum - a time capsule in Hūkerenui

Photo: Supplied by Kennedy Warne

Kennedy talks about the Hukerenui settler museum, one of New Zealand's many early settler museums

Jack Morgan, a local dairy farmer, started collecting memorabilia in his sixties and the museum that houses his collection (and bears his name) is now a repository of everything from a 1950s dental clinic to a classic Kiwi wash house along with a magnificent collection of carved kauri gum - among the bizarre items, a kauri gum Christmas cake. 

He also talks about out of control kina, or sea urchin,  populations in Northland and the East Coast that are resulting in a demise of kelp. Many experts are blaming a reduction in crayfish numbers that keep the kina population in check.

 

 

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