Commemorating the last spike of the Main Trunk Line
National Park, and en route to Raetihi – obelisk commemorating the last spike of the Main Trunk Line … which carried away our Waimarino forest. Construction of Main Trunk Railway 1885-1908. The Crown engineered the ‘purchase’ of 417,500 acres of the Waimarino block in 1887 from our hapū and iwi. Our forests in the Waimarino,…