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Sue
24 June 2020Sue has only just moved out of Whenuapai after spending more than a decade there cultivating a beautiful garden on the land. There is a tradition of green thumbs in her family and Sue explains that the meaning of the name Whenuapai is in fact "fertile soil."
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