Breaking Views Update: Week of 13.9.26

Sunday September 13, 2026 

News:
Rangitahi and Molesworth: tracing a station’s name
The recent announcement that the operation of Molesworth Station, the iconic high-country farm spanning 180,000 hectares across Marlborough and North Canterbury, is to be transferred to Ngāi Tahu Farming has drawn new attention to the station’s history.

For Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Kuri, the area has long been known as Rangitahi, an ancestral landscape woven into their whakapapa. The name is likely to become the primary reference for the station under its new Māori operators.

Today, the official name is Rangitahi /Molesworth, a fitting combination of old and new as a fresh chapter begins in the history of this iconic station.....
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Ngāi Tahu posts $84m surplus as diversified investments weather recession
Southern giant Ngāi Tahu is navigating the recession due to its commercial arm having wide-ranging investments, so when revenue and values fall in some sectors, they rise in others.

From lucrative dairy farming to the wild Shotover Jet rides near Queenstown, from fishing to quiet stargazing above Tekapo, the iwi.....(paywalled)
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Articles:
The Myth That Is The Kahungunu Horse Ride From Waimarama To Parliament Exposed- It Is A Horsefloatkoi.

Bob Edlin: ACT’s pledge to lop road-tax spending on highway pou....

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