It was easy to provide green spaces in colonial settlements like Wellington, where land such as the wooded Te Ahumairangi Hill (Tinakori Hill), left, could be set aside as a town belt in the town plan. New settlements also had plenty of ‘unofficial’ green spaces, within the town boundaries or close by.
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