Summary
It's an army installation about the size of Massey's Turitea campus, just 14km from The Square - and the chances are you don't even know it exists. John Myers "discovers" one of defence's best- kept non-secrets.
THE Makomako Army Depot nestles pretty much unseen--but not, until recent years, unheard--under the eastern side of the Tararua Range.See the full content of this document
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A Best-Kept Secret
Palmerston North's Turitea Dams water supply is just over the ridge.
Until the mid-1990s it was still the place where the army stored, and often explosively disposed of, much of its munitions and explosives.Munitions have use-by dates. They have to be got rid of. Boom!And, given what's...See the full content of this document
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