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== Trevor Hosking ==
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== Trevor Hosking 1925 - April 20 2013 ==
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[[Image:Hosking.jpg|thumb|Trevor Hosking building displays in the former Turangi Museum]]
|Trevor Hosking's career has included research and rescue archaeology, historic building and site restoration and conservation. <br>
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Trevor Hosking's career has included research and rescue archaeology, historic building and site restoration and conservation. Sites he has worked on include the Armed Constabulary Hall, burial caves on Motutaiko Island, Rua Hoata Cave, the Napier/Taupo Armed Constabulary Redoubts, [[Te Porere Redoubt - Visit|Te Porere Redoubt]], Tarawera rock drawings, Whakamoenga Cave<ref>Leahy, A.,1976. Whakamoenga Cave, Taupo, N94/7. A report on the ecology, economy and stratigraphy. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 13:29-75.</ref> and the Opepe Canoe. 
His biography is:  '''A Museum Underfoot, The Life of Trevor Hosking'''.  Alison Harrington, 2007, Friends of the Lake Taupo Museum and Art Gallery, Taupo.<br>
 
<html><a href="http://www.taupomuseum.co.nz/Taupo_History/Taupo_Life_Story_Series_IDL=1_IDT=107_ID=2420_.html "><img src="http://www.taupomuseum.co.nz/PicsHotel/taupomuseum/Images/trevor_sketch.jpg "> Cartoon of Trevor sketched by the husband of Trevor’s niece, Alby Mascherettti from the Taupo Museum website</a></html>
 
  
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He was awarded a QSM in the Queen's Birthday honours, 2009 for services to the conservation of historic places<ref>Trevor Hosking, Investitures - Wednesday 16 September 2009, Governor General of NZ http://www.gg.govt.nz/node/2070 Accessed November 2010.</ref>.
  
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His biography is:  '''A Museum Underfoot, The Life of Trevor Hosking'''.  Alison Harrington, 2007, Friends of the Lake Taupo Museum and Art Gallery, Taupo.<br>
  
 
Much of Trevor's work on the Tongariro power scheme in published in
 
Much of Trevor's work on the Tongariro power scheme in published in
 
Newman, M. 1988 ''Archaeological Investigations in the vicinity of Lake Rotoaira and the lower Tongariro River 1966–71''. New Zealand Historical Places Trust Publication 21.
 
Newman, M. 1988 ''Archaeological Investigations in the vicinity of Lake Rotoaira and the lower Tongariro River 1966–71''. New Zealand Historical Places Trust Publication 21.
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Janet Davidson contributed an [[Obituaries|obituary]] to AINZ 56(3):122-124.
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[[Category:Archaeologists]]
 
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Latest revision as of 23:09, 28 February 2016

Trevor Hosking 1925 - April 20 2013

Trevor Hosking building displays in the former Turangi Museum

Trevor Hosking's career has included research and rescue archaeology, historic building and site restoration and conservation. Sites he has worked on include the Armed Constabulary Hall, burial caves on Motutaiko Island, Rua Hoata Cave, the Napier/Taupo Armed Constabulary Redoubts, Te Porere Redoubt, Tarawera rock drawings, Whakamoenga Cave[1] and the Opepe Canoe.

He was awarded a QSM in the Queen's Birthday honours, 2009 for services to the conservation of historic places[2].

His biography is: A Museum Underfoot, The Life of Trevor Hosking. Alison Harrington, 2007, Friends of the Lake Taupo Museum and Art Gallery, Taupo.

Much of Trevor's work on the Tongariro power scheme in published in Newman, M. 1988 Archaeological Investigations in the vicinity of Lake Rotoaira and the lower Tongariro River 1966–71. New Zealand Historical Places Trust Publication 21.

Janet Davidson contributed an obituary to AINZ 56(3):122-124.

References'

  1. Leahy, A.,1976. Whakamoenga Cave, Taupo, N94/7. A report on the ecology, economy and stratigraphy. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 13:29-75.
  2. Trevor Hosking, Investitures - Wednesday 16 September 2009, Governor General of NZ http://www.gg.govt.nz/node/2070 Accessed November 2010.