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If Wellsford is urban, the problem is with the definitions, says rural expert

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Saturday 28 December 2019, 09:00 AM

University of Otago associate dean rural Garry Nixon hopes research will lead to a useful definition of “rural”

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New Zealand has at least 18 different definitions for the term “rural”, but the results from a new research project may help settle on just one.

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