Events
Sweet Summer Fest marquee serendipity
Serendipitously, the Mahurangi Harbour community’s own marquee, commissioned for Saturday’s regatta, has arrived in the nick of time to also go up for a second not-for-profit event: The first Mahu West Summer Fest, on 17 February. A community marquee was part of…
Sir Peter is Te Muri Crossing cocktail party guest of honour
Self-identifying as a Westie, Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, after 21 November, hopefully, will also identify as a Mahu Westie. Time was running out, and the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Trust was facing the ignominy of sending out invitations to its charity...
Mahurangi Action president’s report
The planned fivefold increase in population of its tidehead town is critical to the future of the Mahurangi watershed. If, within a couple of decades, a town of more than 20 000 has an attractive, swimmable river as the hero element of a broad linear…
Town hall planning to return favour
By 2019, many of the decisions about the new Warkworth could be being made in its old town hall. The Local Government Commission is currently considering reorganisation options for the Auckland region, including an alternative proposal made by…
Remember, remember Pūhoi Fire Station 5 November
Anyone planning to, should do it Guy Fawkes weekend. And not just because investing this year’s fireworks budget in Pūhoi’s new fire station is the sane thing to do. The Pūhoi Fire Station Givealittle campaign, technically, is an ‘open cause’ that runs until 31 May...
Migration and social transformation in the contemporary Pacific
Massey University Professorial Lecture Series Professor Cluny Macpherson Albany Thursday 20th September 7.00–9.00 pm Change in Pacific societies has been occurring continuously since humans settled and began to move around in the region thousands of years ago....