by David Bergin | 17 Oct 2007 | Pioneering
Letter What a great photograph of Jaap! Jaap’s reference to Harry at the end of his Notes for the Nursery at Taupō is Harry Bunn, former director of the biggest division at Forest Research Institute for many years up to his retirement in the mid-1980s. Harry, who died...
by Cimino | 17 Oct 2007 | STV
Trawling through the results of the 2007 local body elections where single transferable voting was used, reveals only discouragingly impenetrable representations of the process involved. Some results were simply listed as Elected and Not Elected. Others provided data...
by Cimino | 14 Oct 2007 | Local
Membership of Mahurangi Action once reached 330. That was on the back of the launch of Jade River : A History of the Mahurangi. Since then it has slipped back to around half that figure, where it has been, more or less, for much of the group’s existence. The...
by Cimino | 13 Oct 2007 | Local
I last stood for council 33 years ago. A candidate for the Hibiscus Coast District Community Council, I came, I was want to say, dangerously close to being elected. Not dangerous in the sense that I was too young, more that I was never comfortable with the adversarial...
by Cimino | 11 Oct 2007 | Cartoons, Sedimentation
Earlier yesterday, quite coincidentally, I tried to call Ross Kinnaird, to sound him out about a new personal project—the trifling matter of fixing MMP. I haven’t spoken to Ross for some time; the last was at Georg Kohlap’s funeral. We might have had a serious session...
by Stephen Todd | 8 Oct 2007 | STV
L e t t e r Stephen Todd, Wellington Goodness me, what a pleasant surprise. I thought I had already disappeared into history, not even making it to footnote status, and then you came along! Thank you so much for plucking me from obscurity and giving me a pat on...
by Cimino | 30 Sep 2007 | Mahurangi West Hall
A discussion over the planned scale of use of the Mahurangi West Hall is underway. The discussion is mandatory, a requirement of the Resource Management Act. Many rile against the act, but the common sense embodied in it is often lost sight of—specifically, the...
by Magic Earth Theatre Society | 29 Sep 2007 | Community
Yesterday, the curtain went up on the Magic River, a show that uses dance, drama and puppets to tell the story of our local rivers. Follow the adventures of the raindrops as they journey down the Mahurangi River in the company of Tree Guardian and Lily. Meet the...
by Cimino | 28 Sep 2007 | Community
Today and tomorrow, local theatre company Magic Earth Theatre is holding four performances of its unique River Magic. This promises to be a delight, and it is totally dedicated the restoration of the Mahurangi. Deniece Gannaway, the vision, producer and director...
