by Cimino | 1 Jan 2007 | Regatta 2007
I keep doing this. Bashing out an editorial for a Friends of the Mahurangi publication only to rewrite it, having missed the bleedin’ obvious. My prematurely written editorial had been inspired by last year’s commemoration of the World War Two heroism of Charles Upham...
by John Timmins | 1 Jan 2007 | Mahurangi history
Publisher’s tribute to Mont of the Mahurangi Professor Sir Graham (Mont) Liggins 1926–2010 First published in print in 2007, in the Mahurangi Magazine Sometimes the Mahurangi is blessed by the contribution made by part-time residents. One such couple has been...
by Cimino | 1 Jan 2007 | Establishment trials
Published in hardcopy Mahurangi Magazine as Indigenous Plant Kick-Start Subedited and republished 6 May 2014 It was right there, in the Sustainable Farming Fund criteria: …the project will make a positive difference by actively addressing the problem/opportunity...
by Cimino | 31 Jan 2006 | Parliament
Failure to embrace a new flag in the past bought Aotearoa a power of trouble. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, by default the national flag became the Union Jack. Eight years earlier, in 1832, the group of northern tribes that became known as the United Tribes...
by Cimino | 28 Jan 2006 | Regatta 2006
Mahurangi Regatta 2006 photographic...
by Cimino | 24 Jan 2006 | Reviews
Fairburn and his Mahurangi friends in the wilderness And up to Mahurangi—always to Mahurangi… Jocelyn Fairburn Not only was Mahurangi the charismatic ‘ARD’ Fairburn’s special place, it was also that for a good number of the 29 exceptionally talented friends featured...
by Victor F Sears | 12 Oct 2005 | Cartoons, Regional governance
As quoted in an internal report for the Christchurch City Council titled Procedural Requirements for Creation of a Unitary Authority The regional and district plans required by the Resource Management Act 1991 can be developed and combined into a single plan. This...
by Cimino | 1 Jan 2005 | Riparian planting, Sedimentation
Liverpudlian Mike Neil did not become a New Zealander by accident. Nor did he come to live in the Mahurangi by chance. Becoming a Mahurangi West farmer, however, was accidental—owning another farm was something he and his partner, Norma Neil, had planned not to do....
by Stephen W Todd | 1 Feb 2003 | STV
Introduced by Cimino 2007; updated 2018 Stephen Todd played the pivotal role in the introduction of single transferable voting to Aotearoa. The road to local-body electoral reform was long, hard and heroic, but New Zealanders and their district and regional...
