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Cannon Fodder
Living a long life doesn’t necessarily result in wisdom, but in the case of my stepfather-in-law I have no doubt at all that it has. Norfolk-born, John Wright was sent to Sydney in 1941 to help, initially as its chief chemist, establish Cable Makers Australia—part of...
Plants for trials to be raised in Taupō
The Sustainable Farming Fund is laudably flexible. Recipients of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s fund are urged to speak up if, partway into a project, better outcomes can potentially be achieved by re-jigging the plan. The pilot open-ground…
Atmospheric cost of printed telephone numbers
Updated 30 July 2011 The Sunday papers had arrived. As had the staggering bulk of the new Sydney telephone directories. The editor’s host lamented the bulk of the papers, and the contrasting lack of content: They’re all conjecture—I’m sure they print them on Tuesday....
Laying keel of online history of the Mahurangi
Robert Thexton, descendant of Mahurangi shipwrights, spent his childhood holidays at the beach at Scotts Landing. In common with many Aucklanders, the Mahurangi Harbour is Rob Thexton’s favourite place. When buying a copy of Jade River: A History of the…
Children of the Mahurangi Stream Rescue Team
Richard Bromley Gillian Irons Ira Seitzer A group of about forty 9–13-year-old primary school children from the Warkworth Home School group and Warkworth Primary School have been involved for the past three years with the Auckland Regional Council’s Mahurangi Action...
Invitation to come meet Ms Morresey
We were discussing the curious characteristics of committees. I mentioned, to the new Mahurangi Action Plan project leader, that the last ‘formal’ Friends of the Mahurangi meeting was a year ago, and at Ransom Wines. And then felt it necessary to quickly explain that...
Prince-amongst-men Hutch Mick Rick and Bernie
When the editor asked his neighbour, legendary earthmoving contractor Mick Berger, about creating a marquee site at the Mahurangi West Hall, he also asked him who might be approached to do the engineering design. Hutch. Hutch? Is that his name? Yeah…
Scott descendant laying the keel
It is an eternity since the inevitable was accepted. That ‘the Mahurangi’ would need a website. But watching the various efforts, back in the dawning of the internet, it was concluded: Better perhaps have no web presence, than a site typical of the…