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Convincing solutions convince the climate-action averse
Referendums crude instruments if used crudely or cravenly
Had the party campaigned in favour of capital gains tax, guaranteed minimum income, and legalisation of cannabis, Labour would be staring down the barrel of a one-year term. Courage is not rewarded when a political party’s policy proposals face a significant popular...
John Spencer-plan Idle-Along free to good Mahurangi home
Notice Tree and the road to Pūhoi
Whichever way you go to Pūhoi, you want to take care that at the outset your heart is young and your appetite becoming keen; for Pūhoi lies over yonder on the edge of the world where still the gods breathe low amid the dusk. If you go by coach, you have a long tumble…
Mahurangi Heads regatta a successful affair
Favoured by beautiful weather, and a steady breeze came up from the south at midday. The Mahurangi Regatta Committee and its energetic secretary—Mr W J Wilson—are to be highly congratulated upon the satisfactory results. The ‘Heads’ is one of the…
New vessels
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Editor’s forebear
as a foreigner
Salvatore Cimino’s letter-to-editor has nothing whatsoever to do with the Mahurangi Regatta. The editor’s excuse for publishing it here is that it was written by his great-great-grandfather, and, at the time, was not otherwise returned by an internet search for “Salvatore Cimino”…