It was just a day after he celebrated his 70th birthday that Jim Mylchreest was ousted as Waipā’s mayor. He was aiming for a fourth – and probably final term – having spent nine years…
It was just a day after he celebrated his 70th birthday that Jim Mylchreest was ousted as Waipā’s mayor. He was aiming for a fourth – and probably final term – having spent nine years…
The value of Aotearoa’s new history curriculum was made clear to Waipā students this week. After about 50 people gathered in the mist on Tuesday for an annual commemoration of one of the country’s most…
Travelling north back towards Cambridge at the weekend my front left wheel slammed into a huge pothole just south of Turangi. My (earlier) maritime background has fitted me for suitable voluble expletives for such unplanned…
“What’s the biggest room in the world? Answer- the room for improvement.” That’s something I was told a long time ago. It’s helped motivate me at times when the damaging effect of other’s discouraging words…
What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you have hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics. Jim Mylchreest says central…
Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in…
I’m not sure about this. It has been reported that John Cleese and his daughter Camilla are working on a ‘reboot’ of Fawlty Towers. Big shoes to fill, even if they were your own. Consistently…
As I did some background reading before writing a column on the subject of capital gains taxes (CGT) I came across two pieces of information that surprised me. First, the way the political debate on…
JACK ‘JOHN’ WATSON: 19.12.1941 – 4.1.2023 New Zealand’s polo playing community lost one of its finest sons when Cambridge-born John ‘Jack’ Watson died last month. For the past 34 years, he filled vital management roles…
Taupō MP Louise Upston says the choice of a roundabout as a cheaper option for the hazardous State Highway 1 – Piarere intersection was an example of Labour’s lack of forward planning and wasteful spend….
