Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has deflected Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari’s plea for help. General manager Helen Hughes turned to Potaka for help in May, before revealing to The News last month that a cash flow crisis…
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has deflected Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari’s plea for help. General manager Helen Hughes turned to Potaka for help in May, before revealing to The News last month that a cash flow crisis…
The first Waipā rugby camp for children has already attracted 70 registrations with the promise of more if the smiles on players’ faces on Saturday are anything to go by. The two-day camp run by…
Central Cambridge Bowling Club’s new artificial green got its first work out from a hardy group of bowlers last week. And clearly the Ron Greenwood-skipped threesome – which included Dale Small and Mary Wishart –…
When conductor David Rowland rehearsed with the acclaimed Christ’s College Chapel Choir in St Andrew’s Anglican Church on Sunday, he knew there was something wrong. “I couldn’t hear the tenors and basses as much as…
Centre forward of attention When Cambridge Reds striker Josh Clarkin thumped in the equaliser against Auckland in the Chatham Cup on Saturday – and the crowd of 1000 football fans celebrated – he dared to…
Tarapipipi Te Waharoa was born in 1805 into a world where the principle of utu was first and foremost in how his people lived. I should note here that the most well-known consequence of utu…
Almost time… The wrap, scaffolding and hoarding around Cambridge’s historic Town Clock is down, signalling the end to a $721,000 restoration project is near. Work has involved clock servicing, automation, hands and face refurbishment and…
I hope the school holidays are going well. To start off today, a topic that is coming to our attention on a regular basis is the presence of homeless and transient people sleeping in vehicles…
The Long Lunch in Cambridge Town Hall last month was just what the business doctor ordered with $2500 raised for Cambridge Lifeskills and plenty of robust competition at auction time. The Cambridge Chamber event served…
I am about 18,000 km way from home alongside a lava flow that destroyed communities in 2021. Here in La Palma, in the Canary Islands off the coast of northern Africa, I am hearing very…
