Local Folk – Jack Algie

For most Mahurangi residents, Goodall, Goldsworthy, Scandrett, Lawrie, Dawson, Dalton, Davie Martin and Anderson are just local place names, but for Jack Algie they were the families he grew up with. Whether it was sharing farm work, attending church or school, or socialising on a Sunday afternoon, these were the neighbours of his childhood. Last week, Jack celebrated his 85th birthday, when he reminisced about the early days in the bay that bears his family’s name …

The road to Martins Bay was just clay when I was a kid so really only useable during the summer. Once it...