Local Matters

An essay on the topic Can a researcher be an island? has won University of Auckland student Zoe Wilson, 24, an invitation to attend the...

Journalist Bob Dey says many a good story can be found hidden within facts and figures as property is bought and sold. Bob has specialised...

When Royal NZ Navy radar operator Ivan “Peewee” Emirali arrived at the station around May 1943, it was still under construction. He remembers travelling from...

Hal Christian, now aged 90, has served the community well, working as a teacher for 30 years and devoting 44 years to assisting local people...

Coming from a broken family who had experienced the devastation of war, disease and accidental death, Soraya Ludwig-Green has risen above her circumstances and background...

Bob Murray began bowling at the age of 43. As a relative youngster, he was welcomed into Manly Bowling Club with open arms by older...

The last of her generation among the old families on the Mahurangi Pensinsula, Joy Algie, 96, remembers well the most exciting day in her life...

Jane Bissell used to sit at the back in class and not seek the limelight. But these days, she finds herself talking to women all...

Mother, wife and office manager extraordinaire, but mostly a lover of the quiet family life, Jan Yaxley of Snells Beach has found herself thrown into...

Margaret Willoughby has heard the words ‘I Do’ more times than most, having married more than a hundred couples on the Hibiscus Coast. As well...