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Local Landmark – Leigh Radar Station

14:02 Wed, 15 Apr

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…

History – Building bridges

15:03 Wed, 01 Apr

At the point on the Mahurangi River where fresh water meets the tidal flow a fierce tribal conflict once took place and the area was…

History – Journey to Kaipara Flats

15:03 Sun, 01 Mar

The following excerpt from the journal of Augusta Breese (nee Wyatt) recalls experiences common to a number of families who settled in the Kaipara Flats…

Local Folk – Hal Christian

12:12 Wed, 04 Feb

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…

History – Self improvement no new gambit

15:03 Sun, 01 Feb

In the 1890’s a Warkworth grocer named James Byrt Jordon and his wife Mary Jane had four daughters. On Mrs Jordon’s initiative the Girls’ Mutual…

Local Folk – Soraya Ludwig-Green

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…