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History – Gown returns home

9:09 Wed, 02 Jul

A family in Australia, while cleaning out their late mother’s house recently, were surprised to find her wedding dress packed away undisturbed for many years….

Local Folk – Abhishek Solomon – Methodist minister

15:03 Tue, 01 Jul

Warkworth’s new Methodist minister Abhishek Solomon spent his first 19 years growing up in northern India before visiting New Zealand to work in South Auckland….

History – Pioneer vintners

9:09 Wed, 18 Jun

The Levet family from Ely, Cambridgeshire, were among the first Albertlanders to leave England. Charles, Kezeiah and their five children, Joseph, Charles, William, Frances and…

History – I am a volunteer

9:09 Wed, 04 Jun

Recently I was asked the question: “Do you still work?” My answer was: “Yes, I am a Wednesday Worker at the museum.” “Oh, you don’t…

Local Folk – Austin Smith

15:03 Sun, 01 Jun

The stories of Matakana’s early settler days are fast disappearing as the links with the pioneering families disappear. Although there was talk a few years…

History – The Great War

10:10 Wed, 07 May

The Great War (1914-18) took place when my mother was a girl. She grew up baking for basket socials and patriotic fetes to raise funds…