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Turning 100 on Anzac Day: From choirboy to wartime signalman shadowing Hitler
Lives depended on short and long beeps – dots and dashes.
Easter feasting has nothing on this farmer's appetite
By one o’clock, what a man needs is viscera, innards, guts, offal.
‘Did it his way’: Jim Smylie, prominent businessman and car enthusiast, dies at 79
In 1989, Smylie founded Western Bay Finance, which quickly gained local investor support.
Opinion: A big night out of indoor bowls
Opinion: It took exactly four bowls for me to make a dick of myself.
Opinion: Tweed, shrimp cocktails and steamy nights
Opinion: There had never been so many tweed sports coats in one place at one time.
The hobby that became an artform: The magic of model railway
'You would not want a 5-year-old playing with this.'
Eau de parfarm: Pongs from the paddock - Hunter Wells
OPINION: Hunter Wells recounts an on-farm olfactory conversation from back in the day.
Opinion: 'Good' is great in rural conversations
OPINION: 'It’s partly about economy of words. Why use 10 words when one will do?'
Te Puna School Country Fair is back in business
Covid pandemic lockdown forced the fair into mothballs four years ago.
Why you don't want to win the Moorpark Derby - Opinion
Opinion: The Moorpark Derby isn't on NZ's racing scene and that's probably for the best.
Mocked for their flock but townies had the last laugh
Opinion: It was a bit of unconventional animal husbandry. Some might even think a bit mad!
'Little Ref': 13-year-old whistleblower making a big noise on rugby field
Tauranga's kid ref for rugby Arthur Rickard.
Scraping by in the 1950s: We had no fridge but we ate like kings
Opinion: On a Tuesday morning, I would take crayfish rolls to school for lunch.
The soldier Dad she never knew: 'Words could never fully explain the impact'
A daughter’s message will never be read by the man it’s intended for.
Students react to fallen Katikati soldier's diary
Lieutenant Russell Freeland Walford – a son of Katikati.
"Beautiful' story found in Katikati man's WWII diary
Russell Walford’s 1940 diary logs his connection to a mystery woman named Jessie.
Motorway tunnel mural transformation
The theme is the species of animals that once inhabited the area.