Up to 2000 booklovers of all ages crowded into Kerikeri’s Turner Centre on Saturday for the Storylines Family Day, an annual celebration of children’s literature. Kids were kept busy with activities including book quizzes, meeting well-known illustrators and authors such as Kelly Wilson of Keeping up with the Kaimanawas fame, listening to storytellers, dressing up as their favourite characters, and creating everything from their own folding story book to paper hedgehogs crafted from discarded paperbacks. As a bonus all went home with a free book. Next year will be Kaitaia’s turn to host the festival before it heads to Whangarei in 2017. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Tintype Central is a portrait studio specialising in the wet plate colloidion process, a 19th century method of development that predates film photography.
Northern Advocate photographer Michael Cunningham captured all the fun and action from the 2024 Northland Fritter Festival, held at Semenoff Stadium on Saturday, March 9.
Captain's run for Blues rugby team at Semenoff Stadium, Okara Park, Whangarei, Sam Nock feeds the ball out during the Captain's run. Photo/ by Michael Cunningham
About 75 crews took part in the BP Surf Rescue North Island IRB Championships at Waipu Cove on February 10 and 11, where sunshine and medium-sized waves made for a great event.
Regatta was welcomed to Whangārei-te-rerenga-parāoa (Whangārei harbour) with a pōwhiri conducted by hapū Patuharakeke as about 580 passengers disembarked.
