A dozen Kaikohe teenagers put new skills to the test in a major emergency services exercise at Ngawha Springs on Saturday. The Civil Defence-led exercise was based around a mock plane crash in which the stricken aircraft had clipped a car, trapping and injuring its occupants, before smashing into a field and sparking a scrub fire. One of the plane’s passengers had parachuted to safety but had to be found after landing injured in a creek. The Youth in Emergency Services trainees have spent the past five Saturdays with each of Northland’s emergency services, so the simulation was a chance to put everything they had learnt so far into practice. Services taking part in the Far North’s biggest joint exercise in at least a decade included Civil Defence, Red Cross, Fire Service, Rural Fire, St John Ambulance, Coastguard and police. Photos by <strong>Peter de Graaf</strong>.
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.
