Oromahoe School held its annual Light Festival during the weekend, with the switch to a Saturday night plus perfect weather ensuring a record crowd. The festival of fire and light, held each year around Matariki and the winter solstice, featured a lantern walk, a sky full of flying Chinese lanterns, fire poi, a glow-in-the-dark mau rakau performance, music, kai and mulled wine to keep the cold at bay. Oromahoe School is just off State Highway 10, between Kerikeri and Pakaraka junction, and has about 50 pupils in Years 1-8. The festival is the school's main fundraiser of the year.
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.
