Thousands of people paused to remember the country's war dead in Anzac Day ceremonies across New Zealand yesterday.
Huge numbers of people attended commemoration services throughout Northland, including more than 5000 at the dawn ceremony in Whangarei's Laurie Hall Park.
The ceremony started with a march from the RSA clubrooms in Rust Ave to the park and its Field of Remembrance with more than 500 crosses to remember the district's war dead. A feature of the dawn service was the number of young people there to honour those who died fighting for their country. Northern Advocate photographer John Stone went along to remember them, too.
Image 1 of 7: Whangarei showed it won't forget its war dead as more than 5000 people crowded into Laurie Hall Park yesterday for the Anzac Day dawn ceremony.
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.
