If you were to look at a thin slice of rock under a microscope, you would see that they look totally different up close. While rocks might mostly look a dull brown or grey, they…
If you were to look at a thin slice of rock under a microscope, you would see that they look totally different up close. While rocks might mostly look a dull brown or grey, they…
Writing about volcanism in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the term “caldera” pops up frequently. We have a lot of them. For those who have vaguely heard of them, images of “supervolcanoes” and extinction-level eruptions tend to come…
Meghan Hawkes looks back at what was making Waipā headlines in 1913. Local heart throbs, the Te Awamutu polo players, competed in the New Zealand polo tournament at Palmerston North. The Savile Cup challenge was…
Ryan Fleming looks back on the week of crime in the Te Awamutu district including a man who kept them busy but was ultimately arrested by their Ōtorohanga colleagues and a woman who went on…
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. Photo: Hamilton and Waikato Tourism.While volcanoes can produce stressful and scary events, they are a critical part of our planet’s natural processes and they enhance life on Earth in very important ways….
Constantly beavering away, we continue to progress Community Board decisions. Of late this has included attending the CommSafe Community Day out at Kihikihi, progressing the Holmes Garage Community Market and Events Place and meeting with…
The Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society will celebrate its 21st birthday on November 4. The organisation, led for many years by Waipā councillor Clare St Pierre, was set up to restore native flora…
The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, as part of his country tour, arrived at Te Awamutu by early train from Te Kūiti. He and his party were driven to the Commercial Hotel, where they were entertained to breakfast by the Te Awamutu Town Board….
Part of being prepared for volcanic eruptions is understanding what aspects of our lives might be impacted. Many may remember how the Eyjafjallajökull (or “that Icelandic volcano”) eruption shut down airways over Europe in 2010,…
Our lives are punctuated by the changing seasons, so it seems. The hazy days of summer, the mellowing in autumn, hibernation in winter and rebirth in spring. And with those changes come the aches and…
