Travellers desiring to inspect the site of the big hydro-electric works at Arapuni had not experienced the best facilities for making the motor journey between Te Awamutu and Putāruru owing to the mail cars on the Arapuni-Putaruru section not synchronising…
The early settlers of our region remain significant to our history and our future. Māori landed in Kawhia harbour and many travelled across the hills to settle in Waipa. Generations of tribes covered the lush,…
This time 20 years ago, countries around the Indian Ocean were reeling from the grief and horror of one of the deadliest events in modern history – the Boxing Day tsunami triggered by the 9.2-9.3…
This week I had a chat with Joshua Sargent with the Environmental Research Institute at the University of Waikato. He is an environmental spatial scientist, which is someone who combines the elements of environment, people,…
Campers in 1937 in the Waikato district were glad to see the sun after three waterlogged days. The weather change came at a time when 90 per cent of campers had capitulated, clambering into their…
Pay your way In this last year I have been very disappointed to see so many vehicles with expired road registration – some months expired and some by years. A recent one outside the information…
As a scientist who studies the world we live in and how it impacts us, I deeply value the social sciences. It is human involvement that turns a hazard into a disaster. When we have…
When Mrs Harvey, widow of Presbyterian minister Reverend Harvey, washed up penniless and vulnerable in Sydney in 1924, it struck a chord with Te Awamutu residents. She had recently lived among them running a small…
In Matthew’s gospel, Chapter 6, Jesus teaches: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven……
Early in the morning of 10 June 1886, surveyor John Rochfort in Kihikihi experienced a bizarre show on the horizon beyond Maungatautari. “I was awakened by what sounded like an irregular discharge of artillery… I…
