Peter Parker was 18 when he fell in love with his 1962 Triumph TR4. Not long after, he fell in love with Diane from Waharoa and the three of them went on their honeymoon together…
Peter Parker was 18 when he fell in love with his 1962 Triumph TR4. Not long after, he fell in love with Diane from Waharoa and the three of them went on their honeymoon together…
What do the Eiffel Tower and Cambridge’s Victoria Street Bridge have in common? It is one of those Mastermind questions everyone in town should know, says Waipā Transportation asset engineer Paul Strange pointing towards the…
It was just a day after he celebrated his 70th birthday that Jim Mylchreest was ousted as Waipā’s mayor. He was aiming for a fourth – and probably final term – having spent nine years…
The value of Aotearoa’s new history curriculum was made clear to Waipā students this week. After about 50 people gathered in the mist on Tuesday for an annual commemoration of one of the country’s most…
Travelling north back towards Cambridge at the weekend my front left wheel slammed into a huge pothole just south of Turangi. My (earlier) maritime background has fitted me for suitable voluble expletives for such unplanned…
“What’s the biggest room in the world? Answer- the room for improvement.” That’s something I was told a long time ago. It’s helped motivate me at times when the damaging effect of other’s discouraging words…
What’s it like when voters boot you out of office and you have hours to clean out your desk? Roy Pilott talks to former mayor Jim Mylchreest about life after politics. Jim Mylchreest says central…
Cyclone Gabrielle has certainly hit the country with force. I know that many of you were affected directly, locally with fallen trees, power outages and slips or indirectly having friends or family displaced elsewhere in…
I’m not sure about this. It has been reported that John Cleese and his daughter Camilla are working on a ‘reboot’ of Fawlty Towers. Big shoes to fill, even if they were your own. Consistently…
As I did some background reading before writing a column on the subject of capital gains taxes (CGT) I came across two pieces of information that surprised me. First, the way the political debate on…
