Mount Maunganui has long been the crown in the RSA badge — the largest RSA in the country — but even cash-rich Tauranga is blinking about taking on the latter's debt and deferred maintenance.
My worst fears are coming true that the revitalisation brand is fast becoming just lipstick on a pig.
When neighbour RSAs cannot even agree there is little hope for national unity. www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...
The wedding of Michael and Noeleen at the Holy Cross Church of England in St Kilda, Dunedin on 28 August 1971. That’s me in the corner!
Sad news today as I was a Wattie’s kid.
In 1971 Dad with his BCom left for his first job as a marketing assistant at Wattie’s. He also joined the baby food canning line in the weekends to save up to return to Dunedin to marry Mum and for us to start our lives together in Hastings. #WattiesKid
My last visit to the Temple ☕️ #RedRibbonRoastIsToast #SmellTheCoffee #TempleOfDoom
Similarly . . .
Labour Reshuffle (The Historic Edition) – pick one or Pic n Mix? #nzpolitics
Mr "22" with his Henderson Intermediate School Y8 Tags Team wins West Auckland Zone. 👐
Fill your boots (with books!)
It’s the hubilisation of libraries but I wouldn’t want to return to the old days of the Wellington City Library (City Gallery building) when library police watched over you and only wanted to hear the sound of book leaves turning. wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=178323
Rock stars at the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abby yesterday: inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM read ‘How to Make a Commonwealth Quilt’ and ‘Reflections’ by Ginger Spice.
Ms 14 playing Super Club Netball in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
This is why History and Historians Matter! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Catching up on Sunday poems by @pacificraft.bsky.social on Monday 🙌 newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/08/s...
It's almost Monday lunchtime so how's the lettuce? #GoneByLunchtime
Hope it has as good a voice as the Model B-9. #LostInSpace youtu.be/LX6F2LbD7Qk?...
Next year it'll be 25 years since this documentary was made and worth a revisit. Lots of old friends in his revisit to Otago University — some still with us but many are not, including Austin Mitchell who died five years ago. www.nzonscreen.com/title/pavlov...
Meanwhile this one's going in the other direction.
So it turns out that daughter basically doubles her income overnight for doing the same job by crossing the ditch and working directly for the Australian group rather than its New Zealand subsidiary. With apologies to Donald's ironical title she's been given a break in The Lucky Country.
Just like a lame working dog keeps turning up for work until . . .
Catching up later today with my 23-year-old daughter who is leaving for Sydney “for good” and why not! #LuckyCountry www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/w...
This International Women’s Day thinking of women who have borne the burden of war, past and present.
I never met my great-aunt Grace (seen here with grandad) who died in tragic circumstances when a rifle kept in their Island Bay Esplanade home during the 1942 invasion fear accidentally discharged.
A special on the Middle East crisis and the prime minister is a no-show once again — despite repeated requests Christopher Luxon has not fronted on New Zealand’s only fully publicly-funded current affairs show in 15 months — so he might as well go sit on the backbenchers. #MisspokenTokenPM
The first episode of this adventure series following a boy trying to find his missing father during the 1860s Otago gold rush went to air on TV2 at 7pm on Sunday, 26 September 1976. www.nzonscreen.com/title/hunter...
50 years ago the New Zealand television drama ‘Hunter’s Gold’ was being produced in Central Otago. www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
This 1959 Dunedin film ‘Half a million books’ dps.otago.ac.nz/delivery/Del... looking at the city’s libraries reminded me of the old Carnegie Library building in upper Moray Place and the Children’s Library housed separately in terrace houses on upper Stuart St (opp. St Paul’s Cathedral) until 1981.
Façadism continues in Auckland CBD. This Historic Place Category 1 building at 256-260 Queen Street was the original headquarters of the Auckland Savings Bank (1884). (Photographs Ward Demolition)
40 years ago today Dire Straits played Lancaster Park in what would be the largest event in South Island history.
Many friends made the trip north but 17-year-old me was content with having been blasted by Hoodoo Gurus at Sammy's the previous month.
Historian Jane Tolerton's campaign to have Dunedin suffrage campaigner Harriet Morison join Kate Sheppard on our $10 note! www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
The Lettuce Test.
The Gee & Hickton advert sums it up for the
PM: "Political career is dead."
The Press, 5 March 1966, p. 8 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660305.2.74.6
Still of presenter Fred Barnes from the first episode of Country Calendar that made its debut on 6 March 1966. TVNZ Television New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18036/first-country-calendar-programme
Maniototo Merino – Tony Clarke at Closeburn Station in Central Otago. Photo Dan Henry Country Calendar Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1562308727127991&set=a.482582083882968
Maniototo Merino – Evening light at Closeburn Station. Photo Dan Henry Country Calendar Facebook https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1562308620461335&set=a.482582083882968
60 years ago tonight Country Calendar made its television debut on Sunday 6 March 1966.
10 years ago CC ('Maniototo Merino' S2016 E29) came to Closeburn Station on the Maniototo farmed by my relative Tony Clarke – 3rd generation since his gf Gallipoli vet Paul Clarke bought it in 1922.
Happy 60th!
