by Hayley | Mar 13, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
This photo, which appeared in the Times-Age on November 17, 1971, shows Standard Four pupils of Hadlow pondering a map of New Zealand the day after meeting the Prime Minister. Andrina Goodwin points at the map, while John Murphy looks on in the front row, fifth from...
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by Hayley | Mar 7, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News, Midweek, Rural
Meet the rural policing team – Constable Michele Clarke, Community Sergeant Ian Osland, and Senior Constable Yancy Hawkins. PHOTO/HAYLEY GASTMEIER HAYLEY GASTMEIER The rural community will be the centre of attention for a new policing team. Wairarapa police...
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by Hayley | Mar 4, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
The house built in 1905 for the old Palmerston North Mayor James Alfred Nash has been relocated to rural Carterton in pieces. PHOTOS/HAYLEY GASTMEIER HAYLEY GASTMEIER hayley.gastmeier@age.co.nz Not many people can say they live in a century-old mansion that was...
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by Beckie Wilson | Feb 20, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Elke Blommers with her winning painting of ‘Angus’. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA An artist who used no black paint, in a predominantly black painting, snapped up a People’s Choice Award at Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History yesterday afternoon. Local vet and artist,...
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by Hayley | Feb 19, 2018 | Life & Leisure, Local News
Pupils from the Te Rerenga Ake programme in term three, 2017, pictured on top of Mt Dick, Carterton. PHOTO/SUPPLIED HAYLEY GASTMEIER hayley.gastmeier@age.co.nz Sixteen Wairarapa youths will be challenged mentally and physically over the next few months, while...
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