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Cimino | 23 Feb 2023
Built for a horn-playing son whose mother, as a schoolgirl, rowed across and along the Mahakipawa Armof Pelorus Sound, Marlborough Sounds and back daily, the diminutive flat-bottomed Hornblower was designed to range no farther than the Pūhoi Show, and then only in settled weather. Michael Thorne…
Cimino | 9 Feb 2025
For 48 years, the organisation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta and has not had Regatta in its name. On the morning after the Mahu West Summer Fest, that which was established as Friends of the Mahurangi will—members willing—seek to be…
Cimino | 31 Jan 2025
Saturday 15 February, weather-willing, will see the second-ever Mahu West Summer Fest unfold, on the green of the Mahurangi West Hall. The inaugural, 2024 event fully vindicated the organiser’s determination that the Mahurangi West and Pukapuka community…
Cimino | 19 Jan 2025
An abiding fondness almost immediately formed for it, after Mahurangi ActionMahurangi Action Incorporated: established 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi revived the Mahurangi Regatta, in 1977. The good old-fashioned, leave-your-wallet-at-home picnic regatta is palpably heartwarming—the monetisation-free-zone ethos reflecting the fact…
Cimino | 10 Aug 2024
This article began life a year ago, as a best-current-thinking footnote to
It’s a barge! It’s a boat! It’s the J Barry Ferguson . Titled
Purpose-Designed Flat-Bottomed, the footnote suggested that work-to-date estimating the probable cost of extending the…
Cimino | 4 Mar 2022 | updated 16 Aug 2024
Wenderholm, objectively, was where it started. While the 1729-hectare Centennial Memorial Park established in 1940 is recorded as Auckland’s first regional park, Wenderholm was the first of a half-century of regional parkland acquisitions that resulted in today’s…
Cimino | 13 Aug 2024
Please excuse the appalling tardiness of the posting this important notice. Greatly to be applauded, in contrast, is this use of the local notices sign, at the Mahurangi West and Pukapuka roads intersection. Major myna speaker, on Friday evening, is Tam…
Cimino | 3 April 2024
Readers of its unedifying history, in millennia to come, will scarcely credit that the Climate Polycrisis took so long to be convincingly named. Successive cohorts of historians will struggle to explain this phenomenon, and labour to quantify quite how critical a lacuna…
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