Dedicated to the Mahurangi and the Mahurangi Harbour community
by Cimino | 23 May 2024
Sunday 6 October may seem an excessively long way off for the Mahurangi Magazine to be posting a save-the-date notice, but there is justification. It could be any date to be saved between now and October that utilised the community signboard erected at the…
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…
by Mike Neil | 23 Oct 2009 | updated 30 July 2024
There’s a rumour that it’s really a red wine appreciation society. To allay this misconception, of the Mahurangi Harbour Book Club, I have been asked to do something that I have never done before: Write a review of a book! So I poured a glass of good red and set to work…
by 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…
Cimino | 24 Jan 2024
Serendipitously, the Mahurangi Harbour community’s own marquee, commissioned for Saturday’s regatta, has arrived in the nickpun, of course, intended: ‘Nick’ Carnachan being promotor of the Mahu West Summer Fest! of time to also go up for a second not-for-profit event: The first Mahu West Summer Fest, on 17 February. A community…
by Cimino | 8 Nov 2023
Pointedly billed as a good old-fashioned, leave-your-wallet-at-home picnic regatta since its 1977 revival by Mahurangi ActionMahurangi Action Incorporated: established 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi, the organisation has very determinedly kept it that way ever since. Although the beach had been in public ownership for Mahurangi West parkland acquired 1967–1970seven or so years…
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