Politics
Democracy under pressure
Democracy has been challenged in recent years not just by populists of the right, but from a renewed progressive left as well.”…
Event News
Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival
Featherston Booktown Karukatea 2022 Festival is all on from 8-12 June! Check out the programme at www.booktown.nz and snap up the remaining…
Politics
Councillor Comment
Considine Park Over the winter months you will start of see some activity around the park. Firstly the old Pony Club building…
Health & Wellbeing
E scooters take toll
Arm and clavicle fractures are the most common injuries for riders of E scooters , according to researchers at Tampere University Finland.…
Politics
Council looking for feedback
South Wairarapa District Council has released an engagement document which summarises the proposed priorities for the next Annual Plan. Council is now…
Community News
Community Garden News
It was great to start the month with a visit from the Martinborough Down to Earth Garden Group. Many of the visitors…
Arts & Culture
Alas
Alas! What various tastes in food Divide the human brotherhood! Birds in their little nests agree With Chinamen, but not with…
Arts & Culture
Homecoming – A Salon Concert with an Historical Theme
This year marks a century since New Zealand-born soprano Rosina Buckman undertook an epic homecoming tour, after her farewell concert in London…
Club News
SOUTH WAIRARAPA REBUS CLUB
The Guest Speaker at our April meeting was Ms Joy Cooper of Martinborough who chairs the Wharekaka Trust Board. Wharekaka has been,…
Environment
The first telescope
The first historic mention of a telescope ‘ a tube to see far’ is a patent application dated 25th September 1608 by…
