Arts & Culture

Book review – The good, the bad and a little bit stupid

It is not easy to write genuinely funny stories, Marina Lewycka is one of the few who have this skill. Her first…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Aratoi Innovation Award winners 2022!

Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History are thrilled to have won the Harcourt Hamill Realty Award Innovation award in this year’s…

Dec 2022

Community News

Anglican Christmas services

This Christmas Services will be: Christmas meal and carols at Torah on the 20th of December beginning at 6pm. Held at Boynes…

Dec 2022

Environment

Rolls-Royce and easyJet test is breakthrough for hydrogen fuel in air travel

Rolls-Royce and EasyJet have conducted the world’s first successful test of a modern jet engine powered by hydrogen.The two companies carried out…

Dec 2022

Arts & Culture

Stats NZ 

OVER THE last 22 years mothers living in Clutha District had 111 sets of twins. At 2.3% of births the highest proportion…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Storywalk

Once upon a time, an idea took hold in a marvellous community called Martinborough, whose young and old residents are book lovers.…

Nov 2022

Club News

South Wairarapa Rebus Club

The September meeting of the SW Rebus Club heard from Joseph Gillard, Co-Chair of Cobblestones Museum, Greytown, on recent developments and future…

Nov 2022

History

Te Kopi and Palliser Bay (Continued)

John Wade played a part in our first “constitutional crisis”. In early 1840 he chartered the ship “Integrity” to bring a shipload…

Nov 2022

Politics

Councilor comment 

I’d like to start by saying how humble and privileged I am to be representing the Martinborough ward on the South Wairarapa…

Nov 2022

Event News

November Raffles Support the NZ Red Cross

Each year, local Red Cross groups throughout the Wairarapa host a series of events to highlight the disaster welfare support and humanitarian…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Book review

Tom Scott Drawn Out Recently Tom Scott announced that after seventy years of writing and drawing cartoons he was retiring from print…

Nov 2022

Arts & Culture

Now we are five……

March 2020, when the first COVID lockdown hit, will surely have a permanent place in NZ history. For the next two years…

Nov 2022

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