Community News
Tourism set for booming season
Spring has sprung and so too has the Wairarapa events calendar, with an incredible line-up of festivals and experiences to welcome in…
Event News
Gin Garden Party
For a small town, Martinborough has a lot of gin distilleries and the newest is opening its doors to host a gin…
Community News
Wanted: BIG “Ho Ho Ho” Christmas Photo guy
Martinborough’s Toy Library is planning to submit a float for the Christmas Parade, and will be running a koha-based Santa’s Grotto where…
Business
P&K: Committed to Martinborough for 150 years
Commitment. Service. Resilience. These are three of the principles which guide father David Kershaw and son Conor Kershaw as the family business…
History
P&K Milestones from 150 years
1872 – 73 In the beginning … In 1872, George ‘Tiny’ Pain, the entrepreneurial travelling salesman son of settler parents, reached agreement…
History
70-plus years – from horse and cart to sidecar
People have been very complimentary about the new P & K Supermarket and retaining some of the old brickwork to enhance the…
History
George Pain the silent partner
A three-day trek from Wellington in 1865 saw then 19-year-old George Pain arrive in the Wairarapa, where he found work as a…
Community News
Connected Community is a Resilient Community
We have now completed our Emergency Resilience Series _ a collaboration between WREMO (Wgtn Regional Emergency Management Office), SWDC and the Community…
Politics
From the Mayor
I feel as if this is the first of these articles that I have written when the weather was fine. The recent…
History
P&K: Years with glassless windows
U.S. Marines on furlough from Guadalcanal with malaria were deployed to Martinborough after the 1942 earthquakes (Magnitude 7.6) to help demolish parts…
History
P&K: Weevils in the dates
During and after WW11 imported Middle East dates were always infested with weevils. Staff would break up the cakes of dates and…
Business
P&K: Veterans on “The Live Edge”
Architects call the Eastern or Square side of the P&K building its “Live Edge” as its windows face into the open square…
