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…
October 2023
Previous Months
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…
Community News
Family Food Box
Several weekly “Food Box” options offered to clients come with all the ingredients, down to the printed recipe, spices and cooking instructions,…
Community News
“The Social Crust” helps hundreds each week
Martinborough’s Food Bank, recently renamed “The Social Crust,” currently every week is feeding a surprising 250 people _ women, men, children _…
Community News
Real economic “squeeze” impacts on lower paid, sick
Real people in real need coming for help to The Social Crust exposes for everyone to see that there is a significant…
