✈️I have just returned from Australia where my wife Vicky and I have enjoyed ourselves immensely. We started off in Melbourne, a stunning & vibrant city , then made our way out to the Mt Gambier region in South Australia then followed the coastline up to Sydney where the temperatures were over 30 degrees 🌞 […]
I dont’t know if you have noticed them, but at the corner of George Street and Liverpool Street on the fence of the carpark is a series of new historic murals. These new additions to the story of our township are wonderful to see and surely will be much enjoyed not only by us, the […]
I came across this news item some weeks ago and it stuck in my mind as an anecdote on the connectiveness of small communities all around the world in the age of so-called global village. ‘A letter with a hand-drawn map in place of a written-out address was mailed to a farm in Hvammseit, West […]
If you want to see what has and is on the drawing board in terms of planning for the Tuakau Village and wider Waikato District, then click through the link below into the Waikato District Council website and the Tuakau Structure Plan as it stands.
Tuakau Village has recently received the installation of five ‘Little Libraries’ that have been placed around the neighbourhood as part of the Waikato District Council’s ‘Place Making’ initiative. You may have noticed them on your journeys around town. Like little oases they brighten their environment with the wonderful artwork and themes. These new treasure are […]
The big buzz on the motor-racing circuit is the shift of the next round of V8 Supercars from the Pukekohe Raceway to Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. There is nothing nefarious in this shift in terms of skullduggery afoot behind the curtains or should I say behind the pits, rather the next round clashes with Anzac […]
So I went looking for a race car and found this in Autotrader in 1990. Being the ex Cooper and Curd (Pukekohe) showroom LJ demonstrator, purchased by Nick Dooner and John Curd and they raced it successfully in Brock colours through the late 80s as a club race car. I bought this off the lads […]
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/85600426/tuakaus-new-emergency-services-centre-gets-the-vip-treatment It was an auspicious day, the 21st October 2016 that the Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key came to town. He came to see a proud community who had achieved something marvelous in their eyes ~ “Tuakau’s new Emergency Services Centre has been opened to great fanfare, with the Prime Minister himself unveiling […]
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