Major Planting Season Ahead
Friends of the Otaki River embark on another busy planting season commencing Saturday 16 May with the Otaki New World Planting Day.
5,100 native trees...
Otaki College Remembers
Otaki College held a very moving Anzac ceremony last Friday which included a slide show of 30 New Zealand soldiers who died at Gallipoli...
From the Ötaki Police
In recent weeks their have been a number of burglaries and thefts in the Ötaki Beach and rural areas. Items targeted in these incidents...
Rangiatea Church gets new paint
It would have been hard to not to spot the Keep Out — Building site signs on the Rangiatea Church gates in recent weeks...
New print shop in town
The drums are beating around town about a new print shop. When this is corroborated by a couple of charitable organisations who have received...
Otaki Rotary News: Presentation of Paul Harris Fellow to Ngaire Lutz
The success of Otaki Rotary over the last 50 years, has been due, in no small part, to the help of member’s wives and...
Editorial: Whose Beach is it Anyway?
The Otaki Mail has become aware of dangerous, irresponsible driving on Otaki Beach. There has always been a tension between the common belief that...
Focus on Winter lettuce
Our recent cooler morning and night-time temperatures are a cue to start planting cool season crops, but if you’re not ready to let go...
Rongotea Sale 22nd April 2015
The yards were full to capacity at Rongotea today, with even the drafting pens needed to cope with the large number of boner cows...
Te Horo talk May 2015
New kid on the block: State 1 Designs
Te Horo’s old veggie shop has been granted a new lease of life. Previously a hand-crafted jewellery...
Garden tasks for April
Flower garden
Lift gladioli corms and dahlia tubers once the foliage has died down, and store in a cool, dry place.
Plant your lily bulbs or...
From the Otaki Mail, Friday April 26 1935
ANZAC DAY CELEBRATION IN OTAKI
Twenty years ago yesterday the immortal name of Anzac was first forged ’mid blood and fire on Gallipoli heights, and...
The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
Mahara Gallery is currently hosting the national touring exhibition ‘The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy,’ curated and developed by leading New Zealand...
Fruit Trees Galore
We have some treasures for you…
Just some of the many varieties available now available.
Te Horo Garden Centre
Main Highway & Te Horo Beach Rd TE...
Otaki Museum
Have you seen the latest items in Otaki Remembers World War I? There is a focus on Gallipoli where twelve local men died a...