Issue September 2015

Top up your income — Home based

Earn extra cash every week distributing and collecting 120+ catalogues pw and delivering customer orders (approx 8–10 hours pw). Car, phone & internet access...

See the new Events list for things that are on in...

If a thing has a due date it will be listed as an event. Otherwise it is a notice. You can list your event on...

Getting Long in the Tooth

If you have an older cat or dog, age can sometimes be perceived as a barrier to treatment.  ‘She’s old so she’s not worth...

Otaki Golf Club champions

Karaka Million winner Johno Benner has added another trophy to his growing haul, the Otaki Golf Club’s Senior Men’s Champion. With Vespa, the Otaki trainer...

Kapiti on film 1921 – 2000

A Compilation Of Locally Made Films Newsreels and home movies, comedy and drama Saturday 5 September, 2pm Waikanae Community Centre, 28–32 Utauta Street Sunday 20 September, 2pm Paraparaumu...

Potato growing competition

Ōtaki Hydroponics are now in their second year of running their fun Potato growing competition . Ōtaki Fire Brigade This year all proceeds raised from the competition entries...

White shrubs for the spring garden: Te Horo Garden Centre, September...

Spirea Nipponica ‘Snowmound’, a deciduous small shrub, dense and upright carries spectacular clusters of white flowers profusely over arching stems. Tolerant, graceful and easy to grow in well drained soil, full sun to part shade. Prune after flowering. Snowmound Butterflies love it and so will you.

Watsons Garden Centre, September 2015

Father’s Day Sunday 6 September Time for some potted colour: pansies, cyclamen, polyanthus, convulvulus cneorum, viola. You can’t have Don Watson but we have gifts for...

Living on little, Part 1: How come?

There are many different people who find they have to live on very little. People who are retired and don’t have an independent income,...

Take a closer look at… Work and Income

Working with our clients is just part of what we do.  We also work with employers to help our clients into sustainable work. If you...

Mouth Matters

The health of your pet’s mouth matters. By the age of just three years, up to 70% of cats and 80% of dogs have...

I’ve got an Eggy Feeling Coming On: Bees through the Seasons

Tree lucernes flowering on roadsides, yellow wattles glowing. These are the harbingers of Spring in the Kapiti Horowhenua. Slightly warmer temperatures this month interspersed...

Otaki Historical Society

The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held on 4 August.  Instead of a speaker there was a film show.   Errol Maffey is...

From the Otaki Mail August 6, 1935

LOCAL AND GENERAL At the last meeting of the Otaki Football Club a donation of 10s 6d for the funds was accepted with thanks from...