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...

Ōtaki Police — Found Property List

1 x Apollo Mountain Bike Where Found: Railway Hotel :Date Found 30/06/15

Otaki Museum, Kapiti Island

The current exhibition, “Kapiti Island” is one of the most colourful and attractive the museum has had, with beautiful images and a wealth of...

Serendipitous kindy puzzle

When Mitty and her whanau came back from the UK to live in Otaki they came in to enrol at Otaki Kindergarten. Mitty’s Nana,...

Non-Contact Orders to protect victims from offenders

From 1 January 2015, a victim of a serious violent or sexual offence will be able to apply for a court order to prevent...

Otaki potters throw themselves into raising funds for Downtown Community Ministry

Wellington’s potters community have thrown themselves into an ambitious project to handcraft 850 bowls, to raise funds for DCM, the organisation committed to ending...

Kia ora from the Ōtaki Public Library — Te Wharepukapuka o...

Flood of Fire  by Amitav Ghosh It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling...