Issue July 2014

  Kia ora from the Otaki Public Library – Te Wharepukapuka o Otaki The Good Italian by Stephen Burke It is 1935. Enzo Secchi, harbourmaster for Eritrea's main...

Next month Wellington celebrates ‘Food on a Plate’ so we thought we would also celebrate Otaki’s rich diversity and food heritage. From cafés to...

Otaki’s Riverbank Road concrete plant has a new lease of life. All the bridge beams for the $250 million McKays to Peka Peka expressway...

With the coming of the Matariki, the Maori New Year, the 2014/15 maramataka or calendar was launched at a ceremony held at Raukawa Marae...

There was a good turn-out for the Friends of the Otaki River’s (FOTOR) final public planting day for the year in June.In the latest...

Otaki’s HUHA animal shelter manager, Claire Thornton, was the first recipient of Volunteer Kapiti’s Volunteer Recognition Award, with a 45 minute helicopter flight over...

Time fly’s doesn’t it. It was back in 2009 that the furore hit the TV screens about pig welfare on our farms. Now, in...

Louis George Varnham St. George 1872-1924 was a chemist in Otaki 1898-1924 with a shop in Aotaki Street. He married Mary Bain and they...

Some changes to the law affect only those purchases or transactions made from 17 June 2014. Purchases that occurred before that date is covered...

Memorial Service for Louis St George Tribute by the Rev G F Petrie, MA Very beautiful and touching was the tribute paid to the memory of...

The exhibition “Otaki Remembers World War I” will be open to the public from 7 August. The museum at 49 Main Street is open...

The Otaki Historical Society has secured one of New Zealand’s most published and widely respected historians, Matthew Wright, to speak at its August public...

Sylvia Rountree celebrated her 90th birthday day in style! Arriving at the Otaki RSA in a Rolls Royce for an afternoon tea arranged by her...

There’s a great deal more to this easy-to-grow vegetable than the tinned product you find on supermarket shelves - a commercial equivalent of boiling,...