Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre committee members, from left, Nick Van der Sande, Charlie Coles, Te Mihinga Komene, Ros Empson, Buck Macky, Jenny Mortland, Brent Mealing, Marilyn Yeates, and groundsman Robert McWha pictured at the planting ceremony.
The work of Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre foundation and life members the late Murray Walter and his wife Barbara has been recognised with the planting of a golden totara.
The tree was planted at the centre by the Pirongia Heritage and Information Centre Committee on June 10 to celebrate the Walters’ contribution.
The couple were involved with the moving of the old St Saviour’s Church, once sited on the Alexandra Constabulary Redoubt on Bellot Street, to its present site at 798 Franklin Steet in 2000.
The church was moved back from the Waikeria Village.
