For three decades the owners of Nukuhakari Station dreamed of diversifying their income stream by opening their Waikawau farm to tourists. Senior writer Chris Gardner trekked the three-day Nuku Walk and filed this story. Nukuhakari…
New Zealand Outdoor Instructor’s Association Bush Leader and senior writer Chris Gardner completes the Nuku Walk around Nukuhakari Station at Waikawau in the King Country, with his wife Liz. The last day of the Nuku…
A giant Meccano set has been delivered to the banks of the Mangati Stream. New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi delivered the new prefabricated Acrow steel bridge in pieces on Tuesday, nearly a month after…
Without Darcy Lupton and Bill Millar Ōtorohanga wouldn’t have a museum. The pair led the purchase and moving of the town’s courthouse to the museum site in Kakamutu Road in 1974. The Balance Street building…
Vehicles will be stopped from driving onto Kāwhia’s Ocean Beach at Maketu Marae when mana whenua erect concrete barriers. Onepū Charitable Trust trustee and beach patroller Horahaere Scott represented landowners when she gave Kāwhia Community…
Waitomo and Waipā districts are two of the three first councils to transfer their drinking and wastewater services over to a multi council-controlled water authority. They will join South Waikato District Council in the transfer…
New Zealand Outdoor Instructors’ Association Bush Leader and senior writer Chris Gardner shares his experience of walking the second day of the Nuku Walk in the King Country on St Valentine’s Day. Two trampers climbed…
The Ōtorohanga Club is contesting a district council plan to shut the town’s main street for nine hours on Anzac Day as unacceptable. The district council advertised the closure of Maniapoto Street from 4am until…
They came from around the district to talk about the weather and move on. Saturday’s blazing sun on Ōtorohanga’s Truck and Ute show at Island Reserve was a far cry from the previous weekend’s storm…
New Zealand Outdoor Instructors’ Association Bush Leader and senior writer Chris Gardner was among a group of St Valentine’s Day trampers on the King Country’s Nuku Walk as the devastating storm raged to the north….
