The mail run provided a secret link between two NZ prison camps where 'military defaulters' were held during WW2. The "no-man's land" between them was out of bounds, and Jack conveys vividly the tension he felt as he ran with the mail …
Hautu Detention Camp was used from June 1942 to April 1946 to accommodate 150 C.O.s of the 800 men who were conscripted into prisons and camps in WW2.
A camera and three reels of films were smuggled into the camp …
Jack is a staunch pacifist who paid the price for his convictions when he was held in a prison or a Detention Camp for over four years during World War Two …
This celebration was able to exhibit Buddhist practice and culture to the thousands who attended
this party in spite of the cold and rainy weather ....
In 1982 Christchurch was the first city in New Zealand to declare itself nuclear-free. Peace messages are an important part of the recognition of Hiroshima Day in the city ….
On Saturday February 19th Auckland's Butterfly Creek will be hosting New
Zealand's largest ever monarch butterfly release to honour the memory of
Asian Tsunami victims ....