Dorothy – 15/02/02 You may feel regretful about pulling away from the shore of beautiful Lake Wanaka, but there is no occasion for regrets as you are heading into a wonderful scenic area as you travel through the Haast Pass to the West Coast. Follow the signs as you leave the township and at the…
Pub Crawl At Blackball. What does the term “pub-crawl” mean to you? To most people it conjures up pictures of a group of revellers calling at a series of pubs and having a drink in each, often after a sports match or in the capping festivities at a University. While sober they walk from one…
Dorothy – 21/12/01 Have you read Kiwi Tucka – Maria Hand’s entertaining article in NZine about the Kiwi foods that ex-pats miss most? Many readers have enjoyed that story and a number have entered their views in the Backchat at the end. Maria (left) and Geraldine McManus on the night of the Awards Dinner Photo…
Treasured Autograph Books Dorothy – 21/12/01 Why have an autograph book? What do young people in 2001 think is the purpose of an autograph book? Most likely it is as a place to collect the signatures of people who are in the limelight for their achievements as sporting idols or stage performers. The role of…
Dorothy – 21/12/01 Have you read Kiwi Tucka – Maria Hand’s entertaining article in NZine about the Kiwi foods that ex-pats miss most? Many readers have enjoyed that story and a number have entered their views in the Backchat at the end. Maria (left) on the night of the Awards Dinner Photo source Maria Hand…
Experience Of A Lifetime: Older New Zealanders As Volunteers Produced by The 40+ Project / 30 Tau Neke Atu Dorothy – 21/12/01 The free book Experience of a Lifetime: Older New Zealanders as volunteers focuses on New Zealand’s older volunteers and gives an interesting account of their work in a variety of spheres. Two International…
Life in the Public Works Camps on the Kaikoura Coast in the 1930s Dorothy – 14/12/01 This article is based on an interview with Leslie Walker (nee O’Callaghan) supplemented with information drawn from the stories published in Public Works Camps: Poor Kids’ Paradise compiled by Pauline Blincoe. During the Depression of the 1930s many men…
Dorothy – 07/12/01 No, this is not a reference to page layout – it means something much more important. It means that in mid-December New Zealand school children are donating books which will cross international borders and be sent to Nigeria to help in a campaign to combat illiteracy in Nigeria. Fiona Lovatt Davis How…
Dorothy – 30/11/01 A Stewart Island/Rakiura holiday centred round Halfmoon Bay with a trip to Ulva Island and a Stewart Island/Rakiura cruise have been featured in the last two issues of NZine. This week’s article features one of the guided walks on the Island with Kiwi Wilderness Walks, and the reactions of two people who…
An Interview with Ken Laing Dorothy – 23/11/01 It was in the fourth form at Otago Boys’ High School that Ken first became interested in Stewart Island. He had as his English teacher Basil Howard who was writing his authoritative volume about Stewart Island, "Rakiura". Ken still remembers his saying, "If you ever go to…
