At Piha Library $25 http://www.pihacommunitylibrary.org.nz/upcoming-events/ 3pm 10 August 2013

Organised by Piha Library http://www.pihacommunitylibrary.org.nz/upcoming-events/ Held at Piha Surf Club 2pm 7 July and 4 August Tickets at Piha Store, Café, Library, Gallery $20 including glass of wine

Organised by Bob Harvey for Piha Library http://www.pihacommunitylibrary.org.nz/upcoming-events/ Held at the Piha Surf Club 2pm 7 July and 4 August 2013 Tickets at Piha Store, Piha Library, Café, Gallery $20 an event with glass of wine

I heard a lot when I was growing up about Wally Jarvis, one of the best swimmers at the Piha Surf Life Saving Club. An exceedingly tall young man – 6 feet 6 inches – Wally (Walter James) was one of three elite Jarvis swimmers who enriched surf  clubs along the West Coast: Wally at Piha, brother  [ Read More ]

This document was prepared by Graeme Murdoch to describe the Human Heritage of the Bethells/Te Henga area in preparation for a Local Area Plan for that area. While it is primarily focused on that area, much of this history is relevant to the Piha area. backgroundrpt-part2-humanheritage

At Shed 1 Corban Art Estate, Great North Rd, Henderson $25 adults $15 students Tickets www.eventfinder.co.nz

Local and Sports Parks West advise that it has employed a consultant to undertake investigations on the erosion currently occurring along Glen Esk Stream near the Piha West Coast Gallery. Water from the Piha Stream has been eroding the bank behind the gallery which occurs at a bend of the stream. The bank has been  [ Read More ]

The New Zealand Herald on Saturday June 1 announced that CNN had listed neighbouring beach Karekare at number 38 in its Top 100 Best Beaches in the World on its summer travel website. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10887739 Those assembling the list described Karekare as “a grandiose sweep of black sand [that] stretches before bush-clad hills”. It then went  [ Read More ]

Dr MacDiarmid, as he was known to everyone at Piha in the 1950s, was the resident doctor, whether he liked it or not. He came to Piha for the quiet life, to retire, but found himself called on to attend to ailing locals, lifesavers with bleeding heads and drowned visitors, at all times of the day or  [ Read More ]

Piha 30 September to 4 October 2013