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Archive for February, 2012

What Now filming at Piha SLSC

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Filming for the opening season of What Now “Filming in Your Living Room” will take place with Nippers at Piha SLSC this Sunday 4 March

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All about Stores at Piha

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The first store at Piha was at the Piha Mill, run by Jack Ingram, brother of the first Mill manager, Chris Ingram. Jack was married to Mary Bethell, daughter of  [ Read More ]

Sweeping all before – Champion Piha Boaties

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It doesn’t get better than this. Look at that tightly disciplined technique of the Piha Pirates crew (closest to camera), Horse on the sweep, with the Australian Tannun crew behind (in  [ Read More ]

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Piha wins at Big Wave Classic

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Despite challenging wind and wave conditions, Piha took out the Open Men’s and also Under-23 Men’s at Saturday’s Big Wave Classic, so good results by both Horse’s crews.   Ladies was cancelled.  [ Read More ]

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Stores at Piha

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The first store at Piha was at the Piha Mill, run by Jack Ingram, brother of the first Mill manager Chris Ingram. This sold food and stores to the families and  [ Read More ]

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Surf Boats

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  http://events.surflifesaving.org.nz/results_live/Club_Results.asp?compID=115&id=52

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Piha boys going to the worlds – Western Leader

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Two Piha surfers will represent New Zealand at the ISA world junior surfing championships in Panama this April. Tane Wallis and Elliot Paerata-Reid were selected alongside 10 other surfers from  [ Read More ]

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W Laird Thomson

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The Laird Thomson Track that runs from the end of North Piha up to Te Waha Point commemorates a remarkable man, who, with his Whites Beach neighbour, Jim Rose, gifted  [ Read More ]

Know your Piha 1 – Te Pona Whetu

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This distinctive hill at North Piha, visible opposite the North Piha Campers Club at the back of the Marawhara Walk,  has a name.   It is Te Pona Whetu, or the  [ Read More ]

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Connie Ketterer, Piha’s matriarch

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If there was one person who was at the centre of everything

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