Mike Gardiner sent me this photo of the Piha competition team in 1938. I had a copy in my Mum’s photo album – in fact, I wonder if she took  [ Read More ]

The Auckland Council Local Parks is consulting on the location of a new basketball half-court in the Piha Domain. Piha Domain Basketball Half Court – Communication Flyer FINAL (1) Just  [ Read More ]

The Piha Kidz Charitable Trust has won support from the Waitakere Ranges Local Board for a new  basketball  half-court on the Piha Domain and the Board has also put in  [ Read More ]

Lance Clyde Watt died on Sunday 8 April. Until recently, Lance had  lived at his family’s home at the end of Glen Esk Road, Piha, then ill health led to his  [ Read More ]

Piha surfer Gaby Sansom earned a wildcard by winning the New Zealand open enabling her to compete in a world surfing women’s event at New Plymouth tomorrow. Only 15-years-old, Gaby  [ Read More ]

Actually taken the morning of Tuesday 10 April 2012 but epitomising the glorious weather of Easter weekend. Easter Friday was one of the biggest crowds seen this summer as city  [ Read More ]

From Thursday 19 April at the Bowler and every Thursday for the next 6 weeks Tim Bailey entertains, food on, and bar open

In 1928 a determined Horace Mobbs and his two sons, Fred and Alan, pulled a lone telephone wire through the bush from Anawhata to the Karekare exchange. Piha and Anawhata  [ Read More ]

The Auckland Council Regional Development and Operations Committee on Thursday voted to close 13 Kauri Protection Areas throughout the Waitakere Ranges, involving 27 km of tracks, to try and halt  [ Read More ]

When historian  Graeme Murdoch talked to the Piha community about Maori names of places in Piha, he mentioned that the original name for the Piha Stream was Wai o Kahu.  [ Read More ]