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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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Possum blitz in parkland at Piha-Anawhata-Bethells

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The annual Waitakere Ranges possum monitoring programme was completed in January, with very pleasing results. Most of the Waitakere Ranges is still maintaining possum indices below the treatment threshold of  [ Read More ]

Handrail fix canned

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When Auckland Transport built the wooden fences alongside the footpaths in the upper part of Seaview/Piha Road near the corner of Pendrell Road, the contractor got it wrong and built  [ Read More ]

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Removal of one limb from Beach Valley Road pohutukawa

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Parks are planning on trimming one limb from a Pohutukawa outside 28-30 Beach Valley Road.  This limb is being removed due to a number of reported incidents where vehicles have  [ Read More ]

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