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Meet Piha’s summer ranger
Every summer the Waitakere Ranges Local Board employs a summer ranger for Piha, and a second for Te Henga. This summer the Piha ranger is Tom Greer. He is a biology and [ Read More ]
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Report on big fire at Kakamatua, Waitakere Ranges Regional Park
‹Fire service was notified of a fire at Kakamatua at 3.30pm yesterday (26/12/2014). The Fire began at the base of the hill on the eastern side of of the bay. [ Read More ]
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Piha SLSC – latest drawings of proposed clubhouse extensions
Clubhouse architect, Brent Hulena, has converted the conceptual design drawings into general arrangement drawings – see below. These drawing have been signed off by the club’s executive and committees. [ Read More ]
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Lupin pulling on dunes
A small crew turned up today (Sunday) to pull lupins in an effort to make the dunes lupin free. Plants were either hand pulled, or cut off and the stump [ Read More ]
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Marawhara & Wekatahi – message from Auckland Council
A message from Auckland Council In March 2013 the Waitakere Ranges Local Board agreed to put trigger points in place that monitor the need to retrain the Wekatahi and Marawhara [ Read More ]
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Operation Speedo launched
Now in its ninth year, Operation Speedo began its summer tour of duty with a launch and lunch at Arataki or Friday 31 October. Operation Speedo is a joint safety [ Read More ]
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Lupin removal for mid-beach
Piha locals are invited to two sessions to remove lupins from the stretch of beach at mid-Beach north of the helicopter landing pad. Organised by the Parks staff for the Waitakere [ Read More ]
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Gap track open
Regional Park rangers have wasted no time in opening a track between the lookout overlooking the Gap and the newly acquired Byers block of land. It is now easy to [ Read More ]
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Three sets of twins represent Piha SLSC
The latest Western Leader has a great photo of three sets of under-14 twins representing Piha SLSC at this weekend’s pool champs at West Wave. They are from the Thompson, [ Read More ]
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Four Browne brothers die in WW1 – the Piha connection
As part of the Herald series of articles about WW1, the story was told of the four Browne brothers who died in WW1. All four died within a two year period. [ Read More ]