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Aerating Lily Pond
Auckland Council has advised that the testing of the water at the Lily Pond in Claude Abel Reserve has revealed that dissolved oxygen levels have dropped due to an increase in water [ Read More ]
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Easter – knocking off the Hillary Trail
In a recent Metro, Sir Bob Harvey repeated his claims that not enough people are doing the Hillary Trail. He’d like to see it commercialised to get the numbers up. [ Read More ]
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Drowning death at Piha
A 30-year-old male British tourist was found unconscious in the water near Lion Rock at 6.30 pm on Tuesday 26 March 2013 and was unable to be revived. Paramedics and Westpac helicopter [ Read More ]
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Ongoing management of the Wekatahi and Marawhara
On the agenda of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board meeting for 27 March 2013 is longer term management of the Wekatahi and Marawhara Streams on North Piha Beach. The report outlines [ Read More ]
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Cliffhanging story from Karekare
Karekare surf club and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter had to rescue a visiting Frenchman who thought he could climb down the Watchman. While his friends were oblivious to his plight, [ Read More ]
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New proposed work for Domain at the lagoon
Auckland Council Parks West has released plans for the lagoon area of the Piha Domain. Problems trying to be solved are particularly dust arising from the road and deterring young [ Read More ]
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Herald facts not right about growth at Piha
Bernard Orsman in the Herald scared a few people when he listed Piha among rural villages earmarked to take growth. He did not get this entirely right. Bernard omitted to [ Read More ]
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Ranges folk at launch of Unitary Plan
I snapped Piha’s Yvonne DuFaur and Robert Woolf of Ark in the Park at the launch of the Auckland Council’s draft Unitary Plan today (15 March 2013). We were having [ Read More ]
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Tony Dunn at West Coast Gallery
Tony’s exhibition of photographs at West Coast Gallery was written up in the Western Leader http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/8428874/Gallery-a-great-place-to-start
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Bowler takes law into own hands
The photo might be a bit cheesy, but this heart-warming story of the Piha Bowling Club ladies, and a few lads, stepping in to capture a boy in a Toyota doing [ Read More ]