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Friday, 16 April 2021, 3:11 pm What happens when an artist loves horses, photography, textiles, and children’s art? Artist-designed flags will fly across six Wairarapa towns and at the ANZAC Memorial Bridge at Kaiparoro for the annual Service (2pm). The ANZAC Bridge Fellowship for 2020/2021 honours the horses that went to war. It was awarded to Esther Bunning, NZ Professional Photographer of the Year, and a portrait artist experienced in photographing people as well as the wild Kaimanawa horses in the central plateau. For the ANZAC Bridge Fellowship project, Esther photographed the ANZAC M...

Middle NZ: Cape Palliser the highlight of road trip 2 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Cape Palliser was the highlight of my trip. Photo / File Linda Hall is assistant editor for Hawke's Bay Todaylinda.hall@nzme.co.nzHawkesBayToday It's rather hard to get Mr Neat to go on holiday — he's a homebody through and through. However, with a two-week holiday looming I started planning a small break in the Taranaki. I talked about it a lot, every day for a number of weeks. Then the first weekend of my holiday on Sunday night, we went into a level 2 Covid lockdown. Not only that but we found ou...

Starting tonight, for this week and next week:  Ghosts of Holidays Past.  Send in your photos!  You can send a full set with the On the Road form, or just send one or two that will go into a group post.  Be sure to include some text so we know what we’re looking at.  If you want to send photos but not have them identified as yours, let me know that, too. Albatrossity I have been fortunate to visit New Zealand 5 times. The first in the early 1990’s, to attend a scientific conference, and it was in August (mid-winter in the Antipodes). I remember marveling at the cold drippy weather, t...

Tuesday, 15 December, 2020 - 13:56 An idea born in 1919 has been carried forward by Taratahi once again. When Sir William Perry gifted a piece of land for the training of servicemen returning from World War I, little did he know that 101 years later, Taratahi would be proudly welcoming New Zealand veterans once again. Partnering with Ministry of Primary Industries, UCOL staff at Taratahi hosted New Zealand veterans on a week-long Taster workshop. Each day offered them insights into what could be their next career option. "The group included veterans from the Navy, Army, and Air Force Ar...

Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 2:17 pm An idea born in 1919 has been carried forward by Taratahi once again. When Sir William Perry gifted a piece of land for the training of servicemen returning from World War I, little did he know that 101 years later, Taratahi would be proudly welcoming New Zealand veterans once again. Partnering with Ministry of Primary Industries, UCOL staff at Taratahi hosted New Zealand veterans on a week-long Taster workshop. Each day offered them insights into what could be their next career option. “The group included veterans from the Navy, Army, and Air Force Army,...