Let us pray? Does prayer/karakia have a place in politics?
14 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Some form of prayer occurs many council meetings. Photo / 123RF
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Following the decision of Ruapehu District councillor Adie Doyle to walk out of a meeting during an opening karakia,
Laurel Stowell asks local representatives about the place of prayer and karakia in politics.
Adie Doyle s fellow Ruapehu councillor Elijah Pue has been saying karakia to start meetings for four or five months.
He said that was at the request of mayor Don Cameron.
The Monday Q&A: Kyle Dalton on Whanganui s colonial history, talking and Genghis Khan
9 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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A stroll through the Heads Rd Cemetery will always turn up something new for historian Kyle Dalton. Photo / Paul Brooks
A stroll through the Heads Rd Cemetery will always turn up something new for historian Kyle Dalton. Photo / Paul Brooks
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui historian Kyle Dalton loves telling people about the past and he s giving a public talk about Pukenamu/Queen s Park on June 27 in the Alexander Heritage Library. Laurel Stowell caught up with Dalton to find
Robyn Ogle stands down after 26-plus years as secretary of Whanganui botanical group
3 May, 2021 04:00 PM
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Robyn Ogle was the secretary of the Whanganui Museum Botanical Group for more than 26 years. Photo / Bevan Conley
Robyn Ogle was the secretary of the Whanganui Museum Botanical Group for more than 26 years. Photo / Bevan Conley
By Laurel Stowell
Brought up in suburban Auckland, Robyn Ogle extended her interest in the natural world through 54 years of marriage to Whanganui ecologist Colin Ogle.
She was the secretary for the Whanganui Museum Botanical Group for more than 26 years, and it involved a lot of paperwork. She was also secretary for St George s Preparatory School for 20 years.
How the Whanganui Basin reveals region s geological history
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Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
The many layers of sediment laid down in the Whanganui Basin record three to four million years of geological history, attracting fossickers and fossil hunters alike, Emeritus scientist Dr Hamish Campbell tells Laurel Stowell. Dr Hamish Campbell is speaking to a group of about 30 who are looking west from the top of Whanganui s Durie Hill. I hope you like that you are sitting on top of a pile of very young sediments, he says.
It s a field trip organised by Whanganui Regional Museum and Campbell s talk the previous night drew 153 to the museum lecture theatre.