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For almost 40 years, the third Sunday in March has seen east Auckland tennis courts full of local youngsters contesting the annual Charman Cup competition. Teams from Bucklands Beach, Cockle Bay, Howick, Pakuranga and Sunnyhills Tennis Clubs participate, with each club fielding a team of 20 made up of 10 girls and 10 boys, aged between nine and 15-years-old. With every...
By Jim Allnatt Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club's Premier team scorer is retiring after 26 years of service at the end of the 2023-24 season. In 1998, Auckland Cricket decreed that every premier club had to have a regular scorer. Rowan Armour, the team captain at the time approached Claire Hayne and she accepted the request. Little did Claire think that all these...
Police have today executed a search warrant at a property in Flat Bush following a report of vandalism on the rainbow pedestrian crossing on Karangahape Road this morning. Auckland City Central Area Commander, Inspector Grant Tetzlaff, says police made a number of enquiries into the incident this afternoon and located items of interest. “Police attended an address in Flat Bush, which...
Police say they’re a firm approach to unsafe driving behaviour from travellers going near or far this Easter holiday weekend. After a disappointing start to the year on our roads, there’s been an improvement to date in rates of deaths and serious injuries over February and March, but Director of Road Policing, Superintendent Steve Greally, says Kiwis can and must...
Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter, funded by New Zealand on Air Community upset after Auckland Council’s removal of thousands of bins has prompted councillors to question whether bins should be reinstated. At the Planning, Environment and Parks committee on March 14, councillors questioned staff on whether the savings from bin removals were truly worth it. Cr Julie Fairey was the first...
Leonie Agnew is an award-winning children's author, a former copywriter, and also a primary school teacher based in Shelly Park. Take Me To Your Leader is her latest book Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his...
Macleans College and Saint Kentigern College made several podiums at secondary school rowing's biggest annual event, the Aon Maadi Regatta 2024 at Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel. The event, which ran from March 18-24, was massive for Macleans College rower James Dimock who clinched gold in the boys under 18 single scull gold A Final (7:20.03). Dimock and Logan Turrall grabbed bronze...
Police are appealing to the public for information following a serious crash in east Auckland. Detective sergeant Wayne Gear says the incident happened on Gracechurch Drive in Flat Bush. At about 7.09pm on Sunday, March 24, a Mercedes-Benz travelling in a northerly direction lost control and left the road just past the intersection with Warren Way, he says. “Several occupants of the...
Times Newspapers, publishers of the Howick and Pakuranga Times, has been placed into voluntary administration in the hope of securing a buyer for the award-winning business. The administrators' message is clear, "We want a buyer for the Times". Garry Whimp and Ben Francis of Blacklock Rose have been appointed administrators and told Times staff the company will continue trading as usual...
Police have been unable to establish the identity of a mystery man seen running from the scene of a large building fire in east Auckland. As the Times has previously reported, the controversial multi-storey Kainga Ora public housing development in Guys Road, Huntington Park, was damaged in a blaze that broke out in the early hours of July 24 last year. Fire...