Thursday, May 15, 2025
Home Blog Page 301

Business students create own products

Zoe Garden
-
0
Business students create own products
Magnifico is a board game created by an Ormiston Senior College business group. Photo supplied.

Ormiston Senior College (OSC) students have launched their innovative and self-created products to an online market for the community.

As part of the school’s business course, students must design, produce and promote an item that is innovative, as well as creating their own businesses. The process has taken the 50 groups of students approximately 12 weeks and now has been launched to the public.

The products are available on the online OSC marketplace, and can be picked up from the college campus on June 22/23 or through delivery options arranged through each business.

The online marketplace includes the student group’s websites, product information and pictures. The idea for the digital marketplace formed out of uncertainty of in-person interaction, one of OSC’s business teachers Oliver Rose says.

“Regardless of the state of lockdown, people can still access it,” he said.

There are a wide range of products – from board games to accessories to candles to crystals to jewellery. One business, Clay Works, has made earrings out of clay.

Another, Squish n’ Smash, have homemade customised stress balls that are created from double-layered biodegradable balloons and filtered sand. Or there is Magnifico, a board game that helps “educate the youth through entertainment”, which was under the guidance of assistant principal Mark Snoad, the creator of his own board game Gumption.

“Overall, they enjoyed the process,” Rose says.

“A lot of groups are really passionate about their products.”

The online marketplace will be open until pick-up days. It will re-open later in the year after students have received feedback “giving them the opportunity to make improvements, as every business no doubt does”, Rose says.

“This is the first time we’ve used the local community page to share all the products with the community,” he says.

“It’s really good to get involved and hopefully get more involved in the future.”

For more information, visit the OSC marketplace at //sites.google.com/ormiston.school.nz/osc-marketplace.

Former Filipino sponsor children to share their story in Botany

Times Team
-
0
Former Filipino sponsor children to share their story in Botany
Danny and Joyce were both sponsored as young children. They met, fell in love, and are now living in New Zealand.

Two former Filipino sponsor children, Danny and Joyce Paculaba, will be sharing their incredibly powerful story at St Columba Church this Sunday (June 19 at 8:30am and 10:30am, 480 Ti Rakau Drive, Botany), as part of the My Life Was Changed Tour with Tearfund.

Danny and Joyce were both sponsored as young children. They met, fell in love, and are now living in New Zealand.

This powerful event will begin with a mini-documentary, followed by Danny and Joyce in-person, who will share their individual stories and the defining moment somebody changed their life forever.

During this intimate and engaging time, you will discover how their futures were shaped by the actions of another and learn how you can be that someone who can transform someone else’s life. This inspiring event will tug on your heartstrings as you are drawn into these fascinating, life-giving stories and then invited to ask any questions you may have.

This event is co-hosted by St Columba Church and Tearfund, New Zealand’s leading Christian aid and development organisation and is in support of their work with sponsored children. Entry to the event is free.

Do you know WP Payne?

Times Team
-
0
Do you know WP Payne?

The Howick & Districts Historical Society was recently handed a copy of ‘The Book of Howick’ published to
mark Howick’s centennial in 1947 – a somewhat dry and earnest souvenir booklet that could easily languish on a shelf.

However the book we were handed has been added to and embellished with dozens of news items and clippings of random events and happenings in Howick over the years.

The book is signed by a WP Payne whose eclectic interests range from the pub burning down in 1927;  Jean Batten, aviatrix, being presented to the King and Queen in 1938; Miss Nixon’s garden and her poems; the opening of the concrete road in 1931 – even the fact that in 1951 Howick’s constable was the tallest in the Force at 6 feet 7 inches.

It is a treasure trove of someone with a great affection for Howick and we’d love to find WP Payne or his descendants or even someone who knows who he was.

  • Marin Burgess, President, Howick & Districts Historical Society

HVA relocates

Times Team
-
0
HVA relocates
The Howick Village Association has moved to new offices behind the building known to locals as the Howick Information Centre. Times file photo Wayne Martin

The Howick Village Association (HVA) has relocated to new offices at shop 6/1 Central Terrace, behind the Howick Information Centre.

New signage is in place for increased visibility.

Additionally, the HVA meeting room is available for hire for small meetings or gatherings and can seat up to 20 people.

There are kitchen facilities and power point equipment available.

Contact HVA with enquiries.

Vote moves public reserves closer to sale

Chris Harrowell
-
0
Vote moves public reserves closer to sale
Among the community leaders who oppose the potential sale of local reserves, including this one in Aberfeldy Avenue, are, from left, Botany MP and National Party leader Christopher Luxon, Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown, and Howick ward councillors Sharon Stewart and Paul Young. Times file photo Wayne Martin
  • By Chris Harrowell and Laura Kvigstad, Auckland Council reporter, Funded by New Zealand on Air

Auckland Council has moved one step closer to being able to sell several local public reserves but opponents say they aren’t giving up the fight.

Among the properties the council eyed for sale are reserves at 9R Fortyfoot Lane, Sunnyhills; 111R Golfland Drive, Botany, and 76R Aberfeldy Avenue, Pakuranga; a section at 72R Karaka Road, Beachlands; and part of the site of a gas station at 2R Ti Rakau Drive, Pakuranga.

A statutory process, being managed by Eke Panuku Development Auckland, must be followed before sites classified as reserves under the Reserves Act 1977 can be sold.

The council publicly notified its intent to revoke the reserve status of 20 properties across the city in February last year.

More than 1300 submissions were received, of which 1145 related to the east Auckland properties.

None were in favour of their reserve status being revoked.

Two independent commissioners appointed to consider public submissions heard from people who wished to share their views in person and completed site visits to the five local properties.

On June 9 their report recommending whether or not reserve status should be revoked was presented at a meeting of the council’s parks, arts, community and events committee.

The meeting’s agenda says approval was sought to submit a request to the Minister of Conservation to uplift the reserve status of the properties at 9R Fortyfoot Lane, 72R Karaka Road, and 2R Ti Rakau Drive.

It says the commissioners recommend the committee not proceed with the reserve revocation of 111R Golfland Drive.

“They [the commissioners] support the proposed reserve revocation for 72R Karaka Road and conditionally support the proposed reserve recommendation of 9R Fortyfoot Lane, 76R Aberfeldy Avenue, [and] 2R Ti Rakau Drive.

“The commissioners’ support is subject to council investigations into a community trust model to manage 9R Fortyfoot Lane.

“Council’s service and asset planning team has considered options for this but does not support any of them.

“The commissioners also recommended the provision of an improved road crossing from Aberfeldy Avenue to Lloyd Elsmore Park, prior to proceeding with the proposed reserve revocation.

“Staff are working with Auckland Transport to investigate improving pedestrian links and will report to the committee on 76R Aberfeldy Avenue at a later date.”

Howick ward councillor Paul Young said during the committee meeting while he approves of the council’s general approach to asset recycling he couldn’t support revoking the reserve status of 9R Fortyfoot Lane.

He said he was glad to see the commissioners reject reserve status revocation of 111R Golfland Drive and encouraged his fellow councillors to “save Fortyfoot Lane as well”.

The committee voted unanimously to approve submission of a request to the Minister of Conservation to uplift the reserve status of the properties at 72R Karaka Road and 2R Ti Rakau Drive.

A separate vote was held on the property at 9R Fortyfoot Lane.

It received 11 votes in favour and nine votes, including by Young and his fellow Howick ward councillor Sharon Stewart, against.

Following the meeting Stewart told the Times she was “really happy” with the decision on 111R Golfland Drive, but the vote on the reserve in Fortyfoot Lane was “very disappointing”.

She says she’ll put up a notice of motion to try to get it back to the council’s finance and performance committee to have it revoked.

“It’s a sad day for the Howick ward … once the land is sold, it’s sold and built on.

“At a time when we’re having so much intensification, we need this green space.”

Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown says he’s “incredibly disappointed” with the committee’s vote on 9R Fortyfoot Lane.

“With increasing intensification in east Auckland, it’s critical we protect and retain our green space.

“Auckland Council is [potentially] selling this land arguing the money is needed to backfill its budget.

“Before selling reserves they should be focusing on their own bloated bureaucracy.”

Brown says he’ll write to Conservation Minister Poto Williams expressing the community’s opposition and “requesting she does not revoke the Reserves Act status on this land”.

An Eke Panuku spokesperson previously said if the committee decided to forward a request to the Department of Conservation (DoC) to uplift the reserve status of some or all of the properties, as it has now done, all written submissions and the commissioners’ reports and hearing submissions will be included for consideration.

The final decision lies with the Minister of Conservation.

Students shave heads for cancer

Zoe Garden
-
0
Students shave heads for cancer
Pakuranga College student Lachlan Coyle holding up a lock of his hair. Times photo Wayne Martin

East Auckland students went to town with clippers on their friends’ hair last week to raise money for cancer.

Eight Kiwis are diagnosed each day with a blood cancer and there’s a strong chance they may lose hair through chemotherapy.

On Friday, 14 Pakuranga College students and two teachers committed to removing their lush locks from their scalps in solidarity for those living with blood cancer and to fundraise for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBCNZ).

Student barber Joshua Jackson (JJ) participated in the cutting and cleanup.

The occasion was orgnised by the Student Service Council – three of whom had their heads shaved.

Shave for a Cure 2022 is a nationwide initiative that many school students, families and individuals take part in.

Students paid $5 to take part in shaving a head of a person of their choice, $2 to attend the show and $4 to wax off leg hair from willing participants. The students raised $771 during the lunchtime event.

Year 10 student Teagan Phipps raised $963 in donations for her head shaving. Friends Sasha Read and Felicity Dowden raised $590 and $505 respectively.

“We wanted to donate to a good cause,” Felicity says.

“More people should do it.”

Felicity, Teagan, Sasha and others who shaved their heads were a part of Pakuranga College’s Shave for a Cure fundraising page, which has so far raised $5329.

Teagan told the Times that, while she is nervous about chopping off her hair, she has a beanie in preparation.

3500 plants go in

Times Team
-
0
3500 plants go in
Staff, students and community members pitched in for the weekend’s planting day.

Staff, students and community members from Mission Heights Junior College, Mission Heights Primary School and KiNZ Mission Heights showed up at the community planting day on Saturday.

As previously reported by the Times (June 8), the community planting day kicks off a large initiative to have approximately 19,000 native plants put in around the bike track to complement the surrounding forest and reduce erosion.

On Saturday, 3500 plants were put in.

Over the next two weeks, students from across all three schools will continue planting as part of their Matariki celebrations.

Plenty to cheer about at Hornets’ home

Times Team
-
0
Plenty to cheer about at Hornets’ home
Howick Hornets’ premier women’s dummy half Zayde Sarah-Baldwin scoring the ‘Nets winning try.

While meteorologists had a slightly off weekend in Howick, the same can’t be said for the Hornets‘ Premier sides, as this past weekend at Paparoa Park fans cheered on watching the home sides go three from three in their respective 1st division competitions.

Both the men’s Reserve grade, and the Hornets Fox Premiers were convincing on the scoreboard after 80 minutes, each winning by 20 points against the Manurewa Marlins on Saturday, 34-14 and 38-18 respectively.

The first half of the Premiers was a tight contest with both sides playing well with a 16-14 score to Howick at the break. In the second half the Hornets got rolling, scoring three tries back-to-back which saw the momentum of the game completely shift into the home side’s favour.

Howick’s strength came up front with top performers Tahi Baggaley and Tayhler Paora keeping the team on the front foot. Fullback Alan Niulevu scored a double to help his team get going in the second 40.

While these are very welcome scorelines for the club, both teams will know the margins could have been greater if not for a couple of basic errors on both sides of the ball at times, errors I’ve no doubt will be identified and corrected this week at training by head coaches Blake Ewe and Ruka Loza.

Sunday at 1pm, it was the Premier Women’s turn to entertain.

Playing a very determined Otahuhu Leopards side, Howick’s premier women [affectionately known as the ‘Nets’] , left it till the last play to seal a game that truly had it all.

‘Nets dummy half Zayde Sarah-Baldwin was breaking the line at will on the back of some fast play-the-balls achieved by her team mates.

This proved decisive in the end, with Sarah-Baldwin stepping her way through the defence one last time, and going 40 metres to score under the posts, steal the win and notch up a hat-trick of tries at the same time.

Final score ‘Nets 40 v Leopards 36.

Sunday June 19, Paparoa Park

Masters of Rugby League +35s modual doubles as the curtain raiser to Howick Hornets Premier women v Manurewa Marlins.

Curtain raisers – Four entertaining masters games from 11am, with our own champion Howick Hornets Masters kicking things off on field 1.

Main game – ‘Nets v Marlins 2:30

 

Students win Good Start Foundation scholarships

Times Team
-
0
Students win Good Start Foundation scholarships
Good times – from left, Charis Prins, Good Start Foundation founder, CEO Michelle Prasad and Sonali Patel.

Two Edgewater College students have won scholarships offered by the Good Start Foundation.

Charis Prins and Sonali Patel were each awarded $2500 which can go towards study fees or course-related equipment.

They are the foundation’s first scholarship recipients.

Prins was head girl and was proxime accessit of Edgewater College in 2021. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Science at the University of Auckland

Michelle Prasad, founder and CEO of The Good Start Foundation, said the reason Prins received a scholarship was because “she is a selfless young person always putting everyone else ahead of herself”.

“Apart from an outstanding student, she is also an active volunteer in the community.”

Her volunteering activities include, beach clean-ups, bird conservation, killing weeds in east Auckland and being part of the Middlemore Foundation where she crochets blankets for babies.

“She intends to volunteer on Great Barrier Island as a kitchen hand, volunteer for food banks and animal care,” Prasad said.

Meanwhile Patel was leader of the Pastoral Committee Edgewater College in 2021 and is currently studying a Bachelor of Education at AUT (speciality in primary teaching).

“Sonali is all about respect and perseverance. She was on the Howick Youth Council in 2021 where she delivered a range of projects to represent, develop and connect the young people of east Auckland,” Prasad said.

“She is a highly committed volunteer, she volunteers for food banks, rest homes, church groups and for homeless shelters.”

The Good Start Foundation was founded by Prasad who attended Edgewater College in late 2020.

She was named head girl, achieved excellent grades, founded her own company, received distinguished awards and was still rejected for multiple scholarship opportunities.

This inspired her to start the Good Start Foundation to help students who do so much for their community but don’t have the financial security and means to study further.

She founded Kiwi Essence in 2018 with friends when she was attending Edgewater College in 2019. She carried it forward into 2020.

Kiwi Essence won multiple awards – the YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) Excellence in Product Design for the East Auckland Region and Excellence in Perseverance Category in the East Auckland Region Awards. She also assisted in the company’s inclusion in the EA Region Top 8 YES Companies list.

The next scholarships will not just target Edgewater College students. Prasad plans to open them up to students from the wider east/south Auckland area. “Last year I only opened it up to Edgewater, it was a way to give back to my former school,” she said.

 

 

 

New exhibitions at Te Tuhi

Times Team
-
0
New exhibitions at Te Tuhi
Photographer Parbhu Makan’s work Chandu’s Wellington, Parhbu mama’s place 70s. Photo supplied

Two new exhibitions will be up and running at Te Tuhi’s main galleries this month.

From June 12, Elsewhere and nowhere else and The house is full will be open to the public until September 4.

Elsewhere and nowhere else, curated by Vera Mey, features artwork by Kah Bee Chow, Li-Ming Hu and Yuk King Tan, three artists who are inherently connected to Aotearoa but live elsewhere.

With practices spread across Sweden, New York City and Hong Kong, the three artists seek to “trouble the notions that separate the local from the international, reminding us how multifarious our connections to the world are,” Te Tuhi says.

The exhibition also marks a significant development in the presentation of international art in New Zealand since the borders were closed in 2020, with Kah Bee Chow and Li-Ming Hu having travelled from overseas to Auckland to participate in talks and events.

The house is full, curated by Dilohana Lekamge, is a group exhibition showcasing artwork by four artists “who stood on fringes of anti-establishment art movements in New Zealand from the 1970s onwards”.

The exhibition features work by established artists Emily Karaka and John Miller and up-and-comers Parbhu Makan (photographer) and Teuane Tibbo (painter).

The house is full highlights the contributions these four have had to the “cultural transformations that were taking place during this decade, as artists whose ancestral homes were not Britain,” Te Tuhi says.

Concrete probabilities, a sculptural work by Deanna Dowling, will also be sitting in Te Tuhi’s foyer. The sculpture explores the relationship between concrete and sea level rise.

Outside of Te Tuhi on the billboards, text-based work Neither Solid nor Liquid, by Hana Pera Aoake and Priscilla Rose Howe, considers the relationship between our bodies and the natural world.

On the Digital billboard, Kirstin Carlin’s work Standing in the Sun sees her expand beyond the small oil paintings she is famous for.

Top cop fronts public meeting on crime

Chris Harrowell
-
0
Top cop fronts public meeting on crime
Counties Manukau East Police area commander, inspector Scott Gemmell, discussed law and order issues with local residents at a public meeting on June 13. Times file photo Wayne Martin

There’s been an influx of gang members into east Auckland in recent years and dealing with their offending is impacting police resources.

That’s among the information the area’s top cop shared at a public meeting on law and order issues organised by Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown on June 13.

About 100 people turned out to Howick Bowling Club to hear from Brown as well as Counties Manukau East Police area commander, inspector Scott Gemmell, senior sergeant Anson Lin and Howick police sergeant Brett Meale.

Brown opened the meeting by talking about the recent spike in crime locally, including suspected gang shootings and ram-raid burglaries of retail stores.

“I know by just speaking to a number of you on the way in you’re being impacted even in your own neighbourhoods by anti-social behaviour, crime, the increased presence of gangs in our community and the tensions that we’re seeing,” he said.

“This is not an issue which is simply something that is out there in the media.

“More and more often it’s unfortunately coming closer to home.”

Gemmell told the audience about his family background and police experience before giving an overview about the main issues relating to crime in the area.

He talked about the young ages of some youths involved in the recent ram-raid burglaries and how police are working with the families involved to stop such offending.

“It’s a tough job and we’re dealing with some very complex family issues.”

An audience member asked whether police have seen an increase in gang members living in the area and what impact that’s had on police resources.

Gemmell said there have always been a number of gangs in the Counties Manukau East area.

“We are seeing an influx of gangs that we traditionally didn’t have probably five to six years ago.

“That was an influx of gangs like the Comancheros, Mongols, Head Hunters and Rebels.

“So yes, we have seen an influx of gang members coming into our area.

“That’s independent of the growth within the Killer Beez and the Tribesmen already.”

Gemmell said the increase in gang members in the area is impacting police resources.

“If they’re involved in any unlawful behaviour, which many of them are, and it involves drug dealing or firearms offences, that’s necessarily taking Brett’s team, [and] all of Anson’s three prevention teams.”

A resident asked if police were aware of all the properties in the area from which illegal drugs are sold.

Meale said police receive a lot of information about “drug addresses” from members of the public.

“It’s not as simple as someone ringing up and saying ‘there’s drug dealing going on at that house’ and we go around there.

“There’s a lot of background work gathering more evidence to corroborate what’s going on.”

On the question of whether some sentences handed down in New Zealand are too lenient, Brown said he’s concerned by the Labour Government’s policy of reducing the prison population by 30 per cent.

“That’s not to say we don’t want to see fewer people locked up, but I want to see fewer people locked up because there’s less crime.

“I don’t want to just see fewer people in jail because the Government decides there should be fewer people in jail.”

PURC Prems notch up win

Times Team
-
0
PURC Prems notch up win
Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s Premiers beat Waitemata at Bell Park on Saturday. Times file photo

The Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s (PURC) Premiers held fast for a win over Waitemata taking the match 26-24 at Bell Park on Saturday.

Premier Development dominated beating Waitemata 41-17 while the U21 Cannons also shone with a 29-5 win over Puketapapa Roskill.

The U21 Guns went down 16-31 to Ponsonby while the U85kg Black Panthers beat Grammar Tec 21-13.

The Women’s 10S Belles had a punishing match-up losing 0-51 to Puketapapa Roskill while The Presidents won over Grammar Tec.

Peebles makes NZ junior swim squad

Times Team
-
0
Peebles makes NZ junior swim squad
Liv Peebles is going to the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Games. Photo Swimcloud

New Zealand has named a 23-swimmer strong team for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Games to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from August 24 – 27.

Included in the squad is Liv Peebles, a Year 12 student at Saint Kentigern College who swims for TBSS Central City based in Mt Eden.

The team consists of 16 girls and 7 boys, headlined by Aquablack Laura Littlejohn (St Pauls) returning to the pool after she will have recently competed at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships, said Swimming NZ’s National Development Leader and Team Leader, Alastair Johnson.

“With this being the first opportunity for our next generation of age group swimmers to race internationally since the 2019 Australian State Teams, it’s a great opportunity for these swimmers to come up against other young swimmers from around the Pacific,” Johnson said.

“A huge well done to these athletes and to their coaches for navigating such a challenging 12 months to achieve the selection criteria.

“For most of these athletes, JPP will be their first international event and whilst their overseas experience will be limited, their enthusiasm to do themselves and New Zealand proud will be very high.

“I am looking forward to seeing the team achieve their best in Hawaii and to make meaningful strides towards 2024 and beyond.”

The team will be involved in the Tri-Series and a micro camp from July 9 – 11 in Christchurch as the swimmers tune up for their trip to Hawaii.

Elite ready for assault on France

Times Team
-
0
Elite ready for assault on France
Howick’s Liam Draper, a former Botany Downs Secondary School student, currently racing the Grand National Cross-country Championships in the United States, will travel to France to join Team New Zealand. Photo Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com

By Andy McGechan

D-Day is fast approaching for New Zealand’s expeditionary forces and their much-anticipated landing on the shores of France.

Preparations for New Zealand’s first assault on the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) in 16 years is progressing at great pace and confidence is high that the Kiwi riders will acquit themselves with distinction at the 2022 edition in southern France in just over two-and-a-half months’ time.

Not since 2006 has New Zealand entered a team at the ISDE, but this year it has an extremely strong contingent and must fancy its chances of strong results at this high-profile off-road motorcycling event – to be staged near the town of Le Puy en Velay, in southern France, from August 29 and September 3.

The ISDE will again attract the dirt bike racing elite from all corners of the planet, with the Kiwi contingent thrilled to be a part of that and Team New Zealand manager Justin Stevenson, from Porirua, said he was having weekly meetings with the team members to sort out logistics, travel and accommodation to make this happen.

Stevenson is being assisted in his task by MNZ board member and experienced former motocross team manager Mike McLeod, also from the Wellington region.

“Queen’s Birthday Monday’s event near Porirua (round two of the New Zealand Enduro Championships) represented terrain very similar to what we might expect in France,” said Stevenson.

A strong contingent of supporters will also be travelling to assist the team during the event in France.

The senior New Zealand Trophy Team comprises Helensville’s Tom Buxton, Howick’s Liam Draper, Cambridge’s Dylan Yearbury and Whanganui’s Seth Reardon.

Reardon was elevated from the reserves after Christchurch’s Hamish Macdonald, currently based in Europe and racing the enduro world championships, was recently side-lined with injury.

The New Zealand Junior Team will be Oparau’s James Scott, Wairoa’s Tommy Watts and Taupo’s Wil Yeoman.

Rangiora’s Ben Dando, Oratia’s Callan May, Waitoki’s Ben Cottrill and Helensville’s Josh Jack will also tackle the ISDE in France and will be on standby as reserve riders if a current Trophy or Junior team member becomes injured.

Dan Watson, a Kiwi who now calls Zambia his home, will travel as a support rider, with Levin’s Dan Walker yet to confirm, but also likely to join as a support rider.

Yearbury, Reardon, Watts and Scott have been champions on the New Zealand scene in recent years, Yearbury winning the national enduro crown last year and Reardon in 2019. Watts was the 2021 national cross-country champion and Scott wrapped up the 2022 cross-country title just last month.

“What our riders are facing here at home is all very good training for the ISDE. We are doing a lot of extra training too,” said Stevenson.

“We recently completed a day of training with (Kiwi enduro legend) Sean Clarke in Taupo and this week we have two days of training with (New Zealand’s multi-time United States cross-country champion) Paul Whibley at his Taikorea facility, just outside Palmerston North.

“Hopefully we will be able to build this long term too, to get back into the swing of New Zealand sending a contingent to the ISDE every year from here forward.”

Where are the fairies and elves?

Staff
-
0

I spotted these on Stockade Hill near the ‘Christmas’ tree today, Saturday, 4 June.

The elves and fairies were hiding!

I included the match box for size comparison.

Vicky Williamson
Bucklands Beach

1...300301302...690Page 301 of 690

Join the Times Online Newsletter for all the latest news, developments and more.

About

The Times is published by Times Media, an independently-owned publishing company based in East Auckland, founded in 1972.

Useful Links

Latest News

Copyright © Times Media 2025