Tag: Mellons Bay
Howick beaches and bush walks
Keen walker David Mallowes offers suggestions about fun and interesting routes people can take to get some exercise and enjoy the area in his new...
Mixed results for battling Mellons Bay Premier netball team
Here's the latest netball results featuring an east Auckland team:
Regional Premier League – Friday, August 2 - indoor courts at Manurewa
Mellons Bay Premier 1...
UPDATED – Police, fire fighters responding to overturned vehicle
Emergency services are at the scene of a vehicle crash in east Auckland.
A black vehicle has overturned this morning, February 12, on Bleakhouse Road...
Do-not-swim order at Howick Beach
Safeswim has issued active swim warnings at several Auckland beaches including two in east Auckland.
There are 10 do-not-swim warnings at Auckland beaches including Howick...
Police find drugs while searching for items stolen from tourists
Police allegedly recovered illegal drugs while searching for electronic items stolen from a group of tourists staying in east Auckland.
Counties Manukau East Police area...
Volunteers contribute to planting success
Mellons Bay volunteers had two very successful planting bees at the weekend with about 40 volunteers on Saturday and more than 20 on Sunday.
All...
MP blames gang shootings on “soft-on-crime” approach
Gang warfare is spreading into east Auckland with two houses in Flat Bush and Mellons Bay being shot at by armed offenders in recent...
Petition to let dogs run free
East Auckland dog owners are petitioning for the right to let their canine friends run free at a local beach.
The Mellons Bay Dog Lovers...
$110,000 fine for breaching sensitive land rules
The Auckland High Court has ordered defendant Cong Zhang to pay a civil penalty of $110,000 and $15,000 in costs for failing to get...
WWII air force hero turns 100
One of the very few remaining New Zealanders who served in RAF Bomber Command in World War II celebrates a milestone birthday this weekend.
Squadron...
Call for working bee help
McLeay Reserve in Mellons Bay - which was first tended to in the 1970s by residents Doug and Elena McLeay - is to get...
Outrage over Kauri illegally chopped
Residents are outraged and council is investigating following the tree topping of five Kauri tree in Mellons Bay recently.
Auckland Council has confirmed that permission...
Mayor surveys storm damage
As the storm that battered the country earlier this year becomes a distant memory, the focus is turning to how to prepare for the...
Snow in east Auckland?
Last Thursday, east Auckland experienced clouds, rain, hail, thunder and lightning and...snow?
One Mellons Bay resident was shocked to discover a load of what looked...
Netball: Mellons Bay 1 v Shelly Park 2
Mellons Bay 1 played Shelly Park 2 at Howick Pakuranga Netball Centre. Saturday July 01, 2017. Photos Wayne Martin.
Pipe testing concludes in Mellons Bay
Watercare’s extensive pipe testing programme in Mellons Bay has finished, with problems found at 54 properties of the 1500 properties that were inspected.
Inspectors found...
Watercare launches pipe inspections
Watercare has launched an inspection of public and private wastewater pipes from every house in Mellons Bay in an effort to reduce wet weather...
Blomfield illustrates dodgey fibre installs
Darren Blomfield's cartoon takes a look at the Mellons Bay infrastructure.
Locals were this week venting about sub-standard broadband installations by infrastructure provider Chorus in...