Akoako

01/06/2026

Book Launch 18th June at 6pm, at Schrodinger's Book Shop 137 Jackson St. Petone. If you are in Welly at the time - you are more than welcome to join me.

23/10/2025

30/10/2022

Lost Village of Mararewa

21/10/2022

Let's remember what this Labour Weekend is all about - this man Samuel Duncan Parnell - and his vision - from 1840 - on Petone beach!! And to think that his grave is still hidden among lots of graves in the old Bolton Street Cemetery.

29/09/2022

Another interesting find out in Motueka.

06/09/2022

More from our historian in the Nelson/Tasman area

25/03/2022

Here we go again, dont some Councils ever learn? And haven't we heard about the Fishers before in a similar situation??

A north Auckland iwi say developers of a luxuty lodge want to lock them out of the urupā where generations of ancestors are buried.

13/03/2022

This will not be the only place in our country where this has happened.

A bid is being made to get a plaque erected in memory of thousands of impoverished people whose remains were re-buried in unmarked graves at a Wellington cemetery in the mid-1900s because their plots hadn't been paid for.

14/02/2022

Too many Councils without proper Heritage/Historical considerations - only interested in appeasing developers for the almighty dollar that they can gain!!

Christchurch heritage campaigners are shocked at plans to demolish 103-year-old war memorial building. They want the city council to revoke the decision.

28/01/2022

Despicable and the usual softly softly approach from HeritageNZ has not helped.
When will HNZ take a much more proactive stance on this sort of Historical Issue?

Even after contracting company J Swap learned of a slip that had destroyed part of an historically significant pā site, it kept blasting.