Tinui Times

25/07/2025

COLD NIGHT ON THE WAY

Tinui was covered in frost this morning, followed by a perfect midwinter day.

The temperature went from -2.4 at 8 am this morning, to 18 degrees at 2.30 pm.

At 8.30 pm tonight the temperature at the airfield by Peaks Road has already dropped to 1.9 degrees.

BRRR! 😰😰

25/07/2025

Don't forget to add your contributions to the Tasman baking ingredients appeal. You can leave goods at the Riverrsdale Riversdale Beach Store, Castlepoint Store, or the Tinui Bar and Cafe

Wow thankyou rural Wairarapa for your generosity! As we start to collect up the donations of items for The Big Bake Up we are humbled by the support!

We know these ingredients will help make delicious meals and baking for the Tasman Region and recipients will appreciate their care packages 😍

We look forward to boxing these all up and getting them on a courier early next week!

A massive shout out and thank you to Kahurangi Estate in Nelson, who have kindly offered to support us with the costs of freight and will hand deliver the boxes to the Big Bake team 💗

🧚🏻 Amy

24/07/2025

Clearly the judges didn't taste the beautiful Tinui Village water supply. It comes from a spring under Tinui Taipo, consistently gets A grade water quality results and tastes beautiful.

A drinking water competition has compared the best of the best when it comes to the taste and smell of drinking water, and an Australian water source has clinched the prize.

23/07/2025

TARATAHI UPDATE
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa Tāmaki nui-a-Rua Investment Trust is one of two bidders for the assets of Taratahi so they can get the facility back to providing food and fibre agricultural training.

"Carterton mayor Ron Mark said the prospect of Taratahi being revitalised by local iwi was heartening, especially during a challenging time for young people trying to get jobs and adults seeking to retrain.

However, he acknowledged that any potential buyers faced a significant task ahead.

Mark said, due to the state of the assets and infrastructure, buyers needed to negotiate at the right price to “justify investing the money to resuscitate it”."

Fingers crossed.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360765217/hopes-high-taratahi-revival

23/07/2025

The business side of Homewood Station in 1913.

In the foreground are the yards full of sheep and the woolshed.

In the background, left to right is a cottage peeping through the trees, then Homewood Homestead up on the hill, another cottage and possibly a couple more cottages. In short, quite a lot of accommodation. Maybe a Tatham could name all the cottages.

Photo / Wairarapa Arts Centre Collection, Wairarapa Archive - 90-017/396

23/07/2025

In July 1939 the Wairarapa was covered in snow following a storm. This lovely photo, taken on the lawn at Matariki, shows (from left) Wilson Paku, his son Francis Paku, aged four, the snowman and Wattie Waaka, who worked at Matariki.

Photo | Francis Paku

21/07/2025

RURAL MAMAS is a great initiative set up by Sarah Tatham in association with the Rural Support Trust - Wairarapa

If you know someone who has had a baby recently or if you're struggling with wee ones in rural Wairarapa and could do with some support, give Rural Support Trust a call on 0800 787 254 or email [email protected],

https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/lifestyle/rural-lifestyle-leisure/rural-mama-sets-out-to-support-new-wairarapa-mums/

20/07/2025

A bright and bustling Queen Street, Masterton, taken in maybe 1910 as part of the Aldersley series of postcards.

The view appears to be looking south from the Queen Street-Church Street intersection. McLeod and Young, booksellers, are in a prominent position on the corner, now occupied by the Wairarapa Building Society (WBS). The Post Office (out of sight) would be on the opposite corner. Wires are everywhere.

Photo / Canterbury Museum Collection https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/1117146/postcard-queen-street-masterton

20/07/2025

Here's some horse-drawn vehicles and people in Charles Street, Tinui in 1900.

The photo quality isn't great, but you can see the Tinui Post and Telegraph Office in the background, the Tinui General Store behind another building in the foreground.

It must be summer as the girls on horses are wearing white smocks/dresses and the road looks nice and dry.

Photo / Johnston family, Tinui Historical Society Collection, Wairarapa Archive - 05-39/P-E-16-1

19/07/2025

Three youngsters enjoying enormous ice creams at the Castlepoint Store

19/07/2025

Google has just launched Moving Archives, which turns old photos of people into moving images. Here's a sample from the Harley-Davidson Museum.

Note: this might be a bit slow-loading on slow internet connections.

Explore archival photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum collection, brought to life with the help of Veo and Gemini.