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November 29, 2024
George Wood lined up for the chop?... p4
Cultural practice thwarted at cemetery... p5
Interview: Ceramics lover Louise de Varga... p18-19
Devonport the star of in-depth documentary
Filming has started on a 90-minute Devonport documentary. Television veteran Colin McRae, who produced the acclaimed New Zealand Wars series and numerous other documentaries and current affairs programmes, has already shot the starts of the Coastal Classic yacht
race and the Auckland Marathon, along with boats at Devonport Yacht Club being launched for summer, to provide footage for the project. He’s eagerly awaiting the pōhutukawa flowering on the waterfront. Subjects covered by the documentary will
include: the area’s discovery by Māori and Europeans, missionaries, churches, education, boatbuilding, commerce, architecture, the Navy, sport and the arts, transport, ferries, activism and protest during the 1960s and 70s, local-body amalgamation, the battle To page 2
Fierce haka fires up revived festival
Showcase returns... Bayswater School’s kapa haka group give it everything at the Onepoto Cultural Festival at Onepoto Primary School in Northcote last week. The major North Shore event returned for the first time since before Covid, attracting groups from around 40 schools, including peninsula schools Bayswater, Belmont Primary, Devonport Primary and Stanley Bay.
COMBINED 29 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WILL ALWAYS MATTER Bianca O’Dea 021 361 116
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