Wairarapa Midweek

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NewsBank
Publication date:
2022-02-17

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  • Remembering a rural cinematic legend

    Best known for documenting the Wairarapa community on film, restoring old Super 8 footage and for converting an old telephone exchange into a rural movie theatre, Fred Holloway was a local treasure. He died this month, aged 96. Masterton film- maker Phil Stebbing, who interviewed Fred while working for the Local Focus video journalism project, remembers a man who loved both cinema and people.

  • Peace and perseverance on the lake

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  • Community events

    THURSDAY

  • Stop doomscrolling: look for the good

    OPINION: I was recently listening to a discussion in which a panel was asked a question about what to do when everything happening in the world just seems to be overwhelming. What happens, for example, when you feel utter despair and like giving up?

  • We need a new kind of forest

    We all understand the value of forests, like our Tararua Forest Park. We can see how they hold hill slopes together and shelter a myriad of birds, insects and native plants.

  • Rescuers in race to save Henley’s sick birds

    Animal rescue services are working around the clock to retrieve sick birds from Henley Lake as an outbreak of avian botulism continues to ravage the area.

  • Kiwi journalist shares reality of West Bank

    A New Zealand photojournalist will be sharing his experience of living in Palestine’s West Bank in Masterton on Friday.

  • Pair old adages with real action

    OPINION: In an episode of one of my favourite web series, the main character deduces her toddler daughter is terrified of her newborn cousin – who, according to Miss 3, is “loud, mad and smelly”.

  • When Dr Death chucked out the ref

    Before Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy there was ... Dr Death. Mark Pacey of the Wairarapa Archive recalls the 1972 visit of the 18 stone wrestler to Masterton.

  • Silence on land, speed on water: Teen paddler off to the world champs

    Lexus Hunter is a shy 13-year-old. In new places or around people she doesn’t know, she often goes completely silent.

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