Times Newspapers’ owner and managing director Reay Neben has seen a good deal of change since founding the Howick & Pakuranga Times 45 years ago.
Howick and Pakuranga Times is celebrating its 45th birthday, prompting me to reflect on what it has meant to be the publisher of such a long-standing local newspaper.
My first thought is that we wouldn’t have...
Electoral officials will be showing the love on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14, with a One Stop Shop at Botany Library from 10.30am to 1pm for the Howick Local Board Botany Sub-division by-election.
Anyone who hasn’t received a voting pack or who hasn’t yet enrolled on the electoral roll for the Botany by-election can be enrolled and issued with a...
This week’s appeal has reached $30,000! Thank you Howick!
We still need more donations as the fight is still ongoing and we must win! Please send donations through www.givealittle.co.nz (key word “Stockade”) or straight to our bank account ASB Highland Park 12-3089-0123712-02 (Name and email please for receipts). (If you don’t have a receipt you probably did not put your name...
Former Times reporter Marianne Kelly offers her personal recollections.
Regional immigrants to Auckland, as I was in the early 70s, will remember their first visit to Howick village through the country paddocks of Pakuranga on a narrow two-lane concrete road.
These days, as I cover well-worn tracks, my thoughts often drift to the way places or landmarks looked then compared with...
Having begun his international cricket career in controversy in 2012 by dropping captain Ross Taylor for Brendon McCullum, Black Caps cricket coach Mike Hesson has made his critics eat their words.
New Zealand’s 2-0 whitewash of Australia in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy on Sunday has lifted them to third in the World ODI standings, the latest win in Hamilton being their...
Getting quality legal advice is now much easier for Pohutukawa Coast residents.
Special services for locals are now on offer from Braden Matson and Breanna Fuller, who both work as lawyers with the well-established law firm, Frost & Sutcliffe.
They are offering to make house calls for clients by appointment, including outside of normal working hours, for those who would prefer...
Everyone likes a good debate.
The Times Botany by-election debate, held at Botany Library on Friday evening at 6.30pm, served its purpose.
It provided a perfect platform for the local electorate to hear, observe, question, probe and make an informed decision about the seven candidates standing for the local by-election.
The idea behind taking the initiative of hosting a public forum was...
He turned up to the Times Botany by-election debate on Friday night, ready to listen, and too young to vote.
Dressed in his Pakuranga College school uniform, year 12 student Te Haua Taua was seated in the crowd with high expectations for what the night would bring.
The 15-year-old student, who heard about the debate on Facebook, said he’s “interested in...
Nine Lotto players – including two locals – will be celebrating today after each winning $15,282 with Lotto Second Division in Wednesday’s live Lotto draw.
The local winning Second Division tickets were sold at the following stores – Pakuranga Lotto and Paper Plus Howick.
Howick Local Board chairman David Collings has narrowly avoided having his name sent to police by Election Services after he was seven weeks late handing in his electoral donations and expenses returns.
Section 112A of the Local Electoral Act 2001 requires every election candidate to file a return of electoral donations and expenses “within 55 days after the day on...
Twenty-year-old Katie Lin, who was returning home on a Saturday night last month, remembers seeing a strange glow down her road. She wasn’t quite sure, but the bright light in the distance looked like a ball of raging fire.
And it looked dangerously close to where she lived.
Her suspicions were confirmed as she drove closer. She was confronted with ball...
Occupants of a Cockle Bay house that caught fire this morning are lucky to be safe, a firefighter at the scene told the Times.
Three fire trucks and a police vehicle attended the scene on Litten Road, where a two-storey house was burning.
The occupants were shaken but unharmed.
Station officer John Searle confirmed that his team received the emergency call at...
Six local figures were recognised in the New Year’s Honours list.
Olympian and World Champion shot-putter Valerie Adams was made a Dame. Triathlete Cameron Brown, health services proponent Ranjna Patel, and shareholders’ advocate Bruce Sheppard were appointed Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit, while former hockey international Katie Glynn and table tennis champion Chunli Li were made Members...
