On your marks
High school students, aimed, leaped and had an appetite for the finish line at the Thames Valley Secondary Schools Athletics at Paeroa Domain on March 14. Reporter GORDON PREECE took…
Hikutaia local Bill Quinn outside the Pioneer Tavern which the community is hoping to buy. PHOTO: TERESA RAMSEY
Last call to purchase Hikutaia pub
The discussion to buy a pub began over a beer. But it wasn’t just idle talk, and it wasn’t just any pub - it was the Pioneer Tavern in Hikutaia,…
Thomas Menefy has more than 500 hives on 18 Waihī farms. Photo: SUPPLIED
Hive of activity at Waihī-based apiary
Thomas Menefy is the king bee of Menefy Honey & Pollination which he established on his Waihī lifestyle block in 2015 to service nearby kiwifruit orchards for pollination.The former fertiliser…