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For the third year now, Chris Hornblow and Shane Adlington have organised the annual Model A Day at Chris & Raewyn’s fantastic property in Oratia, West Auckland. This year on Saturday 27th February, there were 48 cars in attendance which included one Model T that snuck in and additionally there was also a Fordson tractor! The diverse mix of restored or barn found stockers through to fully hot rodded versions of Henry’s finest came from all over…

Imagine being stuck in a ‘foxhole’ in the ground as a raging battle in the air took place and bombs were exploding all around you. This is what my father Eugene Warwood endured during his Second World War service with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Vanuatu’s Green Islands. Eugene was a Staff Sergeant, a cook with the RNZAF Radar Group supporting the New Zealand 3rd Division in the Battle of the Green Islands (Operation Squarepeg) that was…

Topher and I were lucky enough to be granted access by the local iwi to one of their hidden landscapes. It's an area only a few hours north from where Bridget grew up, but somewhere that very few in the area have had the opportunity to explore. · Accessing the area involves driving 10 km up a beautiful white sandy subtropical beach. The beach access limits your time exploring, as when the tide is high the beach is impassable.

What on earth is going on? In my late 70s I look back on values that have changed in my lifetime and find myself wondering just where we are heading now. Who and what is driving our country and what’s their agenda. It seems to me abundantly clear over the last months, we are travelling head on into a reverse Apartheid New Zealand apparently condoned by our Government. The population of New Zealand is approx. 15% Maori, and even this is unclear.…

There are so many reasons to capture the moment. You can justify this so many ways, however, if you miss that moment, the justification is replaced with just one feeling... regret. · “There are so many possibilities when it comes to portraying imagery and that is where experience and creative development comes into play”, comments Tatiana. · “Whether it’s images for your business; website, social media, portraits or your personal memories;…

A bizarre craze seems to be sweeping New Zealand right now. All things derived from Europe except our creature comforts must be set aside as we are expected to embrace all things Maori. It’s racism on a grand scale. No longer do our television stations refer to New Zealand. In fact, we are lucky if its Aotearoa-New Zealand. No reference to the fact that, as Michael King shows, Maori didn’t have a name for these lands, and only came to accept…

So much has happened since I wrote my last column for the February edition that it’s hard to know what on Earth to focus on both internationally and here in New Zealand. In the February edition, I expressed the view that Donald Trump was the worst US President in my lifetime. And since then we have seen Trump’s impeachment, for the second time, this time for inciting the insurrection of 6 January. The Senate voted 57 votes to 43 to find him…

PCR tests maybe problematic, but you cannot deny excess mortality... or can you? ·

When Hugh Hewitt was exposed to COVID, his doctor quickly prescribed Ivermectin, which he had not heard of. The use of Ivermectin for COVID is the subject of a great deal of discussion. Dr Pierre Kory is a proponent of its use. A transcript of the interview is reproduced below. __HH__ : As I have told my audience, two members of my production team have COVID. I was exposed last week. My doctor of 20 years prescribed Ivermectin, which I’m…

As New Zealand rolls out its vaccine program for COVID-19 it must be appreciated that, as in other parts of the world, it is not the silver bullet to return to our lives pre-Covid. What we must urgently address is the need to actually treat COVID-19 in its early stages of infection, before patients end up critical in ICU. · Well-read elocal readers will know that ivermectin that is an FDA-approved drug that has shown significantly positive…