Colin McCahon is the region's most revered artist. He reconceived Aotearoa as the land of the long black shadow. Squinting into the hard sun, McCahon saw, "something logical, orderly and beautiful belonging to the land and not yet its people”

AUCKLANDERS ENJOY SUMMER WEATHER: A New Year scene at the beach at Titirangi, where many holidaymakers took advantage of th« ideal weather conditions prevailing during the holiday season.

According to Ivan Clulee, in his marvellous book “Post Office Buildings in the Auckland Province” (actually Auckland Region, but that’s by-the-by …) “In Don Buck Road, one of the major arterial roads in the resi…dential area of Massey, a post office was located in leased premises from 26 July 1965 until closure on 27 January …

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For Māori, Te Henga or Bethells as it is also known, is a very important location. During pre-European times the Waitakere ranges including ...

Section of the beach tramway between Karekare and Whatipu, Auckland. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, between 1915 and 1916. This section ...

Postcard purchased June 2013. At front, left, Peat's gift shop, and his Treasure House. Rear, left, Alec Bishop's house; at right "Quambi/Quamby", F O Peat's house. Information from Titirangi Fringe of Heaven, p. 72. This card was another recent purchase from the UK. Seeing postcards for West Auckland on the auction market that aren’t to do with the Waitakere falls is unusual, so I went ahead and took the plunge. The Titirangi Treasure House, a private museum meant to become part of a grand…

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