Howick & Pakuranga Times

The Blankets 4 Kids 4 Winter appeal being organised by Howick Rotary and supported by the Howick Village Association has now been going for a few weeks and is getting good support from the community. Bill Charkow, Rotary Convenor of the project, and Jane Newbury, town centre manager for the Howick […]

The Howick Photographic Society [HPS], in conjunction with the Auckland Festival of Photography and Howick 175, will showcase a large selection of images by award-winning and emerging photographers. The exhibition opens on May 30 with the public welcomed to view the wide range of styles and […]

Gang warfare is spreading into east Auckland with two houses in Flat Bush and Mellons Bay being shot at by armed offenders in recent days. Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown says the Labour Government’s “soft-on-crime” approach is to blame, but the Government says its investment in law and […]

MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE May 25, 2022   Today we are reporting 8150 community cases (8435 yesterday), 368 hospitalisations and 11 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 7308 – last Wednesday, it was 8024. Omicron BA.2.12.1 update We are today reporting […]

Rolls of film discovered on top of a trash can in south-eastern France in 1999 by teenager Olivier Rempher, were later verified by his photographer father, Alain Rempher, to be authentic photographs taken in and around Oflag VII-A Murnau. This German prisoner-of-war camp for Polish Army officers […]

An east Auckland artist has brought the Chorus cabinet on Union Road to life with the stroke of her brush. Graphic designer and illustrator Kate Hindson completed a diploma of visual arts at MIT. Afterwards, she gained work experience in the graphic design industry and now co-runs Titanium Design […]

The Charity Boutique in Howick sold out their cake stall and made more than $500 in honour of ME Awareness Day on May 12. There are around 24,000 New Zealanders with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Some 25% of those are bed or house-bound. It affects all ages, […]

A member of the Times spotted this beautiful arrangement of sunflowers on the Fencible Walkway. Howick continues to be stunning in its old age! The post Season’s greetings in Howick appeared first on Times.

Singing and music were the main focus on an all-afternoon event at Uxbridge over the weekend. On Sunday, the Botany and Flat Bush Ethnic Association held a music day from 2pm-9pm in honour of Howick’s 175th anniversary. The Chinese Folk Art music performed with 10 different traditional […]

Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s Premiers clocked a massive 50-10 win over Waitakere on Saturday. The Premier Development side also put Waitakere to the sword, winning by 67-5. The Premier Development 2S lost be default to Eden while the Under 21 Cannons were too strong for Ponsonby, winning […]