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PAKU VIEWS
ISSUE 5 SPRING 2012
What’s Inside
SPRING 2012
Cover Artist Joanne Mahoney............................................3
PakuViews Contest............................................................5
The Paua. ...................................................................... 6-8
Beer Banter and Upcoming Fun Events..............................9
Puka Park Celebrates 25 years........................................ 10
WineWord........................................................................ 11
Community Calendar ................................................. 12-13
125 years of Rugby - the History. ...............................14-17
Diving the Aldermans....................................................... 18
Growing your Spring Garden...................................... 20-21
Shopping Locally this Kiwi Christmas........................ 22-23
School Happenings.................................................... 24-25
About & Around Town................................................ 26-28
Publishers/Editors
Tovi and Greg Daly
Administrative
Greg Daly
Design & Layout
Matt Hishon – Anomaly
Contributing Writers/Editors
Carol Wright Tovi Daly
Claire Fitzjames Kade Cory-Wright
Karen Vowles Gwyn Warren Gary Barker Alex Harris
Calendar Coordinator
Greg Daly
Contributing Artists/Photographers
Joanne Mahoney – Cover Art
Tovi & Greg Daly Rowena Brown Gail New Roberta Huffman
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I
have never experienced a more beautiful Spring
than those we have here in the Coromandel. And
“fingers crossed” that all the rain will reward us
with an even finer and warmer one this year.
While living in Hawaii and the Pacific NW, we loved the
abundant flora of both, and living in Tairua we get a
magnificent combination of the two—tropicals such
as jasmine, gardenia, proteas and orchids, as well as
the familiar plants of our northern home: flowering
fruit trees, azaleas, rhodies, lilacs and roses—and a
myriad of bulbs like tulips, hyacinths and gladiolas.
Many are not only beautiful to behold, but beautiful
to smell.
Profuse colour and warmer weather are not the only
fun things to anticipate. The “Brits” are coming again
this year, and not far behind the long Labour weekend
is our 1st annual Tairua/Pauanui Chocolate Festival
followed by Christmas holidays and our magnificent
fireworks display New Year’s Eve. And—Daylight
Savings Time (although I never understood why they
call it that, it’s more like “Daylight Moving” Time).
We had a lot of fun bringing this issue to you. Piecing
together 125 years of Tairua rugby was not only
challenging detective work, but fascinating. What an
achievement for our pioneers—the team is one of the
oldest in New Zealand. I tried to get my head around
what it must have been like living in Tairua that long
ago—what it meant to travel to even nearby towns in
those early days, with no roads and no cars.
Our investigative digging into the history of rugby in
the Coromandel yielded some great results (see p14-
17), and look for continuing articles in the upcoming
Summer issue. We are counting on you to help
complete the story by searching out those old photos,
scrapbooked news clippings, relics, a memory, etc.
And our cover art—I have always loved the beautiful
iconic Paua, but never realised how much more there
was to unearth (well, “un-pry”) about not only the
shell but the creature inside (see p8-10).
It is amazing how much there is to learn and share
about our small area. It never fails that I always wish
I had another 32 pages (which would also give our
designer Matt, a bit more ‘breathing’ room to give
features and images the space they deserve).
If Paku-ville wasn’t such a fascinating and
interesting community, there wouldn’t be so
much to “show ’n tell”.
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Have a happy season and we’ll see you in the
New Year!
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