Meet Robin from Muriwai
How have you connected with your culture lately?
"My culture I guess is, one of having been an adventurer most of my life, and I’m currently writing books about those times. So I guess that’s the main contact I have with that. I was born in Lyttleton, the Port of Christchurch back in 1933, and ah, at the age of 12 I entered a classroom and there on the wall was a picture of Captain Scott at the South Pole.
I worked out a plan of how to get there, and every year back in the ‘60s, 1960s, the New Zealand Government invited applications from people to spend a year on Campbell Island which is 400 miles south of Bluff, and I used that as a stepping stone to get to be the leader of Scott Base, and when Sir Edmund Hillary died in 2008, I became the oldest surviving leader, and I’m still that today. So it was a great year in Antarctica and one of the beauties of the modern age is that all of us that were together nearly 50 years ago keep in touch by the internet. So, they’re all around the world now, so that’s a wonderful thing."
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Poll: 🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
Aucklanders, our weekly rubbish collections are staying after councillors voted to scrap a proposed trial of fortnightly pick-ups.
We want to hear from you: would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
Keen for the details? Read up about the scrapped collection trial here.
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82.6% Same!
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17.4% Would have liked to try something different
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
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