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Traditional art has many uses
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Traditional art has many uses
Bryony Kentfield explains the Japanese art of furoshiki and how to get everyday use out of the eco-friendly wrapping tradition.
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Video games better with friends
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Video games better with friends
Hayden Meikle has enjoyed a fair few years of video gaming. How did 2025 fare?
Those daring young drivers in their jaunty jalopies
Those daring young drivers in their jaunty jalopies
Ashburton Ford Owners’ Annual Run to Geraldine and Woodbury Bush, October 25, 1915.
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Vintage shop keeps the doc away
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Vintage shop keeps the doc away
For Waikaka Valley's Jan Wards, collecting and selling vintage clothing is a therapeutic experience, Gerrit Doppenberg reports.
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Black Tuesday’s import delayed
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Black Tuesday’s import delayed
Mike Houlahan looks at how the Otago Daily Times reacted to news of a crash on the New York stock exchange.
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Valuable lessons in court oddities
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Valuable lessons in court oddities
Court reporting can be a sordid, sobering business, but these stories stood out to court reporter Felicity Dear for their uniqueness, ironies and life lessons.
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Spot of tennis at smoko
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Spot of tennis at smoko
Staff playing tennis at the factory court of the New Zealand Wax Vesta Company in Caversham in 1936.
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Enabling children to thrive
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Enabling children to thrive
One woman’s passion is changing the lives of hundreds of families in the Wakatipu Basin. Allied Media talks to Lisa Leftley about her hopes for her charity, born from Covid.
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Building once a hive of activity
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Building once a hive of activity
This Port Chalmers landmark was once a busy hub of industry, John Lewis reports.
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Hopping down the rabbit hole
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Hopping down the rabbit hole
Nick Brook shares the ups and downs of multigenerational rabbit ownership.
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Old morgue deathly silent
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Old morgue deathly silent
John Lewis finds Dunedin’s old morgue nestled in the hill near the Southern Cemetery.
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A sound choice for a scenic swim
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A sound choice for a scenic swim
Ngākuta Bay & Governors Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough.
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Making left turns with Jordan
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Making left turns with Jordan
Many sports fans support teams that represent their region. But many also have a great love for those from further afield. George Elliott, one of a handful of Nascar...
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Merry cherry pickers
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Merry cherry pickers
Miss Bennetts and two others cherry picking at Roxburgh, 1939. — During 2025 staff at Hocken Collections added thousands of images to the Digital Collections website, most of them never...
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Photos of the year: Peter McIntosh
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Photos of the year: Peter McIntosh
Sent out of the office on a wintry day in July to look for photos I captured Logan Park High School athlete Miseki Honjo training on an ice-covered Caledonian Ground track.
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Steps into past and present
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Steps into past and present
Dunedin’s Dowling St Steps provide a gateway to personal and city histories, Tony Love writes.
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Swifts consistently a class act
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Swifts consistently a class act
Many sports fans support teams that represent their region.
Station’s history, town’s foundation
Station’s history, town’s foundation
Retired volunteer station officer George Lockyer visits Clyde Fire Station for his book Fire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Onboard from behind the camera
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Onboard from behind the camera
When Elliot Chilton Phillips discovered he could not keep up with his friends skating, he decided to pick up a camera and film them instead.
Summer jobs: Running a massive inflatable water park
Summer jobs: Running a massive inflatable water park
One of the world's largest inflatable water parks is just outside of Cromwell and local Abbey Bisset is spending her second summer working at the unique spot.
