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Do you have any great eel stories?

Te Awamutu Museum is planning an exhibition on eels, which will open in April of this year. We want to include stories from local people with their experiences of eels around Waipa.

We are looking for true tales of giant eels, stories of injuries caused by eels, or mysteries surrounding eels, where are the best places to find eels now, or where in the past could eels be found? The longfin eel is endangered so the exhibition will also ...

His real name is Hugh but his nephews couldn’t pronounce it and opted for the simpler ‘Q’. When he invented his recreational submarine he, quite sensibly called it the Q-Sub. Its’ a two person vessel designed and built in New Zealand and can dive to over 120 metres and you’ll be pleased to know that you can stick it on your credit card for under one million US.

Rather than looking back all the time as we septuagenarians tend to do, I sometimes enjoy trying to be prescient; isn’t that ...

Journey back through time in our newly renovated Tangata Whenua gallery and discover the history of the Tainui people who settled in the Waipa district through their taonga, on display for the first time.

We are open every day. Free entry.

For details visit www.tamuseum.org.nz.

We are what we eat. I quite unashamedly enjoy my food and have always suffered from being ‘over weight’ although nowadays Doctors refer to one as suffering from obesity, trying tactically to shame one into eating less I suppose.

In the 1970s a French writer called Georges Perec wrote a book entitled, ‘Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Four’. It must have been of limited interest and ...

You, the people of Christchurch should, between shakes, stand up and take a bow. I salute your ongoing bravery; mine would have crumbled long ago. Earthquakes make one feel so insignificant; I just cannot imagine what it must be like to be living with them continuously. The fear of the next one must be horrific and, like most other New Zealanders I suspect, I’m just glad my life isn’t plugged into Christchurch.

Your position is akin to two other cities, who during the recent past, ...

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