Stephen Clarke

Remembrance and hope this March 15.

Mount Maunganui has long been the crown in the RSA badge — the largest RSA in the country — but even cash-rich Tauranga is blinking about taking on the latter's debt and deferred maintenance.

My worst fears are coming true that the revitalisation brand is fast becoming just lipstick on a pig.

Mount RSA weighs future after merger falls through What to do with its ageing Maunganui Rd site to be discussed at March 30 meeting.

When neighbour RSAs cannot even agree there is little hope for national unity. www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...

Sad news today as I was a Wattie’s kid.

In 1971 Dad with his BCom left for his first job as a marketing assistant at Wattie’s. He also joined the baby food canning line in the weekends to save up to return to Dunedin to marry Mum and for us to start our lives together in Hastings. #WattiesKid

My last visit to the Temple ☕️ #RedRibbonRoastIsToast #SmellTheCoffee #TempleOfDoom

Similarly . . .

Labour Reshuffle (The Historic Edition) – pick one or Pic n Mix? #nzpolitics

Mr "22" with his Henderson Intermediate School Y8 Tags Team wins West Auckland Zone. 👐

It’s beautiful, but its books are downgraded by Redmer Yska When our beloved Central Library reopens on Saturday, and you walk through its beautiful spaces again, look out of the corner of your eye and see if you can catch a glimpse of a ghos...

Fill your boots (with books!)

It’s the hubilisation of libraries but I wouldn’t want to return to the old days of the Wellington City Library (City Gallery building) when library police watched over you and only wanted to hear the sound of book leaves turning. wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=178323

Rock stars at the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abby yesterday: inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh ONZM read ‘How to Make a Commonwealth Quilt’ and ‘Reflections’ by Ginger Spice.

Ms 14 playing Super Club Netball in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Exemption from keeping war records sent back to the drawing board A select committee has sent the exemption back to officials to look at again.

This is why History and Historians Matter! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Sunday poems, by Bill Manhire The long-awaited return of a great master with three new poems

Catching up on Sunday poems by @pacificraft.bsky.social on Monday 🙌 newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/08/s...

It's almost Monday lunchtime so how's the lettuce? #GoneByLunchtime

MeTV Presents the Best of Robot from Lost in Space YouTube video by MeTV

Hope it has as good a voice as the Model B-9. #LostInSpace youtu.be/LX6F2LbD7Qk?...

Pavlova Paradise Revisited - First Episode | Television | NZ On Screen Pavlova Paradise Revisited - First Episode - Before he was a British MP Austin Mitchell spent time downunder, where he was a well known NZBC broadcaster in the 1960s. In 1972 he finished bestselling b...

Next year it'll be 25 years since this documentary was made and worth a revisit. Lots of old friends in his revisit to Otago University — some still with us but many are not, including Austin Mitchell who died five years ago. www.nzonscreen.com/title/pavlov...

Meanwhile this one's going in the other direction.

So it turns out that daughter basically doubles her income overnight for doing the same job by crossing the ditch and working directly for the Australian group rather than its New Zealand subsidiary. With apologies to Donald's ironical title she's been given a break in The Lucky Country.

Just like a lame working dog keeps turning up for work until . . .

Former leader Ardern has left New Zealand. She’s not the only one | CNN Twenty years of memories spilled across Jacinda Thorn’s yard. Teddy bears and textbooks, a jumble of whisks and frying pans catching the morning sun.

Catching up later today with my 23-year-old daughter who is leaving for Sydney “for good” and why not! #LuckyCountry www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/w...

This International Women’s Day thinking of women who have borne the burden of war, past and present.

I never met my great-aunt Grace (seen here with grandad) who died in tragic circumstances when a rifle kept in their Island Bay Esplanade home during the 1942 invasion fear accidentally discharged.

A special on the Middle East crisis and the prime minister is a no-show once again — despite repeated requests Christopher Luxon has not fronted on New Zealand’s only fully publicly-funded current affairs show in 15 months — so he might as well go sit on the backbenchers. #MisspokenTokenPM

Hunter's Gold - First Episode | Television | NZ On Screen Hunter's Gold - First Episode - This classic kids’ adventure series follows a boy trying to find his missing father, amidst the 1860s Otago gold rush. The show displayed unprecedented production valu...

The first episode of this adventure series following a boy trying to find his missing father during the 1860s Otago gold rush went to air on TV2 at 7pm on Sunday, 26 September 1976. www.nzonscreen.com/title/hunter...

Days of the pioneers Long before the likes of Lord of the Rings and The Power of the Dog discovered the stunning backdrops of Otago’s outback, there was a locally made...

50 years ago the New Zealand television drama ‘Hunter’s Gold’ was being produced in Central Otago. www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

This 1959 Dunedin film ‘Half a million books’ dps.otago.ac.nz/delivery/Del... looking at the city’s libraries reminded me of the old Carnegie Library building in upper Moray Place and the Children’s Library housed separately in terrace houses on upper Stuart St (opp. St Paul’s Cathedral) until 1981.

Façadism continues in Auckland CBD. This Historic Place Category 1 building at 256-260 Queen Street was the original headquarters of the Auckland Savings Bank (1884). (Photographs Ward Demolition)

40 years ago today Dire Straits played Lancaster Park in what would be the largest event in South Island history.

Many friends made the trip north but 17-year-old me was content with having been blasted by Hoodoo Gurus at Sammy's the previous month.

Setting suffrage story straight The role of leading Dunedin suffrage campaigner Harriet Morison has been cancelled, Jane Tolerton argues. It is past time the fervent unionist and...

Historian Jane Tolerton's campaign to have Dunedin suffrage campaigner Harriet Morison join Kate Sheppard on our $10 note! www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

The Lettuce Test.

The Gee & Hickton advert sums it up for the
PM: "Political career is dead."