Early newspaper advertisements catch my eye now and then. Here's a few of them from 1911-1912, from the Auckland Star and Weekly News ....

The explanatory caption beside the horns said: This nineteenth century fine example of carved bullock horns was donated to Dargaville Museum...

My very good friend who operated the Mad Bush Farm blog has posted about this church with an artistic rendering . I deeply admire her artwor...

Old St Ninians Hall sign. Detail from above. Old AEPB sign. Pre 1999, and chances are a lot earlier than that.

This is Graham Reserve, a patch of corner green between St Jude's and Donegal Streets. I have no idea who the person named Graham is or ...

The names on the stone are as follows: D. A. Blackman W. Brothers P. W. Crees R. H. Earland H. H. Earney J. Johnston R. G. Lindsay F. M. Log...

Back in 1863, Thomas Russell's surveyors laid out Greytown in a neat, tidy pattern. He would never have guessed that in 1868, Blake Stre...

Richard Bollard, Avondale-born and son of John Bollard, the first chairman of the Whau Highway District, died on 25 August 1927 of pneumonia...

For a brief time, from 29 April 1922 until 31 August 1927, Avondale was an independent borough. During that time, we had four mayors. James ...

Here is the text of a speech I gave earlier this year on Cox's Creek and the activities there. The West End Friendly Circle were a love...

These photos were first published by the Auckland Sun in August 1927, just as the poll result for the amalgamation of Avondale with Aucklan...

I got this from an undated newspaper clipping in my files. It was also published in the centenary booklet put out by the Avondale Jockey Clu...

The setting: Auckland in 1876, when provincialism was about to receive the axe by central government decree, and the districts found themsel...

I found the details of the dreadful mishap that happened to William Inskip one January day in 1886 quite by accident. Normally, something li...

Updated from here. Hopefully, these work. Please advise -- if they don't, I'll have to consider putting the whole thing in the blog ...

Image: Benjamin Gittos, from Murray Gittos collection. This has been quite a long time in coming. I began to actively compile information on...

The Auckland Baptist Tabernacle today (above) , and an impression from the 1902 Cyclopedia of NZ ( below ). According to the Baptist Tabern...

In 1874, the Waitemata electorate of the NZ House of Representatives underwent a by-election. Actually, the electorate had two elections, be...

I'm just including this here because I think this is quite an old gatepost or something along those lines (on Blockhouse Bay Road, betwe...

C. R. Vickerman, Engineer-in-charge of the Public Works Department for the Auckland district at the height of his career in 1902 (photo fro...