3+ week, 1+ day ago  (903+ words) Time has been influential for Rotorua local Bill Groves since 1926. For nearly 80 years, the former watchmaker helped keep other people on schedule, repairing watches and clocks until three years ago. His work ranged from delicate wristwatches to larger public timepieces…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (664+ words) Most people celebrate milestone birthdays with cake and candles. John "JC" Mathewson chose to swim around Mauao. The 70-year-old Mount Maunganui resident and recently retired Air New Zealand A320 captain and former RNZAF A4 Skyhawk fighter pilot completed the swim earlier this…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1777+ words) Infamous for Hitler's mass Nazi Party rallies and the post-World War II international war crimes trials, the German city of Nuremberg is stepping out of the Third Reich's long shadow by holding close to the past, rather than trying to…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (559+ words) A World War II airman from Gisborne, killed along with two others in a flying accident in Wales, has been honoured with the unveiling of a memorial stone. Sub-Lieutenant William Seddon Appleby, Sub-Lieutenant Ernest Hartley Green and Sub-Lieutenant Joe Lupton…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (513+ words) The Combined Services Remembrance Day service held outside the RSA on Sunday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and honoured Navy veteran Ken Gordon. The City of Gisborne Highland Pipe Band takes part in the service…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (303+ words) Royal New Zealand Navy World War II veteran Ken Gordon, pictured with a framed letter he received from King Charles this year, will be honoured at Sunday's Combined Services Remembrance Day service. Sunday's Combined Services Remembrance Day service in Gisborne…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (797+ words) Zimbabwean couple Nikki and Lance Dodd met at university in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was studying interior design and he was studying horticulture. Their future plans were abruptly halted by the start of political unrest in Zimbabwe, leading…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (755+ words) He helped shape modern technology and is considered one of New Zealand's greatest scientists. But Ernest Rutherford is so much more than the man who split the atom and appears on the Kiwi $100 bill. Napier-born and bred historian Matthew Wright…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1412+ words) More than 80 years ago in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, young Dutch couple Jo and Frits Hakkens risked everything, hiding and raising a Jewish toddler named Elli Szanowski as their own. Their actions saved Elli's life " even though, after 1944, they never saw her…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (391+ words) One of the last commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II has been held in Napier. The commemoration on Tuesday at Clubs Napier, formerly the Napier RSA, marked 80 years since the signing of Japanese surrender documents…...