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Sticky Date Pudding photo
Country Cooking News 

Lockdown dare – sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce

April 26, 2020May 8, 2020 Annette Taylor 0 Comments Best desserts sticky date pud, Easy sticky date pudding, Fantastic puddings, Sticky date pudding and butterscotch sauce, Waikato desserts

Dare ya to make this! Sticky date pudding and butterscotch sauce. A gastronomical delight.

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1930s tractor, puketaha
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Working the land in the 1930s

April 20, 2020May 1, 2020 Annette Taylor 2 Comments Mike Taylor, Parsell tractor 1930, Puketaha farming history, Puketaha history, Vintage tractors, Waikato old machinery

Wonderful old vintage tractors photographed while working the land in Puketaha in the 1930s – and the men who kept them going. An exclusive photo-story for N8N.

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News Out & About 

‘Biggest of all NZ spiders’ turns up in Gordonton

March 17, 2020May 24, 2021 Annette Taylor 46 Comments banded tunnelweb, biggest spider in NZ, Hexathele hochstetteri, huge spider, new zeland spiders, Waikato spiders

Golly gee, a banded tunnelweb, one of the biggest of all NZ spiders, dropped by to visit us on our firewood pile in Gordonton.  A real charmer.

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Photo of Bill Smith
Local Characters 

The birdman of Komakarau

February 1, 2020May 24, 2021 Annette Taylor 5 Comments Bill Smith, bird rescue Gordonton, Bird rescue in Waikato, Gordonton birdman, helping native birds in the Waikato, the birdman of Gordonton

Meet Bill Smith, who rescues injured, wild birds at his Komakarau property in rural Waikato. Annette Taylor meets some of his recent patients.

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Head-on crash on Gordonton Rd, occupants walk home for nice cup of tea

September 18, 2019July 14, 2020 Annette Taylor 2 Comments gordonton rd historic crashes, Historic photographs, historic photos waikato, old cars accident, Waikato history

IT WAS A dark and not terrible stormy night, but thick fog was blanketing Gordonton Rd when two vehicles collided head-on back in the 1940s. Check out the historic pic!

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Phot of Alan and Ruth Manning
History News 

Memories of Komakorau School

September 16, 2019April 28, 2020 Annette Taylor 4 Comments Alan Manning, Komakorau School, local waikato history, Waikato schools history

Komakorau was the best school Alan Manning ever attended. All that is left now are the stone steps, in a Waikato paddock. We take a trip back in time.

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