Welcome to the Kaikohe Community Web site. This site is focused on providing information of interest to Kaikohe residents, visitors, and businesses.
Please visit the new section in the Kaikohe web site called Governance Matters. This section will focusing on the town's vision, leadership, governance, and planning as it affects this town and surrounding region.
With local elections this year our aim is to lift the bar on local and regional governance, to seek greater participation, accountability and transparency.
Picture Postcards
In March a German tourist from Frankfurt, sent www.kaikohe.co.nz a polite email requesting a picture postcard to be sent to them from Kaikohe that they said they forgot to buy while in Kaikohe.
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| Kaikohe Postcards - Mosaic |
The only problem was that we did not have any picture postcards!
So thanks to Jens from Germany, this prompted Dot to create a number of picture postcards and make them available to retailers in the town.
Well done Dot, and those that supported her.
Matariki
Recently, throughout New Zealand, beginning on June 14, Matariki celebrations were held. Matariki is the traditional Maori New Year
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| Matariki - Visible Light |
and is marked by the first appearance of the Pleiades star cluster that the Maori call Matariki. This open star cluster is visible in both the northern and southern hemispherse and has been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world.
In Japan it is called Subaru, and Subaru the car maker’s name was inspired by Matariki.
Ludbrook House 150 Year Anniversary
One hundred and fifty years ago, Samuel Blomfield Ludbrook and his wife Caroline purchased 1500 acres of the Taiamai plain, becoming the first white settlers in what is now called Ohaeawai.
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| Ludbrook House |
Twenty years earlier the then 16 year old Samuel came to New Zealand with his mother, Mary Anne, from their homeland of Norfolk England.
As part of the 150th anniversary celebration Chris and Sam Ludbrook invited artist David Barker to create a series of artworks featuring the local area.
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| SPRING WATER by David Barker |
Some of the works show scenes of the farm and most scenes are within 5km of the farm.
David, who works in oils, watercolours, acrylics, pastel and graphite, has created a stunning series of works that inspire the imagination, and capture the atmosphere of the local scenery and the historic significance of the occasion.
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