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“Kia Ora!”
In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand, Dame Rangimārie Naida (Povey) Glavish, who was then an Auckland telephone operator, was instructed to stop using Kia Ora when greeting callers. Although she had been working in tolls in Te Awaroa, Helensville, for ten years and been saying…
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Beginnings
Every community museum must start somewhere, and Te Awaroa Helensville’s begins, in part at least, in Blenheim, with some volunteers, a cob cottage, and six handmade nails. As Colleen Thompson tells the story in an account archived in Te Awaroa Helensville Museum and in her book ‘Covering the Ground’ (2013), during a South Island holiday…
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News – October/November 2022
Our small band of merry men and women are moving forward with purpose to reconnect with the Helensville community and visitors to this district and to showcase how far we have come. To this end we have had a busy two months preparing for and working through these events. Saturday October 15th Big,Litte Event Hosted by HarcourtsThis…