Tauranga Historical Society

  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it...

(continued from Part 1 published 2 July 2021, by a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous) "More eggs for housewives" BOPT 20...

Bill Ohia talking to Ernest Bush, former Society Journal editor, at Papamoa Hills 35mm film negative. Photograph taken for Bay of Plenty Pho...

I first met Claude Hewlett some years ago when I interviewed him about his late wife, Marjory’s time as a land girl in World War II. This re...

Heather and a young helper at a cemetery working bee, Tauranga Methodist and Children’s Cemetery, 2011. Photo: Fiona Kean, Private Collect...

Heather at the repaired grave of WW1 soldier Robert Cooper, for which she was responsible as part of her work with WW100 Tauranga committ...