What's new
Please let the website administrator know if you are aware of news, community groups and local businesses that should be added to the listings on this website.
December 2011
Busabout
Kaitaia has started a new bus service around Kaitaia and out to the
Pak 'n Save Supermarket north of town.
Current timetable
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August 2011
Mangonui Heritage Trail Management Committee has been awarded funding
by the Te Hiku Northern Community Board for updating and reprinting the
trail guide.
14 July 2011
Kaitaia's new cinema and Little Theatre opened at the Te Ahu complex.
See website
for programmes.
23 & 24 October 2010
St Andrew's Anglican Church, Mangonui celebrates its 150th anniversary.
October 2010
Our member, Hihi
Olive Estate, has won the gold medal in the boutique class in the
recent New Zealand Olive Oil Awards. First
Drop, a group including Hihi Olive Estate won three silvers in the
commercial class at the awards.
September 2010
Our member, Karikari
Estate Vineyard & Winery, has won the gold medal for its 2008
Calypso chardonnay in the New Zealand International Wine Show. It also
earned a silver medal for its 2009 Karikari Estate pinotage. This followed
a silver in the Bragato Wine Awards for the 2009 Karikari Estate chardonnay.
17 August 2010
Historian Neva Clarke McKenna's contribution to the Doubtless
Bay community was recognised in the naming of Mangonui's waterfront boardwalk
in honour of her. FNDC
Media release.
June 2010
Change of frequency for Doubtless Bay Family Radio. Now 103.5 in Doubtless
Bay, 107.3 in Kaitaia and 88.3 in Kaeo and Whangaroa.
May 2009
Doubtless Bay has a regular bus service to and from Kaitaia with the Busabout
Kaitaia East Coaster service.
Departs Mangonui BP Service Station:
(Inland Road, Karikari - 25 minutes later)
Monday to Friday: 6.56 am
Tuesday and Thursday: 9.00 am and 1.58 pm
Saturday: 8.00 am
Departs Kaitaia Hospital:
Monday to Friday: 5.05 pm
Tuesday and Thursday: 7.56 am and 1.00 pm
Saturday: 1.00 pm
Fare:
Mangonui to Kaitaia - $5.00 one way
Inland Road to Kaitaia - $3.50 one way
26 July 2008
Ben Lutze of Taipa Sailing Club won the World Splash Championship held at Tavira, Portugal. The New Zealand team also won the Nations Cup for the most number of competitors finishing in the top ten positions.
Keziah Deverell, also of Taipa Sailing Club, was placed second girl in the competition.
3 November 2007
Northland's newest underwater attraction
The retired Leander-class frigate HMNZS Canterbury, originally commissioned
in 1971, was sunk in Deepwater Cove at Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands
on 3rd November. Be among the first to dive the HMNZS Canterbury.
Photos courtesy of Sallie Lakin (Cruise the Blue Diving)
