Taken from Rodney’s Life story Rodney was born in Masterton, his father, Ronald, farmed on one half of the 450 acre “Matapihi” block on Blackrock Road. The family them moved to Rangitumau in 1939 to a 320 acre block owned by Rodney’s Grandfather, Walter. Rodney started school in 1940 attending only half a day for […]
Rodney was born 4th February 1935 to Ronald Stewart Cameron and Kathleen Janet Thomson in Masterton. Rodney was the oldest of 4 siblings; Janet, born 1938 Sally Aileen, born 1940 Margaret Anne, born 1944 Rodney married Beatrix Alison Binns on the 26th July 1958 at the St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Levin. Alison and Rodney had […]
Finally this whisky has arrived. After ordering the Ardbeg Scorch at 9am on the 5th of June which was Queens Birthday weekend, and having this arrive more than a month later on 10th July. Anyway the name Scorch comes from a mythical fire breathing dragon that lived in one of the warehouses of the distillery, […]
I had the arrival of a package on Saturday morning that I was not expecting. I answered the door with a bit of a dumb look on my face trying to work out what I had ordered online and forgot about. Anyway it happened to be two bottles of whisky I ordered earlier this year. […]
Following the Wairau Affray production last night, there was a discussion by led by Dr Lloyd Carpenter and Dr Peter Meihana. This was a 2 hour lecture style presentation on the people, events and attitude around the time of the incident. A well timed event. It appears that there is all this stuff at the […]
On Friday 25th June 2021, held the second night of The Wairau Affray production held at the Marlborough ASB Theatre. It has been a while since I have been to the theatre, the last time being Chess the musical when I was a teenager. As I had previously done some research on the incident when […]
On Saturday 19th June 2021, around 12:30pm, Janet Squires nee Cameron passed away surround by her immediate family at Waipukurau Hospital. Janet had recently gone into gone into hospital over the last few months and was supposed to go into a care home, however on Thursday 17th, she suffered a stroke in which she did […]
The recent months have has been very significant especially with the recent developments of the Firstlight exchange, I thought that it was important to set my presidents report for others to read. This was presented at the Auckland Branch AGM on May 9th 2021. Firstly, I would like to thank the committee for the time […]
Massey Graduation Parades have come around again this year, the dates were Tuesday May 25th to Thursday May 27th. There was also an extra stage performance on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm. The parades are a bit later in the year than usual, which made the mornings a bit colder and harder to get […]
The Pipe band season has been brought to an end with the completion of another years National Championships held in Hastings. It has been a rough year for the Napier/Hasting region as they have had many gathering cancelled lately due to the uncertain nature of the COVID-19 lockdowns. The lockdowns, which have been more severe […]
