Photos: Kawakawa's Christmas parade
A train robbery, horse riders who looked like they’d galloped in from the Wild West and dogs in costumes — all that and more featured in Saturday’s Christmas parade with a difference in Kawakawa. In another departure from the usual, a response to controversy in Auckland about whether Santa could be a woman, was that the star of the parade wasn’t a bearded old man from the North Pole but local identity Tracey Wells. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Image 1 of 22: The Ngati Hine FM crew - from left, Maru Henare, Helen Locke, Amber Smith, Hinemoa Aretera and Alana Pere - won the prize for best business entry. Photo / Peter de Graaf
