Northland’s future entrepreneurs tested their products and marketing skills on the public last Sunday when Springbank School, near Kerikeri, held its annual market day. Student businesses sold everything from garden sculptures and phone holders to kawakawa balm and bath bombs, and donated 25 per cent of their profits to charity. Stalls were judged on presentation and innovation with the winners due to be announced at a school assembly on Tuesday. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Image 1 of 11: Twelve-year-old Seth Evans, of Horsin' Around, collects old horseshoes from local farriers and welds them together to make garden art. He sold $700 worth in the first hour. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Tintype Central is a portrait studio specialising in the wet plate colloidion process, a 19th century method of development that predates film photography.
Northern Advocate photographer Michael Cunningham captured all the fun and action from the 2024 Northland Fritter Festival, held at Semenoff Stadium on Saturday, March 9.
Captain's run for Blues rugby team at Semenoff Stadium, Okara Park, Whangarei, Sam Nock feeds the ball out during the Captain's run. Photo/ by Michael Cunningham
About 75 crews took part in the BP Surf Rescue North Island IRB Championships at Waipu Cove on February 10 and 11, where sunshine and medium-sized waves made for a great event.
Regatta was welcomed to Whangārei-te-rerenga-parāoa (Whangārei harbour) with a pōwhiri conducted by hapū Patuharakeke as about 580 passengers disembarked.
Thousands of sand dune plant seedheads are gathered from Northland beaches in summer, and propagated so locals can return the plants to their coastline.
