Filmmaker Gaylene Preston, who put the wartime memories of women, including her mother, on film, has turned her attention to her father's war.

Viewers of The Pacific will be rewarded if they can stand the gritty reality, writes Pacific War veteran Harry Bioletti.

Moa bones and a Maori adze head are discovered on an historic building site on Auckland's North Shore.

There was no mistaking a historic occasion when Aucklanders packed the Town Hall to sample its newly restored organ.