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Peter Calder: Chans serving happiness on plate
Tony Chan is already waiting outside Mercury Plaza at 9.30 when the building's owner opens up for the day.
Tony Chan is already waiting outside Mercury Plaza at 9.30 when the building's owner opens up for the day.
Family metal workshop has helped define city but modern developers want cash, not character.
The 23 children in the classroom at Richmond Road School in Ponsonby are sitting on the mat, just like the kids in any other primary class.
The bars on Ponsonby Rd are pumping when I turn up at the Auckland office of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, behind an unassuming frosted-glass window at the western end of Karangahape Rd.
Test cricket returned to Eden Park this week. So did I. But it was not the pleasure it should have been, writes Peter Calder.
I've only once felt a fear of flying. We were four passengers and a pilot in an ageing Britten-Norman Islander.
The punters come early to the speedway at Western Springs. They want a good spot or more likely "their" spot, to which they are driven by habit or perhaps superstition.
They installed a new self-checkout machine at my local library. It happened in October but I noticed it only a few weeks ago.
In the still of the night, a sudden anguished screech shatters the still air. But there's no point investigating - there's a bird clamped tight in the jaws of a killer.
It's the hottest day of the summer so far when I meet Tom Wichman.
The noticeboards in the public area at the Hobson St headquarters of the Auckland City Mission make grim reading.
It's a sobering experience to be in a room where no one is speaking your native language.
Bowling clubs are hungry for new blood as membership numbers dwindle
Cook Islanders are legitimate New Zealand citizens, so why can't retirees draw their pensions there, asks Peter Calder.
Parking congestion at Auckland mosque more pressing issue than conflagration over clumsy anti-Islamic production.
Bus operators hold lives in their hands, work difficult shifts for little reward, but would prefer to avoid strike, Peter Calder writes in the first instalment of his new column.