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The Whangarei Comet and Northern Advertiser was founded in 1875 as a weekly paper by George Alderton and, despite a small population which led to a prediction the paper "would go up like a comet, and come down like a stick", [3] the paper flourished and within two years had expanded to 12 pages and become the Northern Advocate and General Advertiser, with a small section printed in Māori. [3]
According to his obituary in The Northern Advocate newspaper [2] Henry Holman helped defend the city of Whangārei during the uprising involving Māori leader Hōne Heke. Elizabeth Holman wrote a journal of pioneer life in New Zealand, which has subsequently been published, [3] along with extracts from her letters to Holman. [4]
The local Northern Advocate newspaper reported there were 13,726 votes for the Hundertwasser proposal, 7,876 votes to demolish the building, and 5,478 votes for a maritime museum. [25] The HWMAC received 51% of the vote, with the demolition option receiving 29% and 20% voting for the Harbourside option. [ 26 ]
In business he was a pioneer sawmiller and owner of The Northern Chronicle newspaper, based in Whangarei. He then purchased a popular newspaper, The Northern Advocate, and closed the Chronicle. He was the father of the notable New Zealand novelist and journalist, Jane Mander, and a descendant of the Mander family of Midland England.
Myra Beatrice Larcombe QSM (née Lane; 1 September 1927 – 9 April 2022) was a New Zealand swimming coach, police officer and historian.She was a swimming coach for over 70 years, and was one of New Zealand's first female police officers in the 1950s.
They had 5 children, Horiana Eliza Pickrang (b.1905), Charles Edward Pickrang (b.1907), Violet Adelaide Pickrang (b.1911), and Ansell Fitzgerald Pickrang (b.1913). Ansell was born on January 15, less than 4 months after the death of his father. [2] Violet died aged just 8 months on August 27, 1912, 3 weeks before her father's death. [3]
In June 2011, the Northern Advocate reported Busch had been taken to court by Whangarei-based lawyer Wayne Peters for unpaid legal fees amounting to a total of $86,351.47, relating to various legal services provided for a period of seven months during 2009. Peters had applied for summary judgement, after attempts to serve Busch with court ...
In business he was a pioneer sawmiller and owner of The Northern Chronicle newspaper, based in Whangarei. He then purchased a popular newspaper, The Northern Advocate, and closed the Chronicle. He was the father of the noted New Zealand novelist and journalist, Jane Mander. [48]