Thousands of visitors vote new site a success

Nearly 12,000 visitors came in the doors of the Navy Museum in the first four weeks after it reopened at its new location on October 9 – the same number of people visited in a year in the previous location.

Belles bare essentials for RSA cause

Fourteen Mosgiel and Taieri women have got naked in the name of community spirit? And the Mosgiel Memorial RSA is hoping to raise about $50,000 from a calendar fundraiser; the money will be used to give the clubrooms a much needed upgrade.

Memorial ‘beyond wildest expectations’

It has been years and years in the talking, the planning and the making, but the Returned Services Memorial in the Manukau Memorial Garden Cemetery in Papatoetoe has at last taken concrete shape.

‘Embarrassed hero’ awarded the military’s second-highest award

The New Zealand soldier who said he was “embarrassed” to be described as a hero after saving the lives of two comrades in Afghanistan has been awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross...

Airmen honoured on both sides of world

A desire to commemorate two west Auckland airmen who died in a bombing raid over Germany 66 years ago has developed into a memorial for ‘all who have served and died to defend democratic freedoms’.