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Otago Daily Times
25-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Holy smoke
PHOTO: RUBY SHAW The congregation waits outside St Patrick's Basilica in Dunedin while Fire and Emergency New Zealand personnel investigate inside yesterday evening. Fr Jamie Lalaguna said firefighters arrived at the South Dunedin church after incense from a thurible set off the smoke alarm. The church's Filipino community was celebrating Santacruzan — the last day of the Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May) festival — at the time. About 100 people left the church and waited outside while firefighters secured the premises. A Fenz spokesman said two units from Dunedin Central Station and one from St Kilda responded to the false alarm just after 7pm.
Otago Daily Times
19-05-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Waka heads for exhibition
REPORT: RUBY SHAW / PHOTOS: STEPHEN JAQUIERY cuts through a still Otago Harbour, paddled by members of Karitāne-based waka club Hauteruruku ki Puketeraki, before its installation in the Hocken Library yesterday. The waka sailed from Back Beach, Port Chalmers to the Dunedin Marina where it was taken by trailer to the Hocken Library. There it was dismantled and reassembled in the library where a welcoming ceremony was held. George Meikle. Club member and head curator — Māori Jacinta Beckwith (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) — said the installation was part of an upcoming exhibition, "Ruruku", which had been developed with Hauteruruku ki Puketeraki to share the club's story and taonga. "The show is a celebration of that, of kaupapa waka and the connections not only across the South Island, Aotearoa but also across the Pacific." It was the third "traditionally inspired" waka constructed with contemporary resources and methods the club had built and it was "beautiful" to see it on the harbour, she said. Lead builder George Meikle (Puketeraki rūnaka) said there was a "good group of people" who had worked on the waka, and it was great to see it on the water.
Otago Daily Times
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Otago Daily Times
Conscientious Objectors Day marked for a second year
PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON/REPORT: RUBY SHAW Emeritus Prof Kevin Clements speaks at the Archibald Baxter Peace Garden in Dunedin where International Conscientious Objectors Day was marked yesterday. Prof Clements had read a statement from the Peace Pledge Union, UK and said the threat of conscription around the world remained real. Archibald Baxter Memorial trustee Tony Eyre said the day was commemorated in Dunedin for the first time last year and would continue to be marked annually. "We're all surrounded by what's happening in Gaza, in Ukraine, Pakistan and India." "It's not a historic thing." The garden honours Otago conscientious objector Archibald Baxter, who refused to fight in World War 1.
