The Monday Q&A: Whanganui actor Chris McKenzie on treading the boards and dinner with Donald Trump
17 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Chris McKenzie performing as Doctor Gull in the 2019 Amdram production of the Albert Belz play Yours Truly.
Photo / Ian Jones
Chris McKenzie performing as Doctor Gull in the 2019 Amdram production of the Albert Belz play Yours Truly.
Photo / Ian Jones
Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleliz.wylie@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whether playing a Shakespearean lord or a pantomime dame, Chris McKenzie is a is well-known to Whanganui theatre goers.
Next month he will occupy both stage and director s chair for Amdram s production Blind Eye.
Petrolheads: Whanganui students revive 1969 Land Rover
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Joan Richardson used a spanner to fix things at the farm. You have to when you are a farmer s wife, she said. Photo / Bevan Conley
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Today we launch our Petrolheads series, which tells stories of Whanganui people and their vehicles. To begin with, Laurel Stowell visits Whanganui High School to check out the 1969 Series 2A Land Rover restored by a group of students.
Whanganui High School automotive students have totally made over a Series 2A Land Rover that was bought in 1969 to work on Ross Richardson s Waitōtara farms.
Painful watching normal life in NZ, Whanganui ex-pat in Hong Kong says
8 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whanganui ex-pat Jack Judd has been in Hong Kong for the past 18 months, arriving when the Extradition Bill riots were at their peak. Photo / Supplied
A Whanganui expat in Hong Kong says Covid-19 means visiting his home country will be too difficult for the foreseeable future after almost 12 months away. Jack Judd, a school teacher, has tried to get back to New Zealand four times since February but said the two-week isolations on either side and the cost tied to them made it not worth it.
Whanganui Year in Review, August: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visits, a return to level 2
30 Dec, 2020 03:30 PM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a member of the public on Victoria Ave during her visit to Whanganui. photo / Bevan Conley
August 5 At the start of August Whanganui District Council announced they were partnering with Ngā Rauru in its push to change the name of the village of Maxwell, 22 kilometres north of Whanganui, to Pākaraka.
The name of the village near Whanganui honours a colonial militiaman, Sergeant George Maxwell, who attacked children in the infamous Handley s Woolshed affair during the New Zealand Wars.
Whanganui Year in Review, September 2020: Ducklings rescue and election intrigue
30 Dec, 2020 03:30 PM
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September 5
The Chronicle reports the story of Huntley School student Jamie Thompson - the only female in her school s first XV side. Thompson was only the second-ever girl to play in the school s premier rugby side after it became co-ed in 2014. In her first prep match against Wellington s Scots College, Thompson bagged a hat-trick and kicked five out of six conversions, confirming she was right where she belonged.
Huntley School student Jamie Thompson was the only girl in her school s first XV. Photo / Bevan Conley