Daughter Robyn Gallagher is also a return presenter, with an intriguing glimpse of touring New Zealand with Maurice Shadbolt’s 50 year old guide book.Back home again with Virginia Gallagher’s photographs of around Raglan in 1910 – a follow up to a previous presentation when the audience asked for “more please”.Rick Thorpe will take us a long way from home to have a look at the oil fires of Kuwait.Robert Batters will be giving us the inside story on our very own Te Uku wind farm.Come and hear Jamie Bruce, local, award winning architectural designer of our new museum building, talking about what inspired him and the challenges of designing a building of this type.PechaKucha, a world-wide entertainment format at 432 cities and towns, happens in Raglan at the Old School Arts Centre.įor this, the first PechaKucha night of 2011, the line-up is impressive: It might be their day job, it might be a hobby, it might be some special experience in their lives. Topics can be anything they’re passionate about and would like to tell others about. Presenters are people you know, or people you’d love to meet. Very simply, a number of people share their ideas, interests or projects in mini-presentations of 20 images in 6 minutes 40 seconds. “What is PechaKucha again?” I hear you ask. PechaKucha is back in town this Saturday with a fascinating lineup of presentations, just the thing to cheer us up on a cold winter evening. On Monday only three remained.” Posted on JAuthor Rodger Categories Information, Town and Around Leave a comment on Half a million seabirds believed killed by storm Fascinating lineup for Pecha Kucha Night “It was quite heart wrenching – of all the birds brought in on Tuesday and Wednesday there were only 18 left by Sunday. Vet nurse Moana Robb said the prions were all very lethargic and most died within a week. Last week Raglan’s Anexa Vet Clinic received around more than 160 birds that had died and 300 injured birds. There are birds being washed up all over the North Island.” Once everything has been counted I expect the number to be around 25,000 on the beaches west of the Waikato. “It’s absolutely monstrous, we have picked up around 600 per kilometre. His team documenting the aftermath in the Waikato region, said they had counted and identified more than 7000 dead birds on Kawhia, Raglan and Ruapuke beaches so far. Hugh Clifford, a Waikato based researcher for the Ornithological Society said that many birds were blown into central Waikato by the storm.
Most of the birds were broad-billed prions that spend most of their time at sea.
This large scale death of birds is known as an avian wreck. The July storm that lashed the west coast of the North Island was responsible for the death of over half a million seabirds. Broad billed prion - Image Massey University
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