Paul Mason

There are many ways to enjoy the water in Featherston. The swimming pool on Johnston Street is open from 1 December and kids swim for free. There’s a fantastic swimming hole near the end of Underhill Road – ask a…

The $620,000 Paul Dibble sculpture commemorating the World War One Featherston Military Camp, New Zealand’s largest military camp, will be dedicated and gifted on Saturday 10 November. The sculpture highlights the significance of the camp in local and national history.…

The plants are thriving at the Community Wetland just off Harrison Street East. Recently on a beautiful Sunday morning we returned to the wetland to care for the plants and catch up over some lunch. The plants are looking awesome…

At a converted warehouse in Featherston, 100 excited children arrive at Friday Club for fun and friendship. They play on pool tables, air hockey, table soccer and on the basketball court. There are board games and arts and crafts. They…

Hello Featherston First Friday fans! We have been keeping busy since the end of the summer FFF events, with our offseason popup concert series at the Kiwi Hall. Eb&Sparrow in May was a sell-out and a knockout. Next up we…

Lake Wairarapa is the third-biggest lake in the North Island. I love the aerial photo of Featherston and Lake Wairarapa at the supermarket. It shows how close our town is to LakeWairarapa. It shows how massive the lake is. Lake…

It’s almost time to oil the time machine and polish your finery – or vice versa. The second annual Time Travellers’ Ball is nearly upon us, and this is a reminder to Featherston locals that tickets, priced at $35, are…

Across the world, farmers, producers, governments and agricultural processors have made their decision on what to do about climate change. They’re acting now. New Zealand farmers are no strangers to challenge. The growth of the primary production sector is one…

Progress on the sculpture continues, with four of the standards having been cast and a fifth ready for casting. Some of the trustees of the Featherston Camp Memorial Trust visited the Dibble workshop just before Christmas and the true scale…

We wish to provide reassurance to the Featherston community after the recent high-profile incident in Waite Street on 14 January. I can’t go into too much detail concerning this incident, which is still under investigation, but certainly I ask if…

Trustees and users of Card Reserve turf complex are delighted to announce that the proposed upgrade of the turf has been completed. The turf was first completed in the year 2000 and opened by the then member of parliament Georgina…

Last year, Rebekah Mehrtens and I started Featherston First Fridays on a wing and a prayer, on the smell of an oily shoestring, and on the back of more bad metaphors than you could shake a stick at. Why? We…

After three highly successful Featherston Booktown festivals, the Chair of the Featherston Booktown Trust and founder of the concept in New Zealand, Lincoln Gould, is retiring from the Board of Trustees. “I have seen Featherston Booktown grow from a brave…

South Wairarapa District Council (SWDC) has started a project to update its district plan schedule of protected trees. The three Wairarapa district councils have a combined district plan schedule, which documents notable trees that are protected across Wairarapa. SWDC has…

In June about 50 people showed up to put in more than 300 plants down at the Lake. These plants were put in near the footbridge at the Lake Domain Reserve and thanks to all the rain they are doing…

If you’re shopping at SuperValue you can now switch your plastic bag for a free, handmade cotton tote to use and bring back. Featherston is the latest town to join Boomerang Bags, an Australian-born scheme to help reduce the use…

The sight of scores of primary school children clutching their $10 vouchers, eager to buy books from more than 15 new, secondhand and antiquarian booksellers in Anzac Hall, was an outstanding feature of the third Featherston Booktown weekend in May.…

If you have not paid a visit to the tip sorry, recycling transfer station ‚ recently, now would be a good time to change that. Apleasant surprise awaits you. Gone are the evil odors, unsightly piles of rubbish and uneven…

On Tuesday 14 March all Wairarapa councils met with the Local Government Commission to discuss its draft proposal for a Wairarapa District Council. This has already been a long consultation process. It began in May and June 2013 when the…

March already and we are all geared up for another exciting year. Would you like to visit us to see if our Club is one you would like to belong to, if so then please call either Jenny on 308…