The countdown is on! From Friday 7 to Sunday 9 November, Featherston Paetūmōkai will come alive with stories, experiences, food and history for the first-ever Featherston Heritage Festival. Whether you’re a bookworm, a walker or a lover of good food,…
Featherston is about to make history – by celebrating it! From 7 to 9 November, our town will host the very first FeatherstonHeritage Festival, a new annual event dedicated to the stories, places and people that make Featherston Paetūmōkai unique.The…
Our trustees have appointed acclaimed Aotearoa New Zealand writer, teacher and performer, Jordan Hamel, to the role of director: Featherston Booktown. The director position is an expansion of the current operations manager role currently held by Mary Biggs who will…
Kia ora Paetūmōkai, apologies that our autumn and winter guides have been a bit late, we will start fresh with your spring guide coming in the September issue. If you caught it, our autumn guide talked about the soil ‘going…
Ngā mihi nui ki a koe – Paetūmokai once again comes together to celebrate the rising of Matariki.Our celebrations and commemorations for Matariki 2025 began with a dawn ceremony, where about 70 people gathered towelcome Matariki rising. Eight wonderful volunteers…
A wee sip of sparkly and chocs for the ladies (with coffee and cake for the guys) proved to be an appropriate and popular starting point at Vinni’s in Boundary Road before the ‘Wai-Wheels’ annual Mother’s Day cruise out to…
A Booktown is a small rural town or village, close to major cities, in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops areconcentrated. Most Booktowns have developed in villages of historic interest or of scenic beauty. Their residents set up eventsaround books –…
It took a few days to find the words to describe our gratitude and excitement after our first Pride Festival. We thought we might have 100 or so people parading through our streets in flamboyant spectacle, and we actually don’t…
The Merit Badge is awarded to those members of the RSA who have rendered ten or more years of outstanding honorary service to the RSA for the benefit of RSA personnel and the wider community. A Royal New Zealand Returned…
A group of thriving Filipino migrants in the South Wairarapa area yearn to share their own cultures, traditions and values, to their host community in this part of Aotearoa. The Christmas season, being the most joyful, annual celebration in Christian…