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A guide to Hawke's Bay

Michael_Fowler

Michael_Fowler
  • Joined: Dec 2012
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Commented on a story 5:26pm Dec 15th

"I am not sure if these are builders. I was told they were, but they all look like they are early..."

This group of gentlemen, I was told, are the builders of the Memorial Hospital in Hastings (albeit some of them looking past their best building days) in 1927, posing with a vicar, two ladies, and the seated man in the middle, appears to be past Hastings mayor, and chairman of the Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Executive Committee, George Ebbett.

Historic Hawke's Bay: Memorial Hospital Hastings

15 Dec 2012

Commented on a story 10:35am Dec 15th

"William Nelson did not donate the land Nelson Park was on - he may have sold it at a below the market..."

Auckland firm Premium Skateparks has pulled out of constructing the $1.4 million William Nelson Park in central Hastings and the project has been put out to tender once again.

Builders quit skatepark deal

14 Dec 2012

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