Glen the Great

THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD: WHERE CULTURES CONVERGE Once the main route south from Auckland, the Great South Road took war to the Waikato and opened up the city’s fertile hinterland for pioneer farmers. Eventually supplanted as a transport route by the motorway that grew vinelike about it, the old trunk road now connects a series of diverse communities which reflect the waves of migration that have changed the ethnic face of New Zealand’s largest city. WRITTEN BY VAUGHAN YARWOOD       PHOTOGRAPHED BY PETER JAMES QUINN REPOST FROM: New Zealand Geographic (2003). THE GREAT SOUTH ROAD: WHERE CULTURES CONVERGE. (ISSUE 061, JAN - FEB). Retrieved from https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-great-south-road-where-cultures-converge/ IT IS HALF past six in the morning and I am standing on the corner of Great South Road and Broadway. The traffic pulsing through the lights into Newmarket and the city beyond feeds mostly from Manukau Road. Great South Road, which crests a rise ...

Firebrand Pastor, Destiny Church head Brian Tamaki, has been burned by his own flames after burning rubbish in his backyard. "I got tired of looking at this rubbish and I thought I'd quickly burn it before I go away. And things evolved from there." The accident occurred in late March, putting Mr Tamaki in hospital and covering his face and body with burns. Speaking for the first time in weeks, the bishop said the horrific blaze had left him in "a lot of pain". "I can still smell the smoke... I got burnt to 30 percent of my body. Second-degree burns," he said. However, there is little sympathy amongst the public for his situation, with many believing he finally got what he deserved. After years of threatening people from all walks of life with the fires of Hell, it is ironic that he should be the first to feel the flames. Mr Tamaki told his congregation on Sunday he had "been through a fiery furnace and out the other side". ...