Author: Megan Williams
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“Kia Ora!”
In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand, Dame Rangimārie Naida (Povey) Glavish, who was then an Auckland telephone operator, was instructed to stop using Kia Ora when greeting callers. Although she had been working in tolls in Te Awaroa, Helensville, for ten years and been saying…
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Kaukapakapa Post Office
‘Welcome to the old Kaukapakapa Post Office at the Helensville Museum, where you can exclaim, “Oh, remember those scratchy pen nibs we used to dip in inkwells and address our postcards and sign our postal notes with!” Or, “Oh, gosh, I used to operate that manual telephone exchange“. (It went electronic in 1983.) Younger visitors…