Purewa’s Beautifcation and Environment Care Initiative
To better care for our environment, Purewa will be phasing out the use of plastic flowers, starting May 1st 2025.
To learn more about this initiative, click the link below.
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For Mother’s Day: “The Baby Factory” Founder Helen Lowe
A Mother's Day story. When Loo Oy Shang and her young daughter arrived as refugees from Japanese-occupied Guandong in 1939, they faced an uncertain future. For seven-year-old Helen, it was especially wrenching. She’d left behind the comforts of a large home and the...
ANZAC DAY – 2025 Remembering Sir Eric Harold Barrowclough
Major General Sir Harold Eric Barrowclough led an extraordinary life. A heroic foot soldier, field commander, and noted lawyer, he crowned his career serving as Chief Justice of New Zealand. Coming of age just before the start of World War One, young Harold embarked...
Country Music Pioneer Jack Christie
Jack Christie was New Zealand’s first commercially recorded country music artist and a pioneering businessman and sportsman. Recording for TANZA from 1949, Jack's cover of Roy Darling's "Overlander Trail" was a big hit. It was the first country song commercially...
蛇年如意 闔家平安 Wishing You A Happy and Prosperous New Year
Article about Purewa, courtesy the Chinese New Zealand Herald
A Christmas Gift in Honour of Little Daisy Spurgeon, Born Christmas Day 1888
Christmas Day 1888 was an especially joyous occasion for Auckland’s esteemed Spurgeon household. It was on this day that London-born Thomas and Dunedin native Lila welcomed their firstborn child: “Our little one rejoices in the name of Daisy,” the proud father wrote,...
The Soldier Architects of the Auckland Museum
Auckland Museum is a landmark destination for visitors to New Zealand, telling our story through its caring curation of art, nature, and society. It’s a story that ranges from the time before humans first set foot in Aotearoa right through the epoch of Māori and...