Skip to main content
  • ...
Home
few showersDunedin 12 | 5
Wednesday, Wed, 22 AprilApr 2026
Subscribe
Send us news & photos

Search form

  • News
    • Local Body Elections
    • Dunedin
      • DCC
      • Crime
      • Campus
      • Health
      • The Star
    • The South Today
    • National
    • The Star
    • International
    • Opinion
      • Editorial
      • Opinion
      • 100 years ago
      • Southern Say
    • Australia
    • Politics
    • ODTtv
    • Your News
    • Slideshow Section
  • Sport
    • Rugby
    • Cricket
    • Basketball
    • Racing
    • Football
    • Netball
    • League
    • Golf
    • Motorsport
    • Hockey
    • Other Sport
  • Life & Style
    • Food & Wine
      • Fresh Christmas Edition
      • Ask a Chef
      • News & Features
      • Chef's Garden
      • Recipes
      • Wine Reviews
    • Home & Garden
    • Magazine
    • Toitū te whenua
    • Resilient
    • Travel
    • Fashion
    • Design for Living
  • Entertainment
    • ODT Quiz
    • Film
    • Music
    • Theatre
    • Books
    • Arts
    • Gaming
    • Dance
    • Television
  • Business
  • Regions
    • Queenstown
    • Wānaka
    • Central Otago
    • North Otago
    • South Otago
    • Southland
    • Canterbury
    • West Coast
  • Features
    • Grand Business South Awards
    • Build Buy Renovate
    • NZIA Southern Series
    • SOREC
    • Explore Dunedin
    • Drivesouth Reviews
    • Design for Living
    • Education Guide
    • Healthcare Providers
    • Conferences and Venues
    • Sponsored content
    • Southern Television
    • Health and Beauty
  • Video
  • Rural life

Search form

  • Send Us Your News
  • ...
  • Contact Us
  • Email
  • Facebook

Plus

  • Jobs
  • Wedding Guide
  • Death Notices
  • Privacy Policy
  • Drive South
  • Weather
  • Media Council Complaints
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Looking back

    You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image.

    0 Comments

    Photo: Bill Cowan collection
    Photo: Bill Cowan collection
    Snowfall at the newly completed Mokoreta School, which opened in 1965 on the site of the original school.

    The War Memorial is located at the road junction. 

    Related Stories

    The Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders Association members engage in a workshop at a farm in Gore,...

    Black sheep come in from the cold

    Photo: File image

    Shoplifter plans to turn life around

    PHOTO: GEMMA SINCLAIR

    Business relocates to Main St

    Invercargill player Richard Winfield won the tournament. PHOTOS: GERRIT DOPPENBERG

    High level of play at local snooker tournament

    Crafted in bronze and 2.4 times the size of a normal man, the New Zealand soldier sits exhausted...

    Deep gratitude to NZ soldiers evident in French town

    St Mary's Church, part of Waikawa Museum, was damaged in the storm in October last year. PHOTO:...

    Museum’s gifted church needing repairs

    Four-month-old bright-eyed Cleopatra, or Cleo for short, believed to been from a farm in...

    Plea for cat foster carers

    The second stage of the Kaiwera Downs wind farm is ahead of schedule with 11 turbines operating....

    Wind farm work ahead of schedule

     Gore District Court. Photo: ODT files

    Gore District Court

    Police at the Mongrel Mob property in Albion St, Mataura, which the Crown is attempting to...

    Mataura ‘gang-pad’ use disputed

    Tokanui Anzac Day organiser Bruce Lamb is setting up a display of Progress Valley farmer...

    Lt Tom McLean to be remembered at the Tokanui service

    The Gore brown trout statue welcomes visitors to the ‘‘world capital of brown trout fishing’’....

    Dawn service to commemorate sacrifice

    Connect with us

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Most Popular

    • Serious crash closes Southland highway
    • $3 billion fertiliser plant proposed for Southland
    • Building firm, shearer put in liquidation
    • SUBSCRIBER

      Mine payout allegation disputed
    • Deportee intended ‘to kill someone’
    • ODT quiz: April 22

    Editors' Picks

    • Ten years of living rough have ended for Sam Hereora, 72, who will be heading back home to the...

      SUBSCRIBER

      Finally back with family

    • Rachel McCoubrey is an Otago artist fundraising to build ‘‘Otago House’’ for orphans in Uganda....

      SUBSCRIBER

      Building hope for Ugandan orphans

    • John Fraser with the medals and memorabilia given to him by his friend Colin Dalton. PHOTO: PETER...

      Last outing of rare medal worn in honour of officer

    • Highjumper Hamish Kerr has been one of New Zealand’s premier athletes taking the sport to new...

      SUBSCRIBER

      Harder, better, faster, stronger: Kiwi athletes hitting their straps

    Home
    • Contact Us
    • Contribute
    • Facebook

    Subscribe

    • Subscriber Benefits
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Stops, Starts & Redirects
    • FAQs

    About us

    • Contact us
    • Site feedback
    • Send us your news
    • About us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Media Council Complaints
    • AI use
    • Removals policy

    Our Websites

    • Allied Media
    • Allied Productions

    Newspapers

    • ODT E-edition
    • The Star - Christchurch
    • Oamaru Mail
    • The Star - Dunedin
    • The News - Central Otago
    • The Ensign - Gore
    • Ashburton Courier
    • North Canterbury News
    • Southland Express - Invercargill
    • Southern Rural Life
    • Central Rural Life
    • The Courier - Timaru
    • Mountain Scene - Queenstown
    • Property Times South Canterbury
    • Extra! School Publication
    • Clutha Leader
    • Bay Harbour News
    • Selwyn Times
    • The Wanaka Sun

    Classifieds

    • Death notices
    • Drivesouth
    • Jobs
    • Classified Advertising

    Advertise

    • Upload print advertising
    • Advertising Terms
    • Advertise with us

    Services

    • Allied Productions
    • ODT Store
    • Otago Images
    • Corporate Logos

    Magazines

    • Classic Driver
    • Dunedin Guide
    • Drivesouth Best Motor Buys
    • Explore Dunedin
    • Home & Leisure
    • Kiwi Gardener
    • Kiwi Gardener Quarterly
    • Rugby News
    • South
    • 03 Magazine
    • With this Ring
    © Copyright Allied Press Limited 2026. All rights reserved.