Tragedy of mates united in death
Ron McLean and Keith Hunter were not just mates. They were best mates – young lives built in the streets and wide open spaces of Mt Albert in an era of hard graft and simple pleasures.
Change of approach on your site
The last week or so has marked a change in the short life of Mt Albert Inc. The idea with the site was always to create an online version of a community newspaper – partly to compensate for the lack of local news in the Central Leader and the Herald, but also to establish a trusted source away from the rumours and gossip of social media.
SOLDIERS RETURN HOME. HEROES OF MESSINES BATTLE.
[August 23, 1917 – New Zealand Herald] A party of invalided soldiers, 28 officers and 536 other ranks, arrived in Auckland yesterday. The contingent contained an unusually large quota of serious cases, those listed as cot cases numbering something over 230. In addition, there was more than the usual number of men who had lost…