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Tina White is a profession­al journalist, starting on the Manawatu¯ Standard, then The Dominion and, with her husband, fellow journalist Mervyn Dykes, founding Gulf News on Waiheke Island in 1973. She later freelanced in Wellington for Contact newspaper (later The Wellington­ian). A 17-year stint in Vancouver, Canada, brought her a leading role in western Canada’s longest-running theatrical improv production, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, and an eight-year day job as historical storytelle­r and entertaine­r for tourists aboard the reproducti­on paddlewhee­ler Native on the Fraser River. Back in New Zealand, she wrote features and food stories for the Manawatu¯ Standard, and started her popular weekly historical series Memory Lane in that paper. Last year, Tina was voted Manawatu¯ Historian of the Year by the Palmerston North Heritage Trust.

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