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Bill Dooley stands with an Oamaru stone carving for a 2007 profile in the Oamaru Mail. Photo: Oamaru Mail WILLIAM JOHN (BILL) DOOLEY  Stone Mason   The "Man of Stone" William John (Bill) Dooley will forever be linked with Oamaru stone.

Children's author and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff working at his home while being interviewed for the BBC television adaptation of his 'Babar' stories, Paris, September 1969. Photo: Getty Images Laurent de Brunhoff’s life was dedicated to an elephant king.

Former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt in 1982. Photo: Getty Images Former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt died hand in hand with wife Eugenie on February 5, aged 93, taking advantage of a law passed after his fall from power for a double euthanasia.

Game designer and artist Jennell Jaquays. Photo: Matt Barton JENNELL JAQUAYS Game designer, artist   Jennell Jaquays was a game designer whose work transcended generations: she designed role-playing games (RPG), table top games and also PC games, as well as being an accomplished artist.

Photo: Getty Images It's with trepidation that the new Civis takes up the torch for the Passing Notes column, published in this newspaper since 1871, and under the byline Civis from 1878.

Aukus talks participants (from left) University of Otago Prof Robert Patman, former Tokelau prime minister Enele Sopoaga, former NZ prime minister Helen Clark, former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr and Labour list MP David Parker. Photo: Facebook Parliament is in recess and the Prime Minister is sunning himself in Asia — which he may be very grateful for given the heat his government is feeling about its long-promised plans to pare back the public service ramping up considerably this week.

The Pirates rugby team. — Otago Witness, 10.6.1924 The local football season was opened on Saturday, when the Pirates met Clutha at Carisbrook Ground.

Some Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club members. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the failure of emergency housing, a solution to climate change, and the silencing of traditional media.

Today's cartoon from Voyager award winning cartoonist, Shaun Yeo.

Foreign policy has been in the headlines more than usual over the past fortnight.

Photo: Stephen Jaquiery Rowers return to the Otago University Rowing Club following training on a perfect autumn evening this week.

Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark is thrilled with the near completion of the Tuatara enclosure at Queens Park as part of the city’s museum redevelopment Project 1225. PHOTO:NINA TAPU One of New Zealand’s most ancient creatures will soon have a new home.

It’s that time of year when awesome autumn displays around Otago make people draw breath at the natural beauty of our province.

Robby Turnbull, Chloe Lam, Ricky Kang and Lannie Inoue have lived up to their pre-tournament hype, going wire-to-wire to win their respective age brackets at the South Island Age Group Championships at Otago Golf Club.

South African defender Jeante Strydom feels right at home with the Southern Steel. PHOTO: MICHAEL BRADLEY PHOTOGRAPHY From the bright lights of Pretoria to the quiet life of Invercargill — Jeante Strydom is living her dream.

Mike Weddell practises casting on the Silver Stream. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH There is not much of the season left, so the priority should be to get in as much fishing as possible before the end.

Scientists are studying deep-water bryophytes in Otago’s alpine lakes. PHOTOS: NIWA Lurking 50m below the surface of Otago’s freshwater lakes in a twilight zone are the bryophytes — a freakish and globally rare community of deep-water mosses and liverwort species.

Lucy Jackson, 18 (left), holds Max, and Jamie Hall, 18, holds Jesse — the two dogs missing from Chrystalls Beach near Milton. Photo: supplied She has searched on foot, on quadbike, even sent a plane up.

Eddie Marsan and Marisa Abela in Back to Black. Eddie Marsan needed to know a little more about Amy Winehouse’s dad in order to play him, he tells Kate Kellaway.

Jake Baxendale. Photo: Sam Pietras Jake Baxendale is composting his own music and telling jazz stories in new ways, he tells Tom McKinlay.