Beautiful west coast beach in Whanganui, one of the most undervalued towns in the North Island.
Perhaps the city’s biggest scandal happened in 1920, when the Mayor, Charles Mackay, shot and wounded a young poet, D’Arcy Cresswell, who had been blackmailing him over his homosexuality. Mackay served seven years in prison and his name was erased from the city’s civic monuments, while Cresswell (himself homosexual) was praised as a “wholesome-minded young man”. Mackay’s name was restored to the foundation stone of the Sarjeant Gallery in 1985. [Wikipedia]