Tina Marie Cross is a New Zealand singer. She sang the winning entry in the 1979 Pacific Song Contest, and was the lead vocalist of synthpop band, Koo De Tah, whose single "Too Young for Promises" was a top ten hit in Australia in 1985.
Cross in 2007
Ōtara is a suburb of South Auckland, New Zealand, situated 18 kilometres to the southeast of the Auckland City Centre. Ōtara lies near the head of the Tamaki River, and is surrounded by the suburbs of Papatoetoe, East Tāmaki, Clover Park and Flat Bush. The area is traditionally part of the rohe of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, and the name Ōtara refers to Ōtara Hill / Te Puke ō Tara, a former Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki pā and volcanic hill to the north of the suburb. From 1851 to 1910 the area was part of the Goodfellow family farm, and during the 1910s the area was an agricultural college run by the Dilworth Trust.
The central section of Fish Canopy, a 1987 sculpture in the Ōtara Town Centre
Pukewairiki is a volcanic maar found in the Ōtara Creek
A 1958 view of Ōtara Hill / Te Puke ō Tara, the namesake of the suburb and a Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki pā site that has since been quarried
Aerial view of rural Ōtara and the Waitemata Brewery in 1949