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Vaccine jab plan ramps up Paula Hulburt Editor

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Frontline staff at Blenheim’s CBAC have been working hard to carry out Covid swabs.

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Blenheim’s Covid-19 vaccination centre is being moved in a bid to boost vaccination numbers, with a 1000 target a day in the pipeline.

The Henry Street hub will be moved to Marlborough Lines Stadium 2000 from Monday.

The relocation will mean more people can be safely vaccinated while ensuring strict physical distancing rules are followed throughout Alert Level 4.

Vaccinators hope to hit 1000 people a day across Marlborough as part of the national vaccination rollout.

“Our message to the community is that we have more than enough vaccine – people should confidently make their bookings as they become eligible,” says a Nelson Marlborough Health spokeswoman.

“When you go online or phone the 0800 number you will see the

booking slots available to you and can choose the one that works best for you,” she says.

The booking availability changes each day.

On 18 and 19 August, 1,677 people were tested for Covid-19. At Blenheim’s Community Based Assessment Centre on Friday, more than 450 people were tested by 3.30pm.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Baker says there are large numbers of people with respiratory infections, and it is critical tests are done to rule out Covid-19.

“At this time of year, we are still seeing large numbers of people with respiratory infections from viruses such as RSV. “The symptoms of RSV, cold and influenza are similar to COVID-19. It is critical that we can rule-out COVID-19 so please get a test if you have symptoms, and make sure your children are tested also if they have symptoms.”

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Symptoms tend to arise after 5 days but can take up to 14 days to show after a person has been infected. The virus can be passed onto others before they know they have it – from up to two days before symptoms develop.

Under the national roll-out, vaccination is available to everyone in Marlborough aged 40+ or in groups 1, 2 and 3. It is also available to young people aged 12-15 if their parents are in these groups.

There are appointments available at this point from Monday 23 August, and there are some spots available over the weekend through primary care providers (you can see these in the booking system).

Marlborough District health bosses say anyone currently booked into the Blenheim vac-

There has been a steady stream of people visiting the CBAC for Covid testing. Photo: Paula Hulburt. cination centre from Monday 23 August should attend their appointment time, but at the new town centre location.

People in these groups can book now through the Book My Vaccine website or by free-phone call. When they do this, they’ll

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Yealands Classic Fighters 2021 grounded by Delta

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Paula Hulburt New Zealand’s classic fighters airshow has become a casualty of Covid as the latest outbreak makes it mission impossible for organsiers.

On Sunday, organisers of the hugely popular show revealed they had made the decision to the pull the plug.

A full refund will be given to all those who bought tickets, Trustees of the Classic Fighters Airshow Charitable Trust announced.

“It is with great regret that we announce, that the Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow, scheduled to take place 3rd to the 5th of September, has been cancelled.

The recent outbreaks of the Delta variant in and around Auckland and most significantly, the recent Wellington cases, make it unlikely that the country will be in anything lower than Covid Alert Level 2.

“This legislates a 100-person limit and therefore a large-scale event such as Yealands Classic Fighters cannot proceed, nor should it.”

Organisers say while they are ‘extremely disappointed’ preparing for the now cancelled 2021 event

A Yak takes to the skies at the Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow in 2019. Photo: Barry Whitnall/Shuttersport. had been beneficial.

“This has been a tough journey that has, for some of us, consumed a large proportion of our waking hours for 2021.

“That this will produce no tangible positive result for the community, for aviation, or for New Zealand, is disappointing to say the least, but along the way we

have also expanded our resources to place us in a better position for running future events, once Covid is far behind us, so it has not been a total loss.”

Ticket holders will be given the choice of a full refund or to have their tickets revalidated for the 2023 event.

Organisers are currently work-

ing with ticketing provider Humanitix to facilitate refunds and revalidation.

They also thanked all their supporters for their hard work so far.

“We extend our most sincere thanks to all those who have supported Yealands Classic Fighters.

“Thank you to our amazing staff and volunteers, our sponsors

and especially Yealands Wines, the many local businesses and of course our ticketholders.

“To everyone, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for your dedication to the fantastic heritage aviation event that is the Yealands Classic Fighters Airshow.

Keep safe New Zealand and we hope to see you in 2023.”

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Marlborough quad bike users are leading the way with the lowest reported accident rate since 2018.

According to latest figures released

by WorkSafe New Zealand, five people die in work related quad bike accidents each year and many more are injured.

Seventeen people on average are killed in workplace accidents on farms every year making it one of the most dangerous occupations in NZ. ACC pays for approximately 20,000 farm-related injury claims each year.

But local Agsafe health and safety compliance trainer Marks Wills believes a change of mind set and more readily available information is making a positive difference, with just one reported serious harm notification to WorkSafe.

“We have definitely turned the worm,” Mark says.

The comment comes after two Timaru businesses were sentenced under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 following the death of an employee in September 2019.

Dairy Holdings Limited and Coryston Limited were sentenced under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 following the death of their employee in September 2019.

The employee, Stacey Rodgers, died as a result of crushing injuries that occurred during a quad bike roll-over.

A WorkSafe investigation found that the condition of the quad bike was consistent with an ATV that had been in regular use but had not been serviced for a prolonged period. The quad bike’s brakes, steer-

Agsafe health and safety compliance trainer Marks Wills. ing, suspension and front bull bar/ bumper were all in need of servicing/repair.

The investigation concluded that the quad bike was not fit for use in a farming environment as it needed mechanical repairs.

Mark says safety courses, education and media coverage have been instrumental in the declining accident rate.

Agsafe’s farm safety procedures help avoid minor incidents to more serious accidents on the farm, which can result in disability or death.

Groups like Recreational Access with Education (RAWE), made up of predominantly quad biking fishing enthusiasts, is helping lead the way around the safe use of quad bikes, he says.

“There are far too many preventable quad bike accidents happening across New Zealand. This is another tragic reminder that farm vehicles such as quad bikes must be regularly serviced and adequately maintained,” says Area Investigation Manager Steve Kelly.’’

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Chloe Ranford Local Democracy Reporter Bin bags could soon line kerbside recycling crates in Marlborough as the council tries to cut down on rubbish blowing away in the wind without having to introduce costly wheelie bins.

For years residents have complained their maroon crates leave recyclables exposed to the weather, causing litter to fly about the streets or turn wet and non-recyclable.

The Marlborough District Council has ummed and ahhed for more than a decade over whether to replace the crates with wheelie bins, with the cost of rolling out two bins a house – last put at $3.3 million – a regular sticking point.

Last year it put its foot down and proposed wheelie bins be included in its next kerbside collection contract, set to start in 2024, after a survey found residents thought bins were a “practical resolution” to the current “inconvenient” system.

The proposal made it through public consultation and was adopted into the council’s new waste management and minimisation plan earlier this year – the same plan that said wheelie bins would “likely” not replace recycling crates because the council wanted a way to keep glass separate.

Council solid waste manager Alec McNeil had spoken to other councils with wheelie bins and discovered that bins would also not stop recycling from becoming street litter.

“Wheelie bins are still susceptible to blowing over in the wind, only the result is worse, because they can hold more waste than recycling crates and are often emptied less.”

Residents were also more likely to put

Council solid waste manager Alec McNeil with his crate liner prototype, which he’ll show to councillors in Marlborough. Photo: Brya Ingram/STUFF. rubbish in their recycling bins, requiring more hands to sort, and possibly even a new waste sorting centre in Blenheim, Alec says.

“Other councils have tried saying, ‘Put everything in the bin, and we will sort it’. But it doesn’t work. While the percentage of household waste being recycled is high, the council has to hire more people to sort through it at the sorting centre.”

Alec wants to find a more effective alternative.

His team asked manufacturers if lids could be made and retro-fitted onto the crates, but none were willing to take on the job, leading to Alec to propose crate “liners”.

“The liner is sized to fit the inside of a recycling crate. Households would fill up the crate, as normal, then pull the bag up and over the contents of the bin.

There’s a little plastic draw chord in the seam that can be pulled tight.

“The theory is this would contain the recycling to the crate and stop loose items blowing over the top onto the streets.”

The bags would be made of equal parts recycled and new plastic so could be

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Alec was set to show councillors a black “prototype” bag at an assets and services meeting in the hope of winning support to trial the idea during the windy season.

“We would want to trial clear liners at about 25 households along each of our five collection routes, across four weeks.”

About $17,000 is needed to run the trial in October or November, which would be taken from existing budgets.

If supported, findings from the trial will be reported back to councillors and fed into the next kerbside collection tender.

The council plans to publish the tender next year.

Households currently fork out $121 a year for kerbside collection, which will rise to $134.50 with crate liners.

About 1813 tonnes of recycling was collected from kerbside crates last year, up 23 per cent on the year before.

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Life through a lens wins award Paula Hulburt

Thirteen may be unlucky for some, but not for husband-andwife photographers Jessica and Paul Jones.

The Blenheim-based duo have won 13 awards after impressing judges at one of New Zealand’s most prestigious photographic competitions.

Run by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP), the Iris Awards recognise exceptional talent among professionals.

Jessica says while they hoped to leave with an award, they did better than they ever dared hope.

“It’s always a little bit terrifying, and while we obviously hoped to come away with some kind of award, it really was pretty incredible to have so many.

“There’s always a tiny bit of competition between us, but when we submitted our images, I already knew his set was stronger than mine, he even came away as a Finalist for the In-Camera Wedding Category. It’ll just mean I have to try even harder next year.”

Paul won seven silver awards and one bronze, while Jessica scooped one silver and four bronze.

She says the arrival of COVID-19 helped them broaden their hori-

zons business-wise, a move she credits with helping them take a different professional direction.

But it is family that are their main inspiration when it comes to taking the perfect shot.

“Watching my own family grow and develop and seeing how quickly they change, while they’re little even from week to week, there’s almost a sense of urgency to record those special and easily forgotten stories.

“Covid has helped us refocus on the little things, and part of our business pivot has been to move away from as many weddings and more towards our studio work.

“As a team, with Emily our daughter, we’ve created Chunky Llama studios, and we run mini sessions several times a week. We now have hundreds of families who come through the studio and we photograph them ‘little and often’ which creates an incredible legacy of their children’s growth.

“One of our Iris awards was for a print of Maddie, who came in every month for her first year.

The individual images are beautiful, for sure, but when you see them as a set, that’s when you truly see the magic of her growth from tiny baby to little girl,” Jessica says.

While the pair have entered the

Jessica and Paul Jones’ work impressed judges at a prestigious national competition. awards before, the experience is still slightly daunting says Jessica, who was also a judge at this year’s event in July.

It is the people in front of the lens who make their work so special, she says.

“We take all the elements available at the time; weather, colour, light and chemistry of the people and do our best to capture the

magical and avoid the ordinary.

Watching five judges deliberating over your entry can be a bit nerve-wracking, Jessica says.

The competition is only open to professional photographers and winning entries must be particularly special to catch the judge’s eye.

When judging other’s work, Jessica says honest feedback is key.

“The Iris awards are an incredible learning tool for photographers, to get your work appraised and honestly critiqued is key to improving.

“You don’t know what you don’t know, and so being told something a little bit critical, while it really hurts … is more useful in the long run than just having nice things being said.”

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Waiting game for farmers as lockdown lingers Chris Valli

Farmers across the region have been quick to act in the wake of last week’s lockdown announcement.

The announcement from the Government that plunged New Zealand into Alert Level 4 Lockdown saw farms implement their lockdown strategies to adhere to distancing rules and QR scanning.

Waihopai Valley farmer Richard Dawkins, who runs the award winning The Pyramid Farm alongside dad Chris, says the duo are trying to keep it “business as usual” as much as possible.

“Being a father and son operation and currently in the middle of lambing it’s pretty much status quo and we’ll be boxing on, ‘’ Richard says.

“The biggest inconvenience at this stage is not being able to make appointments and seeing people, so we have had to postpone appointments”.

Richard says the main concern at this stage of the year for the family farm and others was the lack of Recognised Seasonal Employees (RSE).

But in the interim, local farmers were well supported from within the farming industry and the networking was beneficial for Marl-

Waihopai Valley farmer Richard Dawkins is trying to keep it “business as usual” at the family’s farm. Photo: Supplied. borough farmers, he says.

Businesses involved in food and beverage production are allowed to keep operating during alertlevel 4 as essential services.

This includes fishers, farmers, orchardists, meat and dairy processing companies, as well as vets and other essential support services.

Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard says work on farms will continue as normal for many at this stage - but with the Delta variant more transmissible, farmers needed to follow the rules, he says.

“The hardest part will be the social distancing in some situations. If you’re dealing with a dif-

ficult carving and the vet needs to come, that’s where things get challenging.

“But by-and-large staying at home in August isn’t usually an issue for most dairy farmers. We hardly ever leave, so we just need to carry on with our work.”

The Pyramid business currently comprises 602ha within the

boundaries of the Avon, Tummil and Waihopai rivers.

In 2019, The Pyramid won the farming section as well as the supreme award in the Cawthron Marlborough Environment Awards.

It was only the second farm to win the multi-industry award in more than 20 years.

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Chris Valli It will take a community. That’s the message Joanna Grigg is keen to share as she contemplates combatting climate change at a local level.

Talking from her hill-country home on Tempello Station, nestled in the dry hills of the ranges between Wairau and Awatere Valleys, Joanna is responding to the recent Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) report.

Accepting the urgency of the latest findings is key, she says as scientists voice their concerns about climate change thresholds. Once crossed, there is no way back.

The report underlies the urgency of taking global action to halt climate change.

It warns that without immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, it will be impossible to limit warming close to 1.5°C or even 2°C. From a Marlborough perspective, Joanna firmly believes the whole community needs to get involved with this. Everyone has

a responsibility, she says.

“As a farmer I think about climate each day, and I accept the science and message of urgency in the IPCC report. It says Earth’s climate has always changed naturally, but both the global extent and rate of recent warming are unusual. The recent warming has reversed a slow, long-term cooling trend.”

For Joanna and the Tempello farm - a family business for 104 years – making and nurturing a sustainable business practice and model is key for the 4400-hectare property, growing sheepmeat, wool, beef, grapes and sequestering carbon.

The farm also features a1600hectare indigenous forest, the largest remaining dryland forest in the Wither Hills Zone.

Joanna says she has concerns that some of the data from the report is misleading.

“I was interested to read that the IPACC Report states measuring methane emissions the same way as carbon (known as the GWP100 method) which is inaccurate.

“Methane in New Zealand may be around 40 per cent of annual

Joanna Grigg. emissions, but it has not been 40 percent of warming each year for quite some time.

“Carbon and methane should be treated differently,” she says.

The 2021 NIWA report on what Marlborough’s climate might be like by 2100 shows fewer frosts but also a greater intensity of extreme events like heat waves, and drought.

Joanna is realistic about carbon emission options and believes she know what will work.

“Some farmers may drop stocking rates to do it but our farm

stocking rates are already low, at five stock units per hectare, and matched to the environment.

“We can’t grow vegetables or grapevines on steep hills. I firmly believe the profitability of food production and access to food must be maintained. This has to be key within any plan to penalise emitters.”

The Brancott Rd farm can afford to pay some level of climate levy for methane per animal sold, but according to Joanna, if agriculture went into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) tomorrow at the current price of $50/ tonne carbon, it would make their farm largely insolvent overnight.

Emitters can purchase credits to offset their emissions. This provides an incentive for people to reduce emissions and plant forests to absorb carbon dioxide.

“We know from using Overseer, that for our farm of around 800 cattle and 3500 sheep, we produce 4000 tonnes of carbon equivalent emissions/year.

“To buy offsets it would cost $200,000/year. We can’t even use our 1600 hectares of kanuka/ beech forest to offset as it was

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established before 1990 (in fact it was there pre-people in NZ!) so it’s excluded in the rules.”

Joanna freely admits that she stays awake at night worrying about the future.

“Cradle to grave figures of kg of CO2-e per kilogram of animal, show NZ beef is the third best (lowest emitter) in the world.

‘It’s free-range nutrient-rich protein and fabulous. Eighty eight percent of NZ beef and almost 95 percent of lamb and mutton grown is exported.

“I don’t believe being the first to bring agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme, to try and get market premiums, is a good enough reason either. It should be about cutting emissions globally.”

She adds they don’t get premiums for sheepmeat, beef, wool or grapes within their business, even though they have a rare dryland indigenous Permanent Forest Sink of 230 hectares, which is regenerating and listed in the ETS. “We get no more money for our other products, and it earns less per hectare than a pine forest in the ETS. It only offsets 700 tonnes a year while Pinus radiata on the same area would offset about 3500 tonnes/year.”

In November this year, the He

Waka Eka Noa Climate group comes out with recommendations on a pricing system for agriculture in the ETS. This is planned to be set for farms by 2025.

Chief Executive Dairy New Zealand Tim Mackle says the He Waka Eke Noa initiative (we are all in this canoe together) was a credible five-year plan which includes clear and measurable actions, outcomes and timeframes.

Joanna believes carbon sequestering is a practical and realistic solution.

“My view is that a lot could be solved if the carbon sequestering net was allowed to go wider over a farm, taking in more regenerating areas of indigenous vegetation.

“Current ETS rules, managed by the Ministry for Primary Industries, exclude so much regenerating forest and amenity plantings on farms. We’ve tried three times to include more.”

Sustainable practice such as scattering kanuka trees for grazing for shade was a viable option for the Grigg family farm. However, the ETS mapping rules (forest land must be mapped into carbon accounting areas) has caused frustration.

“We have scattered kanuka trees

Joanna and David Grigg’s 4400-hectare property, growing sheepmeat, wool, beef, grapes and sequestering carbon. across much of our grazing land, for shade and on steep areas where the scrub rake couldn’t reach in the 1980s. But the ETS mapping rules consider the scattered kanuka joined together to count as a forest in 1990 – so it’s exempt from being eligible to offset our emissions.

“We would have been better off pulling out every last tree in the 1980s but this is not our way of

treating our land. Now we are prepared to retire some of it for carbon and we can’t.”

A proactive solution, according to Joanna, would include regenerating indigenous forest into farmers’ emissions calculator. It would, she says be a game changer.

The mix of sheep and cattle on dryland Marlborough is so well suited to the environment, she

says.

“Angus cows are the ultimate for steep hills – they control pasture and turn this potential fire-risk into beef, they groom pastures for sheep and remove the parasite larvae meaning we don’t need to drench ewes.

“It is sustainable and earns export dollars. Farmers control weeds.

Our nassella tussock, gorse and broom costs around $100,000 a year to control. Who would pay for that if a profitable farm was gone – urban people’s rates?

So where to from here, August 2021? The Government is currently working on an Emissions Reduction Plan, drawing on advice from the New Zealand Climate Change Commissions insights and findings.

Joanna is confident they will continue to work through the IPCC report and use the latest science and information to be the advocates for the whole community and not just for rural people.

She adds mitigating emissions and adapting to a changing climate is about continuing to ‘provide advice, support and research’ so ultimately everyone is accountable for their own backyard and the ‘global village’.

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Netball semi-finalists confirmed Peter Jones Reporter

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Marlborough premier netball’s semi-finalists have been confirmed with one week of roundrobin play remaining.

Pelorus, Tokomaru Crafar Crouch, Marlborough Girls’ College and Harlequins will feature in the play-offs, with Awatere dropping out of contention.

What is not yet clear is who will play who in the semis and, bearing in mind the effect of stringent COVID alert levels, when those matches will be contested.

Harlequins, who play the mixed Tokomaru side in the final round, with no competition points at stake, are locked into fourth place and will meet the top qualifier.

Pelorus (9pts) and MGC (6) will play each other in the last round, while Toko (7) take on Awatere - all three teams within reach of top spot. The second and third qualifiers will meet in the second semi-final.

On Tuesday evening, playingthrough champions Tokomaru Crafar Crouch laid down a finals marker, producing a second half upswing to down the ever-improving MGC crew 49-39.

The early stages were tightly-contested, both the first and second quarters being squared to leave the match tied up 20-20 at halftime.

Then Toko began to take charge.

With the Wilson sisters operating smoothly and instinctively in midcourt, alongside the energetic Chloe Devir, Gemma Hika landing 40 from 44 goal attempts, plus Wiri Bristowe and Michaela Boaz snapping up any loose ball in de-

fence, they showed why they will be hard to topple come play-off time.

MGC were in this one for a very long time, captain Mya Wiapo showing her athleticism at the back, alongside Holly Feltham and Lesieli Taufa.

On attack, Fiaalii Solomona (29 from 35) and Zoe Scaife worked patiently to create shooting opportunities, with Mele Moli and Eleri James-Sitters eager and inventive feeders.

Toko will have taken heart from this effort as they close in on play-off time and, while MGC will be disappointed with their final quarter, they showed enough cohesion and spirit to provide optimism for battles to come.

With their scheduled South Island Secondary Schools tournament being cancelled, they can now fully concentrate on the local competition.

In the other late match, Harlequins eased their way to a 60-30 win over Awatere.

Quins flew out of the blocks early, dominating first half possession to the tune of 42 goal attempts to Awatere’s 19. They led 32-11 at the break before the Tussocks staged a mini-recovery, taking out the third quarter 11-6. However, Quins recovered quickly, putting the game to bed with a 22-8 final stanza.

They were also buoyed by the return of shooter Kelsee Hamilton from injury, adding attacking variation alongside Liv Hodson and Simone Pederson.

Awatere, with Nicole Witterick and Ashleigh Childs leading the way, put in their usual wholehearted effort, but were again plagued by lack of consistency.

Marlborough Girls’ College defender Holly Feltham rises high to put pressure on Tokomaru shooter Kayla Wilson. Photo: Peter Jones.

Pelorus still lead the points table, despite going down 53-38 to Toko Picton Motordrome on Tuesday, with no points at stake.

This match featured another tight first half tussle, Pelorus holding a 22-20 edge at the main break.

However, they were unable to stay with the combined side, for whom Ricci Higgins (27 from 35) and Luke Richardson were reliable under the hoop. Tash Ford was influential in midcourt while Jo Ettema worked tirelessly in defence.

Pelorus, chasing their first premier title this season, got a tough work-out, using 10 players and several combinations. Jalen King again showed out at goal keep, alongside Riana Burger and Portia Barcello.

Paige Lovell was reliable and ac-

curate from distance at the other end, while Millie Wensley pro-

vided plenty of options from midcourt.

Scores: Tokomaru Picton Motordrome 53 (Ricci Higgins 27/35, Luke Richardson 26/43) Pelorus Edridge Contracting 38 (Paige Lovell 17/25, Karli Murphy 15/20, Meg Hocquard 6/12). Quarter scores (winning team first): 9-11, 11-11, 16-7, 17-9.

Harlequins New World 60 (Hayley Marfell 4/7, Simone Pedersen 24/31, Kelsee Hamilton 12/22, Liv Hodson 20/27) Awatere Clarence River Rafting 30 (Ashley Childs 18/32, Emma Pilcher 10/18, Tori McCulloch 2/6). Quarter scores (winning team first): 14-4, 18-7, 6-11, 22-8.

Tokomaru Crafar Crouch Picton 49 (Gemma Hika 40/44, Kayla Wilson 9/13) Marlborough Girls’ College NZ King Salmon 39 (Fiaalii Solomona 29/35, Zoe Scaife 10/14). Quarter scores (winning team first): 9-9, 11-11, 14-12, 15-7.

Third round standings after four rounds: Pelorus 9, Tokomaru 7, MGC 6, Harlequins 4, Awatere 0.

Final round draw: MGC v Pelorus; Tokomaru Crafar Crouch v Awatere; Tokomaru Picton Motordrome v Harlequins.

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Nick Rayner leads the field away from the start of the 5km and 10km event. Photos: Peter Jones.

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Laura Smidt finished second in the 10km run.

Half marathon entrants stretch their legs

Peter Jones

The timing was perfect this year for the Woodbourne Half Marathon. After a year’s COVID-enforced hiatus, the popular event was again staged at the air base on Sunday, August 15, just a few days before another level four lockdown.

In the half marathon run, multi-talented Marlborough athlete Nat Price made history, becoming the first woman to take the overall title. Price, who is training for a Half Ironman event, was a clear winner in a time of 1:25:12. Jarod Thompsett was second 25 seconds behind, with local veteran Robbie Barnes coming in third in a time of 1:30:32.

Nick Rayner took out the 10km run, competing the course in a smart 35:47. Laura Smidt was second, in 38:48 with Matt Seyb third in 39:23.

Alex Hansen won the 5km event, narrowly shading his father Dave on the finish line. Joseph Gilhooly was third.

Daniel Gray won the half marathon hybrid [walk/ run] section while Lori Rusbatch took out the half marathon walk title.

Rochelle Marfell enjoyed her 5km run.

Sarah Barnie and Tommy Campbell finished the 3km race together.

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