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Masterton and Carterton district councils have voted to allow Easter Sunday trading, with South Wairarapa to decide on Thursday morning. SEE STORIES, PAGES 3, 8

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Jack needs a weekend we’re not Jack. In an effort to be fair to workers and in the fine tradition of impractical “have your cake and eat it too” legislation, Parliament has powerfully decreed that employees may decline to work on Easter Sunday without having to give a reason and without repercussions for their employment relationship. Yeah right. The answer to the whingeing tourist is this: “You are in New Zealand (or, because the Government in a cowardly manner has passed the issue to the regions, you’re in Wairarapa). “In this place workers have a few guaranteed days off a year. This is one of them, Easter Sunday. You might have heard of it? You can shop tomorrow.” Many of our businesses are owner operated but this is not about them. If they are permitted to open, then any business with employees should also be, and then the pressure for employees to work will be turned on. Money will find a way. Times when the world stops are precious and rare. The only fair thing to have is a blanket rule of no trading. Masterton and Carterton district councils, after consultation, have decided otherwise. Based on the consultation received by South Wairarapa District Council, this week the door may open there, too. I think it is a shame so many of us are prepared to demand some low-paid retail worker sacrifice their long weekend just so we can buy stuff on ours. What do you think? Letters to gerald.ford@age.co.nz.

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Gerald Ford I write what may be a minority opinion this week, as two Wairarapa district councils open the door to Easter Sunday trading, with a third likely to do so. One submission from a businessman in particular stands out to me: “Wairarapa is a tourism region with many domestic and international visitors who are amused that we shut down at such a busy time.” As a nation, I suggest we are overly conscious of what visitors might think of us, and underconscious of the values for which we stand. Through a little online research recently I learned of the terrible conditions of the English farm labourer in the 1850s to 1870s that led so many of them to emigrate to New Zealand where an 8-hour day rather than a 14hour day was standard. Immigrants to New Zealand took advantage of a new land with new rules and enjoyed a new equality where “Jack was as good as master” as one touring Englishman put it. Now poor Jack is ignored along with commonsense and compassion, as we sacrifice the free time of the lowly worker for our shopping convenience, to make a dollar and to satisfy the alleged opinion of outsiders. Jack is not as good as we his customer masters but is there to serve us, which is fine provided

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South debates Easter Sunday trading rule BY GERALD FORD

SOME SUBMISSIONS IN FAVOUR

SOME SUBMISSIONS AGAINST

South Wairarapa District is due to discuss Easter Trading at an Extraordinary Meeting this Thursday, March 2, at 9am. The council has a draft policy which has been put to the South Wairarapa public. The results of consultation using an SCP – special consultative process, show that almost 82% of respondents support the proposed Easter Trading Policy and 18% were in support of status quo. Of the 244 submissions to a hearing on the draft policy, 200 were in favour and 44 against.

Brian Phillips. Rural communities around country are dying, financial aspects of tourism should be supported Staff should not be forced to work - casual labour? Swapnil Patel, (Southend Dairy). So people can buy basic things to survive and because it is good for businesses that choose to open. Michelle Allen (Greytown Pharmacy). Supports, but at the discretion of individual businesses, no outside pressure to open or not. Colin Burt. Small businesses in rural towns need tourists to help them survive. Judy Burt. Working in a shop with so many tourists, sees the need to be open. David Kershaw. It is sensible, the law is an ass. Mba is a tourist destination as is SW, should encourage more visitors. John Donald. Mba is a holiday town with a lot of activities around the Easter break - in the town’s best interest. Veronica McKee. Should also have a stall day in the square. Barbara Paye. (Wairarapa Storage) This is a tourist area. To place restrictions on anything retail is unfair and prehistoric. Local govt should not be making these decisions. (consumer, interested party). Trevor Petersen. Brings money and people to town. Romain Busby. Has been a retailer and worker and see no reason for closing outlets that are capable of opening. We have a diverse range of religions that we can’t expect everyone to adhere to a Christian festival and must encourage trade. Gray Carter. To some Easter means a day off and a piece of chocolate. Rick Graham (Graham & Sons Upholsterers). We are open 7 days and it is important to be available to customers when it suits them. On statutory holidays one of the partners looks after the factory. Wayne Carmichael. Choice of trade should not be governed by religion or religious belief. Kathryn Cloeter. Just another day, why does this law exist in the first place. Michael Fairburn. A ban on trading is a violation in human rights and the principle of separation of church and state. Nobody should be expected to operate their business based on the religious beliefs of a minority (as per last census).

Geoffrey Clark. Queries the rationale behind making one of the last 2 remaining holy days a (non) holiday and believes that everyone whether christian or secular would appreciate having a day off. Warren Burgess. There are enough shopping days. Bob and Nella Coldicutt. A day for church and family. Paul Kendy. Easter is a sacred time, workers need a holiday. Barbara O’Driscoll. Traditional religious reasons - prefer no disruption to the celebration of Easter (Friday & Saturday) and xmas day. The conditions proposed are responsible and understand the visitor reasons - food places are already open DTS Riddiford. Support all shops being closed on Good Friday and Easter except for dairies and petrol stations for necessities. Paul Mallinson. Not a religious person but want to see the last vestiges of a Christian based society stripped away to leave no cultural identity. Jon Wakefield. If Easter trading was adopted would expect Anzac Day morning to become ALL day trading as well. Wayne Cooper. (Cooper Farm Services). Surely there are enough shopping days, Xmas will be next - we don’t need it. Graeme Scarr. Easter Sunday is a family day and important religious day. Allowing shops to trade means employees get pressured to work on 1 of 2 days a year they are entitled to have off. Visitors who come to SW know that businesses are closed, why change? Family first. (Carpentry business owner) Brent and Barbara Norling. Easter Sunday is family time. Lee Carter (councillor). Leave Easter Sunday status quo. People can buy on Saturday and Monday, one day extra makes no difference. Spend time with families, relax and appreciate the day for what it stands for. It should be a point of difference as a nation rather than have a fast-paced shopping environment. If a precedent is set on this, what will become of other public holidays? Jim Osborne. Easter Sunday should be spent with family and going to church not shopping.

DRAFT POLICY: Shop trading is permitted on Easter Sundays throughout the whole of the South Wairarapa District as defined by the map in Schedule A. The choice to open rests with each individual retailer. The Policy neither requires shops to open, or individuals to work on Easter Sunday. Council recognises that Easter Sunday is a day of significance across New Zealand and some people will choose not to work on this day. Subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Shop Trading Hours Act 1990 includes a workers’ choice provision that outlines a shop employee’s right to refuse to work on Easter Sunday.

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Carterton District Council had decided to allow retailers to open on Easter Sunday. PHOTO/CHELSEA BOYLE

Carterton okays Easter Sunday trading BY CHELSEA BOYLE Carterton District Council have lifted the prohibition on Easter Sunday Trading, swimming with the tide of the few public submissions that were all in favour of the plan. The policy gives retailers the choice to open, so long as employers give at least four weeks notice of that intention. Carterton District Council Mayor John Booth said that submissions from industry representatives rightfully made note of an employee’s right to refuse to work on that day. “I think that’s really important that that’s in there, and I would like to think all businesses will treat that with respect.” Councillor Jill Greathead pointed to a submission by Doug Harris, which she believed summarised a key point well – “Easter trading will neither discourage nor stop those who want to worship”. While it seemed like smooth sailing for Carterton, it could not be ignored that the council only received five submissions on the issue, only two of which were from Carterton residents. The council’s planning and policy adviser Solitaire Robertson said the small response was “a little bit disappointing”. Councillor Rebecca Vergunst said except for two people, it was hard to tell what Carterton residents thought of the proposed policy. Councillor Russell Keys agreed there was not a lot of feedback on the issue. Mayor Booth said: “People for whatever reason haven’t put pen to paper.” However, allowing retailers to open on Easter Sunday appeared to be the favourite plan, he said. Cr Jill Greathead said by moving forwards with the plan, council was “democratically letting our community and business owners decide how to approach it”. Councillor Tracey O’Callaghan said it would be about “keeping eyes and ears open” to make sure nobody was under pressure to open. The vote was passed unanimously. Councillor Greg Lang was absent from the meeting.

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PNG mission remembered BY GERALD FORD A minister and teacher who retired to Masterton is to launch her first book this month – the story of a pioneer educator who, like herself, taught at an isolated Papua New Guinea school. Rev Pat Jacobson has written the history of Ada Lee, founding head mistress of the District Girls School, Kihili, in Bougainville, PNG. Ada had been a missionary in the Solomon Islands from 1934 to 1937, when she was transferred to Bougainville. In 1956 she became principal of the new girls school, which she led until her return to New Zealand in 1966, and died in 1992. Author Pat had worked with Ada at the school for four years from 1962, and she stayed on after Ada left, for a further six years. The District Girls School was located at a place known by the PNG government as Kahili but by the church as Kihili, near Buin at the southern tip of Bougainville. The school’s location seemed to be “right at the end of the earth, and as far as the PNG government was concerned, it was the end of the earth,” Pat said. Like the Solomons mission, it was run by the Methodist Church, which became the Uniting Church of PNG and the Solomons. It taught girls mostly aged from about 15 to their early 20s, from around Bougainville Island and the nearby Solomons islands to the east – whose fathers Ada had taught during her time there. “Because she taught the men, she got the trust of the men that she would look after their girls,” Pat said. To qualify, the girls needed to have a good understanding of English and two years or more at other missions schools. For a high achiever, Ada was a quiet personality, Pat remembers. “She was actually a very quietly spoken person and consequently managed to keep everyone under control. She had the ability to work with anybody, and find a way to get through to them even if they were difficult.” A shrewd leader with a sense of humour, Ada used to tell amusing stories with herself as the subject of the joke, Pat said. “Then often when you thought about them later you realised she was actually getting something across to you.” Usefully for a pioneering role, Ada was also very practical. “She was the first one to find the termites nest, and stop the building from getting eaten down.” A hard worker, Ada inspired the same attitude to her students, one of whom recalled Ada saying, “Girls, don’t be lazy in doing good things for others.” In 1981, Ada was awarded a QSM for services to education in the islands.

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She was actually a very quietly spoken person and consequently managed to keep everyone under control. She had the ability to work with anybody, and find a way to get through to them even if they were difficult.

Rev Pat Jacobson with her newly completed book Ada Lucy Lee, Endali – about a missionary in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. PHOTO/GERALD FORD

The author’s journey

Pat’s own teaching career began at the Featherston Manual Centre in the late 1950s, where for two years she taught “homecraft” to pupils from rural South Wairarapa schools. They were lovely little girls who are grandmothers now.” From there she taught for two years in Tauranga, where she heard the call to overseas mission. “I was looking for a Christian challenge,” Pat said. “I was one of those deeply sincere, committed Christians challenged by (a preacher of the day). “That’s when I committed myself to work for the church, really.” When the opening came up for a teacher at the school, Pat said, “somebody looked at me and said, “You could do that job.” The decision was made not so much out of a thirst for adventure as a response to the need.

“Their need was education.” The school’s mission was about educating women and encouraging them to become involved in their communities, helping them “to take up leadership roles in the village”. The only Europeans in the area were the teachers and ministers at the school, and local government employees including patrol officers. Some of the teachers were Melanesians from the Solomons and PNG. The students understood English and also spoke Pidgin. “We had 18 different language groups within the school, which was interesting to say the least,” Pat said. “Because if you’re laughing as you are walking past me and talking in your own language, I’m sure you’re laughing at me … it’s a very human response.” Pat herself was not gifted with languages. She worked hard once at memorising and preaching a message in Pidgin, but was told by one of her hearers,

“Sister Pat, we understand your English better than your Pidgin.” After returning to New Zealand, Pat herself studied for leadership, becoming a minister in the Methodist Church. Now retired, she and her sister moved to Masterton 12 years ago. The book has a longterm project for Pat. It features material from Ada’s own diaries, from Methodist archives and interviews with missionaries. Pat also used the Masterton District Library in her wider research. Pat will officially launch the book at the hall of Lansdowne Presbyterian Church (Crossway), on Saturday March 4, at 2pm. She has called the launch, “The Lighter Side of Missionary Life” – and it will include talks from Pat and others who have ministered overseas.

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A Masterton woman who won $150 of shopping vouchers has donated them to Masterton Foodbank – which is currently experiencing high demand for its services. Joan Carter won the vouchers for a store of her choice in an online competition. Joan, who volunteers in the annual Foodbank collections in December, decided to pass on her good fortune to the charity, choosing New World as the store. “In a house with only two people in it, it would take forever using them, so I thought Foodbank could make use of it,” she said. Volunteer Hayden McGrail confirmed the vouchers would be useful, as the foodbank is currently busy and often uses the store. New World, like Pak ‘N Save, has a

foodbank donation box at the exit. Foodbank coordinator Lyn Tankersley said the foodbank is stretched for resources currently. “We’ve been horrendously busy. We did 80 parcels last week and we are having to buy so much food, it’s a real drain on our resources, so any help we can get is great,” she said. Lyn also says the community can help by buying one extra item of food into the donation box on their weekly shop. “Just for people to get a bit of a culture going, where they get one extra nonperishable item,” she said. Suggested items include “cereals, jam, spaghetti, baked beans, a packet of biscuits, noodles, pasta, rice…” “Often people buy what’s on special, and put it in there.”

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BY DON FARMER A landmark decision made by Masterton District councillors on Wednesday means shops in the town will be allowed to open and trade on Easter Sunday. After several months of intermittent debate, public consultation and the hearing of submissions, councillors voted 6-4 to allow shopping on that day, with one councillor abstaining. Councillor Jonathan Hooker who had been one of those who lodged a submission against trading on Easter Sunday, which had been heard by his fellow councillors, stood aside from voting. Councillor Brent Goodwin led the prolobby moving that council adopt a policy allowing shops to open. He said it was about giving shopkeepers and the public “freedom of choice”. He was supported by councillor Bex Johnson who said a yes vote would give people the choice to enjoy Easter Sunday in any way they wished. It would not, she said, take away the right for people who wanted to worship from doing so or stop them from spending time with their families. “It would just give them the chance to shop if they want to,” she said. Mrs Johnson said Masterton ran the risk of looking like “a dinosaur” as other jurisdictions voted to allow Easter trading and it didn’t. Councillor Gary Caffell said he realised there was “a diversity of opinion” in the community on the issue which had been borne out by a survey which showed people to be narrowly in favour but with written public submissions being heavily against. Nevertheless, he was “strongly in favour” but thought central government should have shouldered the responsibility for a decision

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of that magnitude and not to have passed the buck to councils. Mayor Lyn Patterson said she was against Easter Sunday becoming a shopping day not on the grounds of religious conviction but because it stripped away values Kiwis cherished. Mrs Patterson said over the years, workers had fought hard to get and retain rights. She said Masterton was not like Carterton or the towns of South Wairarapa in that it is the only town which is home to big, nationwide stores and could not be compared with them on a shopping basis. Deputy mayor Graham McClymont who had previously sided with the pro-lobby said he had a change of heart and was now against the idea. This was partly because of the submission process which had revealed 85 per cent of respondents were against Easter Sunday trading. He said there were only 3.5 days a year when shops were not allowed to trade and which gave staff and business owners alike “a chance to switch off”. Councillors who voted in favour of allowing Easter Sunday trading were Brent Goodwin, Bex Johnson, Gary Caffell, John Dalziell, Deb Davidson and Frazer Mailman. Against were Lyn Patterson, Simon O’Donoghue, Chris Peterson and Graham McClymont.

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with a stake of $2000, says Lorina Goldsworthy of Secretary/ Treasurer Castlepoint Racing Club (Inc). Horses from throughout the North Island will be taking part with their trainers seeing the Castlepoint Races as a good opportunity for a pre-season warm up. The last race of the day will be the Stewards Handicap in which the race day organisers will take part – “It’s always a rat race and a lot of fun.” “Fun” is the key word to describe the event which has been organised to be a real family day. To finish the day off there is the WESTPAC Kid’s Big Dig where one digs for a prize, money and treats.

There will be lots of entertainment between the races including a pony race, kid’s games and this year, for something a bit different, we are having a Clydesdale race. There will also be a competition to find the “Best dressed person for a day at the Castlepoint Races” with a first prize of a weekend at the Copthorne Solway Park Hotel and Resort for two from Trust House. Second prize is a $100 voucher from Hebe. Due to popular demand the “Undie 100” is back. Wear your best underwear and bring $2 to the start line, where the winner takes all! There will be eight races during the Castlepoint Racing Club Annual Picnic Meeting, starting with the “Station Hack” which is open to all comers. A highlight is the fourth race, the Fagan Motors Castlepoint Cup

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I lay in bed patting the cat wondering why I had had that terrible dream. Then it dawned on me. Yes, only the day before I had been browsing around my favourite garden centre (GardenBarn of course!), intrigued at the new arrivals of carnivorous plants. Though carnivorous plants do exist they are certainly not “man-eaters”. These plants are not capable of eating big sized rabbits or rodents, or even gnomes, but more like small amphibians, insects and arthropods. These plants exist in rocky areas or bogs, where the soil quality is very poor and lacks essential nutrients such as nitrogen. To fulfill their energy requirements the plants consume insects and other small animals. They have various trapping strategies. Some of these plants have specially designed brightly colored leaves that

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are used to trick and trap unsuspecting animals and insects. Some have a sweet scent that helps attract animals towards them while others have sticky slippery parts that makes it difficult for the prey to escape.

The Venus Flytrap is the most famous kind of carnivorous plant. The insects are attracted to these plants for nectar found on its blade like leaves. As soon as an insect touches the tiny hair present inside the leaves the fringe of spiny hair found around the leaves snap shut, trapping the prey inside. Then the leaves release digestive enzymes and absorb essential nutrients. Some people chose to place these plants in a bedroom to catch unsuspecting and annoying flies.

prey’s attention. The inside of the leaves are covered with slippery waxy scales that make its prey slip at the bottom of the pitcher where digestive fluids are present. Inside the North American pitcher is a pool of water where the trapped insect drowns and are then digested by the enzymes that are released. So thank you Catapult for waking me before I got eaten. I will forgive you for chewing one of my favourite ‘Awesome Grandad’ socks. Have a Bonzer week – Doug.

Sundew plants have hundreds of tentacles all over its leaves that produce a shiny sticky substance that could be mistaken for morning dew. The insects are tricked by these fake dew drops and get stuck to the leaves. The prey is then enclosed within the tentacles and digestive enzymes start their work. Pitcher plants come in two varieties. Tropical pitchers are also known as Monkey Cups. As the name suggests the plants are shaped like pitchers (jugs) and are brightly colored. The bright colors and nectar of the plant helps to draw its

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Mabel Smith and husband Geoffrey Smith wielding paintbrushes soaked in “resolution blue”. The Keep Carterton Beautiful Group.

BY GERALD FORD Carrington Park was brightened up last week with a colourful working bee by the Keep Carterton Beautiful Group. The group of about a dozen volunteers painted the fitness trail to help make it stand out to visitors. Formerly the Keep Carterton Beautiful Committee, the group’s chairwoman Mabel Smith said the group has “a lot of people who don’t want to be on the committee but are happy to turn up and work” “I’ve been doing it since Ian (Renall) died,” Mrs Smith said. “On the day, we had a lady out walking who was from Greytown. She said, ‘Can I have a paintbrush?’ “We’re all just retired, and like something to do. I find the council very good to work with.” Carterton District Council parks and reserves

manager Brian McWilliam agrees. “I work quite closely with them,” Mr McWilliam said. “They’re always wanting projects and we always have projects. I usually meet up with them once a month. “They clean the chapel at Clareville cemetery, they planted daffodils at the southern end of the town last year. “They’re a very good community group, valued by the council and myself.” The fitness trail behind Carrington Park was in natural wood colour, and Mr McWilliam said it was not easily noticed. “When it’s natural you lose it in the background.” The park’s outdoor gym equipment was painted in “resolution blue”, and Mr McWilliam said he looked at the nearby fitness trail objects and decided they would look good in the same colour. “I thought there’s quite a lot to do and it’s a perfect job for KCBG.”

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Mokopuna, the succession plan Ra Smith A mokopuna of Wairarapa Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi. As an old net withers, the new net is cast. Congratulations to AJ Aporo on winning the rangatahi award that allows her to travel on Air New Zealand, the sponsor of the award, to five wananga or professional development events, anywhere in New Zealand. While that is exciting, she will also have the opportunity for the whole year to be mentored by Lyn Patterson, our Mayor. AJ works at Te Hauora Runanga O Wairarapa as a mentor for other Wairarapa mokopuna, who attend Lakeview School and Featherston School. She is in the Ka Rewa programme, a programme that extends our children so we can see them fly. She is of course one of the mokopuna of the Aporo whanau, who have a tradition of producing stunning rangatahi, ready to be the new net, or the new energy that brings people together. As an old net, I get tired just watching AJ’s energy. A new product, like rangatahi, that captures our attention can seem trendy, something prone to be popular for a short time. At first appearance manuka honey seems to be a trend, until we remember our tipuna or ancestors teach us its traditional uses, especially its rongoa or medicinal use. Recently an Ecological Science

They can catch these fish in a sustainable way so the generations that follow can fish too. Researcher, Jacqui Horswell, has learnt that manuka takes up ecoli, a pathogen, and nitrates, a nutrient, both of which degrade our waterways. This microbial discovery is not surprising for the mokopuna of Wairarapa because the idea that a plant that can heal people, can heal the land has been passed down to us. Jacqui is bringing a trial about manuka here to Wairarapa with a rangatahi, Sky Halford, who is a mokopuna of the Naera whanau. The case study is looking at the change in soil conditions caused by manuka and this will show that there is less material that can degrade our waters where manuka is grown. Sky is setting up her Masters Degree at Victoria University and it was a privilege to be with her and Jacqui at the Ministry for the Environment seeking their support for the trial. Both Sky Halford and AJ Aporo are the promise of a brighter day, the new net that can catch more fish. They can catch these fish in a sustainable way so the generations that follow can fish too. Isn’t it great when a succession plan comes together?

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Tramping on Cape to Bluff trail BY NIGEL BONIFACE, MASTERTON TRAMPING CLUB The Te Araroa Trail is a walking route starting at North Cape and finishing at Bluff. Some people walk the full length of New Zealand, maybe taking 6 months, however with many short sections of track making up the full trail it is possible to “tick off” a section at a time. Over Waitangi weekend members of Masterton Tramping Club journeyed over the Tararua Ranges to near Tokomaru (Horowhenua), to walk part of this grand trail. Five of us left Masterton and waited a few minutes at Scotts Road for local members to join us. It was then about a 20-minute drive to the road end at a forestry road. Seven of us left our transport drivers, hoping that we would see them at the other end of the track, some 17km distant. It was overcast and cool, ideal tramping weather. The track initially passed through an area of cleared forest, after an hour or so we reached a stile at the Forest Park boundary, time for a snack and a drink. The native forest was noticeably darker under thick bush cover, and very muddy for the first hour or more as we made our way down to the Tokomaru River. The route crosses two small streams before reaching the Tokomaru. After recent rains all the water courses were higher than usual, but still easily crossable. A day or two prior would not have been so good, the grass on the banks a metre or more above the water level had been well covered. As we reached the Tokomaru the sun shone, briefly, while we stopped for lunch, sitting on a handy log. After crossing the river we followed the track through private land before re-crossing the river. Shortly after we came to the old whare

High above Tokomaru. Inset: Jason and Julie check the map.

site where Jim Burtton had spent many years while he farmed the land from 1908 to 1941. After the whare, the track followed the original pack track which Jim Burtton had constructed, this was overgrown in many places, but still visible enough to see the huge amount of work done to construct it. On the way out we met Ian, he had driven around and walked in to meet us, we now

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Lakeview principal’s new role BY DON FARMER

The man who has been at the helm of Lakeview School for 11 years is moving on, but not moving away. Ed Hodgkinson broke the news to staff and pupils on Wednesday that he is relinquishing his job as school principal at the end of this term to take up one of 21 new roles throughout the country. He will become a Principal Leadership Advisor mentoring new principals and supporting existing ones. “My area will cover Greater Wellington, Wairarapa and Tararua,” he said. Mr Hodgkinson said the new job would not involve moving out of Masterton. “We, as a family, have developed strong connections with Masterton, we love the place and do not want to leave it.” Mr Hodgkinson, who became Lakeview School’s second principal after Peter Debney retired, said he has thoroughly enjoyed his time there. “It’s been a real privilege and I have loved it here.” He said the job had been challenging especially early on when the school was still dealing with the fallout of the forced merger of Hiona Intermedate, Totara Drive School and Lansdowne School. “But it’s been a great journey with a good school community and amazing kids” Mr Hodgkinson said his

proudest achievement was probably achieving a close partnership with the school’s Maori community and the work that partnership had achieved within the school. “That has been just awesome,” he said. Outside of his job as Lakeview principal Mr Hodgkinson has fulfilled two other roles. He has been a part-time principals’ mentor and until two years ago was president of the Wellington Regional Primary Principals Association. He said it was an emotional moment breaking the news to staff and pupils that he was leaving, news which had come as a total surprise to them. No successor has yet been named and Mr Hodgkinson’s last day at Lakeview will be April 13. He and his wife Diedre and three children make up the family unit with eldest son Aidan being an apprentice engineer in Masterton. Daughter Emily is in her last year at Wairarapa College and youngest son Joel is in his final year at Lakeview. Joel is head boy this year . “That was something I had no say in and had no part to play other than being his dad,” Mr Hodgkinson said.

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WHO’S UP TO BEAT WINNING PAIR? By Doug Laing A stranglehold on the top two Golden Shears titles seems unlikely to be broken based on the current season’s form of defending championships Rowland Smith and Joel Henare. Going into the three-show pre-shears weekend at Taumarunui, Apiti and Pahiatua, the 30-year-old Smith had with his last six wins in a row claimed 19 finals since winning his third Golden Shears Open title last year. He had won in 2013 and 2014, but missed the event during time-out in 2015. The 25-year-old Henare, who on February 11 regained the World title he first won in the War Memorial Stadium in 2012, will be going for a fifth Golden Shears Open title in a row, having won 13 finals since his North Island Circuit-Golden Shears double last year. Smith will be aiming to match the achievement of four-times winner John Kirkpatrick, who first won the title in 2002 when he ended the 12-year winning run of the 2016-knighted Sir David Fagan. Winner of the World title in Invercargill on

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February 11, 46-year-old Kirkpatrick remains a major threat, as does Taranaki-based Scottish farmer Gavin Mutch whose two biggest wins have been on the Masterton stage, in the World Championships final in 2012 and when becoming the first shearer from overseas to win the Golden Shears Open, at the 55th shears in Smith’s absence two years ago. Both have had repeated finals placings behind Smith, although Kirkpatrick won the World Team Selection final and Central Hawke’s Bay A and P titles on successive days in November, and Mutch won at Rotorua and Aria. Like Mutch, Invercargill gun Nathan Stratford, who dominated Southland and Otago shows before finishing third behind Kirkpatrick and Mutch in the World Championships final, after claiming a winning ribbon with Kirkpatrick in the teams event, will be determined to reach another Golden Shears Open final. They both missed out last year when Troy Pyper, of Invercargill, was third in his second time in the final, followed by 2006 winner Dion King, Pongaroa shearer and farmer David Buick, and Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham, who made the most of his first time in the final by being first to finish in one of the fastest Golden Shears Open finals, although the sparing of quality ultimately placed him at the tail of the field. With King having at the time recently moved from Hawke’s Bay to a property he’d bought east of Masterton it means three of the six finalists were based in Wairarapa, an outcome host-town fans will be looking-for again, despite King’s absence from most competitions this season. Surprise 2015 finalist Murray Henderson, Feilding, crept out of the shadow in October at Waimate to win his first Open title in 16 years and only the second in 21 seasons in Open class, while the most likely Golden Shears Open final newcomers are Te Kuiti shearer Mark Grainger, who has a small number of Open wins to his credit, and Taihape shearer Rikihana Chase, who has been a consistent finalist in recent weeks,

Henare won possibly the strongest Golden Shears Open Wool Handling Final ever last year, with second place going to seven-times New Zealand champion and 2008 World Champion Sheree Alabaster, of Taihape, and third to 2008 Golden Shears winner Ronnie Goss completing a repeat of the 2015 top-three. Fourth was three-times Shearing Sports New Zealand rankings No 1 Keryn Herbert, who with Alabaster won a World teams title in Wales in 2010.

With King having at the time recently moved from Hawke’s Bay to a property he’d bought east of Masterton it means three of the six finalists were based in Wairarapa, an outcome host-town fans will be looking-for again, despite King’s absence from most competitions this season.” Gisborne’s Mary-Anne Baty, a one-time Golden Shears Open finalist in 2014, has shown new strength in 2016-2017, finishing runner-up to Henare in both the New Zealand team selection final and the World Championships and claiming a win at the Dannevirke A and P Show, while there was a whiff of 2013 finalist Logan Kamura, of Marton, getting another chance, after he won at the Rangitikei Sports in Marton four weeks ago. A week earlier, two new prospects were thrown-up when Monique Potae, from Milton and Kennedy’s Bay in Coromandel, won the Taihape final, and first-season open competitor and former New Zealand Championships Junior winner Rahna Williams, of Flaxmere, won at Rotorua.

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CYCLES, CELTIC AND COUNTRY, AND SHEARING COUSINS COMPETING ON FRIDAY NIGHT The focus is firmly on entertaining on the Friday evening of every Golden Shears.

says Golden Shears Committee President Philip Morrison.

This year the Cycle Challenge is back as well as rollicking good music by Celtic & Country band In Like Flynn.

“We need something to keep the energy up once the Trans-Tasman Wool Handling Test is over and while everyone is waiting for the judging to be completed and winner announced.”

The evening also sees the top 30 Open shearers competing as well as the CP Wool Trans-Tasman Wool Handling and Farmlands & Woolpacks NZ Mens Wool Pressing Final. While not carrying the same aura as the Golden Shears title, the Cycle Challenge has its own cache of prestige. Introduced to the Friday night programme last year, the Cycle Challenge returns again as the final event on the Friday night programme. While the Cycle Challenge is a lot of fun and a crowd pleaser, it also has a practical purpose,

You can’t shear the sheep any faster than the person on the bike can pedal.” The Cycle Challenge was the brainchild of well-known shearer and judge Neil Sidwell, who despite now being in his seventies remains full of energy for the sport.

Neil had a bike specially engineered to power a shearing hand piece. While one person rides the bike, another shears the sheep. The key to winning is who can cycle the fastest, Philip says. “You can’t shear the sheep any faster than the person on the bike can pedal.” This year will again see three local sports codes competing with the cash prize going to the charity of their choice. In Like Flynn is one of New Zealand’s most unique “Celtic & Country” bands. Along with their original written music they have a large repertoire of Celtic Rock and traditional covers, and have also recently added an appealing amount of Country Rock favourites, both old and new.

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A SHEARING TECHNIQUE BUILT FOR COMFORT AND FOR SPEED

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If speed was the only thing that counted in the Open final, then Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham would be defending his Golden Shears title this year. However, while being first to finish last year’s final, Paerata lost points on quality and was placed sixth.

But it was still a good effort for a first final and in the ensuing year Paerata has been concentrating on his shearing technique in preparation for another attempt at winning the most prestigious shearing competition in the world. There’s been no let up in his speed either, coming second in the speed shearing competition at the World Shearing Championships held in Invercargill last month. “I’ve put a lot of time into show shearing and getting my quality up to scratch, to get it to the level where it needs to be. There’s been a huge improvement this season.”

“Experience counts for a lot and especially being able to control the animal. You have to be able to put the animal at ease so you can quickly get around and there is a lot of skill in that.” Paerata believes his speed shearing is an advantage in show shearing. “The faster you go, the more speed wobbles you are going to get. If you can control the animal at pace, then you are getting near the top. It’s hard to get there and lot of people never do. “To get that type of speed you’ve got to be willing to take risks. For some people quality is so important that they never let their body express itself. I’m always working hard to find ways to get around the animal quicker.”

“The part of the sheep you are taking the wool from needs to be in front of you so you are continually repositioning the animal.

“The guys at the top have been shearing for the longest time. [2016 Golden Shears Champion] Ronald Smith is 28 but has been shearing since he was 10. [2017 World Champion] John Kirkpatrick is 45 and [multiple Golden Shears champion] David Fagan competed last year when he was 53.”

“And that requires the sheep being relaxed. If the sheep is comfortable, the human is comfortable. If the sheep is uncomfortable, the human is uncomfortable.”

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“I’ve learned to articulate my thoughts on shearing through training my workers. I can identify with them because I’ve been there. I had a lot of bad habits from not listening. I was in too much of a hurry because shearing income is based on the number of animals you shear. “So you have to be very disciplined to learn how to do things right from the start. When the technique improves, it reflects in the job both in speed and quality.” There are indicators of when a shearer has poor technique, Paerata says. “I can tell when people are having trouble in their shearing. It usually reflects in aching muscles. If a shearer’s technique is not good, they have to rely on brute strength and sooner or later they will have problems.” Paerata has been the greatest beneficiary of his own advice. “I’m going faster than I ever have and I don’t have those ailments. My body is in the best shape it has ever been.”

Good shearers have a flow, Paerata says. “I call it rhythm. Most shearers have it

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Shearing is all about getting the sheep into the best position for a clean and fast shear, Paerata says.

At 33 years of age, he feels he is not too old to achieve an even better result in this year’s Open.

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VETERAN JUDGES BEING RECOGNISED THIS YEAR When Golden Shears judges from 1961 to 1985 get together for a reunion at this year’s Golden Shears, amongst them will be Edwin O’Hara and Selwyn Tomlin. Both of them have been involved with the Golden Shears from its inception, with their efforts recently recognised with a Masterton Civic Award in the category of Community, Heritage and Environment. Selwyn was a wool handling judge for 40 years and shearing judge for 37 years. He remains a behind-the-scenes volunteer who keeps things running like clockwork at the Golden Shears. Selwyn was part of the volunteer workforce that built The Wool Shed Museum for Shear History Trust and is still a volunteer for the museum. Edwin’s stint as a wool handling judge was brief. However he has been an integral figure in the success of the Golden Shears as a Call Steward, Announcer and Treasurer, also serving as President from 1983-1989. Edwin was also one of the founders of Golden Shears World Council and World President from 1988 to 2005. He is a Life Member and remains a trustee of the Shear History Trust. Selwyn recalls that he and Edwin were part of the Wairarapa wool handling team that won the Young Farmers national teams event in 1968. “We had been battling for quite some years to win that darn thing.

“Then because of something called ‘age’ I got moved on from Young Farmers, and because at that stage there were not a lot of wool handling judges in the Wairarapa was asked with a couple of others if I wanted to judge.” For Edwin, being involved in the Golden Shears was just a natural thing. “My father Ray O’Hara was one of the instigators of the Golden Shears. I was a pen boy at the very first show, looking after the sheep in the pens.” As a farmer, Edwin can remember when wool was an extremely important part of sheep farming, producing around 80 percent of a farm’s income. “So you really looked after the wool that came off the sheep.” Judging is a very important part of the Golden Shears “when you think about it,” he says, critically examining the shearing, picking up any small mistakes and recording them to exactly as the rules say. “They spend the whole of the day literally peering very closely at someone’s hands moving very fast. Most judges have been good shearers themselves so they know exactly where mistakes happen.” Says Selwyn: “When you get out there on the day, you put everything out of your mind and concentrate on what you are doing. There’s a lot of pressure.” There are two sets of judges at the Golden Shears, those the audience sees on the floor

judging the shearing as it takes place, and another “through the porthole” judging the shorn sheep. Every effort is made to ensure the judging is as fair as possible with the judges rotating so that all the competitors are judged by all of them. Judging controversies have been few and far between but were any to arise there is a Dispute Committee on hand a Referee who has the final say. Over the years, the rules have been refined but overall the judging has continued to much the same to this day, Selwyn says. There aren’t Video judges, but modern technology is being used with electronic scoring to speed up the results process. “All judges used to have was pen and paper,” says Edwin, “not even calculators, and it used to take half to three quarters of an hour to get the results.”

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HOW THE POINTS & SCORING SYSTEMS WORK AT THE GOLDEN SHEARS

HOW THE GRADING SYSTEM WORKS AT THE GOLDEN SHEARS

In all disciplines, a penalty system for points is used; the lower the total the better.

Whole points are accumulated from the board and assessment judging.

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Sealed times are set for each grade, from the shearer finishing to when the competitor should finish.

Competitors are judged on workmanship, safety and technique. Loading the press, tramping, pressing the bale, capping and completion of bale are the most important judging criteria. Bale target weights are set with penalties for being over or under weight. Time points are deducted at 1 point for every 20 seconds elapsed or part thereof.

Time points accumulate for the sealed time but increase five-fold past that time. Board, assessment and time penalties are added for the total points.

SHEARING

BOARD JUDGING Takes into account the tidiness and efficiency of the competitor, the throw and skirting of the fleece, plus the roll and placement into a fadge.

Competitors are judged whilst shearing and in the outside pens for overall quality. Shearing the sheep, a second cut or double cut of wool staple is penalised. A second cut of 11mm x 10mm x 85mm long (or the accumulation of smaller second cuts) accrues a 1 stroke penalty. The shorn sheep is judged for wool left on at the same penalty value as above. Skin cuts are also penalised.

Fleeces are ‘skirted’ for finer neck wool, stained side wool, short wool and for other faults as necessary. Skirtings are separated and placed in baskets.

Penalty strokes on the board and from the pen judging are divided by the number of sheep shorn to give a quality points total.

WOOL ASSESSMENT Fleeces and oddments are removed from the board for assessment. Fleeces should be free of skirtings and each basket should have a different type of wool.

Time points are calculated at 1 point for every 20 seconds elapsed or part thereof.

WOOL HANDLING Judging is divided into two sections; Board (what the audience sees) and Wool Assessment.

Quality points and time points are added together for the competitors total score.

JUNIOR: Up to 265 lambs or 205 adult sheep in 8 hours INTERMEDIATE: Up to 380 lambs or 305 adult sheep in 8 hours SENIOR: Up to 505 labs or 405 adult sheep in 8 hours OPEN: Anything over the senior maximum NB: There’s a scale of higher tallies for a 9 hour day. The major basis for grading now though is the number of competition wins people have had. Tallies are accurately recorded in farmers’ tally books, so if someone was challenging someone on the basis of having done a particular tally, they’d have to provide the evidence.

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GOLDEN SHEARS

2017 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

THURSDAY MARCH 2 DAY7:45am 5:00pm

 Farmlands & Woolpacks NZ Mens Wool Pressing heats (All day)

 Primary ITO Open Wool handling heats  Farmlands & Woolpacks NZ Mens Wool Pressing semi-finals

 Elanco Junior Wool handling heats

 Farmlands & Woolpacks NZ Womens & Pairs Wool Pressing finals

 ANZ Novice Shearing heats

 PowerCo Senior Shearing heats

 PGG Wrightson Junior Shearing heats

 PGG Wrightson Junior Shearing Semi Final

 Paewai Mullins Novice Wool handling Semi final

 Trust House Intermediate Shearing Semi Final

 Te Puni Kokiri Senior Wool handling heats

 Golden Shears Open Shearing heats

 Paewai Mullins Novice Wool handling Final  ANZ Novice Shearing Semi Final  Trust House Intermediate Shearing heats  ANZ Novice Shearing Final

EVENING

6:00pm 10:30pm  Golden Shears Senior Speed Shear  Cavalier Open Speed Shear

EVENING

6:45pm 10:30pm  Farmlands & Woolpacks NZ Mens Wool Pressing Final  Golden Shears Open Top 30 Shearing  CP Wool Trans-Tasman Wool handling  WBS Cycle Shearing Challenge

SATURDAY MARCH 4 DAY7:45am 5:00pm

7.45am  Primary ITO Open Wool handling Quarter Final  Te Puni Kokiri Senior Wool handling Semi Final  Elanco Junior Wool handling Semi Final  Coopers Young Farmers Teams Final  Coopers Young Farmers Shearing Final  PowerCo Senior Shearing Semi Final  PGG Circuit Shearing Semi Final 12.30pm  Elanco Junior Wool handling Final  Te Puni Kokiri Senior Wool handling Final  Gibbs Honeybees NIWC Wool handling Final  Wairarapa Moana Maori/Pakeha Shearing Final  PGG Wrightson Junior Shearing Final  Trust House Intermediate Shearing Final  PowerCo Senior Shearing Final  Primary ITO Open Wool handling Semi Final  Golden Shears Open Shearing Semi Final

EVENINING

6:45pm 10:30pm  PGG Wrightson National Circuit Final  Tui Encouragement Invitation Shearing  Lister Shearing Trans-Tasman Shearing  Primary ITO Open Wool handling Final  Golden Shears Open Shearing Final

GOLDEN SHEARS

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ROWLAND SMITH – A TRUE CHAMPION 100 TIMES OVER BY DOUG LAING

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Defending Golden Shears Open champion Rowland Smith achieved a rare milestone on February 19 when he completed a century of Open-class wins. He is thought to be one of just four shearers to achieve the mark, after Sir David Fagan’s 642, John Kirkpatrick’s total of over 200, and Paul Avery’s 178. All four have been both World and Golden Shears champions, Smith this year being out to equal Kirkpatrick’s total of four wins in the Golden Shears Open and head after the tally of six won from 1965-1972 by 1980 World Champion Brian Quinn. Northland-raised Hawke’s Bay gun Smith raised the century at the Counties Shears in Pukekohe, a few hours after arriving from Gore, in Southland, where he had the previous day won both the South Island Shearer of the Year and the Southern Shears Open championship finals. The Counties win completed a repeat of a unique treble he also scored last year, and the 100th win was achieved at the same show where he scored his first Open A-grade show win in 2010, having previously won C-grade finals at Kaikohe and North Kaipara, and at Devon County in England. The latest wins also came just a week after the 30-year-old won the Southland All

Nations Championship during the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships in Invercargill, some consolation for a finish of only third in November’s New Zealand team selection series, which denied him the chance to defend the World title he won in Ireland in 2014. Smith first shore in a Junior final when aged just 15, and was well known by the time he hit Open ranks in 2006, with 23 wins in the lower grades including the Golden Shears Junior title in 2004 and the shears’ Senior title two years later, both before he had turned 20. In addition to his 2013, 2014, and 2016 Golden Shears Open wins and his 2014 World title, Smith has won the New Zealand Championships Open final in Te Kuiti four times, as well as other such prominent titles as the Otago Shears Open in Balclutha and the national longwool and crossbred lambs titles at Lumsden and Winton, and the Taihape A and P Show, Rangitikei Sports and Pahiatua Shears titles in the north. He has won 14 titles overseas, his 13 in the UK including the Royal Bath and West, Royal Welsh and Royal Ulster Opens, and his won in Australia being the Australian national crossbred championship at the Warrnambool Show, Vic. At the time of reaching the century Smith had had his last 34 wins in just 16 months,

with 19 in the 2015-2016 season, two in the UK last year, and 13 this season with events at Taumarunui, Apiti and Pahiatua to go before heading for Masterton. His achievements on the shearing board have also included joining brother Doug in setting a now-recently-broken two-stand record of 1066 ewes in 8 hours, while last year in the UK he was the right-hand man as older brother Matthew reached the pinnacle of shearing records achievement, with a nine-hour strongwool ewes record of 731. In August last year Rowland Smith was acclaimed a Master Shearer by Shearing Sports New Zealand. He lives on a small farm at Maraekakaho, west of Hastings, with wife Ingrid, who in 2009 also set a World women’s record of 470 ewes in eight hours as she and mother Marg set a women’s two-stand record of 903. The couple have two children.

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A RECORD OF RECORDS BY DOUG LAING It’s possible the shearing world has never seen so many different records broken in such a short space of time. All six attempts in the last nine months have been successful, including the pinnacle targets of the nine-hour strongwool ewes and lambs records, both broken in a unique week in Cornwall, south-west England, last July, and the eight-hour ewes record set in Southland last week. The records in England were engineered by Kiwi shearer Matthew Smith, the 2006 Golden Shears Open Plate winner and older brother of now three-times Golden Shears Open champion Rowland Smith. Matthew Smith had married on Trefrank, the family farm of wife Pippa, in 2014, and set about a dream of breaking fellow New Zealander Rodney Sutton’s record of 721 ewes set at Mangapehi, King Country, in 2007. Smith had previously been a holder of an eight-hour record of 578 shorn in 2010. Preparing most of the sheep on the property, he succeeded emphatically on July 26 with a new mark of 731 (about 44.3 seconds a sheep, court, shorn and dispatched). He opened with a record two-hour run from the start to breakfast of 164, and followed with successive 1hr 45min runs of 142, 142 141 and 142, clipping about 2.2 tonnes of wool during the day. Sutton had opened with 158 in the first two hours, followed by the shorter-run tallies of 140, 142, 140 and 141 to add just one to what

had been the previous record shorn by Darin Forde in Southland 10 years earlier. It was just five days after the new ewes record that Irish shearer Ivan Scott tackled a record of 866 lambs shorn by Hawke’s Bay shearer Dion King, also at Mangapehi, just 10 months after winning the 2006 Golden Shears Open final in Masterton. Already the holder of the eight-hour record of 744, Scott broke the record by just a single lamb, with a new mark of 867 (just under 37.4sec a sheep). He had opened with 193 in the first two hours, followed by 1hr 45min runs of 170, 169, 169 and 166. In 2007 King had opened with 196, 170, 168, 168 and 164, easing off the pace as he comfortably passed the previous mark of 851 set by Justin Bell in December 2004. The Smith and Scott records were the first official attempts in the Northern Hemisphere under the auspices of the World Sheep Shearing Records Society, or the Golden Shears and Wool Board-based bodies which introduced formal rules after a meeting in 1968. The new summer saw three multi-stand records within eight days in the central North Island in January, including the breaking of a lambs record held for 18 years by competition shearing guns Dean Ball and Digger Balme and fellow King Country shearer Roger Neil, and a two-stand ewes record previously held by Rowland Smith and second brother Doug. The season culminated with the February 20 eight-hour ewes record of 605 (47.6sec

a sheep) set by Leon Samuels in Southland, with successive two-hour runs of 149, 153, 151 and a dramatic last-hour to complete a final run of 152. King Country shearer Stacey Te Huia shore runs of 146, 152, 153 and 152 when he shore 603 in December 2010, adding 25 to the target set by Matthew Smith 11 months earlier. Record attempts are not cheap affairs, with a $US1800 fee required for solo records, and $US2700 for two stands with $US500 for each additional stand, meaning a solo attempt cost over $NZ2500 before the consideration any other costs, such as accommodating and feeding significantly-sized teams of helpers. International panels of judges were required, with wool-weighs the day before each team requiring minimums of 3kg of wool for ewes and 0.9kg for lambs and other conditions to be met for the bids to go ahead. Judges then monitor each attempt for quality.

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WHERE DO ALL THE SHEEP COME FROM?

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WOOLHANDLING EVERGREENS JUST DO IT FOR FUN

Woolhandling competition stayers Oti Mason and Mii Nooroa were hardly disappointed to be eliminated so early in the Golden Shears heats at last year’s Golden Shears.

During the ultimately unrequited break awaiting the results of their heats, Mason explained the continued competition simply: “I think it’s the passion.”

Each had been there done that, like competing in every Golden Shears Open woolhandling championship since woolhandling was added to the Golden Shears programme in 1985.

For each it’s also a mission to recruit, retain and improve young people in the shearing industry, and overcome the initial reticence when it comes to the competing seen as crucial to the improvement of the work skills.

The now 66-year-old Mason, from Dannevirke, won the event twice, in 1996 and 2000, and Nooroa, of Masterton, won in 1992.

“I wouldn’t call it shyness,” said Mason. “They wouldn’t know what shyness is. They know what stage-fright is.”

Both still working in the industry, they can go further back, to competing on the A and P shows circuits in the 1970s.

Organising 3500 to 4000 sheep for the Golden Shears is no simple matter. In fact it is a major logistical undertaking. Most of the sheep come from rolling hill country to the east of the Wairarapa where they are rounded up and selected for evenness - Size and wool length - so that the competition is fair with various crosses of Romney being the favoured breed. Merinos come from the South Island and Corriedales from the central North Island for specialist events like the National Circuit Final Tests and Trans-Tasman Test. The sheep are identified a year before the event, the strongest, most healthy of the flock. The “long wools” are not shorn for 12 months to ensure a full fleece for the the Wool Handling Competitions. Others are not shorn for 6 months and have their “second shear” at the competition. One of the big challenges is making sure the sheep are kept dry. They can’t be kept under cover the whole time if there is rain about, as they need to graze in the paddocks to stay in good condition. It’s a case of moving the sheep in and out of the sheds depending on the weather, says Golden Shears Vice President Sam Saunders who oversees the sheep supply over the three days of shearing.

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The success of The Golden Shears depends 100 percent on the support of the Wairarapa community, with just one paid staff and up to 250 people volunteering their time. Even then, $250,000 has to be found every year to stage the event. To help meet this challenge, the Friends of Golden Shears was formed three years ago as a way for businesses and individuals to support this iconic event. To become a Friend, businesses and individuals can make a donation of between $50 and $200 (or more if they like). Along with the knowledge that they are helping making the Golden Shears happen, Friends get one or more tickets

to events (depending on the value of their donation), recognition in the Souvenir Programme and next year’s Friends brochure, acknowledgment in the stadium on the big screen, and the opportunity to advertise in the programme. Businesses can also promote the fact that they are a Friend of Golden Shears. Some current businesses who are Friends make cash donations while others donate their expertise and products. To become a Friend contact the office at The Woolshed opposite Queen Elizabeth Park in Dixon Street or Phone (06) 378 8008.

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60 years of Girl Guide biscuits Are you in this photo? This beautiful photo shows the Masterton Girl Guides of 1958, selling some of the first Girl Guide biscuits in the country. This year the Girl Guides are celebrating 60 years of biscuit sales. Midweek is keen to get names for this photo. If you or someone you know is featured, please email gerald.ford@age.co.nz.

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1. Brush their teeth • Begin brushing your pets teeth when they are young. This helps them to adjust to a regular level of home care and become accustomed to pet toothpaste. • Start with using a finger toothbrush, these are soft, inexpensive and easy to use. • Progress to using a pet toothbrush. • Many pups actually seem to enjoy having this done. Make it fun and reward them with a dental treat.

3. Have an annual dental exam • Your vet will check to see that your pet’s baby teeth have all come out. • Retained teeth can lead to overcrowding, infection, pain and malocclusion. • Many minor dental issues can be picked up at an annual exam and prevented or halted. • Your vet will check for fractured teeth, oral cancer and signs of gingivitis. 4. Get your pet’s teeth cleaned by your veterinarian • Dental cleaning removes tartar that is harmful. • It is a thorough medical procedure. • Investing in preventing pet’s dental issues early can save you money later on. 5. Use approved oral care treats Because pets tend not to show when they are experiencing oral pain, signs of dental problems are not always obvious. Dental complications include sensitivity, bleeding, chipped or discoloured teeth.

2. Feed appropriate food • Cats and dog enjoy a range of food types. From raw meat for carnivores to biscuits that have been approved for oral health. • In my experience , many small dogs fed on canned food suffer far more dental health issues than small dogs fed on a variety of food. • Think about the size and texture of the food. • Your veterinarian can answer specific questions related to what type of food is best for your individual pet. This will vary depending on breed, life stage and other health issues. • Learn to read the label. Many sachet and canned food contain fillers and ingredients that are not meat based.

Remember - Dental care is important to pets, and their brushing and cleaning requirements are similar to your own. Excellent lifelong dental health is the result of properly cleaned teeth and care from a trusted veterinarian. Heidi Ward-McGrath BVSc Veterinary Surgeon and Clinician

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On one of the few days of summer, we caught a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cobblestones. The Greytown Little Theatre and Kuranui College produced it and did a fantastic job – so funny and perfect entertainment for a summer evening. What talented actors they all are and so good to see the Greytown Little Theatre working with Kuranui. Some of those youngsters will no doubt be heading off to the bright lights of London’s West End. Back on this side of the planet, there is usually a Shakespeare production in the summer over at Gladstone Vineyard which we always go to and it is well worth it. I am waiting for the next one with anticipation. While we are waiting we can go to their Gladstonebury Festival on April 1. I have a feeling this will be sold out pretty quickly so if you want a good family day out with music, food and wine get your tickets soon. While we are on the subject of actors and shows, I have it on good authority that Cats is coming to Masterton on March 15 to 18. It is the junior theatre version, so is slightly shorter in length and with a cast of

hugely talented children. Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society produces several shows a year. There is one show for children which is cast before Christmas with auditions in November. In January there is a boot camp where the children get to grips with the show over an intensive week of work. Rehearsals then run twice a week until the shows in March. The children work very hard and it shows – this is a highly professional performance and will be a great evening out. If sitting around, relaxing and watching other people get exercise is not for you, then perhaps the Martinborough Round the Vines Fun Walk/Run is more what you need. This annual event is on March 19 from 9am to 2pm and is always a load of fun. It will be even better if the weather can behave itself. Who knows, perhaps we will finally get a summer, in March. On a final note, to follow up from last month’s column, we held our Big, Big Book Sale last weekend at Martinborough Library. All 37 boxes of books made their way from my shed to the sales tables and we sold about half the books, raising just under $400. Now we only have $9600 to go! There are still loads of books to sell so please pop in and ask if you want to have a look. Have a great week and keep smiling – it’s good for you.

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Hangi kit concept intrigues BY EMILY NORMAN Ever wanted to cook a hangi, but didn’t have the gear to make it with? A hangi starter kit, created by a Carterton family may be the answer. Narida Hooper has taken her Hangi Kete concept to market, a ‘DIY hangi kit’ comprising a large welded steel basket, handcollected volcanic rocks, two hessian sacks, and 5m of muslin cloth. She said the idea came about just before Christmas when her nephew wanted to put down a hangi, but didn’t have any of his own gear. “I thought good on you for thinking about it, but he had nothing, he had no basket, no sacks, he didn’t even know what the rocks looked like,” Mrs Hooper said. She said her nephew was able to borrow equipment from extended family in time for the Christmastime hangi, but after that, she realised there could be a niche in the market for an all-inone starter kit. With the help of her husband, she created four kits ready to sell. But based on the product’s warm reception from customers, she might have to start pumping out more stock soon. “We made them knowing you could feed about 50 people using one basket,” she said. “All you need is your meat,

The Hangi Kete is a starter pack for whanau wanting their own hangi gear.

vegetables, and firewood.” “We’d seen people on TradeMe sell separate components, like a stack of rocks, or individual baskets too, but if you were to buy all the separate components, you’d be spending well into $200.” She is selling the Hangi Kete for $140.

“I know these will sell . . . people really like the idea.” Mrs Hooper, nee Rei, is selling the Hangi Kete to raise funds for a 5-yearly family reunion she helps to organise up in Taranaki. “Our Rei family lineage takes us back to Manaia, so we have a reunion every five years to celebrate our whakapapa,” she

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said. “We raise money for that by making things and selling them, and we use that money to run the reunion, buy food, give koha to the Marae. “Our last reunion was last Easter over four days, and we had about 180 people on the main day which was Easter Sunday.”

Mrs Hooper said hangi had a unique flavour, and she talked through the steps to creating a perfect cook-up. “You dig a hole in the ground, just a little bit deeper than the basket, and then you need to start a fire. “Put a hardwood down like manuka and put the rocks out throughout the timber.” As the wood burns down, the rocks heat up at the same time, creating “a fierce fire”, she said. “Don’t underestimate the importance of the fire, because it needs to get the rocks really hot.” Once the fire dies down, the ash must be shovelled out – the rocks should still be glowing hot. She said soaked watercress is usually put down on the rocks to create steam, and then the steel basket goes on top of that, containing meats, and vegetables, which are wrapped in muslin. “Then you put watercress on the top again,” Mrs Hooper said. “Lots of families cover the whole basket with a bit of cotton sheet or hessian to make sure no dirt gets in there, and then you shovel the dirt back over the top. “You keep packing it down and if you see any steam rising through, cover it with dirt again. “You want to cook it all for about three hours.” Mrs Hooper has received a lot of interest online about the Hangi Kete, which she posted about on a Facebook buy and sell group last week.

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War dead re membered A dark day in Wairarapa’s history was remembered at Tauherenikau on Saturday by those on both sides of an incident that cost 49 lives during World War 2. Wreaths were laid for the dead of the “Featherston Incident” which happened at the prisoner-of-war at Tauherenikau exactly 74 years earlier on February 25, 1943. New Zealand guards opened ﬁre on Japanese prisoners who had staged a sit down strike, refusing to join a work detail and

who had armed themselves with a variety of crude weapons. When the brief ﬁring had stopped 48 Japanese were dead or dying and New Zealand soldier Walter ( Wattie) Pelvin had been killed by a ricochet. On Saturday about 50 people attended the wreath laying ceremony at which South Wairarapa mayor Viv Napier And Japanese ambassador Toshihisa Takata oﬃciated. Photographer JADE CVETKOV was there with her camera.

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Climate change: ‘Do what’s right first’ BY JOHN HART, WAIRARAPA GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE

Response to Federated Farmers climate change policy (NZ ‘leads in carbon efficiency’, Midweek February 22): I read with interest last week that Federated Farmers have released their climate change policy position. Considering how recently their organisation stopped denying the existence of climate change, a public acknowledgement of the reality of climate change, influenced by human activity is a welcome step. Unfortunately the rest of the piece shows a disappointing lack of leadership. In essence, it argued for no changes that might impact the status quo of farming in any way. Wishing for greater investment in research to reduce biological agricultural emissions is perfectly fair, but we have seen this pattern before: the next silver bullet is always “just a few years around the corner”, so we are reassured that just letting farming continue as usual until these technologies materialise is the sensible option. These silver bullets have never yet delivered as promised, and should not be used as an excuse for inaction. The idea that putting a price on the emissions of New Zealand farms would drive production offshore to less carbon-efficient producing countries is worth unpicking a little. It’s worth noting that our national sheep and beef herds have been shrinking for some decades, as land use changes to more intensive uses, like dairy. The greenhouse gas emissions of our

Dairy, a “more intensive land use”, and “a $7.8 billion industry (right).

sheep and beef sector are well below 1990 levels, thanks mostly to that reduction in numbers. I haven’t seen Federated Farmers lamenting this loss of carbon-efficient production to other countries. Fluctuations in global market prices have a much larger impact of farming businesses than a modest carbon price might. Conspicuous by its absence in the policy position is the idea that our agricultural industry might be subject to natural limits: limits that require us to de-intensify farming, not grow it indefinitely. Not mentioned is the fact that many alternative land uses and practices already

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A $7.8 billion industry

Despite a rocky two years caused by fluctuating prices, dairy “continues to make a significant contribution to the New Zealand economy” – according to an economic report highlighted by Federated Farmers. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) quarterly report was released last week. Federated Farmers’ Dairy Industry Chair Andrew Hoggard said the report was not surprising and once again illustrated the value and importance of our largest export sector. “It says it all really. Our industry contributes $7.8 billion to New Zealand’s total GDP. “That basically means 30 percent of export dollars coming back into the country is courtesy of dairy,” he said. The industry had been subject to scrutiny during the recent downturn in terms of its resilience and future sustainability, but Mr Hoggard said the NZIER report should set the record straight. “Unfortunately there remains negative perceptions about our industry and yet we employ over 40,000 workers supporting regional economic development and growth. “There’s lots of jobs in these rural areas which wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for dairy. “What perhaps people don’t realise is the flow-on effects go past the farmgate generating millions of dollars for local economies,” he said. “The reality is the dairy industry is vital to our country’s overall economic health. “Even in the most difficult trading conditions with the current geopolitical situation, we are coping well and still holding our own. “This report confirms that our dairy industry is resilient and capable of meeting future challenges around economic volatility and environmental sustainability. “It also predicts increasing demand globally for dairy products and the potential for emerging markets which would enable us to maintain our competitiveness,” Mr Hoggard said.

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Short whites to say So Long BY HAYLEY GASTMEIER

The “2 Short Whites” are calling it a day. Sisters Sue Wright and Nicky Brindle have put their central Greytown cafe on the market. Located on Main St in The Hub complex, 2 Short Whites launched in July 2015. The cafe was named after the sisters, who don’t keep track of their ages but are somewhere in their 60s. Since opening, the eatery has become a favourite stop for locals and visitors alike, and is known for its fresh menu and exceptional coffee. Mrs Wright said the cafe’s popularity had grown at an astonishing rate and was now “too much for the old girls”. “We are getting very old and tired, and the two short whites are now two stuffed whites basically.” She said the venue was not being used to its full potential, and it was now time a “younger group of people” carried it to the next level. But it had always been the intention to establish the cafe, build it up and then sell it on, Mrs Wright said. “We’ve done what we’ve set out to do . . . now it’s time for the next generation to take it on.” Initially the cafe was to be the sisters’ “last little adventure”. But “there might be one more adventure” left in the pair before being claimed by a “zimmer frame or a motorised scooter”,

service, cooking classes or catering.” The location of the business was “unique”, with a long-term lease in place that excluded other eateries from opening in The Hub. He said the business had also been “future-proofed” with “cloud-based” operating systems.

Battlers return Sisters Nicky Brindle, left, and Sue Wright, are selling ‘2 Short Whites’, a new cafe in Greytown.

Mrs Wright said. “Once you stop learning or being inquisitive you really do get old. That will be the worry.” She thanked the wider Wairarapa community for the overwhelming support it had given the cafe. 2 Short Whites — the business, “not the old girls” — is being sold by Harcourts Hamill Realty agent Brady Bingham. Mr Bingham claimed he was

the cafe’s first customer, and since opening he has eaten there almost every day. The fact there had been a significantly low staff turnover was a testament to the sisters “and the way that they lead their team”. He said the sisters had come from “something like 120 years” of shared hospitality experience. “With that, they have been able to really refine what it is to

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be a good, successful eatery. “The quality of the food, the menus, the fact they make all of their own bread, use no refined sugar . . . means someone is just going to be able to walk in there and take it to the next level.” Mr Bingham said the business was rating well on trip advisor and was currently trading seven days, from 8am to 3pm. “There’s plenty of scope to increase revenue with evening

Dave Walker, (Phantom), at the 2015 Relay for Life event. Dave, along with Tod Brooks, is the organiser of the ‘Brooks Battlers’ snooker tournament.

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COUNTDOWN: We are on the countdown now. 6 weeks until Relay for Life March 18th/19th. If you have a team already and have forgotten to register please do so. If you are contemplating putting in a team call us and we can talk you through how to register.

FUNDRAISING: Well done to all those out there fundraising! There are some exciting events coming up. Listen to More FM 89.5 the community radio for updates! Visit our facebook page and like us to see what’s new. Thank you to our current sponsors for the event: Property Brokers, Breadcraft, More FM, Wairarapa Times-Age, Mela Juices, Premier Bacon, Tripoli, Wairarapa A&P, Henergy Eggs, Jeremy Sharp, Rotary South Masterton, Rotary Carterton.

CALLING ALL SURVIVORS: Please come and put your handprint on the survivors banner. We are open each day 9.30am-3.30pm. Survivors are invited also to attend afternoon tea from 2pm 18th March. RSVP for catering essential.

CANDLEBAGS: Are available for the remembrance candle bag evening service. Decorate your bag in memory of someone who has passed. Candlebags are $5.00 each. Bags are available at Property Brokers offices throughout the Wairarapa or at the Cancer Society 37 Te Ore Ore Road (opposite the Hospital).

Registrations are now open. Pick up a registration pack from the Centre at 37 Te Ore Ore Road or register online using the website

www.Relayforlife.org.nz or phone the Centre for more details (06) 3788039. Come on lets Relay for Cancer Patients in the Wairarapa!

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Children’s Day 2017

Messages and media statement You may wish to support the Children’s Day message and highlight your event using local media, articles in your newsletters, and on your website. This is a perfect day reach families everywhere with important messages about what it means to treasure our children and why it matters. Below are a set of message and generic statement you are welcome to tailor as you see fit. We hope you find these helpful.

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TEDDY BEARS PICNIC, CARRINGTON PARK, CARTERTON Come along to Carrington Park between 9.20am on Sunday 5th March and celebrate Children’s Day with a Teddy Bear’s Picnic!

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Bring along your blanket, teddy bear and family for some fun and morning tea. Register your bear - spot prizes. Everyone welcome. Don’t forget your sunscreen. ST LUKE’S CHURCH, GREYTOWN St Luke’s Church will be celebrating Children’s Day Sunday 5th March with a morning packed with fun in the church grounds on Main Street. After a short family service, there will be all kinds of activities from fire engine rides, a bouncy castle, to sack races and face painting.

KIDS OWN PLAYGROUND, QUEEN ELIZABETH PARK, MASTERTON Hosted by the Violence Free Network from 10am to 1pm on Sunday 5th March, the day will include lots of local services and agencies with stalls, entertainment for children including inflatable bouncy castles, and a free sausage sizzle. Junior Neighbourhood Support is holding their Junior Talent Show at the event. There will be free entry to the Genesis Recreation Centre swimming pools between 12noon and 3pm with proof of participation at the park by way of a passport that is provided at the Information Stand. Normal pool rules apply, so please parents with under 5’s please remember your togs too. Come along, it’s all FREE.

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talent show are singers, dancers, a magic show and a Pacific Island performance group. Sam has been involved with the talent show for a number of years. “It is certainly entertaining and a wonderful platform for kids who like to do this sort of thing and challenge themselves in front of a crowd.”

Proud to support TE RA o TE TAMARIKI Keep them well, teach them well and let them lead the way

There will be one winner from each category: Best Vocal Performance, Most Entertaining Act, Top Group Performance, Special Mention, and Top overall winner. Sam is keeping the names of the judges a surprise but says they are talented performers themselves “and they will all perform as well, if there is enough time.” Among the contestants chosen for the

Battlers are not giving up This March will see the third Relay for Life for the ‘Brooks Battlers’ who remember a brother and a father who died within three months of each other, both of cancer. Gary Brooks was a great supporter of the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life before he died at 51. ‘Brooks Battlers’ is a team of 14 friends and family whose motto is “Never Give Up”. Over the last three Relays for Life they have raised over $16,000 which stays in Wairarapa to support the Cancer Society who work with families and people aﬀected by cancer. Team Leader, Carolyn Brooks, says, “We feel passionate about this cause, especially as every team member has been aﬀected in some way by this mongrel disease. “At the event we light candle bags in remembrance of loved ones lost. “At the conclusion of Relay, these bags are cremated and are spread over the Cancer Society Garden of Remembrance.

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“At the Relay we have a memorial board in our tent to remember all our family and friends who have lost their lives to cancer. The adults enjoy looking back on photos of past events “to see children, cousins, grandchildren getting older but still taking part. This event unites us all”. Brooks Battlers have been fundraising since before Christmas selling ﬁrewood, sausages and lotto bonus tickets but their main fundraiser was a snooker tournament which raised $970. ■ Relay for Life, one of Wairarapa’s biggest charity events, takes place at Clareville Showgrounds from 18-19 March 18-19. Hundreds of people will be participating in the Cancer Society’s Relay For Life, which involves an 18-hour relay around the circuit. So far 30 community groups, schools and businesses have registered teams and are busy fundraising.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS THURSDAY, MARCH 2 Drop in Centre: Pop in for a cuppa and a chat, gold coin donation for tea/coffee and a biscuit, 2-4pm, at St Johns Hall, Main St, Greytown. Call Bronwyn Hallot (06) 304-8442 or 027 2288651 or Pam Lloyd (06) 304-7997. Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 5-7pm, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 370-2511, or Hugh 377-4880. Opaki Tennis: Clubnight 7pm. Call Greg 377-4261 or 377-2201. Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 6.30pm. Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 1-2.30pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135. Oasis Network Inc: A free service for all people who need advocacy and support for their mental health issues and well-being. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Call Gaylene (06) 929-0961 or (0274) 604-796. Featherston Community Centre: Book Group: Noon1.30pm. Call Sheridan (06) 308-9059; Book Group: Noon1.30pm. Call Sheridan (06) 308-9059; Feldenkrais: 5.456.45pm. Call Rupert (027) 585-3822; Yoga: 7.30-8.30pm. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Carterton Community Choir: Meet 7.15-9pm, at Carterton School hall, Holloway St. Email cartertonsinging@gmail.com Westside Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224. Martinborough Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068. Carterton Playcentre: Open 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875. Montessori Playgroup: 9.30-11am, St Andrews in the Field, Upper Plain Rd, Masterton. Call Deanne 377-5508. Tai Chi: 5.30-6.30pm, at Carter Court, Pembroke St, Carterton. Mums & Bubs Fit: Open to everyone, 10am. For details text ‘Fit Mums’ to (027) 349-8962. Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844. Masterton Senior Citizens & Beneficiaries Association: Meet 1-3.30pm for cards, Scrabble and bowls, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Ngaire Walker 377-0342. Wairarapa Fern & Thistle Pipe Band: Band practises 6.308.30 pm, Savage Club Hall, Albert St, Masterton. Tai chi for Health: Martinborough, St John’s Hall, 9.30-10.30am. Chair Yoga: Breath lead movements. The Spot, 365 Queen St, 1.30pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Yoga Beginners: Course-bookings essential, 5.30-7pm , St Andrews church, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Yoga Works: Masterton 9.30am. Call Robyn 377-1802. Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club: Association Croquet: 9.15am for 9.30 start. Call Veronica George 379-8644. Aquarobics: 11am at Lansdowne Village. Pilates: Power 9am, Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core Plus 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Judo Classes: Kids (4 to 9) 5-6pm, Cadets (10 to 16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Masterton Toy Library: 2.30-4.30pm, at rear of Masterton YMCA, 162 Dixon St, Masterton. Alcoholics Anonymous: Masterton, 7.30pm, Soulway Church, 227 High St. Call Darren (027) 334-2685. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Carterton: 6pm, at Carterton South End School hall. Call Thomas Duncan (06) 308-8844 or (027) 302-8923. FRIDAY, MARCH 3 Aratoi Exhibitions: Buller’s Birds The art of Keulemans and Buchanan, ends March 19; The Long View: Landscapes from the Collection, ends March 19; Wairarapa Whakaputa Mohio: Settling the Land, ends March 19; King Street Artworks: Tutors, ends March 26. Justice of the Peace: Service centre available at Carterton Library 11am-1pm. Tinui Craft Corner and Museum: Open Fri-Mon 10am-4pm,

groups by arrangement. Call Jean (06) 372-6623 or Pam (06) 372-6459. Featherston Community Centre: Needlework & Craft Dropin: 10am-noon. Call Virginia (06) 308-8392. Masterton Tennis Club: Club night from 5pm. Free Community Fit Club: 6am and 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di (027) 498-7261. Carterton Craft Market: Open 7 days, 10am-2pm, High St, Carterton, opp Almo’s Book Shop. Call Robyn 379-7099. Kids’ Song And Story: Fun songs, finger plays and stories for under-5s, 9.30-10.30am, at Epiphany Church Hall, High St South, Masterton. Call Jill 377-4614. Greytown Music and Movement: For pre-schoolers, 10am, at St Luke’s Hall, Main St. Contact: email admin@stlukesgreytown. co.nz Wairarapa Steampunk: We meet as required, 10.30am-2pm, at Kingstreet Artworks. Call Gaylene 377-4865 evenings or (0274) 494-596. Dance Fit: At Carrington Park, Carterton, at 6-7pm. If weather not good it’s in youth centre of Event Centre. Text dance groove to (022) 321-2643. Masterton Social Badminton Club: Play 7-9pm, all year round, at Masterton YMCA gym (371 Queen St). Contact by text Hamish (021) 259-7684 or Sam (0210) 552-113. Linedance: Greytown: 10.30-11.30am at St John’s Hall. Hatha Yoga + Yin Mix: 5.30pm , St Johns Hall, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Yoga: Greytown: 9-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown. Call Nicki (06) 308-6598. Carterton: 9am, at Gain Momentum, opposite the Event Centre. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Masterton Masters Swimming Club: Club night 6-7pm, Genesis Recreation Centre back pool. Call Graeme 377-0507 or Lucy (021) 0204-4144. Masterton Croquet Club: Golf Croquet 9.15am, behind the Hosking Garden in the Park. Call Norma Wilton 377-3165. Carterton Senior Citizens: Meet 1.30-4pm, play cards, Rummikub and Scrabble, Senior Citizens Hall, 150 Main St, Carterton. World Day of Prayer : 7pm St Matthews Church, Church Street, Masterton. Service by the people of the Philippine community. TUESDAY, MARCH 7 Wairarapa Spinners & Weavers: Meet in the Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton, at 7pm. Call Trish 378-8775 or Lynette 377-0236. Masterton Toastmasters: Meet at the Carterton Convention Centre at 7.45pm. Call Lesley Hurst 378-8801. Alanon: A group for anyone affected by another’s drinking, meet at 6.30pm at Cameron Community House, Church St, Masterton. Call 0508 425-2666. Wairarapa Camera Club: Meet at 7.30pm, at Masterton Trust Lands Trust Education Centre, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Call secretary (06) 304-8884. Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 9am-noon, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 3702511, or Hugh 377-4880. Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 10am. Featherston Community Centre: Juesday Art: 10am-1pm. Call Julia (06) 308-8977; Pilates: 7-8pm. Call Kathy (027) 285-5595. Tai Chi for Health: 9.15-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown. Carterton District Historical Society: Open 2-4pm, Cnr Broadway & Masson St. Call 379-7827 or 379-7150. Clareville Badminton Club: Main Stadium at Clareville, 7.30pm -9pm. Call Steve 379-6999. Central Indoor Bowls Club: 7.30pm, Hogg Crescent hall. Call Mathew or Graeme 378-7554. Carterton Playcentre: Open 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875. Dance Fitness Classes: Greytown, with Justine Eldred at Kuranui College Dance Studio, 6.30-7.30pm. Call Justine (0274) 761-996. Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844. Masterton Senior Citizens and Beneficiaries Association: Meet for social indoor bowls, 500 cards, or a chat 1-3pm. Call Ngaire 377-0342.

Free Community Fit Club: 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di (027) 498-7261. Carterton Tennis Club: Midweek tennis 9am-noon. Carterton District Historical Society: 44 Broadway, Carterton, open by appointment. Call 379-7827 or 379-9021. Woops A Daisy Marching Team: March for fun, friendship and fitness, 5-6pm. Call Cheryl 372-5522. Yoga Works: Masterton 9.30am. Greytown 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802. Hatha Flow Yoga: 5.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Pilates: Power 9am, 50s Forward 9.30am (at Lansdowne Park), Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 2pm, Power 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Karate Classes for Children: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do. 5.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738. Judo Classes: Kids (4-9) 5pm to 6pm, Cadets (10-16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Martinborough: Martinborough Primary School Hall. Under-12s at 5-6pm. Call Corina Ngatai (027)432-6870. All at 6pm. Call Anna Börjesson (021) 163-8867. Toy Library: Masterton -10am-noon, rear of Masterton YMCA, 162 Dixon St; Featherston: 10am-noon, in the Community Centre, 24 Wakefield St. South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club: Games afternoon, including cards, board, darts, pool etc. Call Doff 304-9748. Girl Guiding: Pippins (5-7 years) 3.45-5pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646. Carrington Bowling and Croquet Club: Bowls: 1.20pm for 1.30pm start. Call Ray Beale 379-8242. Masterton Croquet Club: Golf croquet 9.15am, behind the Hosking Garden in the park. Call Norma Wilton 377-3165. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 Featherston Community Centre: Ukulele Classes: 1-3pm. Call Neil (06) 308-9341. Featherston Amateur Wrestling Gym: 52 Fitzherbert St (behind Totem), kids wrestling classes, term time only, 5.30pm, 5 to 8 years, 6.15pm, 8 and over, first class free. Call Dannii (027) 920-6751. Featherston Amateur Wrestling Club: (Term time only), 52 Fitzherbert St, 5-8 years, 5.30-6.15pm; 8+ years, 6.15-7.30pm, adult classes available. Call Dannii (027) 920-6751. Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 5.30-7pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135. Kiddie Gym: For 0-3-year-olds, 9.30-11am, at St David’s Church, corner High and Victoria Sts, Carterton. Call Lorna or Abby 379-8325. Longbush Playgroup: 9.30am-noon, 1135 Longbush Rd, Masterton. Call Eileen (06) 372-7861. Westside Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224. Martinborough Playcentre: Open 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068. Club Wairarapa Rockers: Rock’n’roll basic steps and more, 7.30-10pm, at Club Wairarapa, Masterton. Call (027) 333-1793. Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth Group: Join us for sports, food, and leadership, Carterton Events Centre. Text “R2R” to (027) 742-2264. Wairarapa Spinners and Weavers: Meet 10am-2pm, in the Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton. Call Trish 378-8775 or Lynette 377-0236. Masterton Art Club: Open 10am-2pm for browsing or painting, at 12 Victoria St. Call Sue 377-7019. Dance Fit: 6pm at the YMCA Masterton. For details text ‘Dance Fit’ to (027) 349-8962. Tai Chi: Masterton: Intermediates, 5.30-6.30pm, Lansdowne Church Hall, Totara St. Walk Fit: Open to everyone, 9.30am. For details text ‘Walk Fit’ to (027) 239-9001. Age Concern: Sit and Be Fit, 1.30pm followed by gentle

exercise class, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton. Wairarapa Asthma Society Inc: South Wairarapa, Easy Breathers Gentle Exercise Group, 10.30-11.30am, at the St John rooms. Call Sylvia 377-1175 or Cathy (027) 359-3625. Club Carterton: Two-course barbecue meal, 6.30pm. Belly Dance: 1-2pm, at St Johns Hall, Greytown. Call Tamara (06) 308-8343 or text (021) 022-31893. The Dance Shed: 450 Belvedere Rd Carterton. Rock N Roll Class, 7-9pm. Call Wendy or Don 379-6827 or (027) 319-9814. Carterton Women’s Golf: 9-hole golf at 10.45am. Call Colleen 377-0841 or Alison 377-5709. Quit Smoking Support Group: Run by Whaiora quit coaches, free, noon-1pm, at 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Recreational Walking Group: 9.30am, Essex St car park. Call Ann Jackson, 372-5758, or Ann Duckett, 378-8285. Chair Yoga: At Wairarapa Village, 140 Chapel St, Masterton. Gentle movements, 9.30am. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Yoga Works: Masterton 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802. Pilates: Core 9am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 5.30pm, Beginners 6.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121. Tai Chi for Health: 9.30-10.30am, St Mark’s Church Hall, Carterton. Yin yoga + Restore: 6.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Call 370-1121. Beginners Yoga: 9am, Carterton. Call Odette (021) 180-9452. Pregnancy Yoga: 12.30pm, Hot Yoga Studio, Kuripuni. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132. Te Runga Scouts: Cubs, 6-7.30pm, 45 Harley St, Masterton. Karate: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do, 6.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738. Self Defence/Ju Jitsu: 8-9.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111. Wairarapa Singers: 6.45pm, at Rosewood, 417 Queen St, Masterton. Call Pete 370-4574. Esperanto Club: 2pm, write to people using the international language worldwide. Call 377-0499. Soulway Cooking and Crafts: 10am-noon, High St, Masterton. Call Nikki Smith 370-1604 (church office). Alcoholics Anonymous: Martinborough, 7.30pm, 9 Jellicoe St. Call Mark 906) 306-6013 or (021) 02442870. Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Featherston: Primary School Hall, at 6pm. Call Paul Cantwell (06) 308-9839 or (027) 376-9804. Masterton Petanque Club: From 5.30pm, at Masterton Bowling Club, in Queen Elizabeth Park. Call Graeme 378-7331. Masterton Croquet Club: Association Croquet 9.15am and 12.45pm. Call Ian Wyeth 378-6425 or 377-5762. * To have an event listed please email event@age.co.nz

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AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN Toms Autos is currently expanding with a brand new 4 bay workshop to complement our workshop on site. We are seeking an experienced automotive technician. You will bring: • AVIC certification. • Solid experience in a workshop. • Excellent level of customer focus. • Self-motivated and able to communicate effectively with all levels. • A strong understanding about effective automotive practices. • Commitment to high standards of quality and safety. Email CV: info@tomsautos.co.nz Phone: (06) 378 7351

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Two Part Time Positions: 1. Laboratory assistant - 10 Hours per week during school term time. This position involves managing the maintenance, supply and set up of laboratory equipment and resources and assisting science staff when required. 2. Part time teacher - 8 Hours per week: Junior Science and Senior Biology. The successful applicants will be committed to academic excellence and to supporting the school’s special character. Information available from the Principal, PO Box 464, Masterton 5840 Phone 06 378 2219 Email; office@solwaycollege.school.nz

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Masterton District Council is committed to making Masterton a great place to live, visit, and do business, and due to a recent promotion, has an exciting opportunity to join the team as an Environmental Health Officer. We are looking for a progressive and motivated person who holds a National Diploma in Environmental Health (or equivalent) and has a passion for, and practical experience of, the full range of environmental health work. Working as part of a team who are focused on delivering great service to our community, you will provide advice and support in a friendly, professional way and be able to decipher and explain legislation in everyday language. Strong communication skills will mean you are comfortable in playing an educational role with our business and wider community, whilst attention to detail will ensure technical work is carried out accurately and within appropriate timeframes. Applicants should have the right to work in New Zealand. A job description and application form is available on request by phone (06) 370 6300. Alternatively you can download the information from the Masterton District Council website www.mstn.govt.nz. Please email your CV, application form and a covering letter to admin@mstn.govt. nz or post to: Masterton District Council Masterton District Council has a policy PO Box 444 of Equal Employment Opportunity. MASTERTON 5840 Enquiries can be directed to Jenny Spencer, HR Advisor jennys@mstn.govt.nz Mauri ora ki a tātou katoa

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Skills and experience required: * Proven background experience in bulk asphalt & bitumen surface laying within the roading and civil construction industry * Minimum of Class 2 & WTR’s licences . * Bitumen Safety * Being adaptable, flexible and having the capacity to cope with multiple issues. * Commitment to the highest standards of health and safety * Ability to display and utilise dynamic and innovative thinking skills Higgins is part of the Fletcher Building Group which provides access to the Fletcher Benefits Programme, and unrivalled career opportunities in a Group comprising 33 businesses, across 40 different countries. Visit www.higgins.co.nz or send your application to k.goodin@higgins.co.nz

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Masterton District Council ASSISTANT ENGINEER – 3-WATER E te tini, e te rahi – aro mai ki tēnei kaupapa Masterton District Council is committed to making Masterton a great place to live, visit, and do business by delivering on our Community Outcomes to provide reliable and well maintained infrastructure. We are looking for a motivated person to join our Utility Services team providing high quality technical assistance for the 3-water network. You will have extensive practical experience in network inspections and maintenance, and a good working knowledge across the full range of water services and assets. Working as part of a team who are focused on delivering great service, you will need to be able to manage your own workload as well as monitor contractors work to ensure value is achieved for our community. Although much of the work will be planned you will need to be flexible to respond to flooding and other water related events, for example, blocked pipes, in a timely way. As you will work with both internal and external customers, building and maintaining effective relationships will be key to success. Applicants should have the right to work in New Zealand. A job description and application form is available on request by phone (06) 370 6300. Alternatively you can download the information from the Masterton District Council website www.mstn.govt.nz. Please email your CV, application form and a covering letter to admin@mstn.govt. nz or post to: Masterton District Council Mauri ora ki a tātou katoa PO Box 444 Masterton District Council has a policy MASTERTON 5840 of Equal Employment Opportunity. Enquiries can be directed to Applications close 5.00pm Jenny Spencer, HR Advisor jennys@mstn.govt.nz Tuesday 7th March 2017.

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MAURICEVILLE SCHOOL Teacher Aide 20 hours per week, 4 hours per day To support the learning of students with challenging behaviours. Small school. Big Family. Please phone the office for more information on 06 372 5800 or email your CV to office@mauriceville.school.nz Applications close Friday 10 March

PRACTICE NURSE – ACUTE CARE COORDINATOR. We are looking for a full time Registered Nurse to coordinate our acute on the day service. This is an established service provided by Masterton Medical as part of general practice. As coordinator of this service, you will provide leadership, supervision and direction to clinical staff, to ensure the needs of our patients are met. Applicants need to have a strong nursing background which will include some emergency/acute care as well as primary care and preference will be given to applicants with this experience. The successful applicant will have excellent clinical skills, be a team player who is able to communicate effectively and have the ability and empathy to relate to our diverse patient population. The practice is Cornerstone accredited and is a training site for GP Registrars, trainee interns and nursing students. The successful applicant will: • Have at least 5 years Post Graduate Nursing experience. • Have acute care experience. • Be a Registered Nurse with a current APC. • Have a current Vaccinator Certificate or be prepared to get one. • Have a current CPR Certificate. • Have the ability to foster and lead a small team. • Be eligible to work in NZ. The successful applicant will require a current police check under the Vulnerable Children Act 2014. Applications by 5pm Wednesday 8th March 2017.to info@mastertonmedical.co.nz or addressed to the HR Manager, P O Box 458, Masterton.

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Smith chalks up second treble BY GARY CAFFELL

Reigning Golden Shears open champion Rowland Smith promises to start the hottest favourite ever to win the glamour event, when the 2017 edition of this iconic shearing and woolhandling meet is held in Masterton from Thursday through to Saturday. Smith was always likely to be a popular pick to repeat his 2016 success but that became even more certain when he completed a rare winning treble over the weekend. He won the open finals at the Taumaranui Shears on Friday, the Apiti Sports on Saturday and the Pahiatua Shears on Sunday, just a week after completing a career century of open title wins with another notable treble… the South Island Shearer of the Year and the Southern Shears in Gore and the Counties Shears

at Pukekohe. Remarkably Smith has now chalked up nine wins in a row since his last defeat at the Rotorua A and P Show four weeks ago, his other successes in that period including the All Nations International open final in Invercargill, one of the supporting events at the world championships for which he had missed selection in the New Zealand team. His Pahiatua Shears victory was yet another commanding performance from Smith as he won by almost 4pts from fourtimes Golden Shears open champion and new world champion John Kirkpatrick who, like Smith, hails from Hawke’s Bay. Third was 2006 Golden Shears champ Dion King, who was the first to finish in the 20-sheep final in a time of 17mins 6.83secs. However, Smith’s dominance when it came to quality took him to an easy win.

Waipawa shearer Aaron Bell loomed large as the favourite for the Golden Shears senior final when he won that grade at Pahiatua after also winning earlier at Taumaranui and placing second at Apiti. Bell was third at the Golden Shears last year. Taumaranui’s Conan Te Kene was the runner-up at Pahiatua. Craig Greig, of Levin, won the intermediate final at Pahiatua by just over two-tenths of a point from Connor Puha, of Kimbolton, while Mark Ferguson, of Elsthorpe, won the junior final by just under half a point from runner-up Paora Moanaroa of Eketahuna.

Rowland Smith on his way to victory in last year’s Golden Shears open final. PHOTO/FILE

Bats, balls, wickets, bases Jade Cvetkov captured the action from cricket and softball at the weekend. The Wairarapa Cricket Bidwill Cup saw Lansdowne (262-7) claim a “winning draw” over Greytown (185-6). In softball the unbeaten Kuranui Sports Bar Giants conquered the Steelers 9/1.

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