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A marriage: of plastic & crochet

Erin Kavanagh-Hall erin.kavanagh-hall@age.

A Wairarapa artist has combined her passion for science, crochet skills, and a collection of shopping bags to create showstopping haute couture – landing a finalist spot in one of the world’s most hotly anticipated fashion shows.

Masterton-based Allison MacKay and co-worker Gabrielle Edmonds [from Wellington] were among the 18 design teams from the Wellington region selected as finalists for the 2022 World of Wearable Art

“It was a lot of work – there were a lot of late nights in front of the TV, crocheting diatoms.”

Awards Show [WOW] – held at Wellington’s TSB Arena late last month.

MacKay and Edmonds dazzled the judging panel and the audience with their garment Plastic Marriage, a wedding gown made up of hand-crocheted sea creatures –fashioned from plastic bags.

MacKay was one

of two Wairarapa designers selected for this year’s WOW: With Featherston artist Taralee Freeman part of the design team awarded second place in the Elizabethan Era category for their piece “Gloriana”.

This year’s competition attracted close to 300 entrants, with 88 designs selected as finalists across six categories –representing more than 20 countries around the world.

For MacKay, who teaches science and agriculture St Matthew’s Collegiate, “Plastic

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Dramatists rewarded

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Marriage” was a labour of love – inspired by the goverment’s 2019 ban on single-use plastic shopping bags.

To create the garment, she cut the bags into strips and used the material to crochet pieces resembling fossilised sea life: Tiny starfish, phytoplankton, shellfish and diatoms [microalgae].

The hand-crafted fossils were a nod to fossil fuels, such as crude oil, which are made up of decomposing plants and animals. Crude oils are distilled “under extreme heat and pressure” to make plastic products.

The wedding reference represents the permanence of both fossils and plastic –which can take hundreds of years to biodegrade.

MacKay hoped her piece would “send a bit of a message” – and get people thinking twice before consuming products using single-use plastic.

“It’s a bit of a double entendre. The marriage vow is ‘to death us do part’

– and once life is fossilised, it’s forever. Plastic is practically forever,” she said.

“It was all very well for the government to ban plastic bags in supermarkets. But that doesn’t mean the bags are going to disappear – they’re still around, people have still got them and are using them as bin liners, and they’re still finding their way into the environment.

Leave the past

My sincere thanks to Graeme Burnard for sharing his positive experiences as an adopted child of the 1950s [Midweek, September 21 and October 5].

Recently the subject of closed adoption has received a lot of negative publicity – but Graeme’s experience as an adoptee and my experience as an adoptive mother of the same era suggest there’s another side to the story. Adoption has enriched our family, which includes biological and adopted children.

Life was difficult for unwed mothers in those

days. They were ostracised by society, abandoned by the children’s fathers, and received no state support. Alone, they had little chance of successfully raising their babies.

These children numbered tens of thousands. If they had not been adopted by people willing and able to do so, they would have been institutionalised in an orphanage. The alternative of government-facilitated adoption was the best option. In no way could it be called child trafficking or abusive, as stated by some writers.

It was not easy to

“There’s still a lot of plastic packaging around –we’ve got a long way to go.”

MacKay, a long-time knitter and crocheter and a keen painter, said she has “always been interested in art”, but was discouraged from pursuing it at secondary school.

She entered WOW for the first time in 2009 after working as an usher for the show, and was selected as a finalist the following year for her work “Cosy Tea”

– a reference to Victorian high teas, incorporating old table cloths, doilies and crocheted cakes, sandwiches and tea cosies.

The following year, she joined forces with Edmonds [her teaching colleague at Sacred Heart College], and the team was a finalist for their look called “Sock Monster”, made up of “heaps of odd socks”.

“For the first two outfits, I used things that I had

around the house,” MacKay said.

“My husband’s friend got him a book of tea cosy patterns as a joke – which ended up back-firing slightly, as I ended up just about filling the whole house with crocheted tea cozies!

“For my second outfit, I had a pile of old socks lying around that I wasn’t using – so I turned them into a dress.”

She and Edmonds were also finalists in 2014, with a pair of outfits called “Love and Kisses” – creating alien-esque costumes using lips and hearts made from velvet, wire and insulation material.

MacKay said the team spent “about three years” working on “Plastic Marriage” – which also incorporated “rolls of fabric” made from melteddown plastic bags, and was stitched together with more plastic strips.

“It was a lot of work – there were a lot of late nights in front of the TV, crocheting diatoms.”

Once their work was completed, it was a thrill for MacKay and Edmonds to see their model hit their stage.

“We’d spent a lot of time fitting it on the model’s body, but we’d never seen her walk in it,” MacKay said.

“It was a relief to see that the dress moved well on the stage. And it looked stunning under the lights.”

Though this is MacKay’s fourth time featured at WOW, the experience never gets old.

“The atmosphere is absolutely electric, and the show itself is always amazing – especially the way the element of performance is threaded throughout.

“And, as a designer, the WOW organisers always look after you really well. You feel like a celebrity!”

She and Edmonds are already working on a piece for next year’s show –made up of velvet, denim and soft drink can tabs.

adopt. Stringent criteria were applied by the Child Welfare Department, which carried out regular inspections until the final adoption papers were signed in court after approximately one year. During this period, the birth mother had the right to reclaim her baby.

Adoptive parents undertook the responsibility to love, care for, and educate the babies as their own. Most adoptions were successful and the children have become responsible citizens of New Zealand.

Revision of adoption laws should be made to reflect changes in the structure of today’s families. But they need to be made with utmost care. Leave the past alone. The

laws made then reflected the family structure of the time and protected the privacy of all involved.

Elizabeth Fisher, Masterton

Messing with tradition

In the latest Midweek [October 5 ], Erin Kavanagh-Hall has portrayed the uproar over The Little Mermaid being shown as black as racism.

What she doesn’t appear to realise is that the uproar stems from Disney playing fast and loose with tradition.

The Little Mermaid has always been white, and changing her to black is changing tradition – and, in the process, junking people’s pleasant memories of past Little Mermaid films.

It’s like making

Cinderella leave her gumboot behind, turning Paddington into a grizzly bear, changing the picture on the Eketāhuna toilets to have the Queen’s guards walking Rottweilers and, if you want to get the fire going, making Jesus a black man.

It’s time all this focus on racism was thrown out and humans realise each and every one of us, whatever

colour we may be, is an Earthling.

In these days of climate change catastrophes, our very survival depends on us forgetting about race, tribe, gender, colour and religion, and understanding that we are mutually dependent Earthlings who are going to have to work together.

Allan Kirk, Masterton

New Zealand’s current adoption laws reflected the family structures of the time.

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Wairarapa stories shine on stage

Erin Kavanagh-Hall Erin.kavanagh-hall@age.co.nz

A political movement captured in traditional song and dance, a “uniquely Wairarapa tale” featuring a local icon, an immersive gothic experience, and deadline stress expressed through creative lighting: when it comes to theatrical storytelling, Wairarapa creatives have proven they can hold their own on the national stage.

Masterton Theatre Company’s [MTC] youth troupe, Wairarapa and Kuranui Colleges, and Pasifika cultural group Siva with Varnz all received awards at the national final of this year’s TheatreFest competition – one of the country’s premier events for amateur dramatists – held in Wellington last month.

The MTC and WaiCol teams were among the nine theatre troupes from around New Zealand selected for the final round of the competition, performing for a panel of industry professionals at Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre.

MTC’s performance of Shuddersome, a theatrical interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, received high praise for its striking [if unsettling] horrorthemed aesthetic – taking home the awards for Best

Creative Design and Best Use of Soundscape and Sound Effects.

WaiCol student Will Tickner received an Excellence in Acting Award for his performance in Fairy Lights – which he also wrote and directed, incorporating shadow puppetry to reflect the protagonist’s anxiety as she struggles with an assignment.

Also in contention for awards were the original scripts produced by Kuranui and Siva with Varnz, which received acclaim at the TheatreFest Lower North Island Regional Competition, despite not making it to the national final.

Kuranui was a finalist for the Olga E Harding Playwriting award for Kiwi – written by the cast and Head of Drama Juanita McLellan, inspired by the untimely

passing of rare white kiwi Manukura – and placed third overall.

Siva with Varnz received the inaugural He Pito Aronui/The Seeding of Creative Potential Award for Samoa Mo Samoa, written and directed by group founder and coordinator Melnissa Faumui.

Faumui’s piece combined scripted theatre with Pasifika music and dance to tell the story of the Mau Movement –which secured Samoa’s liberation from an unsympathetic New Zealand administration in the early 20th century.

The play, narrated by Samoa’s first female prime minister [played by Faumui], chronicles the start of the movement’s passive resistance [spurred by poor working conditions for Samoans and the impact of the 1918 flu pandemic], the “Black Saturday”

assassinations of key leaders, and the country’s independence in 1962.

Faumui said she was “extremely humbled” with the recognition the play received – and proud to have showcased “an important part of Pasifika history” for the Wairarapa community.

“It’s a story so many New Zealanders, especially the younger generation, aren’t aware of. After the regionals, people were coming up to me, saying ‘I can’t believe we didn’t know about this. It needs to be in the school curriculum,’” she said.

“With our play, I think we were able to help young people learn history in a fun way.

To absorb a story through music and performance can be more empowering for a lot of kids than just reading a textbook.

“It was amazing for us to represent our culture on stage. We came away feeling very proud of ourselves — and grateful for this opportunity.”

Faumui said she wrote Samoa Mo Samoa for the Wairarapa Samoan community’s Fia Fia festival – celebrating Samoan Language Week and the 60th anniversary of Samoa’s independence.

With support from Masterton theatre director Paul Percy, Siva with Varnz was able to perform the piece at

the Gaiety Theatre – a first for Faumui and her 30-strong cast.

With Percy’s encouragement, Faumui entered the play into TheatreFest, and worked with Porirua writer Sarai Ropati to finesse the script – which eventually won Best New Zealand Play at the regional competition.

Faumui said performing Samoa Mo Samoa in a theatre setting – in a larger venue and for a wider audience – was a “wonderful experience” for Siva with Varnz.

“Young Pasifika people are natural performers — they perform every week in their homes and at church,” Faumui said.

“Coming out of that environment and into a theatre was a step out of their comfort zone, but they loved it. In the theatre, it’s hard to see the people in front of you. So, it gave them the freedom to be themselves — without feeling the pressure of seeing their parents in the audience.

“Afterwards, they kept asking me, ‘when can we do that again?’”

Also thrilled with their TheatreFest experience was the cast and crew of Kiwi, one of eight original plays Kuranui College submitted to the competition.

Kiwi, partly inspired by teacher McLellan’s own experiences, is the

story of Ted, a young man longing to go to Pukaha and see Manukura –much to his family’s confusion.

“Ted’s into nature and science-y things. But he’s very different from the rest of his family,” McLellan said.

“His sister’s obsessed with her new boyfriend, his Dad’s a typical rugbyloving bloke who can’t understand why his son’s ‘a bit soft’, and his mum is just trying to keep the peace between everyone.

“He keeps asking his Dad if they can go and see the kiwi, but he’s always busy. Finally, when his Dad makes time for him, it’s too late — Manukura’s dead.

“So it’s a bit of a downer ending!”

McLellan said the cast was “over the moon” with their TheatreFest award, and inspired to write and direct more of their own projects.

“It was exciting. They got to see an idea start growing and taking shape in a classroom in Greytown, realise our vision on stage, and have it read and seen by [industry professionals] in Wellington.

“Events like TheatreFest show them what’s possible — if they’ve got an idea, they can get a group of mates together and bring it to life.”

Above: Juanita McLellan and the cast of Kiwi. From left: Jonte Savage, Isaac Burt, Sarah Pointon, Matthew Edwards, Tobias Wiegman, Katie Taylor and Jordie Newell.

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Theatre New Zealand president and Masterton theatre director Paul Percy present Melnissa Faumui with the He Pito Aronui Award for her original work Samoa Mo Samoa.

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Conor keeps Masterton beautiful

Erin Kavanagh-Hall erin.kavanagh-hall@age.co.nz

Last term, Conor Orr won his school’s speech competition with a kōrero titled “Little things make a big difference”.

Ten-year-old Conor is living proof of this – having inspired the Masterton community to brave the elements, pick up a rubbish bag, and do its part to keep the town “beautiful and clean”.

Last month, supported by Masterton District Council [MDC], the St Patrick’s School pupil hosted “Conor’s Spring Clean”: A community event calling for Masterton whānau to get out and about in their neighbourhood for an afternoon, collecting litter they found in “the streets, parks and playgrounds” along the way.

People were then invited to attend a sausage sizzle at a drop-off point at Queen Elizabeth Park, and hand over bags of rubbish in return for a free sausage.

Earlier in the year, Conor sent a letter to MDC, requesting help with his project.

“We should organise a day where lots of

volunteers go around Masterton with a plastic bag or bucket picking up rubbish,” he wrote.

“I would love it if [the council] could supply the rubbish bags [preferably biodegradable], but people could bring their own if they want.”

MDC’s community development team was happy to come on board, and the community responded to Conor’s call: With close to 100 people

showing up at the park, filling “a whole trailer”, bound for the Masterton Transfer Station, with rubbish.

Despite having to wrap up early due to the weather, the youngster was rapt with the success of the event – which he hopes to hold “every spring”.

“Because of the weather, I was scared nobody would come,” Conor said.

“But it was awesome to see all the people turning up – and not just because they wanted free sausages!

“I was thinking, ‘wow, people actually listened to what I had to say, and I can do something good to make a difference. And people care about making Masterton more beautiful.’”

Conor said the idea came to him while doing a “free writing” exercise

at school – inspiration striking when he “noticed some rubbish on the ground”.

He posted his letter to MDC, and received a reply “about three weeks later”.

“They said they’d like to bring my idea to life,” he said.

“I was so excited. I couldn’t stop talking to my friends about it.”

For the next few weeks, Conor worked alongside MDC community activator Ali Todd to put his plan into action: Publicising the event via social media, working with MDC contractor Recreational Services to organise a trailer, and planning the barbecue with help from the Masterton District Youth Council.

Conor also did a promotional interview with Brent Gare on More FM Wairarapa–an “exciting” but overwhelming experience.

“The studio was totally soundproof – and when you’re listening to yourself through your headphones, it’s so loud, like your eardrums are going to burst.

“But it was really fun.”

On the day of the event,

Conor was in charge of the barbecue [assisted by members of the Youth Council] but also did his own rubbish collecting –filling three paper bags between his Cambridge Tce home and the park.

“I always thought we kept the streets pretty clean in Masterton,” mum Stephanie Rix said.

“But, when you stop and look, it’s amazing how much rubbish you see.”

“Especially fast food wrappers – and masks,” Conor added.

Stephanie said the spring clean was “a good learning experience” for Conor.

“He was worried nobody would show up and wondered if he should go through with it. But, in life, sometimes you have to go through that anxiety about something, but give it a go anyway.”

Community activator Ali Todd said MDC was “delighted to support this successful initiative”.

“It shows we have dedicated young people in our community who are committed to improving our environment, for the benefit of all.”

Conor Orr, St Patrick’s pupil and organiser of Conor’s Spring Clean, with Ali Todd [MDC community activator, left], Lexie Lace [Masterton District Youth Council] and Kelsi Rutene [Recreational Services]. PHOTO/LUCY GRIFFITHS

No place like home in Masterton

As they set off from the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre, Ali Shaukat and Asfa Mubarik remember their daughters’ excitement to be finally heading to their new home in Masterton.

Ali and Asfa fled Pakistan in 2017 and spent five years in Sri Lanka as refugees. In March this year, they arrived in New Zealand with daughters Maria [4] and Abrish [2], as part of the refugee quota scheme. In May, they settled into their new home in Wairarapa.

The family was initially nervous about building a new life in New Zealand –wondering how they were going to cope in a “different culture with a different language”.

But nerves soon gave way to happiness when they arrived at their new house.

“I couldn’t believe the house was completely set up with all essential items, from furniture to a bowl full of fruit, thanks to New Zealand Red Cross and everyone who supported us,” Ali said.

“It made us feel like we were back among family.”

In Masterton, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment arranges housing for former refugees, while community settlement teams from

the New Zealand Red Cross work with agencies and organisations to help whānau adjust to life in their new hometown.

A key part of this work includes helping families settle into a new house as soon as possible – so the Red Cross works alongside community groups and corporate supporters who provide furnishing and other much-needed items.

Over the last 12 months, Bunnings has provided more than 250 “welcome packs” filled with essential

household items, including kitchen and bathroom essentials, laundry and cleaning supplies, gardening tools, and electrical products such as power boards – as well as disaster preparedness supplies for people living in select areas.

Each welcome pack is hand-packed by local Bunnings staff and delivered to Red Cross volunteers, who help set up the families’ homes before they arrive.

“When people flee from

their homes, many leave behind almost everything,” Sue Price, general manager for the Red Cross migration team, said.

“Former refugees often arrive in Aotearoa with very few possessions. Support from Bunnings makes a real difference for former refugees as they begin their lives here.”

Trained Red Cross refugee support volunteers also play a vital part in the initial months of settlement when everything is so new for families.

staff, volunteers help families orientate themselves in their new town and connect them with contacts and activities

in their neighbourhoods and wider community.

“We help them with their everyday needs – for example, setting up online banking and how to catch a bus,” Masterton volunteer Amy Hillier said.

“What helps them settle well in the community is a friendly, hospitable gesture – and the Masterton community is very welcoming and multicultural.”

Supported by the Red Cross’ employment support services team, Ali has secured a full-time, permanent position on a sheep farm near Masterton, and hopes to eventually set up a farm of his own.

Asfa, a trained school teacher, is currently attending English classes and would like to get back into teaching – but is also considering getting some farm work experience.

“Our daughters are doing well in kindergarten, and everything is going smoothly,” Ali said.

“We are so pleased to be here.”

Over the next year, Immigration New Zealand plans to resettle up to 80 former refugees in Masterton, with assistance from the New Zealand Red Cross.

New Masterton local and farmer Ali Shaukat and daughters Maria and Abrish.

Bunnings staff handing over welcome pack donations to New Zealand Red Cross. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED

Martinborugh settlements brought to

the district from the 1920s recording their memories.

This year’s Yarns in Barns will include the launch of an important new local history – South of Martinborough: Two Soldier Settlements and their Neighbours, by Masterton author Diane Grant.

South of Martinborough tells the absorbing story of the First and Second World War settlements for returned soldiers at Tuturumuri and Tora, and their neighbouring properties, and the challenges facing South Wairarapa’s pioneering farmers and fishers. Developments over more recent years also feature.

Author Grant produced the book from boxes of material Tuturumuri farmer Danna Glendining collected in the late 1990s, with residents who had grown up and worked in

When Glendining and her husband left Tuturumuri for Waikato in 2000, the boxes of precious recollections were homeless until Diane and Ian Grant of Fraser Books took them into their home.

Over time, several authors contemplated turning the boxes’ contents into books – until about 2017, when Grant bravely said she would take on the challenge.

South of Martinborough is largely about the importance of people and their relationship with the land. Told in their own words through diaries, memoirs and interviews from the 19th century to today, it brings these people and their times to life. Further research by the author explains issues in the wider world which often affected their lives.

The book rekindles a close relationship between Grant and Glendining, who worked together in the

1970s as members of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Wairarapa.

Grant herself was a teacher – from pre-school to tertiary positions. In 2001, she received the New Zealand Order of Merit for her wide range of community involvements. In Wairarapa and nationally, she has worked for many years with those with dyslexia and was national president of SPELD. She was active in the New Zealand Association of Small Farmers and co-authored the first book on the subject. She has been closely involved with producing the Wairarapa Archival Society’s 30-plus publications.

Aside from Glendining’s collection, a number of former and present members of the Tuturumuri and Tora communities contributed greatly to the book, with reminiscences and photographs.

“The more I have

worked on the book, the more I’ve been convinced it has some valuable messages for all our futures – especially the importance of community

and how people working together for the benefit of all can lead to success,” Grant said.

The story bookends with descriptions of some of the district’s recent successes – the Tora Coastal Walk, the Tora Collective with its seafood innovations, and the Tora Bombora music festival.

• The book launch for South of Martinborough will be held at the Martinborough Town Hall on Sunday, October 16, at 3pm. It will be launched by Simon Wilson, awardwinning journalist at the New Zealand Herald. To book tickets for this free event, go to www.yarnsinbarns. co.nz

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South Wairarapa coastal settlements by Diane Grant.

Spring is feeding time for the Garden

This is the same for a lot of plants. They have been resting up underneath the ground, recuperating from the hard work they have put in throughout the year, and gaining strength for when the time comes again to burst into leaf and bloom.

Spring is an important time to look after our plants. Winter can be hard on them, they use a lot of energy producing their new growth and with summer not far away they need to be in peak health to thrive.

What to feed them with can be a bit confusing but there’s no need to worry—the friendly team at GardenBarn are here to help you. Some things to keep in mind include:

 There are different ways of applying fertiliser. Sometimes it will be added to the soil before planting; sometimes as a side dressing after planting and sometimes it will be mixed with water and applied as a foliar feed.

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SO WHO’S HUNGRY?

Blueberrries:

Blueberry Food can be applied twice during spring and again in autumn. If you have raspberries or boysenberries you can use this to feed them as well, but not strawberries, they have different needs.

DID YOU KNOW that you will increase your blueberry harvest if you have a pollinator of the same type (for example two different ‘rabbit eye’ varieties).

Roses: When new growth begins on your plants feed them with Kings Rose Food to promote healthy growth and to enhance the colour & fragrance of the owers. Feed again in mid summer to promote autumn blooms.

SO WHAT DO THEY NEED?

There are certain things that all plants need to go through their growth cycle, and they all have a speci c purpose. Some commonly known ones include Nitrogen, Potassium & Phosphorus—that’s the NPK that you see on fertiliser bags. Some other very important additions could include:

ORGANIC FEEDING

Many people prefer to garden organically and there are lots of products that are Bio Gro Certi ed.

One product that we have is Natures Organic Fertiliser. This contains reactive phosphate, Paramagnetic Basalt Rock dust along with many other goodies.

There are numerous bene ts to applying this every few months including:

ican range

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Real Blood & Bone

N:P:K 10:5:0

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Not all fertilisers are safe for plants in containers or pots so take care. Usually liquid or slow/ controlled release types are the best options. The granular garden types could burn the roots of potted plants.

The most important thing to remember is READ THE DIRECTIONS BEFORE USE. Overfeeding can cause just as much damage (or more) than underfeeding.

Some plants are happy to be left alone but many would do much better if we boosted their soil. This is especially important for edibles. If the plant can’t get what it needs from the soil, the nutrients won’t get into the plant, which means your harvest will be lacking in vitamins & minerals.

Bulbs: When you see buds forming on your bulbs apply bulb food around the roots and out to the foliage dripline to help encourage bud development & enhance the colour & scent. Feed twice through spring.

 Contains 70 essential plant minerals & vitamins

 Helps grow nutrient dense food that is less prone to insect & disease attack

 Can be used for vegetables, fruit, owers & pot plants

Garden lime and Dolomite lime

Citrus & Fruit Trees: These trees need lots of food—they put a lot of effort into producing their harvest so feed them with a quality fertiliser in spring and again in autumn.

Lawns: Lawn fertilizer is high in nitrogen for fast growth and often it will have Sulphate of Iron in it as well. Sulphate of Iron combats moss in lawns. Feed lawns twice in spring and again in autumn.

READ THE DIRECTIONS: not all fertilisers are safe on newly established lawns.

Having the two types of lime can be a bit confusing, they both unlock nutrients in the soil, improve soil condition and contain calcium, but Dolomite Lime also provides Magnesium. Both types also correct soil acidity but if the pH of the soil is unknown it’s best to use Dolomite Lime.

UREA Plant Growth Booster

This is a fast acting form of nitrogen which promotes rapid green growth. Urea is an excellent fertiliser to boost the garden in early Spring as well as being ideal for lawns & shrubs.

Trace Elements Plant Health Booster

It’s not just the bigger nutrients (macro) such as nitrogen, phosphorus & potassium that are essential for plant health, there are many micro elements needed as well such as copper, zinc, boron, molydeum, iron, manganese & magnesium.

Although only small amounts are needed of these nutrients they are essential to improve fruit setting & owering and de ciencies can cause problems.

Superphosphate NZ soil often lacks phosphorus and it’s important to stimulate root activity and for fruit & ower production.

This is very bene cial for root crops such as carrots and potatoes. If using for vegetables dig in prior to planting, for fruit apply when fruit sets and for owers apply before the rst ower buds appear.

Contains almost double the nitrogen of other brands - nothing has been taken out and no llers have been added. As well as feeding plants, it improves soil structure and promotes earthworm and micro-organism activity in the soil.

100% Organic Vegetable Food

N:P:K: 5:2.5:2.5

Contains a blend of ican Real Blood & Bone plus organic Sulphate of Potash. This will boost and continue feeding for 4 to 5 months. Use at planting time and throughout the growing season. Also great for strawberries and tomatoes.

Fast Food N:P:K 9:4:5 plus trace elements and minerals

Liquid feeding is the best and fastest way to get nutrients into your plants at any time of the year. Feed new seedlings with this and they'll be off to a ying start. Contains all the necessary nutrients for all indoor and outdoor plants and is safe to use in pots.

Slow Food N:P:K 7:7:9 plus trace elements and minerals

This will provide your new and established plant with 24 months of balanced feeding as and when they need it. Nutrient release is triggered by moisture and temperature, becoming more available during active plant growth, and less available when it’s not.

Fruit Food N:P:K 12:5:14 plus sulphur, magnesium, calcium and trace elements iron, boron & zinc

Suitable for all fruiting plants and trees in the garden (not in pots). Starts feeding within a few days and the long-lasting nutrients will continue to nourish your plants for up to 3 months. We recommend applying Fruit Food every 6 weeks during the growing season to maximise plant health and fruit production.

Fruit Food for Pots & Planters

N:P:K 16:3.5:10 plus magnesium and trace elements.

Use with all fruiting plants grown in pots and containers. The slow-release nitrogen source is broken down by soil microbes into plant available nitrogen. It works fast for a quick ‘green up’, and keeps feeding for 3-4 months.

Imagine being a bear, sleeping all winter, and waking up when the weather warms up - HUNGRY!

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Tsunami secrets uncovered

Tora, one of Wairarapa’s best-kept secrets, has been hiding something else –evidence that a goliath tsunami swept across New Zealand after an asteroid crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere.

For more than 60 million years, Tora has kept the tsunami secret to itself. Now, a team of researchers spread across the globe has found proof the massive wave existed.

For Carterton geologist Dr Chris Hollis, the discovery was the culmination of a life’s work.

At the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid impact near the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico produced a tsunami 30,000 times more energetic than any modern-day earthquakegenerated tsunami.

Mexico is about 12,000km away from Tora’s shores – but a lead researcher from the

University of Michigan, Molly Range, believed the site held the “most telling confirmation” of the global significance of the catastrophic event.

Harvard University researchers said in a 2021 report that the asteroid left behind a crater spanning close to 150km in diameter – triggering a mass extinction and ending the reign of the dinosaurs.

Hollis, working alongside a team from the University of Michigan, modelled the first 10 minutes after collision with what it called a “crater impact model”.

Their report found that one hour after the meteor hit, the tsunami had spread outside the Gulf of Mexico and into the North Atlantic.

Within two days, tsunami waves tumbled into most of the world’s coastlines, with waves more than 10m high and approaching at speeds of more than one metre per second.

“The tsunami was strong enough to scour the seafloor in these regions, removing the sedimentary records of conditions before and during this cataclysmic event ... and leaving either a gap in these records or a jumble of highly disturbed older sediments,” the report said.

Hollis’ team’s study focused on “boundary sections” – marine sediments deposited just before or just after the asteroid impact and the subsequent Cretaceous–Paleogene [K-Pg] extinction event.

Hollis said he had been studying the K-Pg boundary for most of his two-decade career,

dwelling on the exposure boundary seen in Tora’s rock, with its unique and visibly distorted bedding.

Lumps of limestone were uplifted rather than lying flat like the other layers in the rock.

Hollis was contacted by a University of Michigan professor, Ted Moore, who had asked about some old research by the University of Canterbury.

The research suggested some of the sections of rock at Tora could have been shaped by a tsunami, making it a “tsunami deposit”.

Moore told Hollis his researchers were doing a study that suggested the Chicxulub tsunami would have had an impact on

New Zealand and, with that, Hollis joined the team.

He said for years he couldn’t quite wrap his head around the relationship between a sub-marine channel system near Tora and the start of the K-Pg boundary.

“[But] it’s obvious when you think about it. If a 14km diameter rock is going to hit the earth in the sea, there’s going to be a massive tsunami. I guess it’s a case of where it’s going to go.”

Hollis said the proof was a “eureka moment” that made everything fall into place.

“There’s always a story in a rock.”

Grace Prior

Geologist Chris Hollis takes a look into the past in the rocks at Tora. PHOT O/GRACE PRIOR

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Latest Council Updates

Weighbridge nearly ready to go!

A weighbridge on the outgoing exit road at the Transfer Station has been installed and the final touches are being put in place now.

The construction was funded by the Ministry for the Environment’s Weighbridges Infrastructure Project, and we hope it will be fully functional by the end of 2022.

Computer programming, integration with our Council and contractor accounts, testing, and staff training are needed before the green light can go on.

Once up and running, it will act as an additional ‘weigh out’ bridge to speed up entry and exit, and provide an accurate way of

measuring all truck and trailer loads.

We’re really pleased we were able to finish

construction earlier than projected. Thank you to all Transfer Station users during the

Biketober is here!

a month long festival that

month of September for your patience and understanding during construction.

HE PITOPITO KŌRERO

- RA SMITH

Pariwhariki

Pariwhariki is the name of the east facing escarpment on the Maungarake paemaunga or mountain range.

As a compound word the first word Pari means cliff. The second word, an adjective, whariki means a woven mat. Pariwhariki then is a woven mat cliff.

Traditionally, if a whariki covered something, then that object was protected.

The maunga is protected because it was a place that protected the hapu from there, Ngati Parera and Rangitataia.

It is hard to climb, but once at the top, it’s a place rich with food.

riding and everything pedal power.

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get out and about.

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learn how to ride a bike!

some amazing spots to ride in Carterton!

can have a go at:

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it’s my birthday

Confession time, Wairarapa. I’m turning 38 next week, and I’m only now coming to terms with the fact that I am, indeed, basic.

Shock horror: I enjoy things that are “popular” and “unoriginal”. Stranger Things on Netflix, the musical Hamilton, bingeing true crime docos, and hatewatching Emily in Paris [in fairness, the French cast is quite wonderful]. My Spotify playlist is chock-full of Top 40 hits — many of which have appeared on Drag Race.

So basic. My 23-yearold self, an insufferable music snob, is howling in indignation.

For those not afflicted

allow me to elaborate.

The term “basic” originated in US hip-hop culture in the early 2010s, and rose to prominence on social media. Largely thanks to a video from YouTube comedy channel College Humour, called “How to tell if you’re a basic b****”.

The answer: You enjoy mainstream trends, products, and media — unironically. Things like pumpkin-spiced lattes and matcha tea, yoga pants, pouty selfies and witty hashtags, and endless reruns of Friends.

Almost a decade later, calling someone “basic” is still the ultimate burn. The “basic b****” is predictable, vapid, and bland, with no discernable identity beyond mass consumption. She’s unsophisticated, tacky, a walking cliche.

Humans denigrating one another for personal

taste is nothing new. For generations, we have drawn battle lines between highbrow and lowbrow; original and derivative.

The romantic poetry versus the penny dreadfuls of Victorian England, the Beatniks versus “the squares” of the 1960s, the 2000s hipsters – and their vinyl collections and bands no-one’s heard of — versus everyone else.

The “complex” intellectuals versus the unwashed masses.

Making fun of “basic b****s” is just the latest iteration. According to Buzzfeed writer Anne Petersen, it belies our fear of conformity. “We measure conformity in our consumer habits. We declare our individuality via our capacity to consume differently – to mix our [mass-produced fashion] with purchases from quirky Etsy shops.”

In recent years, the term “basic b****” has come under fire for its sexist undertones. The message is clear, wrote Guardian journalist Daisy Buchanan: If you enjoy “commercially feminine things”, like autumn-flavoured coffee and cutesy decor, “you’re a loser”.

Again, nothing new. We have a long history of disparaging popular trends because they’re sustained by women’s enthusiasm.

Long before the reign of One Direction and Taylor Swift, there were The Beatles, David Bowie and Elvis Presley – all sneered at by music journalists for their legions of emotive female fans. A 1964 New Statesman article was particularly indignant: “Those who flock round the Beatles, who scream themselves into hysteria, are the least fortunate of their generation — the dull, the idle, the failures.”

In 2015, writer Elizabeth Minkel, considering modern boy bands, posed the question: “Why are screaming girls, overcome with excitement for a group they love, extraordinarily shameful, when the male

crowds at sporting events openly weep, paint their naked bodies in bright colours, and even commit physical violence when their teams lose?”

Sadly, I think we already know the answer.

In 2022, thankfully, we seem to be lightening up a bit. We’re realising some things are popular for a reason — and that’s okay. Yoga pants are comfortable. Taylor Swift songs are catchy. Stranger Things is an entertaining homage to 80s pop culture, with lovable characters and solid performances from young actors.

And, well, after a long day, some mindless television [with attractive French people] just hits the spot.

Honestly — people should be able to like what they like, regardless of how many millions enjoy the same thing. Trends come and go. Taste is subjective.

And it’s a tough world out there — we need all the joy we can get, and if that comes from every drop of an obnoxiously sweet coffee, all the better.

We’re all a bit basic. Embrace it.

Maximise

The best family recipe I’ve inherited is...

Rosemary Rayner

Mum’s Christmas cake.

Desiree Feast Nasi goreng with turmeric. Or Hot Cross Buns. Karen Roberts

What my kids call sausage pie.

Carolyn Henson Playdough.

Christina Schofield Cheese sauce.

Wayne DellaBarca

Anything that my grandmother cooked. My most treasured recipes.

Iris Christopher Mum’s waffles with cream and maple syrup.

Jean Cretney Brown Betty pudding.

Julie Ritchie Golden sausages.

Janine Cardno Christmas pudding.

Nikki King Lancashire hotpot.

Roxana Alford

My parents’ soup recipes. My motherin-law’s snowball pudding [although, annoyingly, I can’t find it now].

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New track for Fernridge

Former Masterton Mayor Lyn Patteson and pupils Bella [left] and Jackson Kosena cut the ribbon at the official opening for Fernridge School’s new bike track, held on Friday, September 30. The track had been in development since 2019 – however, progress had been slowed by covid.

Fernridge School associate principal Roger Graham said the development of the project had helped children upskill in maths, reading and writing through doing budgets and proposals.

“The kids love it and we’ve got a great little fleet of bikes to go with it,” Graham said.

f“We’re going to utilise it through play pods and start upskilling the kids with basic maintenance and making sure they are aware of bike safety.”

Extra

New director introduced

As the new director of Aratoi I wanted to use the opportunity of our regular column to familiarise you with my background as well as my hopes for Aratoi and our place in Wairarapa.

I have spent my entire career in what is aptly called the GLAM sector – the realm of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

On my graduation with a master’s degree in art history from Victoria University, Wellington, I secured a position as an archivist at Archives New Zealand. There I was lucky to be surrounded with the documentary heritage of our country and I learnt about aspects of our history that I missed during my history education, including the complex and wonderful document that is Te Titiri o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi.

However, my heart lay with art, so I moved to Whanganui for an opportunity to be assistant curator at the Sarjeant Gallery, before becoming the curator and collection

manager at the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson. It is now my great pleasure to take up the role of director of Aratoi.

I have been lucky in my career to have worked with artists who have made me not only a better curator, but a better person.

These artists, and

WAIRARAPA HERB SOCIETY

their work, have taught me about our fraught history, the wonderful and terrible things that make us human, found new and inspiring ways to talk about the precarious state of our environment, and allowed me to find joy and inspiration in the biggest and smallest stories.

I look forward working with the marvellous team at Aratoi, our taonga, and artists to share more of these stories.

We live in uncertain times but by understanding our past, and through the unique perspectives artists bring, we can find a way forward.

My aim is for Aratoi to be a place for reflection and understanding, but also to challenge visitors to see ourselves and the world in new ways.

If you see me around Wairarapa or want to stop in to Aratoi for a chat I would be happy to meet you all.

Cannabis has long been part of human culture.

Dating back to the fifth century BC cannabis seeds have been found in funerary urns of the Scythians, an ancient people of Central Asia.

As it has narcotic properties it has picked up many names through time. The primary or common name “hemp“ [Cannabis sativa] derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for the

plant “henep”.

The genus name is thought to have its origins in the Greek kannabis, and going back further from Arabic Kinnab or Persian kannab.

Cannabis is a multi-use plant valued for its tough fibres. It provided the ropes used by Medieval English hangmen and so was also known as neckweed or gallowgrass.

As a medicinal herb it

has a long history and was used until the 1930s as a painkiller, mainly in the form of a tincture.

The plant was also grown in monastic gardens to treat gastrointestinal disorders, insomnia, depression, headaches, neuralgic complaints and asthma.

Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual pains. More recent study has found the herb very effective for relieving nausea and pain associated with chemotherapy [source “Nature’s Medicine”, National Geographic].

Wairarapa Herb Society

has invited toxicologist John Reeves to speak about medicinal uses of cannabis at its Tuesday, October 18, meeting 1.30pm, in The Old Courthouse, Carterton. All welcome.

If you are interested in the use and cultivation of herbs contact us at waiherbs@gmail.com

Sarah McClintock.

By Sara Sutherland BVSc

A fun night out with Nigel Latta

A psychologist, author, and presenter known for his politically incorrect shows is headlining a talk in Masterton next week.

VACCINATIONS

Although it may not feel like it currently, Spring is here! Which means its time to think about vaccinations in your sheep and cattle (and goats!).

Clostridial diseases are caused by a family of bacteria that are everywhere in the soil. They are not spread from animal to animal. You can’t protect against these diseases by biosecurity, social distancing, or masks.

Animals can get in contact with these bacteria from eating them, and then get sick when conditions in the rumen allow them to multiply up, or a bruise provides conditions that allow the bacteria to multiply. Or the bacteria can enter a wound, such as the wounds we create by docking or castration.

Luckily vaccinations are effective, safe, and proven. They’ve been around for 50 years and are the cheapest vaccines you can get. The diseases they protect against cause sudden death so there is no treatment. Vaccination is the only way to protect against these diseases.

Animals do need two doses of the vaccine to be protected. Vaccinating the ewe or cow before lambing will protect the lambs until weaning. You can start to vaccinate the lambs at weaning but that will mean a period of time before their second shot when lambs don’t yet have full protection. So it’s better to give the rst shot at docking or a month preweaning with the booster a month later. Then annual boosters ensure continued protection.

“5in1” vaccines offer your basic protection. 6in1, 8-way and 10way vaccines protect against more strains of Clostridial bacteria for a slightly higher cost. These are worthwhile if you want extra protection, are growing animals fast on crops, or have seen deaths despite 5in1 vaccination. Don’t get confused, 7in1 is different- it’s a 5in1 vaccine combined with a vaccine against leptospirosis.

And even more confusingly, “Lamb Vaccine” isn’t a vaccine at all! It gives antibodies for short term protection at docking to a lamb or calf that has not received colostrum or whose mother was not vaccinated.

Organised by the Chanel College Parents, Teachers and Friends Association, Nigel Latta’s “Dealing with Teenagers” presentation is pitched as a talk designed to strengthen family wellbeing and to support families to be strong and resilient in the community.

Association chairwoman Kim Siemonek said they were excited about Latta’s presentation.

“We are so excited about the opportunity to see this inspirational and entertaining speaker live in Masterton.

“Nigel Latta offers empathy and professional insight into the many different challenges New Zealand families face today. He is also well known for his unique sense of humour, which makes for a very entertaining night out for his audiences.

“With Nigel Latta, we laugh and learn together.”

Latta has hosted a variety of television shows over the past

decade including Beyond the Darklands, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers, and the Politically Incorrect Parenting Show.

He is also known for a variety of parenting self-help books Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy Read This, Politically Incorrect Parenting, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers and Mothers Raising Sons.

Latta was recognised for his services as a psychologist and was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the

2012 Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours.

There will be food and coffee at next week’s event, as well as performances from Chanel College’s band, Pasifika group, and kapa haka group.

• Nigel Latta’s “Dealing With Teenagers” presentation will be held on Wednesday, October 19, at the Wairarapa College auditorium.

Doors open at 6pm. Tickets are available online at Eventfinda.

Psychologist, author and presenter Nigel Latta.

All quiet on Fensham Reserve front

Pat McLean Fensham Group – Forest & Bird Wairarapa

This winter a team from Canterbury University ran a project in Wairarapa to see if tree ring cores from beech trees could help in predicting earthquakes. It turned out not to be successful – our beech trees don’t live long enough – but the team’s visit to Fensham Reserve, near Carterton, included giving us a map of the Masterton Fault Line, which turns out to run right through the reserve and is the origin of the all-year-round springs and standing pools of water in the forested area.

Another team of scientists, this time the myrtle rust surveillance team from the Department of Conservation in Wellington, identified this area of springs and pools as the site of a large cluster of swamp maire [maire tawake, Syzygium maire], a cluster size unusual in Wairarapa.

Swamp maire along with ramarama [Lophomyrtus bullata] are native species considered most at risk from myrtle rust – a serious fungal disease. The DOC team GPSed

every swamp maire in the area and will continue monitoring in the coming years.

One outbreak of myrtle rust has been noted in

Carterton. The spores are easily spread by dogs and people’s clothing.

Close to the swamp maire is a grove of giant native trees; half a dozen

kahikatea, one pukatea and a rimu thought to be over 500 years old. Having podocarps growing close together is unusual and is probably

associated with the yearround water in the pools. The original circuit track through the reserve runs through this grove, no doubt situated to impress visitors.

Recently we have noted dead trees alongside the track, so we have built a boardwalk through the area to protect their root systems and surrounding soil. We used posts made from recycled plastic as the base to avoid having treated pine in contact with the soil and water. These plastic posts are a lot heavier and more costly than treated pine equivalents, causing stress to both our volunteers and budget.

A shout-out to all my fellow volunteers for what was a huge task completed in just a few months.

So, it’s been a busy winter for this small area of the forest, not more than 50 by 100 metres in size. With the boardwalk finished, quiet has now returned. And courtesy of Carterton Lions, we have put a seat next to the boardwalk so you can now rest and contemplate the solitude.

Lifestyle

COMBINED

PLAN

As Wairarapa continues to develop, it’s important to protect the things we value. The Wairarapa Combined District Plan impacts almost every aspect of living in our region.

It sets out what activities you can do and what you will need a resource consent for. It controls any adverse effects your activity could have on neighbours and vice versa.

The District Plan also protects the uniqueness of our district, by looking after our cultural and historic heritage, our natural environment and indigenous biodiversity. And it gives effect to Government policies such as managing urban development, protecting productive land, providing affordable housing, safeguarding our freshwater sources and helping communities plan for natural hazards and climate change.

New boardwalk and seat constructed this winter at Fensham Reserve. PHOTO/PAT McLEAN

Tim Nelson

I have just finished listening to the audiobook, The Power of Unwavering Focus, by the Hindu monk Dandapani. I’ve posted about the book a few times, as I have really enjoyed it. Over the weekend, while browsing in a bookshop, I came across another book that I know I’ll enjoy, Resilience By Design, by Ian Snape and Mike Weeks. I bought the book and it’s now sitting on the table in front of me as I type. What I have just shared highlights a problem that so many of us have. You have just read how I have really enjoyed one book, but before I have even finished it I have bought another one that I could get straight in to reading.

There’s a missing step here, this being application of what I have learned.

Fortunately, application is something that has stuck with me from what Dandapani has written.

I now need to go back to the beginning of his book and start identifying what needs to be done to develop a more focused mind, implementing the same steps and actions that multi-national companies pay significant amounts of money to have Dandapani instruct them in.

A key concept that Dandapani highlights is to learn less, but to implement more; essentially depth over breadth.

We are but blockheads.

Michel de Montainge was a 16th century French philosopher who we could all learn a thing or two from to help us live more satisfying and fulfilling lives. His philosophy

acknowledged something that is best described by his quote: ‘To learn that we have done or said a stupid thing is nothing, we must learn a more ample and important lesson: that we are but blockheads’.

What a refreshing take on life. Too often we spend our time trying to look anything but silly or foolish, when, in fact, we all are so very often. Taking on Montainge’s philosophy will help us from worrying about the comment we made among a group of people we were trying to impress that wasn’t received as we hoped; or thinking that everyone is judging us when dragged up on stage to perform a dance as part of the Samoan language week celebration [this happens to me every year].

The truth is that we are all, at one time or another, blockheads. We should acknowledge this, knowing that the silly thing we did in public won’t be the last, and just move on in our

lives like the occasional fools we are.

Morning routines

I have just watched a YouTube video from Ali Abdaal about morning routines. I have had my own one for some time, which I have stuck with after tweaking earlier routines that weren’t quite right, so I was interested to see what Abdaal had to share.

It turns out that I agree with the key message from Abdaal, this being

simplicity. I have seen too many that are just far too complex, involving all sorts of tasks that really are quite overwhelming, leading to, in all likelihood, a stressedout morning, as opposed to the purposeful and positive start to the day you might hope for.

My suggestion, also shared by Abdaal, is to start by adding just one thing to your morning.

It could be a two-minute meditation, or reading a couple of pages from a

book [I would recommend anything by The School of Life]. A second suggestion is to include only a few things, as you don’t want to cram in too much. I have just three to start my day: a Calm meditation; reading a positive and informative book; and exercise. Laugh at yourself I was listening to the radio when an interview came on with the host of the show Blind Date, which screened on TV over 30 years ago. This immediately

caught my attention, as I had been a contestant on the show. It really brought me back, listening to the discussion about the programme in general, which, at the time, seemed like essential viewing.

At the end of the interview the host asked if anyone who had been on the show was listening and would they be prepared to contact them for a followup discussion on air. At this time I’d pretty much kept my appearance on the

show a secret to anyone I’d met for well over 25 years, as it seemed sort of embarrassing having taken part. However, I sent a text to let Jesse, the host, saying he could contact me.

The next day I was interviewed. It was pretty awesome talking about it and laughing at myself. It wasn’t at all embarrassing and I really enjoyed the conversation, recalling my weekend on my ‘date’ and my 15 minutes of fame.

All too often we take ourselves far too seriously.

We should be prepared to look a little silly and not worry so much about what others may think of us.

Worst case scenario

I have had to make an important decision regarding choosing between two options.

In making the decision there was a moment in which the most positive scenario was the basis of how the decision would be made, perhaps because an attempt was being made to justify what was most likely the wrong call.

Fortunately, the opposite perspective was taken, looking at worst case scenarios around choices. This demonstrated that one decision was clearly the better option if things turned out not to be ideal; at least the right choice wouldn’t have such dire consequences.

Being optimistic is definitely appealing for many situations. However, being overly so and never

taking into account things turning out badly can lead to both significant disappointment, while also placing ourselves at great levels of risk.

Distraction

I’m reading The School of Life book, How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds.

It’s similar to other books and articles I have read about the media, with two primary messages being shared:

We don’t need to watch the news. When we do watch too much news we tend to get distracted from the things that truly matter, things we can do something about.

I couldn’t agree more with these two ideas.

Unfortunately, despite agreeing with them, I still spend too much time watching the news and suffering from the symptoms. I need to make a concerted effort to be distracted by other things that enrich my life: reading a book in the sun while drinking a glass of wine; talking to my daughter about our days; walking my dog; picking the easy weeds out of my driveway. These are the sort of distractions that help me to relax, I enjoy, and I have control over; a far more satisfying way to lead a distracted life. How to be a master potter

I read an article about a craftsman who has become a master potter after studying in Japan. The process he went

through under a Japanese tutor was one in which he repeatedly made the same cylinder and nothing else until the tutor felt he could move on to the next step in his training. The process continued like this, mastering one step at a time, until expertise was achieved.

I love this idea. It’s a slow one that is all about laying strong foundations to build upon. You don’t move on, regardless of how long each step takes, until the highest standard at each level has been achieved, leading to the point at which seemingly flawless works have been created.

In a world that seems to be promoting life hacks and progress being made at double speed, I feel the example of the Japanese potter is one we can all learn from. Yes, mastery may take some time, but when it’s achieved the hard work will make it all the more satisfying.

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• Tim Nelson is principal of Lakeview School and author of the book Small Steps for a happy and purposeful life. He endeavours to learn something new every day by reading books, listening to podcasts, and engaging with a wide range of other content.

Keep morning routines simple. PHOTO/STOCK.ADOBE.COM

Midweek Musings

you remember Ka Pai Soupwinners

Graycie who had an awesome

Lots of learning from the night will help the dynamic duo to determine what the next event or session might look like, but their aim is to create a regular monthly event. What we do know is that the support of keen artists worked incredibly well and that this will be key to supporting cARTerton kids ongoing efforts. So, if you are an artist, digital creative, art enthusiast keen to share your time and knowledge with kids on a one off or regular basis, get in touch hello@kapaicarterton.nz

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volunteer at Wednesday’s sessions,

contact r2rcarterton@icloud.com

YOUTHCONNECTIONS

Initiated by Kylie Mole, a group of proactive community members are brainstorming ways of alleviating boredom for our young people while out with their friends in Carterton. With a focus on fun, building connections and anti-bullying they aim to create regular whānau summertime activities and further strengthen our vibrant community. Watch this space.

Did you know there is an App, "AED Locations", that tells you where the nearest AED is? We've been out hunting for those that aren't on this app and encouraging more local AED owners to register theirs so that if anyone in our community suffers a sudden cardiac incident that there is the device and skills needed to save their life. We'd love your help and have $50 New World Vouchers up for grabs. Simply email us the location of 5 AED in Carterton and 2 suggestions for where an AED would be most useful to be in to win. hello@kapaicarterton.nz

Māori group has begun on Sunday afternoons under the tutelage of Hera Taylor and guest educators onboard, lesson space kindly provided by Carterton School. Covering a range of topics to allow participants a greater understanding and confidence of te Āo Māori, the group enjoys a whānau friendly environment and a cuppa during each session. For interest in attending contact Cimone@kapaicarterton.nz

relaxed approach, 10-week Te

Ka Pai Facilitators were recently invitedto a Department of Internal Affairs hui in Wellingtonto share learnings, experiences and work achieved under Ka Pai Carterton with five new groups embarking on their CLDP adventure. It was also a great opportunity to reflect on the progressmade towards our community vision and focus on final key areas as we work to step back from community in April 2023.

Grace Prior

Masterton was set to be covered in new murals last week as part of a new arts initiative for the town.

The communityowned Masterton Trust Lands Trust said it would be welcoming leading contemporary artists to town, including Aucklandbased aerosol and stencil artist FLOX [Hayley King].

FLOX was set to spend a week creating a giant 16m by 5m nature-inspired mural on the side of a trust-owned building on Lincoln Rd near Burger King.

“Hayley has created a unique artwork for Masterton entitled Past and Present,” trust chair

Leanne Southey said.

“Her mural pays homage to the huia, a majestic bird forever lost to the region, and shines hope on a thriving local kokako population in Pukaha’s forest reserve.”

FLOX said her trademark native birds, ferns, and flowers were a celebration of Aotearoa’s environmental taonga.

“Using distinctly vibrant and confident colour on a scale combined with delicacy, they have magically transformed grey walls into vibrant depictions of the natural world.”

During the school holidays, three further murals would emerge, one in Kuripuni and two on

Dixon St.

Southey said the trust had invited Sean Duffell [Ngati Porou], a graphic artist from Blenheim, and multi-disciplined creative Lotte Hawley from Martinborough.

Duffell isn’t new to painting murals in Masterton, with one in Charles Lane, and another painted last year in Queen Elizabeth Park.

Duffell told the TimesAge in November 2020 that he had worked with Michael Carter to create the mural on Queen Elizabeth Park’s turf manager’s shed.

“The tui is the hero piece for the whole thing – that’s why I got Michael Carter in to do it, I’m just

doing all my boring stuff, and he’s doing this big exciting bit,” Duffell said.

Also joining the team of artists are mural painting duo Pippa Keel and Zoe Gillett from Pip and Zoe Paint, illustrators from Wellington.

Gillett’s work canvassed on her website included a wine bottle label for Moana Estate Winery and a mural in Te Papa’s story place.

Pippa Keel’s work has included Christmas Moore Wilson’s bags and a mural she and Gillett painted at Wellington’s Glover Park.

Southey said it was going to be wonderful to see the artworks unfold as they brought the walls to life.

She said each artist submitted a concept to the trust based on Wairarapa’s geographical references –its five rivers, the Tararua Ranges and native flora and fauna.

“The trust’s vision is to bring Masterton’s CBD to life with colourful, thought-provoking art that’s accessible to all.”

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Southey said the murals were part of an already established programme of Masterton Trust Lands Trust support for the arts in Masterton, which included concessional rents for Aratoi, ConArt, and Hau Kainga, and events and art scholarships.

Le Gra Vineyard

Opaki Spring Fling – It’s an opportunity to welcome spring and sample some of the wonderful products made by producers of wines, meats, ˜ owers, olive oil, berries, organic vegetables, micro greens, jams and chutneys, speciality cakes, cupcakes and macarons and much more – all of them located in and around Masterton.

This family friendly event runs from 10am to 2.30pm this Sunday 16°October with the producer stalls on the vineyard’s “green” where visitors can sample the wares, make purchases and then relax with a glass of wine or a co˛ ee and one of the many delicious foodie items for lunch.

And what a lunch line up it is – look out for the Opaki school sausage sizzle, Burgers, BBQ ribs, their famous makikihi

fries and vanilla panna cottas from Korkys Food Truck, Wingate Lane’s pizzas made in their mobile pizza oven or a delish Le Grá platter, decadent slices of cake, cookies, cupcakes and macarons.

Local Musician, Ariana Henare, will be entertaining Spring Flinger’s with her soulful tunes, and the children can have their face painted at the festival hire marquee and have a cuddle with pet lambs and calves, brought to you by Power Farming Wairarapa.

The event is free with a koha for parking on the next-door neighbour’s property, with money raised going to the local Opaki Primary School – see the map for directions on where to park as parking on the berm is prohibited.

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Bespoke cakesand cupcakes

UCOL honours McManaway

Flynn nicholls

Wairarapa agricultural innovator Shane McManaway has been presented with an Honorary Associate award from UCOL Te Pukenga Wairarapa.

The UCOL Honours awards recognise and celebrate the significant contribution of people to UCOL, the community, and

society. McManaway was presented with the honour for his contribution to the development of Wairarapa, particularly in the area of agriculture.

“I’m very humbled to have received this prestigious award,” McManaway said this week.

“The Wairarapa region is in my DNA, it’s a real pleasure to be a cheerleader for the agri-community here

and play an active role in fostering our next generation into farming and agriculture too. I must also acknowledge my wife Lynnette as we are an absolute team and achieving this award wouldn’t have been possible without her.” McManaway was awarded as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit this year by the late Queen Elizabeth II for his services to Agriculture

and Community. He and his wife Lynnette developed Five Rivers Medical, a stateof-the-art medical facility and ambulance station in Greytown. He continues to be actively involved in agriculture through his numerous ventures such as the Gold Creek Charolais and Deer farm, and Ongaha Gold – an extensive sheep, beef, and dairy operation, both in South

Wairarapa, along with a dairy farm in Kaikoura. McManaway retired as chief executive of Allflex after 16 years, in 2019. He is the founder of the Platinum Primary Producer group which has evolved into a powerful collective of more than 150 of Australia and New Zealand’s top rural leaders.

GREYTOWNSURROUNDS &

Fresh

sh Fridays at Greytown Butchery

If you enjoy a good ÿ sh meal on

a Friday, Greytown Butchery is the place to shop.

Every Friday, Greytown Butchery now sells ÿ sh, freshly caught that day by Wellington Trawling Company.

The type of ÿ sh depends on what was caught, such as Terakihi, Curnard, Blue Cod and other popular species.

The ÿ sh is already ÿ lleted and ready to go in the frying pan or oven, with many Greytown Butchery customers placing regular orders.

Greytown Butchery now also stocks products from The Blackball Salami Company on the West Coast, including

its wonderful salami, made the oldfashioned way, by natural curing and wood smoking. The original and venison salami are 100% visual lean.

Their black puddings are made in a unique horseshoe shape, as well in a chubb form, each one a work of art.

There is also a tasty white pudding made with pork and leeks, as well as cheese kranskys and cabana sausages.

Like Greytown Butchery, The Blackball Salami Company has won many awards in the New Zealand Sausage Competition.

If you enjoy the rich ° avour of game meat, Greytown Butchery sells a range

of these including rabbit and duck.

It’s now 17 years since Gavin Green and Julie Fairbrother bought the Main Street shop which has been located in the same premises since 1873.

The couple transformed it into a gourmet European-styled butchery, with the motto “Butchers of the future, with traditions of the past.”

Today Greytown Butchery sells a vast array of meats, from traditional cuts to ready-to-cook, stir fry, casseroles, game and organic, most of it sourced locally.

Gavin and Julie are supported by a loyal and long serving sta˛ who share their passion for the trade.

Some of the Blackball Salami Company products at Greytown Butchery

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Schools slam truancy help

Flynn Nicholls

Truancy services are inadequate, according to Wairarapa principals.

Until a few months ago, a single officer served primary, intermediate and high schools for Wairarapa and Tararua, from Dannevirke High to Pirinoa School. That officer had since moved on.

While schools can hire attendance officers in-house, the Ministry of Education [MoE] contracts regional attendance services to which any school can refer students. The contractors for Wairarapa and Tararua are Hawke’s Bay-based Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga Trust.

Solway School principal Mark Bridges said that staff members collected children or drove them home at his school.

“It is of pressing urgency that we have not just personnel in Wairarapa, but a service that’s focused in Wairarapa, not Hawke’s Bay.”

Bridges said the region would have enough work to justify an officer.

Lakeview School principal Tim Nelson said MoE had “utterly and completely underfunded” the service.

Funding of $790,000

was made available for the Wellington region.

Principals in Masterton are preparing to apply for funding for a more localised service.

“It’s absolute madness, the lack of support we’ve had. There has been a lot of talking, but talk needs to be followed by hard, tangible action,” Nelson said. “An excellent tangible action would be to have truancy officers supporting schools and families more locally.”

The regional truancy

officer from Te Taniwha o Heretaunga left because Kuranui College hired them as the in-house student whanau liaison.

Principal Simon Fuller said the school needed more support in South Wairarapa.

Kuranui’s average attendance is about 85 per cent, about 4 per cent lower than it usual.

Regular attendance [defined by MoE as nine days out of 10 at school] has decreased at Kuranui by about 20 per cent from

previous years.

“The kids are still coming, just not necessarily those nine days out of 10, which the ministry record as regular attendance,” Fuller said.

Kuranui hired a student whanau liaison to support students through transitions between classes and ensure they get to where they need to be on time and have the correct uniform and equipment.

“They also chronic truants, sometimes bringing them to school,

sitting down with families to remove some of those barriers or picking students up when they might miss the bus.

There are different levels of what a truancy officer will do.” Fuller said.

Fuller said that attendance services were “massively underfunded and under-resourced”.

Lakeview School was considering hiring an attendance officer, but it would cost thousands and thousands of dollars

“It would be incredibly good if MoE could identify the need and fund more local truancy officers directly,” Nelson said.

Sean Teddy, hautu [leader] operations and integration at MoE said attendance services work with students, family, and schools “to address the root causes of non-attendance, which are often diverse and complex.

“Services must work within the context of the family and whanau to achieve a sustainable return to school.”

He said MoE was redesigning the attendance service to bring services closer to schools.

The Times-Age asked Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga Trust if they thought the situation was adequate. They declined to comment.

Wairarapa principals are fed up with the Ministry of Education’s lack of support for combating truancy.

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Wednesday

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Tamariki / Child Clinic

welcome!

Trust House Recreation Centre Masterton (Masterton Swimming Pool) 10am – 3.30pm

Surf Lifesaving Club

– 4pm

FeatherstonFeatherston Community Centre 10am – 3.30pm

Country Market 10am – 2pm

Tū Te Tāngata QE Park Masterton 10am – 2pm

– beside Fishing Club 10am – 3.45pm

October Evening Rugby Rural Support Trust

October Health and Disability Sector

Saturday

October Featherston AND Clareville A&P Show

October

Trust House Memorial Park 5pm – 8pm

Wairarapa Hospital - Training Room B 10am - 4pm

Featherston Community Centre 10am – 3.30pm Clareville A&P Grounds 9am – 4pm

CartertonCarterton Plant Sale - Memorial Square 9am – 12.30pm

November Hau Ariki MaraeMartinborough kai / food; and games for the kids 10am – 2pm

Carterton Community Pop-up clinic.

BrendanWalker of Martinborough

his booster from nurse Maria.

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Carterton’s Daffodil

Trees make a royal tribute

Lifestyle

In 1869 the founder of Masterton, Joseph Masters, received good news from Governor Bowen’s private secretary.

Masters had written to seek permission to name a new settlement in the Forty Mile Bush after Prince Alfred, who was visiting New Zealand as part of his naval ship tour, on the Galatea. He was “gratified at the compliment”, and the township was accordingly named Alfredton.

Prince Alfred did not venture over the Remutaka Hill, but made a presentation to Wairarapa Maori, in Wellington, gifting a flag in recognition of their “steadfast loyalty” during troubled times.

The park quickly became a focus of community activities, hosting commemorations

for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897.

After Victoria’s death in 1901, and the coronation of Edward VII. It was decided to mark the occasion with a band rotunda in Masterton Park, which was officially opened in June 1903.

Edward’s reign was not a long one – he died in 1910, to be succeeded by his son George V, who was crowned in 1911. George had visited New Zealand in 1901, and although he had not come to Wairarapa.

His coronation was marked by the construction of a new kiosk in Masterton Park. The Coronation Hall was built near the park’s lake and opened with “great festivity” in February 1912.

In May 1920, Edward, then Prince of Wales and

later King Edward VIII, became the first member of the royal family to visit Masterton. At a reception in the park, he was presented with an album of views of the district and planted a commemorative oak near the grandstand.

The next year a marble monument with photographs of King George and Queen Mary was erected in the park by followers of the Seven Rules of Jehovah Church, who claimed that the prophet Paora Potangaroa had foretold of the arrival in 1881.

The King’s second son Albert, then Duke of York but later King George VI visited Masterton Park in 1927 with his wife Elizabeth. Large crowds welcomed the pair and an English oak was planted in

commemoration.

The only time a ruling monarch visited Masterton and its park was in January 1954. Huge crowds gathered to welcome the young Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

After her visit, the Masterton Borough Council officially changed the name of the park to Queen Elizabeth Park.

In April 1983 the park was visited by another royal couple, the TimesAge reporting the event as: “Charming Charles,

dazzling Diana captivate crowds”. To mark their visit, a gingko tree was planted.

In August 1998 the commemorative spade Charles and Diana had used to plant their ginkgo was used again. Mayor Bob Francis planted a magnolia to mark the first anniversary of Princess Diana’s death.

Unfortunately, both the ginkgo and the magnolia were later destroyed by vandals.

The planting of a totara tree to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth in the park named after her made historian GARETH WINTER think about the connections with the royal family.

Large crowds at Masterton Park to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. PHOTOS/WAIRARAPA ARCHIVE

Charles and Diana planted a ginkgo tree in Queen Elizabeth Park in 1983.

Abraham’s handling wows the crowd

Masterton’s Cushla Abraham wowed crowds with her commanding win at the New Zealand Merino Championships Open at the beginning of the month.

Shearing Sports New Zealand said Abraham’s dominating performance in the woolhandling, spearheaded by exceptional fleece quality points in the final, won her a place in the New Zealand team for the post-covid resumption of transtasman tests in Bendigo Australia on October 21.

shed 44kg in the past year and overcome diabetes, issues that had started to control her life since the birth of her first child 10 years ago, and was quite happy to talk about it.”

Abraham said the surgery changed her life.

“I’m fitter now than I was when I was 20,” she said.

Additionally, the Abrahams run a Facebook page called Shedtalk and began live streaming all speed shearing competitions they were attending across Aotearoa.

Poutama, an independent charitable trust that provides business development services to Maori, said the Abrahams quickly grew a following on Facebook, clocking up more than 300,000 views.

“Leveraging their longstanding connections with other shearers and wool handlers in the industry, Shedtalk now have the ability to live stream speed shear shows in Australia via their platform.”

It said their Facebook page was a side venture to Abraham Shearing that offered hearing, wool handling, and crutching services.

It said Abraham’s win was “a determined and consummate triumph”.

“The 33-year-old mumof-two who had undergone weight-loss surgery to

Shearing Sports said Abraham dominated throughout the competition to become the top qualifier among the 27 woolhandlers in the heats on Friday.

It said she repeated her prime form again in the semifinals and Saturday’s final.

“She beat the only three other competitors to have won the Shearing Sports New Zealand season’s

Abraham and brother David Gordon weren’t new to the steering scene, both competing in woolhandling, pressing and shearing events in

The Times-Age called the pair the “first family of Masterton shearing” in a March 2013 story.

After last week’s Waimate competition, woolhandlers head north for the first North Island shearing and woolhandling championships of the season at the Poverty Bay A&P Shows on October 15 and the Hawke’s Bay Great Raihania Shears event six days later.

Rural Rural

The next Golden Shears competition in Masterton is in March 2023.

Cushla Abraham, Masterton, competing in the open

Grace Prior

Tim McGilvary

Manager

Farmland gifted to city school

The headmaster of a school that has been gifted $150 million worth of farmland said it will help more youngsters to get hands-on experience in the food and fibre sector.

ASB has gifted the 8.1ha of farmland to Mt Albert Grammar School, which has leased the land since its purchase in 1933.

The farm has ewes, lambs, chickens, dairy cows, calves, a woolshed and sheep pens, as well as a veggie garden and kiwifruit crops.

Mount Albert Grammar School headmaster Patrick Drumm said about 200 students take agri-business courses each year, earning NCEA Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 credits.

Rural“It gives the students a good variation across different management styles of different stock and animals and gives them first-hand experience in milking and shearing and all of things that go along with managing farm stock,” Drumm said.

“ASB’s gift of this land will allow us to continue future-proofing the facilities and further diversifying the farm, and we have ambitious

Mt Albert Grammar School’s farm has ewes, lambs, chickens, dairy cows, calves, a woolshed and sheep pens, as well as a vegetable garden and kiwifruit crops.

plans for the renovation of existing buildings and the construction of an experience centre to showcase opportunities in the agri-food and fibre sector,” he said.

“Our students benefit greatly from this education, and it will be enjoyed by generations to come.”

Some students had entered the agriculture and horticulture career paths

Grammar School headmaster Patrick Drumm the deed for the $150 million farmland which the school has leased since 1933.

after getting a taste of the work on the school farm, Drumm said.

ASB chief executive Vittoria Shortt said she was delighted to be gifting the land to the school because it would expose more youngsters to the food and fibre sector.

“Food and fibre production is the backbone of New Zealand’s economy, and the farm plays a really important role in attracting young urban talent into these industries,” She said.

“We know our young people care deeply about sustainability and this next generation will be critical”

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Sheep

Cattle

The focus now is on preparing for mating. Use the pre-mating period to hone your teams heat detection skills so that everyone is ready for the start of mating. Use one colour of tail paint to start, then a second colour as cows cycle and their tail paint is removed. At three weeks, cows with the original colour will be the non-cyclers. If less than 75% of the herd have had a recorded heat by 10 days before the planned start of mating, either heat detection methods have not been fully effective and/ or there are a large number of non-cycling cows. This is the time to consider which options are available for improving heat detection during AB and seek vet advice on the most effective strategy to treat non-cycling cows. By the time the actual start of mating kicks off, 85% of the herd should have had a recorded heat. These are relevant KPI’s needed to hit industry targets for reproductive performance. The bene ts of achieving industry targets are obvious and will be long term if the calving can become more compact.

ASB chief executive Vittoria Shortt hands Mt Albert

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THURSDAY,

13

Alcoholics Anonymous: Featherston Community Centre, 7.30-8.30pm. Call 0800 229 6757.

Belly Dance for Beginners: Kiwi Hall, Featherston, 6.30-7.30pm. Call Antonia Blincoe [021] 105-7649.

Carrington Bowling Club: 57 High Street, Carterton,1pm for 1.30 pm start. Call Pauline Hodgson [027] 406-672.

Carterton Community Choir: 7.159pm, at Carterton School, Holloway St. Call [022] 373-4299.

Danzability Class: 11am-noon, at Studio 73, Greytown. Call physio. rachel.horwell@gmail.com or [022] 077-2654.

Digital Seniors Wairarapa: Call 0800 373 646 for an appointment.

Martinborough: St Andrew’s Church, 9.30-11am; Featherston: Featherston Community Centre, 1.30-3.30pm.

Fareham Creative Space: Open studio, 10am-3pm, 80 Underhill Rd, Featherston. Email: registrations@ farehamcreativespace.nz

Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 6.30pm.

Food Market: Food trucks, 4.307.30pm outside the Masterton Town Hall, rain or shine.

GirlGuidingNZ: Carterton Pippins, 5-7 years, 4.15-5.30pm. Carterton Brownies, 7-9½ years, 6-7.30pm. Call Sharon [021] 033-0550.

Justice of the Peace: Masterton CAB 9.30am-12.30pm.

KeepFit!: 10.30am, Senior Citizens Hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Age Concern [06] 377-0066.

Masterton Art Club: 10am-2pm, tutored classes available, also print on Fridays, at 12 Victoria St. Call Sue 377-7019 or Elissa [0274] 706-528.

Masterton Petanque Club: 2pm, in Queen Elizabeth Park. Call Myrna Lane 377-3064.

Masterton Toy Library: 10am-1pm, 365 Queen St.

Narcotics Anonymous: 7.308.30pm, at St Matthew’s Church, Church St, Masterton.

Parkinson’s Exercise Class: 1.30pm, at the Wairarapa Boxing Academy, Dixon St. Call Roslyn [027] 264-8623.

Patient Activity Programme: At Hospice Wairarapa, 59 Renall St, Masterton, 10am-1pm. Call Kirsten

399 1050.

Red Star Table Tennis Club: 5-7pm at Red Star Sports Association 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call Peter [027] 566-4664 or Brian 377-4066.

Ruamahanga Club: Cards – 500, 1-4pm, at Wairarapa Services Club, Essex St, Masterton.

Social Learners Bridge: 1-3.30pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Barbara [06] 304-9208.

Steady As You Go: Falls Prevention and Balance Class, 9.30am, Senior Citizens’ Hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Age Concern [06] 377-0066.

Thursday Morning Bikers: Meet at the fountain at the Queen Elizabeth Park entrance, 9.30am. Contact (06) 216-2187

Wairarapa Fern and Thistle Pipe Band: Weekly practice, Masterton Brass Bandrooms, Park Ave, Masterton. Email fernandthistle21@ gmail.com

Wairarapa Genealogy Branch: Family History Research Rooms, 5 Church St, Masterton, open 1-4pm. Wairarapa Model Aero Club: 9amnoon, at the Masterton Aerodrome.

Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 1-2.30pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14

Aratoi: Masterton Museum: A Cabinet of Curiosities to July 2023; John Christeller: Shared Histories to Oct 16; Andrea Gardner: This is the rabbit hole to Oct 16; Wendy

Bornholdt: Drawing on Resources to Oct 16; Breadcraft Wairarapa Schools’ Art to Oct 30.

Carterton Craft Market: Mon-Sat: 9am-4pm, Sun: 10am-3pm, 25 High St North, Carterton. Call Desley [027] 787-8558.

Carterton Senior Citizens: 1.304pm, play cards, Rummikub and Scrabble, Carterton Memorial Club, Broadway.

Cloth Collective Sewing Workshop: 10am-2pm, Kiwi Hall Supper Room. Call Sara Uruski [0274] 474-959.

Dance Fit: At Carrington Park, Carterton, at 6-7pm. Text dance groove to [022] 321-2643.

Greytown Music and Movement: For pre-schoolers, 10am, at St Luke’s Hall, Main St. Contact email admin@ stlukesgreytown.co.nz

Fareham Creative Space: Open studio, 10am-3pm, 80 Underhill Rd, Featherston. Email: registrations@ farehamcreativespace.nz

Free Community Fit Club: 6am and 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di [027] 498-7261.

Justice of the Peace: Carterton library noon-2pm; Masterton District Court 11am-1pm; Eketahuna Library 1.30-4.30pm.

Needlework & Craft Drop-in: 10am-noon, Featherston Community Centre. Call May [06] 308-6912 or Virginia [06] 308-8392.

Masterton Croquet Club: Golf Croquet 9.15am behind the Hosking Garden in the park. Call Russell Ward 377-4401.

Masterton Masters Swimming Club: Club night 5.30-6.30pm, Trust House Recreation Centre back pool. Call Stu [027] 295-4189 or Lucy [021] 0204-4144.

Masterton Social Badminton Club: Chanel College gymnasium, Herbert St, enter through treelined entrance [by the bus stop], 7-9pm. Contact Melissa [027] 327-0505.

Seniornet Wairarapa: Computer/ cellphone help, 1-2.30pm, Departmental Buildings, 33 Chapel St, Masterton. Call John [027] 3835654.

Wairarapa Stop Smoking Service: Quit Clinic at Whaiora 9am-noon. Free support available across Wairarapa. Call Whaiora 0800 494 246.

Walk and Talk: Meet outside Dish Cafe, First St, Masterton, 9.30am.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

Featherston Fusiliers: Wargaming and boardgames club, at Featherston Assembly of God cafeteria, 22 Birdwood St, 10am-4.30pm. Contact featherston.fusiliers@gmail.com

Carrington Bowling Club: 57 High Street, Carterton, 1pm for 1.30 pm start. Call Pauline Hodgson [027] 406-672.

Carterton District Historical Society: 150 High St North, Carterton. Open by appointment. Call 379-5564.

Cobblestones Early Settlers VIllage: Open 10am-4pm seven days. History comes alive with six heritage

buildings, carts and carriages, set in two acres of beautiful gardens, bring a picnic to enjoy.

Featherston Heritage Museum: Behind the Featherston Library and Information Centre. Sat and Sun 10am-2pm, other times by arrangement. Call Elsa [021] 2639403.

Featherston Weekly Market: 8am2pm, 33 Fitzherbert St. Greytown Menz Shed: 9am-noon. Call Paul Dodge [021] 0262-6595.

Justice of the Peace: Service centre available at Masterton Library, 10am-noon.

Lions Book Sale: 9am-1pm, next to Wairarapa Farmers Market, Solway Showgrounds, Judds Rd, Masterton, under the grandstand.

Masterton Croquet Club: Association Croquet 9.15am and 12.45pm behind Hosking Garden in the park. Call Carl Redvers 378-7109.

Martinborough Museum: Open Sat and Sun at No 7 The Square, 10.30am-2.30pm. Donation/koha appreciated.

Parkrun: Weekly 5km run/walk. Measured, timed, free. 8am start, at the Woodside end of the Greytown rail trail. Info: parkrun.co.nz/ greytownwoodsidetrail

Saturday in the Park: Food trucks by the Skate Park, QE Park 10am-2pm, rain or shine.

Tinui Craft Corner and Museum: Open Sat/Sun 10am-4pm. Call Lesley Hodgins [06] 372-6433.

Toy Library: Masterton: 10am-1pm, 365 Queen St. Featherston: 14 Wakefield St, 10am-noon.

Wairarapa Cancer Society

Supportive Care Services: Free services for anyone needing support after a cancer diagnosis. Call (06) 378-8039.

Wairarapa Farmers’ Market: 9am1pm, Solway Showgrounds, Judds Rd, Masterton, under the grandstand and nearby redwood tree.

Women’s Self Defence: With Dion, 9am, band rotunda, Queen Elizabeth Park. Call [020] 4124-4098.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16

Wairarapa Bonsai Club Workshop and meeting. Repot and shape your trees, from 9.30am, BYO lunch and short meeting. For location call

president Bob Macfarlane 377-1808.

Greytown Country Market: Stella Bull Park, 10am-2pm. All profits go to the Greytown Trails Trust for maintenance and future projects on the Greytown Rail Trail.

Wairarapa Gourmet Toastmasters Club: 11am-1pm. Contact Carol [027] 600-1710.

Carterton Farmers Market: Memorial Square, 9am-12.30pm. Call [027] 663-9011.’

Featherston Menz Shed: 61

Fitzherbert St, open from 1pm.

Masterton Park Bowling Club: Queen Elizabeth Park, bowls roll up at 1pm, names in by 12.45pm. Call 377-5458.

Masterton Petanque Club: Club day 2pm, in Queen Elizabeth Park. Call Myrna Lane 377-3064.

Masterton Toy Library: 10am-1pm, 365 Queen St.

Narcotics Anonymous: Featherston Community Centre, 7-9pm. Call 0800 628 632

Rotary Sunday Market: 6.3011.30am, Essex St car park. Contact thehodsons@xtra.co.nz

South Wairarapa Pipe Band: Practice at St John’s church hall, Featherston, 4-6pm. To confirm time please call Gordon [027] 414-7433 or [027] 628-5889.

Wairarapa Model Aero Club: 9amnoon, at the Masterton Aerodrome.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

Art for Everyone: Featherston Community Centre, 7-9pm. Call Sandie [021] 157-4909.

Carterton Alcoholics Anonymous: 8pm, Salvation Army Community Rooms, 210 High St. Call Bob [021] 042-2947 or Martin [06] 372-7764.

Carterton Community Toy Library: Events Centre, Holloway St, Mon-Sat during CDC Library hours.

Carterton Scottish Dance Club: 7.30pm, at Carterton School Hall, Holloway St. No partner required. Call Elaine 377-0322.

Carterton Food Bank: 10-11am Mon-Fri at Haumanu House. Call 379-4092.

CCS Disability Action Wairarapa Office: 36 Bannister St, Masterton, 10am-1pm Mon-Fri. Call 378-2426 or 0800 227-2255.

Citizens Advice Bureau: Free and

confidential advice, Mon-Fri 9am4pm, 43 Perry St, Masterton. Call 377-0078 or 0800 367-222.

Creative Hands Programme: At Hospice Wairarapa, 59 Renall St, Masterton, 10am-noon. Call Kirsten 399-1050.

East Indoor Bowling Club: 7pm. Call Julie 377-5497 or George 378-9266.

Epilepsy Support Group: 11am at the Salvation Army office, 210 High St South, Carterton. Call 0800 20 21 22.

Featherston Music Club: 7-9pm.

Call Shaun O’Brien [027] 672-6249.

Free Community Fit Club: 6am and 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. Call Di [027] 498-7261.

GirlGuidingNZ: Masterton Rangers, 12½-18 years, 6.30-8pm. South Wairarapa Guides [Greytown], 9-12½ years, 6-8pm. Call Sharon [021] 033-0550.

Hospice Wairarapa Support Services: Free of charge for anyone dealing with a terminal illness. Call [06] 378-8888.

Justice of the Peace: Masterton CAB 9.30am-12.30pm.

Keep Fit!: 9.30am, Senior Citizens’ Hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Age Concern [06] 377-0066.

Line Dancing: 10.30am, Senior Citizens’ Hall, Cole St Masterton. Call Age Concern [06] 377-0066.

Literacy Aotearoa: Free computing and digital device classes for adults. Call 377-4214.

Mah Jong: 1-4pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Pat Hamilton [06] 308-9729.

Masterton District Brass Band: Rehearsals at 7pm, in the Band Room, Park Ave, Masterton. Call [022] 574-0742.

Play Gym: St James Church Hall 116 High St, Masterton, 9.30-11am, for 0-3-year-olds.

Red Star Table Tennis Club: 6-8pm at Red Star Sports Association 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call Peter [027] 566-4664 or Brian 377-4066.

Senior Citizens Club: Cards 1-4pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Val [06] 308-9293.

Steady As You Go: Falls Prevention and Balance Class, Featherston: 9.30am, A/G Church. Masterton: 1.30pm, Senior Citizens’ Hall, Cole St. Call Age Concern [06] 377-0066.

The Dance Shed: 450A Belvedere Rd, Carterton. Beginners Linedance Class: 6-7pm. Linedance Intermediate Class: 7.30-8.30pm. Call Wendy [027]

319-9814.

Troubadour Music Group: 6-8pm, Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Contact Stefan [027] 226-6019.

Wairarapa Services Club: Cards –500, 1.30pm, at the club, Essex St, Masterton.

Wairarapa Stop Smoking Service: Call a Quit Coach based at Whaiora 0800 494 246.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

Wai Word: A Yarns in Barns activity, Charity Norman, best-selling suspense novelist, in conversation with Steve Laurence about her new book, Remember Me, 7.30pm, Carterton Community Courthouse, Holloway St.

Wairarapa Spinners & Weavers: Meet 7pm in The Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton. Call Trish 378-8775 or Josie 378-6531.

Wairarapa Embroiderers Guild: Meet at the Ranfurly Club Rooms, Chapel St, Masterton. Call Billie Sims 378-2949 or Jenny 377-0859.

Featherston Toy Library: Featherston Community Centre, 9-11am.

Al Anon: Do you need support for coping with alcohol problems in your family? Contact [027] 811-0006.

Caregivers Programme: At Hospice Wairarapa, 59 Renall St, Masterton, noon-1.30pm. Call Kirsten 399 1050.

Clareville Badminton Club: Main Stadium at Clareville, 7.30pm -9pm. Call Steve [027] 333-3975.

Carrington Bowling Club: 57 High Street, Carterton,1pm for 1.30 pm start. Call Pauline Hodgson [027] 406-672.

Carterton District Historical Society: 150 High St North, Carterton. Open by appointment. Call 379-5564.

Central Indoor Bowls Club: 7.30pm, Hogg Crescent hall. Call Mathew or Graeme 378-7554.

Chair Exercise: Gentle chair exercises, 2-2.45pm, at St John’s Hall, Greytown.

Dance Fitness: 6.30-7.30pm, at Fareham House Hall Featherston. Call Justine [0204] 105-2830.

Digital Seniors Wairarapa: Call 0800 373 646 for an appointment.

Carterton: 3 Mile, 66 High St, 9.30-11.30am; Greytown: Greytown

Library, 1.30-3.30pm.

Fareham Creative Space: Open studio, 10am-3pm, 80 Underhill Rd, Featherston. Email: registrations@ farehamcreativespace.nz

Featherston Menz Shed: 61 Fitzherbert St, open from 10am.

Featherston Wahine Singers: 7-8.30pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Susan [021] 246-4884.

Free Community Fit Club: 11am, Carrington Park, Carterton. All ages, all fitness levels. Call Di [027] 498-7261.

Free Literacy and Numeracy

Classes: At Literacy Aotearoa Masterton. Call Carol [022] 524-5994 or visit us at 340 Queen Street, Masterton.

GirlGuiding: Masterton Pippins [5-7 years] 3.45-5pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646.

Justice of the Peace: Masterton CAB 11am-1pm.

Paint/draw: From live model,10amnoon, at Masterton Art Club, Victoria St. Call Elissa Smith [027] 470-6528.

Masterton Alcoholics Anonymous: 7.30pm, St Matthew’s Church Hall, 35 Church St. Call Anne 378-2338 or David [021] 116-5505.

Masterton Croquet Club: Golf Croquet 9.15am behind the Hosking Garden in the park. Call Russell Ward 377-4401.

Masterton Senior Citizens and Beneficiaries Association: Meet for social indoor bowls, 500 cards, or a chat 1-3pm, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St. Call Ngaire 377-0342.

Masterton Toy Library: 10am-1pm, at rear of Masterton YMCA, 162 Dixon St, Masterton.

Red Star Table Tennis Club: 9amnoon at Red Star Sports Association 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call Peter [027] 566-4664 or Brian 377-4066.

Seniornet Wairarapa: Computer/ cellphone help 1.30-2.30pm, Departmental Buildings, 33 Chapel St, Masterton. Call John [027] 3835654.

Social Bridge: At South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club, 1.30-3.30pm. Call Lesley [021] 299-6389.

South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club: Games afternoon. Call Doff 304-9748.

Wairarapa Genealogy Branch: Family History Research Rooms, 5 Church St, Masterton, open 1-4pm. Wairarapa Services Club: Cards –Euchre, 1pm, at the club, Essex St,

Masterton.

Woops A Daisies: Leisure Marching Team practice 4-5pm, at the Trust House Rec Centre Stadium. Call Cheryl [06] 370-1922 or [027] 6976974.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19

Toi Wairarapa – Heart of Arts: 10 Minute Bites, 12.10pm, BYO sandwich.

AA Meeting: At 7.30pm, Epiphany church hall, High St, Solway, Masterton. Call [027] 557-7928.

Cards: “500”, 1.15-4.15pm, at the Carterton Club. Call Barbara 379-6582 or Val 379-8329.

Carterton Cycle Group: An informal group of ‘leg power’ and e-power cyclists, from Belvedere Rd [weather permitting] for 20km or 40-60km rides. Call Irene [027] 634-9167 or Lesley [021] 299-6389.

Dance Fitness: 9.30-11am, preschoolers with parents or caregivers, music and movement and art, at Fareham House Hall Featherston. Call Justine [0204] 105-2830.

Digital Seniors Wairarapa: Call 0800 373 646 for an appointment.

Masterton: Citizens Advice, 10-noon.

Free Classes: Literacy, language and numeracy for adult learners. Call Literacy Aotearoa 377-4214.

Greytown Menz Shed: 9am-noon.

Call Paul Dodge [021] 0262-6595.

GirlGuidingNZ: Masterton Brownies, 7-9½ years, 5.30-7pm. Call Sharon [021] 033-0550.

Healing Rooms: Confidential prayer for healing or any situation, 2-4pm, at St Matthews Church Hall, Church St, Masterton, no appointment necessary.

Call [027] 245-2819.

Heart of Arts Wairarapa: A community gallery, 47 High St North, Carterton, Wed-Fri, 10am-4pm, weekends, 10am-2pm.

Juesday Art: 10am-12.30pm, AOG Church, Birdwood St, Featherston. Call Julia [06] 308-8109.

Justice of the Peace: Masterton CAB noon-2pm.

Kiddie Gym: For 0-3-year-olds, 9.3011am, at St David’s Church, corner High and Victoria Sts, Carterton. Call Lorna or Abby 379-8325.

Masterton Art Club: 10am-2pm, also print on Fridays, at 12 Victoria St. Call Elissa [0274] 706-528.

Masterton Park Bowling Club: Queen Elizabeth Park, bowls roll up

at 1pm, names in by 12.45pm. Call 377-5458.

Masterton Croquet Club: Association Croquet 9.15am and 12.45pm behind the Hosking Garden in the park. Call Carl Redvers 378-7109.

Parkinson’s Singing Group: 10.30am, at the South Wairarapa Workingman’s Club, Main St, Greytown. Call Marguerite Chadwick 379-5376.

Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth

Group: Join us for sports, food, and leadership, Carterton Events Centre.

Text “R2R” to [027] 742-2264.

Recreational Walking Group: 9.30am, Essex St car park. Call Ann Jackson, 372-5758, or Ann Duckett, 378-8285.

Scrabble Club: 1-4pm in Masterton.

Phone Sue McRae [027] 449-0601 for venue details.

Silver Ukulele Club: 1-3pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Jan [06] 308-8556.

South Wairarapa Caregivers

Programme: At a café in South Wairarapa, 10am. Call Kirsten 3991050.

Soulway Cooking and Crafts: 10amnoon, High St, Masterton. Call Nikki Smith 370-1604 [church office].

Te Runga Scouts: Cubs, 6-7.30pm, 45 Harley St, Masterton.

The Dance Shed: 450A Belvedere Rd, Carterton. Line Dance Class 6-7pm; Rock N Roll Dance Class: 7.30-8.30pm, Beginners/Couple Coaching, Social/ Competitive. Call Wendy [027] 3199814.

Wairarapa Rockers: Rock’n’roll. Couple inquiries to [027] 333-1793.

Wairarapa Services Club: Rummikub, 1pm, at the club, Essex St, Masterton.

Wairarapa Singers: Choral singing, based in Masterton. Call Sean Mulcahy 379-9316.

Wairarapa Spinners & Weavers: 10am in The Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton. Call Trish 378-8775 or Josie 378-6531.

Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, improvers 5-6.30pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135.

Wisdom and Well-being: Featherston Community Centre, 10.30am-12.30pm. Call Pauline [021] 102 8857.

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Annual Genera Meeting

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STEPIEN, Anasitasia

9/9/ 1934 11/10/ 2014

Our beautiful, loving, caring and precious mother

Eight years have passed since you left us to be with your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

We love and miss you so very much, Mum.

You are always in our hearts, thoughts and prayers Your love, strength and hope will endure forever until we are together again Malolo i le filemu Beloved wife of Antoni (late) Dearly loved mother and mother in law of Logan (late) and Hine, Leah, Maria and Maki, Mark and Tony Much loved grandmother, great grandmother, extended family and friends

16th October 2022 131 Cole Street, Masterton Commencing at 1pm and 2pm respectively Agenda

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Correspondence

Financial Report

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Any enquiries 027 240 9261

Community Meeting

The Featherston community is invited to a meeting on Wednesday 19 October at 6.30pm at the Featherston Community Centre, 14 Wakefield St, Featherston to discuss Whānau Āwhina Plun ket’s proposal to sell its building at 15 Wallace Street, F eatherston

All wel come, especial ly anyone with an interest in this property. Represe ntatives from Whānau Āwhina Plunket will be there to answer any questions. For more information please contact SustainableProperty@plunket.org.nz

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022

Pt Section 87

Masterton Small Farms Settlement Lot 12 DP 16228

(Hiona Pā, Gordon Street, Masterton)

Date: Time: Venue: Agenda

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EARLY CHILDHOOD TEA CHER

Makoura Early Learning Centre, sister centre to Cole Street and Pohutukawa Early Learning centres are looking for a trained or in training early childhood teacher to jo in our team Thi s position is full time between the hours of 8 4

If you are looking to join ap ositive team environment with a commitment to providing quality care and education for children under 5 years.

Please send a covering letter and cv to

ouraelc@gmail

SOUTH WAIRARAPA DISTRICT COUNCIL

NOTICE TO CLOSE ROADS TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC

Pursuant to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, notice is hereby given that the South Wairarapa District Council, for the purpose of the Martinborough Fair, proposes to close the following road to ordinary vehicular traffic for the period indicated hereunder.

During the proposed period of closure diversions will be in place for ordinary vehicular traffic which would otherwise use the roads. Any person objecting to the proposal should lodge their objection and grounds thereof in writing to the South Wairarapa District Council, PO Box 6, Martinborough, 5741 before Wednesday 16 November 2022 Road proposed to be closed: The roads that are closed are: Memorial Square, Texas Street, Cambridge Road (Memorial Square to Strasbourge Street), Oxford Street (Memorial Square to Cork Street), Jellicoe Street (Memorial Square to Naples Street), Kitchener Street (SH53) (Memorial Square to Ohio Street)

Period of closure: Saturday 26 November 2022 – 4am – 6.30pm

Corbett Group Manager, Partnerships & Operations

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Property and Grounds Manager/Caretaker

Lakeview is currently looking for a new Property and Grounds Manager/Caretaker for our wonderful school based in Masterton.

You will have previous experience in gardening and grounds maintenance, general caretaking, property maintenance or relevant trade related industries

Key Attributes:

Previous experience in gardening and general grounds care Skills and experience in general property maintenance and caretaking responsibilities

Able to manage multiple tasks and organise workload appropriately

Quick to learn new skills or procedures, adaptable and flexible Clear communication and using their initiative is key to this role Team player with ability to work independently

Experienced in working with Health and safety requirements is highly desirable Confident communicator with the ability to engage with a wide range of people Positively interacts with students and our community

This is a full time role

If this sounds like you, please email your cover letter and CV to principal@lakeview.school.nz by 5pm, Friday 14th October 2022. A job description can be requested from the email address above.

Employment

YARD PERSON/GENERAL HAND/ CAR GROOMER

Southey s Auto World Ltd are looking for a full time Yard Person/General Hand/Car Groomer to join our team

This role within our company is essential to the smooth running of our dealership.

You will need:

Be fit and healthy as is a very physical job

A desire to achieve

A full licence and con fidence in driving auto/manual

The ability to work in all weather conditions

Be a team player with a strong work ethic

A high level of workmanship and attention to detail

We offer:

Competitive remuneration

Friendly and diverse working environment

Full training to successful applicant (if required)

Experience in a similar role would be an advantage, however, if you have a positive can do attitude and passion for the automotive industry we will consider your application

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Wairarapa Bush team – run riot over Buller

WAIRARAPA-BUSH 55 BULLER 39

Farriers Wairarapa-Bush captain James Goodger was proud of the way the team finished a disappointing season with a nine-try drubbing of Buller at Trust House Memorial Park on Saturday.

The home side went into the game with no prospect of making the Lochore Cup but could have a big say on the make-up of the semifinals by beating the eight-placed visitors.

Goodger was thrilled with the effort of his team, which saw them run in some outstanding tries, and then man up on defence when they had three players sin-binned, and at one stage were down to 13.

“We played with a bit of heart and a bit of pride and the call was to play for each other and I think we did that today,” Goodger said after the game.

“We were given license to run the ball and we executed once we got in their half, and at halftime, we had got in there six times and we scored five, so we capitalised.

“The call at halftime was to be careful with our discipline and we let

that slip and that’s why we dropped to 14 and 13 players, but we managed to hold them out and I’m so proud of the boys.”

Wai-Bush’s intent to run the ball was evident from the kickoff when they launched an attack from inside their 22. That led to them conceding a penalty which Buller first-five James Lash converted.

The home side replied almost immediately with

a try to flanker Eddie Cranston, who won the race to the ball in the in-goal after a superbly weighted kick from centurion Inia Katia. The little Fijian though was at fault a few minutes later when he was robbed of the ball by winger Iliesa Tora, who dived over for Buller’s opening try.

Two minutes later, Wai-Bush regained the lead when fullback Aseri

Waqa finished off a nice backline move for the first of his three tries, and then big winger Charles Mataitai dotted down after secondfive Tafa Tafa strolled through some feeble defence for a 17-10 lead.

The scores were soon level after Tora crossed for his second try and the fifth of the first 21 minutes.

A second try to Cranston, Tora’s hat-trick try, and a try to Wai-Bush hooker Sam Siaosi in the 41st minute wrapped up a

helter-skelter first half.

A harsh yellow card to Jack Loader, when he appeared to wrap his arms in a tackle saw the home side start the second spell with 14 players. That didn’t matter though as Waqa scored his second five-pointer, after running on to a beautiful short pass from first-five Aidan Champion. The flying fullback couldn’t stay out of the game and he completed his hat-trick with a try he started with an intercept

inside his own half to give Wai-Bush a 43-27 lead after 50 minutes.

Waqa was, however, the next to feel the wrath of referee Nick Hogan from Hawke’s Bay when he was yellow-carded for a deliberate knockdown when he appeared to be clearly going for an intercept.

The home side were soon down to 13 when lock Sam Gammie was sent to the sideline for repeat infringements on defence. That opened the door for Buller to close the gap to 43-32 with a try to winger Sam Jope with 11 minutes to play, but tries to winger Fiula Tameilau after another superb break by Tafa, and to replacement hooker Ryan Wilson on fulltime capped an entertaining yet error-

ridden performance by the home side.

There were too many basic errors for the match to be a classic, with some woeful lineout execution from both sides, while defence was clearly a secondary consideration for much of the game.

The game signalled the end of coach Mark Rutene’s two years in charge and his second tenure with WaiBush, a point not lost on Goodger.

“I’ve got so much respect for ‘Ruters’. He picked me when I was a scrawny 85kilo lock back in 2011 and we had a crap year that year and credit to him we came back and made the Meads Cup in 2012. He’s stuck in there over the years and his heart lies with WairarapaBush and he should be

immensely proud of his achievements.”

Goodger also believes the team did not come up to their own high expectations, finishing a disappointing 11th of the 12 teams, with only two wins from their eight games.

“We had good camaraderie and I think the difference was if we could just get a little bit fitter and had a bit of accountability over the season we would have done a lot better,” he said.

Katia, who brought up his century against Ngati Porou East Coast the previous Saturday, was given a guard of honour by past players as he led the team on to the field, and a rousing haka at the conclusion of the game.

Sport

Discover the upside to downsizing

Inia Katia, with ball, makes the break which led to the opening try to Eddie Cranston, in support. PHOTOS/JADE CVETKOV

Eddie Cranston crashes through the Buller defence for the second of his two tries

RUGBY Chris Cogdale