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And the work done by St Patrick’s schoolkids is a testimony to that.

About 80 Year 3 and 4 pupils have been busy “saving the environment” by making ‘boomerang bags’ for Masterton shoppers.

The concept of ‘boomerang bags’ is to reduce the use of plastic bags by creating a sustainable alternative from recycled materials.

The schoolkids have distributed about 50 of these to Masterton New World and PAK’nSAVE to give to customers on a “borrow and bring back” basis.

Connor Kube, 8, volunteered as the spokesperson for his syndicate, and approached the two stores to pitch the concept.

“At first, I felt a bit nervous, but then I started phoning and talking to them and then I didn’t feel that nervous,” he said.

“We’ve been doing a unit called

‘Into the Future’, and have been thinking about how in the future there will be lots of plastic rubbish.

“So, we made these boomerang bags to reduce the number of plastic bags being used on the planet.”

Lucas Stoneley, 9, said when people shopped at the stores they could ask for one of their bags “and then when they get home, they put all their shopping into their cupboards and freezers and then they bring it back”.

Masterton New World store manager Ivan Birch said he felt inspired by the kids’ initiative.

“It’s good to see them come in, show their initiative, and take it upon themselves to think of the next generation.

“As a business, we need to be supporting them.”

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St Patrick’s pupils Benno Williams, left, Connor Kube, Awatea Ropiha-Waiwai, and Olivia Murray, with PAK’nSAVE’s ‘Café Queen’ Kataraina Paewhenua. PHOTO/EMILY NORMAN

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Inspired by youth Piece of mind

Emily Norman

There’s no better start to the working week than meeting inspirational people.

And in my case, the inspirational people I met were half my height, and twice as ambitious.

Getting to know 8-year-old St Patrick’s schoolkid Connor Kube, in particular, was a highlight for me.

This kid had struck up the courage to phone up two major stores in Masterton, pitch to them a business proposal about boomerang bags, and all the while said he felt just “a bit nervous” about doing so.

In comparison, when I was 8 years old, which admittedly wasn’t too long ago actually, I felt “a bit nervous” about answering a question in class.

At 16 I felt “a bit nervous” about a school assignment I had to write and, at age 20, felt “a bit nervous” about my first phone interview at the Wairarapa Times-Age for a story.

Today, I would absolutely struggle to drum up the courage to propose a business concept to complete strangers.

So, good on you Connor.

And as for the other St Patrick’s schoolkids who helped create the boomerang bags for

Masterton shoppers, good on you guys.

It’s far too easy these days to call our young people lazy, ignorant, and troublesome, and far too easy to overlook the amazing things our young people are actually doing every day in Wairarapa.

Highlighting these stories, and feeding them back to the community is my purpose as editor of the Wairarapa Midweek, and I absolutely encourage you to get in touch and let me know what goings-on are bringing a smile to your face in our region.

One of the up-and-coming events that will certainly bring a smile to your face, rain or shine, is the Carterton Daffodil Festival this Sunday.

As a Carterton resident, it gives me such a buzz to see shopkeepers busying themselves with making their shopfronts immaculate in the leadup to the day, and seeing the town filled to the brim with people on the day itself.

Although the weather is not looking too great for it, I’ll be there, gumboots and all, letting out my inner child as I prance around Middlerun picking armfuls of daffodils.

So, if you see a 20-somethingyear-old girl running around in the mud on Sunday, smiling earto-ear, come over and say hello – cause it’s probably me.

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BY HAYLEY GASTMEIER Onesies were the word, and the look, at Martinborough’s Bell St Early Learning Centre last Thursday.

Dressed as animals, superheroes, and pirates, the children and staff were joined

by South Wairarapa Mayor Viv Napier and Wellington Free Ambulance Wairarapa operation’s manager Nigel Watson for a onesie get together to promote the upcoming fundraiser.

Onesie Day on Friday, September 8, celebrates Wellington Free Ambulance being the only emergency ambulance service in Greater Wellington and Wairarapa.

Costing $25m annually to run, it is the only emergency ambulance service in the country that is free.

Funds raised through the annual appeal go directly towards new ambulances, lifesaving equipment, advanced clinical training and research.

Mr Watson, who donned his daily onesie get-up — his green uniform, amused the pre-school kids with multiple siren sounds from his vehicle.

Bell St Early Learning Centre assistant supervisor Amy Styles said the children enjoyed Onesie Day when it rolled around each year.

Children and staff from Martinborough’s Bell St Early Learning Centre were joined by South Wairarapa Mayor Viv Napier and Wellington Free Ambulance Wairarapa operation’s manager Nigel Watson for a onesie get together to promote the upcoming fundraiser.

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“The kids love it as a dress up day. We do it every year.”

She said they usually tied it in with popcorn making and a movie day.

South Wairarapa Mayor Viv Napier said Wellington Free Ambulance was a vital service for the region.

The South Wairarapa District Council annually donates $1 per resident to the cause, while Masterton District Council donates 75 cents per resident, and Carterton District Council donates 17 cents.

Wellington Free Ambulance trustee Catherine Rossiter-Stead said people should not be afraid to call 111 in an emergency.

She acknowledged the three Wairarapa councils for their contributions, as well as those who donated at fundraisers and through a monthly direct debit.

There would be volunteers out with collection buckets on Onesie Day. “If you’ve got some spare change in your pocket just pop it in the bucket and help keep our ambulance service free.”

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BY EMILY NORMAN

A handful of Carterton residents have this weekend at the top of mind, recruiting volunteers to help spruce up the shopfronts for the Carterton Daffodil Festival.

It will be the second year this particular clean-up effort will be running, and volunteer Sean Mulcahy can’t wait to get cracking.

Last year he was inspired to help clean the Carterton shopfronts for the big festival after doing his own spring cleaning at home.

“I thought, gosh, Daffodil Festival is coming up and we’ll have lots of visitors to the town – and we want to put on our best face.

“So, I thought I would get a group of volunteers together to clean the shop frontages.”

Mr Mulcahy advertised for volunteers and recruited some friends as well.

Before he knew it, he had a band of 19 people on board with the project.

“We ended up doing it the day before on the Saturday afternoon last year.

“I visited all the retailers in the section we were doing, and most were very agreeable and surprised.”

He said the owner of Cafe Mirabelle ended up returning the favour with a plate of cakes for the volunteers – “that was wonderful”.

“Some people have said to me, isn’t this something the shopkeepers should be

Hadlow Preparatory School Michael Mercer is retiring at the end of term two next year.

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Sean Mulcahy, left, Vicki Waller, and Jill Greathead will be giving shopkeepers a hand in the leadup to the Carterton Daffodil Festival.

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doing themselves?

“And yes, you could say that, but they’re busy people and they provide us a great service in Carterton keeping their businesses on the go, so this is something we can do to help them.

“We need to make sure we’re all spick and span for Daffodil Day because we’ll be getting lots of visitors.”

Mr Mulcahy welcomes any volunteers to

join in with the project this Saturday.

They will meet at 2pm at Heart of Arts in Carterton, and finish at 4pm.

“The more people that turn up, we can do it quicker and better.

“I suggest people bring squeegees, cloths and a bucket.

“If they’ve got a small step ladder, bring that along.”

Entrepreneurs in the making CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Mr Birch said reusable bags had been trending lately at his store following a nationwide plastic-free initiative in July.

“We’re just looking at little ways we can do our bit.

“Charging for supermarket bags is a little hard at the moment, but this is something little we can do for the environment and for our region.”

St Patrick’s school teacher Alyson Potter said as part of their studies for the term, the kids had been shown video clips of what the planet might look like in the future based on today’s level of wastefulness.

“They were quite horrified at the amount of rubbish, and so when we heard about boomerang bags, the kids were really keen to give it a go for Masterton because they hadn’t seen them here.

“We’re lucky that New World and PAK’nSAVE were really supportive of us.”

She said the kids had designed the logos on the bags, transferred them onto the fabric, and were now fundraising to cover the costs.

“There’s a very entrepreneurial group at school making loom band jewellery and selling them at school, and we are also having a cupcake competition on September 7 to help raise money.”

St Patrick’s pupils Connor Kube, 8, left, and Lucas Stoneley, 9 show off the boomerang bags.

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Once Michael Mercer had his heart set on being a teacher he never really left the schooling system.

But that will change when he steps down as principal of Hadlow Preparatory School at the end of term two next year.

“I started school when I was five, I’m leaving at 65,” he said.

He credits his mother for being determined to see her children into lifelong careers and encouraging his interest.

“She made sure I followed through.”

Mr Mercer taught in various South Island schools, before jumping at the chance to teach at Hadlow.

Somebody had told him in passing they thought the school would close within two years and he could not resist the challenge.

He stepped into the role of deputy headmaster in 1987 and would later become principal in 1996.

Apart from two years of flatting, Mr Mercer said he had always lived on a school site.

“I live on site which I really love, it’s 65 steps from my office to my front door.

“It’s just far enough, I never take work home.”

Traditionally, living on site was an expectation for boarding house teachers and it proved easier on the wallet.

It also meant the children of Hadlow have had the company of Mr Mercer’s cat Pinot Noir.

Mr Mercer saw the school through a period of great change with the boarding house closing in 1993 and the single year group, single classroom setup being overtaken open floor plan learning hubs.

He also took the school through the integration process, something he saw as a step towards an increased level of professionalism at the school.

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VOTE 2017

Debate draws lively audience

BY CHELSEA BOYLE

A large, vocal audience turned up to see four candidates for the Wairarapa electorate seat square off last week at the Wairarapa Times-Age election debate held at Carterton Events Centre.

Labour Party’s Kieran McAnulty, the National Party’s Alastair Scott, New Zealand First’s Ron Mark, and the Green Party’s John Hart tackled two of the biggest pressure points of the election – the housing crisis and how we should regulate water.

Mr Scott, the incumbent MP, said everybody should have a roof over their head, and that was happening under the National Party.

The demand for construction now would bring more jobs to the region, he said.

“That is what demand brings and I welcome demand.”

Mr Hart said that “urgent action” was needed because people had been reduced to sleeping in caravans and sheds where

Only the National Government would see the housing crisis as a business opportunity. they could.

“Only the National Government would see the housing crisis as a business opportunity,” he said.

Mr McAnulty said it was nonsense to dismiss the housing crisis and said Mr Scott’s response showed how “disconnected” he was from the region.

Mr Mark said the government had “divested” itself from the responsibility of social housing.

Under its watch, elderly people were being turned out of houses they had called homes for decades.

Rentals were decreasing as

Wairarapa MP Alastair Scott battles to keep seat.

landlords were being encouraged out of the business, he said.

Labour’s proposed royalty on the commercial consumption of water also divided opinion.

Mr McAnulty said each litre taken from the resource should be paid for.

It was about promoting the sustainability of primary industry, he said.

Mr Scott said it was just the Labour Party adding more tax to its proposals.

Mr Hart said there should be a levy on bottled water leaving New Zealand.

Under the Green Party they would workshop how water should be resourced with all parties

around the table.

The conversation needed to be had “without the scaremongering”, he said.

Prices in the supermarket would not go up.

Mr Hart said he would be voting for Mr McAnulty, but that people should give their electorate vote to “the person who best represents you”.

They also fielded questions that landed much closer to home such as how they would improve the region’s roads considering the closure of the Manawatu Gorge and where they stood on the proposed Wairarapa-wide district council amalgamation.

Mr Scott and Mr McAnulty

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were in favour of amalgamation while Mr Mark and Mr Hart were against.

The four are no strangers of going head to head for the Wairarapa seat.

They are the same people who took out the top four places in the 2014 election.

Mr Scott won the seat with 16,223 votes in the last election.

Trailing him was Mr McAnulty on 9452, Mr Mark on 8630, and Mr Hart on 1566.

Since the 1946 election, only three Labour MPs have won the Wairarapa seat.

The last was Labour winner was Georgina Beyer, who won in 1999 and 2002.

Survey puts Scott, McAnulty at head of pack

BY DON FARMER

The electoral race for Wairarapa is shaping up to be a photo-finish between candidates from the two major parties if a just released survey of more than 2000 eligible voters is accurate.

The survey, commissioned by the Labour Party and carried out by a professional community engagement company, shows the party’s candidate Kieran McAnulty and incumbent National MP Alistair Scott are close to neck-and-neck, with NZ First candidate Ron Mark well back in third place.

To the question of which candidate they would be voting for, the result was: Scott (National) 33.6 per cent, McAnulty (Labour) 29.9 per cent,

Mark (NZ First) 18.5 per cent, Hart (Greens) 3.9 per cent.

Just on 10 per cent said they were unsure and 4.2 per cent nominated other unspecified candidates.

The survey company’s director Eric Goddard said the survey should not be interpreted as a poll but involved 2051 responses collected by touch-tone responses to automated phone questions.

Respondents did not know until they had completed the questions that the survey was commissioned by the Labour Party which, he confirmed, helped its accuracy.

There was no official margin of error.

To the question of how they would cast their party vote, the result was: National (39.8 per cent), Labour

(31 per cent), NZ First (13.6 per cent), The Greens (4.7 per cent), Maori Party (1.3 per cent) another party (5 per cent) unsure (4.6 per cent).

Those who responded as “unsure” to questions posed were then asked to which party did they have a slight leaning, the results were: Labour (26.2 per cent), National (18.7 per cent), NZ First (6.5 per cent), The Greens (4 per cent), Maori Party (0.3 per cent), another party (4 per cent).

Those who were unsure even of which way they had a slight leaning totalled 40.2 per cent.

Kieran McAnulty said the survey results clearly showed Wairarapa was a “two-horse race.”

“Up until now people have been

saying there are three horses but it is down to National and Labour, just like last time when Ron Mark finished third,” he said.

Mr McAnulty said Wairarapa people could see the survey as presenting an opportunity for real change.

“With their support, I have a good chance of winning the seat and Labour is nipping at the heels of National on the party vote in Wairarapa – there is a genuine desire for change,” he said.

Mr Scott said the numbers “looked odd” and he remained unsure of the methodology.

“The only poll that matters is on September 23 and I will be hammering away until then,” he said.

Mr Mark said, “It’s a grey survey

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from where I sit, it’s interesting, but that’s all”.

He said the only thing he could take from it was the need for him to keep working hard.

“We have three or four weeks until election day and anything can happen in that time, and probably will.”

He said he wanted to be elected as Wairarapa MP as he knew what he could achieve for Wairarapa given the chance.

“If I am forced to again be a list MP then I have to focus on the party’s needs.

“I am tired of seeing my electorate being represented by a backbench MP and it’s no advantage for Wairarapa to be represented by a newbie who would have learn while on the job,” Mr Mark said.

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Six candidates have registered to contest the Wairarapa electorate seat in the September 23 general election.

Three Maori candidates for the IkaroaRawhiti electorate were also registered by the time nominations closed at noon last Tuesday.

The candidates for the Wairarapa seat are the incumbent Alastair Scott (National) Kieran McAnulty (Labour), John Hart (Green Party), Ron Mark (New Zealand First), Roger Greenslade (Act Party) and James Harold (independent).

Labour’s Meka Whaitiri is seeking to retain the Ikaroa-Rawhiti seat with Marama Fox [Maori Party] and Elizabeth Kerekere (Green Party) her challengers.

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Drag features at launch It’s not often you see drag queens taking centre stage at Wairarapa events.

But, for the programme launch of this year’s Kokomai Creative Festival last Thursday night, it made for the perfect entertainment.

More than 65 events across the fields of music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature will be held at venues across the region including rural halls, churches, parks, and the Carterton Event Centre, as part of the festival, which runs from October 13 to 22.

The festival programme was launched with great fanfare at The White Swan in Greytown by festival director Heidi Holbrook and chairman of the Wairarapa Arts Festival Trust, Bob Francis.

After a colourful live performance by drag legends of One Night Only, the pair told invited guests they were excited to bring national and international acts to the region.

“This year’s world class programme brings top New Zealand performers, artists and writers to the Wairarapa, alongside international artists from Germany, Switzerland, USA, Australia, Canada and Ireland,’ Ms Holbrook said.

“Compiling the programme has taken two years of work – we wanted to make sure we have the best acts this October and we can proudly say we do.”

Kokomai opens Friday, October 13 with the innovative and beautiful show Valerie, and the Aotearoa drag legends of One Night Only – both being performed at the Carterton Events Centre.

Other festival highlights include Otto and Astrid: Eurosmash!

This hilarious Princess and Prince of Art Rock and Europop are coming all the way from Germany to Carterton.

At the other end of the spectrum is Julia Deans show “The Saddest Songs in the Universe”.

The kiwi songstress sold out 2015’s festival with the show Both Sides Now. But by no means is the rural community missing out on hosting some stellar performances.

The Pirinoa Community Hall, and Tinui Memorial Hall will host the comedy, The Ballad of Blackbone Joe, a daft and gruesome tale of a murder set in a small country town accompanied by rag‘n’bone live music.

During the programme launch, Mr Francis said the third running of Kokomai would bring huge benefits to the community.

“During Kokomai 2015, we had 5000 people enjoy the entertainment and this year we are looking to grow those numbers further.

“With the support of our sponsors, patrons, volunteers, our organising team and our audiences, Kokomai 2017 promises to delight.”

The full programme is available at www.kokomai.co.nz or via Facebook/ kokomaicreativefestival.

Tickets are available from the Wellington and Wairarapa i-SITES and through www. eventfinda.co.nz from 9am on Friday, September 8.

A colourful live performance was given by drag legends of One Night Only.

PHOTO/ LUCIA ZANMONTI

Region taking steps to help the environment Sole Food

Shirley Nightingale

What a crazy month this has been.

I thought maybe I should abandon shoes and adopt hats instead – there’s nothing like a good hat to cause a stir.

We could all make our own hats from recycled goods as well and be really environmentally responsible.

Actually, I am not jesting about recycling as due to the good works of many people we are gradually becoming plastic bag free in the Wai. We now have Boomerang Bags going great guns in Featherston, Martinborough,

Carterton, and Masterton.

Greytown will soon have theirs up and running as some poor soul has finally taken up the challenge (oh, that would be me) – so I am putting the word out now for sewers to help make the bags and for donated material please.

I am also putting a challenge out to other Wairarapa residents to get your Boomerang Bags up and running.

I am happy to help with the start-up – let’s all work together on ridding the region of plastic bags.

It was great to see in the Midweek last week Donna Laing encouraging businesses to be more responsible with her Enviro Friendly Businesses Wairarapa Facebook page.

We have an opportunity to really make the Wairarapa leading edge in environmental areas so let’s go for it.

If you would like advice on how to parent in a waste-free way then Kate

Meads’ Workshop is for you.

One at the Carterton Events Centre on September 26 at 6pm, and the next at REAP House on September 27 at 10am.

There are so many things on in September that it is hard to pick the most interesting things.

However, films are a good place to start.

The Regent Cinema is hosting quite a few films from the NZ International Film Festival and I can recommend all of them having seen some in Wellington.

Quite a few are cutting edge documentaries, extremely good and informative although some are a bit harrowing in the content.

One I am taking the family to is Ethel & Ernest which is an animation by Raymond Briggs.

It is gorgeous and so touching, don’t miss it.

Once the films are released on DVD, I will be buying some of them for the

Martinborough Library so you can borrow them then if you can’t get to the cinema now.

For live theatre, you can’t beat the gals (and guys) at the Greytown Little Theatre.

They are putting on a Southern drawl with their production of ‘Steel Magnolias’ during the latter half of September, can’t wait.

The Daffodil festival on the 10th at the Carterton Events Centre is always good to see but if you want to really get moving, how about learning the drums.

That’s right, drumming, singing and dancing African style at Carterton School, 6.30pm on 22nd September.

There’s oh so many more things on, live gigs, craft fairs, libraries and of course shoes, or is that hats?

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YARN DOUG’S TIPS • Bud burst is only weeks away for nectarines and early peaches, so spray now to get a grip on leaf curl, then again when the ÿ rst hint of pink appears on the buds. Leaf curl is unsightly but won’t signiÿ cantly reduce fruit production.

• If you have planted cover crops such as mustard and lupin seed now is the time to dig them in. These plants will rot down in a matter of weeks, adding nutrients and organic matter to the soil.

• Spray citrus, grapes, camellias and Rhododendrons for scale with spraying oil.

• Lawns that did not receive attention in autumn should be fertilised and bare patches renovated with Tui Lawn preparation mix and fresh seed sown. Apply Kings Lawn Food with Iron to combat moss.

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MAGNIFICENT MAGNOLIAS Magnolias are one of our favourites in the winter garden. Their big, bright blooms bring much needed colour at a dreary time of year, and provide a feast for the local Tui’s that get drunk on magnolia nectar. It is hard not to miss all the beautiful magnolias and the closely related michelias. The beautiful ° owers on the deciduous magnolia appear before the new spring foliage arrives.

These bright ° owers give gardeners and public eye-ballers (like me) joy from late July through to October. Not only can these be desirable to your eye, but the fragrance is also very delightful.

The magnolia features ° owers in white, pink, red, purple or yellow. They are diverse in leaf shape and plant form, and include both evergreen and deciduous sorts.

Whether evergreen or deciduous, most magnolias have large striking ° owers.

Most magnolias are easily accommodated in small to medium sized gardens. The evergreen magnolia Little Gem looks nice in a large tub. Some magnolias are shrubbier in habit and are suited to background ÿ llers.

NZ can take some credit for helping to improve the magnolias. The late Felix Jury, and his son Mark, are well known throughout the world for breeding Vulcan, known for its ruby red rounded blooms and rich fruity fragrance. The newer black tulip variety, derived in part from Vulcan, grows to a compact 3.5m and has rich black red blooms, which perch on bare branches like tulips.

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EVERGREEN MAGNOLIAS To many people, the word “magnolia” is synonymous with magnolia grandi° ora, the classic magnolia with large, glossy leaves and huge, fragrant white blossoms. Evergreen magnolias extend the ° owering season into summer and autumn. Our most popular variety is the smaller growing Little Gem (about 3m).

Other types of evergreen magnolias can grow up to 7m - so beware! It would not be wise to plant these next to your house or under powerlines.

DECIDUOUS MAGNOLIAS WITH SAUCER FLOWERS This group includes

the popular saucer magnolia (M. x soulangeana) and its myriad selections, often called tulip trees because of the shape and bright colour of their ° owers. They prefer fertile, acid, well-drained soil. They do not tolerate heavy wind or salt spray.

DECIDUOUS MAGNOLIAS WITH STAR FLOWERS This group includes Kobus

magnolia (M. kobus), Loebner magnolia (M. x loebneri), and star magnolia (M. stellata). All are cold-hardy, heat-tolerant, adaptable plants. Late frosts sometimes damage their early blooms.

MAGNOLIA PLANTING TIPS Site selection is important. Look for a spot that o˛ ers sun or light shade and is protected from strong winds. Pick a location where the shallow, ° eshy roots won’t be damaged by digging or by soil compaction from constant foot tra˝ c.

Virtually all types are hard to transplant

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once established so placement should be well thought out. They appreciate fairly rich, well-drained, and neutral to slightly acid soil, amended with plenty of organic matter at planting time.

MAGNOLIA TREE CULTURE Magnolias never look their best when crowded, and they may be severely damaged by digging around their roots. Larger deciduous sorts are most attractive standing alone against a background that will display their ° owers at bloom time and show o˛ their strongly patterned, usually grey limbs and big, fuzzy ° ower buds in winter. Small deciduous magnolias show up well in large ° ower or shrub borders and make choice ornaments in Asian-style gardens. Most magnolias are excellent lawn trees; try to provide a good-size grass-free area around the trunk, and don’t plant under the tree. Some magnolia ° owers can take a few seasons to develop to their true size and colour.

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September 5TH to 8TH is a quiet time in the garden but is ideal for sowing edible sprouts (eg, alfalfa, cress) due to quick germination followed by a rapid growth spurt.

Avoid planting other crops as growth will be weak and spindly.

September 9TH & 10TH are two days to sow root crops such as potatoes and kumara. Spray for bugs, weeds and disease.

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

KITTYCAT REHOMING

‘Mighty man’ makes mile

Willy, a handsome 7-year-old kitty.

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Willy is a handsome and affectionate 7-year-old kitty with lovely big eyes who needs a new home.

He’s been a stray for way too long – three years.

Luckily, he’s had people caring for him but it’s time he found his forever home.

Willy gets on well with other cats but we’re not sure how he is with dogs or young children.

He does have a flea allergy so his new owners would need to make sure he gets regular flea treatment.

Willy has been vet checked, desexed, vaccinated and is FIV negative.

His adoption fee is $80.

If you are interested in Willy call Lee at KittyCat Rehoming on 021 0843 8935 or email kittycatrehoming@gmail.com • KittyCat Rehoming Wairarapa is a nonprofit initiative that works to find loving homes for stray and abandoned cats and assists owners in difficult circumstances to rehome their cats.

• Visit their Facebook page KittyCat Rehoming Wairarapa.

Katarina Te Tau yells out encouragement to Karn Waiwai.

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BY EMILY NORMAN A wooden trumpet sounded as Karn Waiwai lunged through his final burpee as part of the ‘Burpee Mile’ last Friday.

It was a cold, wet morning on Masterton’s Queen St for the event, but that didn’t stop a troupe of supporters cheering Mr Waiwai on as he finished the 1.6km course of burpee broad jumps.

The mile was an extended leap of faith for Mr Waiwai, who had set out on the challenge to raise money to sponsor his Christian mission to the slums of Mexico.

He started the mile at 5am at the Kuripuni stop sign, and finished outside the town library at 7am.

Mr Waiwai was smiling ear-to-ear in between catching his breath and celebrating with family and friends.

When asked how he wfelt after the gruelling exercise, he said, “I’ve just got sore toes from the jumping”.

“I was going to go have a workout after, but it’s a bit late now, so I might wait until tonight.”

He thanked “God first and foremost”, the Soulway Church crew, who continued to support him through the mile, “and my wife for being there with me as well”.

Mr Waiwai’s wife, Helen Ropiha-Waiwai said she was “proud as” of her husband.

“Proud is just an understatement. The way I feel about what my husband just did is so overwhelming.

“It just totally warms my heart to know he did it the whole way.

“He just didn’t batter an eyelid, didn’t utter a bad word or anything.

“I am a proud, proud wife of my husband – he is a mighty man, a mighty husband.”

Mr Waiwai’s spirits were kept high with the help of Katarina Te Tau who is a member of his gym, Karnage X-Fitness – but on this occasion, she acted as his trainer, shouting encouragement the whole mile.

“It’s not so much the body that gives up, it’s the mind,” she said.

“Having somebody there to really push you through and talk you through it all – that is the biggest help.

“He screams like that when we’re training at the gym, so it was quite cool to give it back to him.”

She said Mr Waiwai was an “awesome trainer, an awesome person”, and she was happy the effort was for a good cause.

“If it was us out here, he’d be out with us doing it with us.”

Soulway Church Pastor Rik Edmonds said Mr Waiwai was “absolutely the man” for completing the fitness challenge.

“To burpee for that mile… I was getting tired just watching him,” he said.

“But also, I reiterate how proud I am of the Soulway family who were there supporting him.”

Mr Waiwai will be joining more than a dozen others from Soulway Church in Masterton, in conjunction with Breakfree Expeditions, to build houses and deliver care packages to prisoners in Mexico this October.

He invites those willing to sponsor his Mexico trip to follow his Facebook page – Karnage X-Fitness – for details.

The ‘Burpee Mile’ began long before the sun rose.

Karn pushes on through the rain.

Karn Waiwai catches his breath.

Soulway Church members do burpees with Karn Waiwai to support him.

Pastor Jim Karaitiana celebrates the end of the ‘Burpee Mile’.

Karn Waiwai embraces his wife Helen at the end of his ‘Burpee Mile’.

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HEALTH

MATTERS Breathe easy this Spring

SING TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH

This week marks the start of spring and the promise of longer days and warmer weather. While most of us look forward to spring, it can be a challenging time if you get hayfever, asthma or other seasonal illnesses and allergies.

Here are some tips to help avoid sickness and enjoy the best of spring: n Seek advice – talk to your doctor about preventative medication and activities that could minimise the impact of allergies and keep you well. n Keep active – being active helps build lung capacity and makes you better able to manage asthma and other respiratory illnesses. n Clear the dust – keep your home as dust free as possible to avoid this setting off allergies. n Avoid pollen – close bedroom windows at night to avoid pollen entering and try to stay indoors when the pollen count is at its highest, such as in the early evening.

n Drink plenty of water – this will help keep germs away from a dry throat or nose passage. n Sign up – to a free health selfmanagement course for tips on managing asthma, hayfever and other ongoing conditions. Contact smcourse@compasshealth.org.nz.

n Keep it clean – wash and dry hands often to avoid spring colds and keep hands dust and pollen free. n Stock up – make sure you have a handy supply of inhalers, antihistamines, nasal sprays or other medication.

Family Doctor After Hours Service

Need help with your inhaler?

If you need a refresher on how to use your or your child’s inhaler, talk to your doctor or medical centre nurse, or pop into your local pharmacy.

Also check you have a ready supply of inhalers at home, at work and at school.

FEELING UNWELL OR INJURED?

Where should I be?

Contact your family doctor first – they know you and the care you need.

Call Healthline 0800 611 116 – for free medical advice 24 hours a day.

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Joining a special choir has provided benefits to a number of local people with severe respiratory conditions.

The Wairarapa Easy Breathers meet each week to do breathing and other exercises along with singing for an hour.

Choir members have found the sessions have helped them to better control their breathing and improve their lung function.

Some have gone from hardly being able to get through a song without coughing or sitting, to being able to stand and sing the entire song and sing more loudly.

The choir has provided added social benefits of bringing people together for mutual support and to share the joy of singing.

For more details contact Katie Inker on 027 967 5099 or email katie@whaiora.org.nz.

Ask a pharmacist – they are a good source of information.

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Milky Way magic Nick Sault Sky Watch

Nick Sault is a technical writer by profession, but with a lifelong passion for astronomy, he puts aside his day job occasionally to present to readers the wonders of the night sky that can be seen without the aid of expensive equipment.

This week we take a leap from the Solar System to the galaxy – the Milky Way. It’s worth finding a really dark place and giving your eyes 10 minutes or so – best to wait for this weekend, before the moon rises.

Then the magical misty band of the Milky Way can be seen all the way from overhead down towards the southern horizon.

Overhead is Scorpius, one of the easiest constellations to recognise, due to its curly tail of stars.

If you follow the curl of the scorpion’s tail towards the north-west, it points somewhere between the two brightest objects in the overhead sky.

A view of the Milky Way from Castle Rock, 162m above the beach of Castlepoint in Wairarapa. PHOTO/MARK GEE

I didn’t say brightest “stars” because one of them, the one more towards the north, is the planet Saturn, while the other is the giant red star Antares in the head of the scorpion.

You should be able to see its redness quite clearly.

Despite the massive size of planet Saturn, it bears no more comparison with Antares than a flea to an elephant.

But it was the Milky Way I wanted to discuss.

As you look at it, you are seeing the second largest object you will ever see with the naked eye.

I am sure people often think of galaxies being just bigger versions of the Solar System.

But there is no comparison.

If you imagine our Solar System reduced to the size of an Olympic medal, with the outer planet Neptune running around its rim and a bacterial sized sun at its centre, our galaxy would be as big as Australia.

Then it is easy to understand how Starship Voyager in the old Star Trek series, with all its futuristic technology, became lost in the depths of the Milky Way. Full marks to the script writers for getting that one right.

Now you want to know (I hope) which is the largest object you can see with the unaided eye.

It is the great Andromeda galaxy, denoted as M31 in the Messier catalogue.

This one has an estimated one trillion stars to our ‘measly’ 200 billion, and sometime in the future the Milky Way and M31 are expected to collide.

However, don’t hold your breath, that’s more than four billion years away.

M31 only just appears in our southern skies, but when it does I’ll let you know how to find it.

Meanwhile, glory in the sight of our great galaxy, and the fact that we see it down here far better than those folk in the northern hemisphere.

Up next: We look at a sight that those northerners never see at all – our nearest stellar neighbour Alpha Centauri.

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BY CHELSEA BOYLE There was a twitter of excitement at Masterton Intermediate School last week, when a group of pupils spotted a bright green bird tapping at the classroom window.

Whisky the budgie had fled her coop on Pownall St, and had been on a 24-hour whirlwind adventure around the streets of Masterton.

Owners Ken and Jean Sadler were desperately missing her, so much so they could not sleep.

Mr Sadler said they had felt “destroyed” when they realised the bird was missing and they had gone around the neighbourhood trying to call the bird

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Wairarapa Lions Activities for August 2017 Wairarapa Ruamahanga Lions Club officially received the Club Charter on August 27 from Past District Governor Sam Browne. The special Charter function was sponsored by Masterton Holdsworth Lions Club and was attended

by Mayor Lyn Patterson, District 202M Lions dignitaries and representatives of our local Zone 4 clubs. A special “100 years of Lionism” presentation was given

by Past Council Chairman Nalini Bhaskar and gave the new lion members an insight into Lions over the last 100 years.

Carterton Central Lion Club recently hosted 11 Otago medical students, who learnt about life in the community, and the effects Diabetes and Parkinson’s has on those who live with this. A Funeral director gave them an insight into “end of life” and a speech therapist spoke about her work. Members collected on Daffodil Day. Past members were hosted at an afternoon meeting.

Masterton Holdsworth Lions Club members bunched daffodils and collected on the street for the recent Cancer Society Street Appeal. The club catered for the Red Cross Expo held recently.

Masterton Host Waipoua Lions Club recently made donations to Hospice Wairarapa and Life Flight Trust. The Club is planning for the next Community Fireworks display on November 3.

Greytown Lioness Club members participated in a quiz at the business meeting and Sue Tennent from Neighbourhood Support gave a very interesting talk at the dinner meeting. The Club is hosting the annual Lioness Forum in September and visiting Clubs from around the country will be attending.

Featherston Lioness Club has made a donation to the Featherston Mini Fell Train. Members are looking forward to participating in the Lioness Forum being held at Greytown during September. A good time for fun, fellowship and sharing ideas.

Martinborough Lioness Club members helped pick daffodils for Daffodil Day and these were quickly snapped up. Fine weather and generosity of locals and visitors made the outcome, a good result for the Cancer Society.

During the winter months, members have enjoyed dinner meetings at “Circus” in Martinborough.

home to no avail.

Little did they know Whisky was nearby making a few new friends.

The classroom had erupted in excitement when they spotted the bird.

Among the pupils desperate to catch the bird were Thorwald Sunier, Kyle Lewis, Jayden Levey and Luca Nilsen.

Luca said he was just working away in the classroom when the commotion broke out.

“I thought something was on fire, and wanted to go see it.”

But it was a budgie on the window.

Kyle said they were not sure what to make of the bird at first.

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Jayden said he thought it could be a parakeet or something.

The group began the task of catching it.

“We didn’t know if it was wild,” Kyle said.

After a brief foray under the classroom the bird was soon scampering up the sleeves of the children.

The school contacted the Sadlers after teacher Kate Hamill spotted a post on Facebook about the missing bird.

Mr Sadler was thrilled to be reunited with the bird, saying his wife was “over the moon” with its safe return.

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Kobi: Up close and personal

BY EMILY NORMAN

In a modest workshop in Central Otago, Kobi Bosshard continues to live up to his reputation as the “grandfather of contemporary New Zealand jewellery”.

Approaching 80 years old, the Swiss goldsmith, is the subject of the Kiwi documentary, Kobi, which will screen at Masterton’s Regent 3 Cinemas in conjunction with the International Film Festival.

But, this screening on September 11 in Masterton is particularly special, as audiences will have the opportunity to engage directly with the filmmaker Andrea Bosshard – Kobi’s daughter.

Bosshard’s lucid and loving film portrait of her father has been described as “one of the year’s loveliest films” by the New Zealand International Film Festival organisers – “a lyrical evocation of rich, unhurried life”.

The film incorporates archival footage and readings of family letters, bringing audiences into the heart of Kobi’s life.

This unique opportunity to meet with the film’s director is facilitated by Film Talks Wairarapa.

Supported by the Masterton Arts Fund, Film Talks Wairarapa was the brainchild of Wairarapa born and raised film enthusiast Jane Ross.

Ross, who has a Master of Arts in Film and Media Studies has a wealth of experience in the film industry as a film advisor, critic, and advocate.

After living in England, the Czech Republic and Italy, she returned to Wairarapa with the idea of creating “more opportunities for artistic engagement with the Wairarapa community”.

She said she was “thrilled” to partner with the Film Festival and Regent 3 Cinemas to establish the film talks.

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Her long-term goal is to increase participation in local festival events, provide networking opportunities for Wairarapa people, and promote the region’s “film-friendliness”.

“Masterton has always been a filmfriendly town, with a strong cinematic following that dates back to the 1930s,” she said.

“The vision I have is to encourage and attract international filmmakers, and also support the local film industry and make that grow.”

Regent 3 Cinemas owner Brent Goodwin said the film talks would add an extra facet to the festival locally and would be a great learning opportunity for budding filmmakers in Wairarapa.

He estimated it was the 25th year the cinema had been involved with the Film Festival.

“We’re one of the smaller places in New Zealand that are fortunate enough to host the festival.

“I just regard it as a privilege.”

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Checking in with Lake Wairarapa Ra Smith A mokopuna of Wairarapa This week, Ra Smith of Kahungunu ki Wairarapa brings Midweek readers a thought-provoking conversation with Lake Wairarapa.

The Lake: Yeah, now and then there was a great meeting of all the waters that would flood right back to Papawai.

That’s how that place got its name. The fern that grew there would enjoy wet feet, so it loved the wai (water) and the soil (papa). There would be lots of plants who enjoyed the repo (wetlands). The giant kahikatea (white pine as a popular likeness) my friends were a tribe back then. They were everywhere. Now those sheltering friends have gone.

Interviewer: Do you mean you were better back in 1840?

The Lake: Yeah 1840 was good, but 1940 wasn’t too bad either.

Interviewer: What’s been wrong?

The Lake: I’ve been a bit under the weather.

Interviewer: Any weather in particular?

The Lake: Yeah the winds have been a problem. They just get me stir crazy.

All the sediment gets suspended and I can’t get enough sun. Some people have described it like a skin irritation.

Interviewer: The skin complaint would come back in the old days though, wouldn’t it?

The Lake: Yes but there was some relief.

Now there is no relief.

Interviewer: What other things do you miss from those days?

The Lake: I miss my old friend, the Ruamahanga and how we would meet.

Interviewer: But that was the problem wasn’t it? Sometimes when you met there would be water for miles and it would end up in tears for the people who lived around you.

Students take charge at model UN event The Model United Nations Assembly met in Wairarapa recently to discuss the global issue of ‘Children and Armed Conflict.’

Fifty Year 10 students from Wairarapa College, Solway College, and Rathkeale College convened in the Wairarapa College hall and each student represented a different country from Norway to Cuba.

Wairarapa College head of social studies Charmaine Nelson said each student had to present the perspective of that country, taking into account its government, military power and whether they are currently at peace or in conflict.

“It was a steep learning curve for the students in terms of the process of how a formal meeting is conducted,” she said.

Interviewer: Kia ora friend, how have you been doing lately?

The Lake: I’ve been better.

Interviewer: But you’ve always had a lot of wind around you? And the sediment means that the blue complexion or sunny times have always been few.

The Lake: Yes you can say that, but if it was like a skin allergy then the flooding was like a cool ointment that would allow a clearing of the problem.

Wairarapa College student Ash Rothery, representing Italy, finds something to smile about while participating in the Model United Nations recently held in the college hall. PHOTO/SUZANNE OLIVER

The students had to think about issues such as whether children should be allowed to fight in an army and how their respective governments could protect its children in times of conflict.

Mrs Nelson said it was the third year the college had hosted the event, which is run by United Nations Youth and facilitated by four Victoria University postgraduate students – and the students had lots of fun debating various topics and also taking part in serious discussions.

“Their ideas were challenged and they had to be able to produce evidence to justify their opinions,” she said.

“These are life skills.’

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Interviewer: The people were affected too, weren’t they?

The Lake: That was the difference between the 1940s and the 1840s. It was the people. In the 1840s the people lived with the hinurangi (floods) and their mahi (work) was mahinga kai (food gathering). After the 1940s I couldn’t lie down and spread out because the people then had sheep. The sheep aren’t as good at swimming. Just recently though I have been having more people coming to see me.

Interviewer: Why have they been coming to see you?

The Lake: They’ve been doing some tests. They reckon I can have a better lifestyle.

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Mixed fortunes for cropping

MAIZE CROPPING

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2017

Increased demand from dairy and reduced grain yields in 2018 have been noted by the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) latest Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (SOPI) report.

Domestic grain prices are improving as demand from the dairy sector rises, says MPI. Autumn planting was delayed by wet conditions and this is likely to lead to reduced yields in 2018.

The 2016/17 season started well for most crops with a mild winter and moist spring, and the harvest began well but from late February, conditions began to deteriorate and by March and April some major rainfall events made harvesting almost impossible.

Conditions improved somewhat in the latter half of April enabling farmers to salvage the remaining harvest albeit at decreased quality and yields.

The vegetable seed export market remains steady while high international stocks have reduced demand for herbage seed exports.

The longer term outlook is for steady growth in arable exports to $236 million by 2021.

MAIZE

Maize growers in Waikato and Bay of Plenty had a di˜ cult season with yields across both silage and grain expected to be well down.

WHEAT

The bulk of the wheat harvest was completed before conditions deteriorated and yields are reported to be up overall and supported by results in the Arable Industry Marketing Initiative (AIMI) April 2017 survey.

It was a good year for wheat growing with some exceptional yields. The world record for producing the highest yielding wheat crop at 16.791 tonnes per hectare was achieved by an Ashburton farmer.

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BARLEY

Barley yields were variable due to high disease pressure and timing of harvest but, on average, yielded higher than the previous year.

MAIZE CROPPING

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Ryegrass seed yields were above average but yields for the later harvested clover seed were down, with the wet end to the season making it di˜ cult to get them o° the paddock.

Vegetable seed yields are reported to be generally well ahead of previous years, although some of the late crops were a° ected by the weather.

$328 per tonne and maize grain was up 16 percent to $400 per tonne.

An improved outlook for the dairy industry is driving the gradual rise in feed grain prices, but prices and demand are still considerably lower than 2014/15.

The AIMI April 2017 Cereal Survey shows stocks of unsold grain are much lower, compared with this time last year, and, little in the way of carry-over stocks.

A supply shortage has pushed maize grain prices up and generated interest in domestic wheat from the poultry sector.

International grain situation and imports Domestic grain prices are constrained by international grain prices.

Domestic grain prices are improving as demand from the dairy sector rises.

PLANTING FOR THE 2017/18 SEASON

Global wheat stocks remain high, with record production in Australia, Russia and the United States last season.

2016 quarter as dairy income improved.

The wet period delayed autumn planting of cereals and vegetable seeds and this could contribute to lower yields in the 2017/18 season.

The world production prospects remain good for this year and little change is expected to global prices, keeping pressure on New Zealand prices.

The suspension to stubble burning when a ÿ re ban was placed on Canterbury (to free up Fire Service resources for the Port Hills ÿ res), also caused delays to planting.

Global corn stocks and production are also at record highs.

Some farmers have had to reassess their cropping options because they missed the planting window for some crops.

The forecast lower yields and switch to lower value replacement crops will have ÿ nancial implications for the arable farmer in 2017/18.

DOMESTIC GRAIN MARKET

A gradual lift has occurred in domestic feed grain prices since September 2016.

At the beginning of May 2017, feed wheat was up 11 percent to $320 per tonne from May 2016; feed barley was up 23 percent to

A shortage of domestic maize grain and the price this season will support demand for imported maize grain by the poultry industry. Similarly, Australian wheat and barley may also be used to ÿ ll some feed gaps for piggeries.

Import volumes for the 2017 March year end were back on previous years while domestic prices were at low levels.

Imported palm kernel expeller (PKE), a supplementary dairy feed, remains an economical feed option currently priced at about $220 per tonne.

Imported volumes for the March year end are down 30 percent (660 thousand tonnes) on the previous year, but imported volumes have been rising since the June

The recent implementation of a fat evaluation test by Fonterra, to support its guideline of limiting PKE to 3 kilograms per cow per day, is likely to curb demand.

PKE a° ects the fat composition of milk, making it di˜ cult to process into some products.

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Maximising beef cattle growth rates on fodder beet crops requires 25 per cent of the crop to be left behind at each break shift.

This is according to Lincoln University’s Dr Jim Gibbs, who says there is a strong correlation between the quantity of beet left behind at each shift and cattle intake.

Speaking at a Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Central Canterbury Farming for Proÿt workshop, Gibbs says if 10% of the bulb is left behind then intakes are being suppressed. If the cattle are maximising their intake then 25% of the bulbs will be left behind at each break shift.

“This a whole lot more than what people are used to.”

He says the grazing behaviour of cattle will see them going back and eating the residues in the middle of the night typically between 11pm and 1am. That means the 25% residual gets eaten over three days and total utilisation is still high – over 95%.

Liveweight gain re˛ects intake in beet systems, so beet needs to make up the majority of the animal’s diet.

“If you want to add more protein don’t add ÿbre – if you add ÿbre their beet intakes will decrease.”

as it is highly palatable and easy for them to eat, as they prefer to knock bulbs over to eat them.

“At 60% beet you are condemned not to meet your liveweight targets.”

If a ÿbre-based supplement is necessary, it should be no more than 1kg/head/day for R1s and 2kg/head/day for R2s.

Where liveweight targets are not being met, Gibbs says trouble-shooting should be focused on the factors that are restricting intake.

MINIMISING SUPPLEMENTS

This relationship between supplement and fodder beet intake is another quirk of fodder beet. Gibbs says beet intake decreases by more than one kilogram for every kilogram of extra supplement eaten.

It is these incremental gains in intake that will make the di°erence between whether or not liveweight targets are met.

A 200g liveweight gain improvement only represents about three quarters a kilogram drymatter intake, after maintenance.

“This is unique to beet and is related to the amount of sugar in the bulb.”

He says because of the idiosyncratic nature of fodder beet, many people are not realising the growth potential of their cattle on the crops, which should be 1kg/ day or better.

Where the leaf is damaged, diseased or wilted, extra protein maybe required, especially for R1 cattle, but the best source of this protein is grass.

In a well-grown crop comprising 25% leaf and 75% bulb, there is su˝cient protein in the leaf to meet a cattle beast’s protein requirements.

“If you o°er the supplement they will eat it. The harvest cost for stock to eat supplement is low, while for beet it is higher – so they will over-eat supplement.

They don’t eat it to balance their rumen, they eat it to make you poor.”

Gibbs especially cautions against the use of bale feeders when feeding supplement as typically a few animals will gorge on – further suppressing beet intakes - while others miss out completely, and then do poorly.

TROUBLE-SHOOTING Cultivar selection is important with fodder beet as there are signiÿcant palatability di°erences between varieties.

Gibbs recommends Brigadier for R1 cattle

“Look at what is being left behind, supplement use, and cultivar selection are the big three.”

Yields in fodder beet crops are notoriously di˝cult to calculate and are typically overestimated. This impacts on allocation and intake assessments.

He encourages farmers to aim for the good liveweight yields that can be achieved, and cautions against the poor advice sometimes given that winter liveweights aren’t achievable.

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MAIZE

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MAIZE CROPPING

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2017

Instead of asking, “why feed maize”, ask yourself, “why not”?

While ryegrass-clover pasture continues to be the backbone of New Zealand livestock systems, variable and more severe weather patterns have created challenges for farmers seeking to build systems which are both proÿ table and environmentally sustainable.

Therefore, a growing number of farmers have recognised the importance of high quality supplementary feeds such as maize to ensure their business is proÿ table, regardless of the season they are faced with.

Maize is a reliably high-yielding crop, inexpensive to grow and feed.

Most dairy farmers can grow maize silage crops yielding 18 – 26 tDM/ha for 11.2 – 16.2 c/kgDM in the stack.

Growing maize on e° uent paddocks reduces feed cost by delivering high maize silage yields with reduced crop input costs. A two year on-farm study funded by the Foundation of Arable Research (FAR), DairyNZ, Environment Waikato and Genetic Technologies Limited showed that maize silage crops grown on e° uent paddocks with no additional fertiliser (no base, starter or sidedress) yielded an average of 26.1 tDM/ha.

Growing a high-yielding maize crop also removes excessive soil nutrients which have dropped out of the root zone of shallow-rooted pasture species, reducing

nutrient leaching, and feeding maize silage in conjunction with pasture also dilutes dietary protein levels, in turn reducing the amount of both nitrogen leaching risk and urinary nitrogen.

Maize silage is also a top cow conditioner, due to its high level of carbohydrate.

Many New Zealand cows are dried o˛ early because their body condition is too low, which a˛ ects milk production as well as reproduction and animal health.

DairyNZ information shows a cow calving at CS 4.0 will take 8-10 days longer to start cycling than if she calved at BCS 5.0, resulting in a later calving date and up to 15-20 kg/MS less in the following lactation.

Feeding maize silage alongside pasture throughout the year also helps support high heifer live weight gains, which is fundamental to achieving high production and meeting reproductive targets in the future.

Maize fed as grain is also an ideal replacement for other grains and concentrates, as its high quality and high energy levels surpasses that of other grains, molasses, palm kernel extract and the majority of dairy meals.

Maize grain is more slowly digested in the rumen than other grains, decreasing the risk of acidosis, and its high starch content drives milk protein percentage. Since milk protein is worth substantially more than milk fat, this increases milksolids return.

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LUCERNE

rewards correct management Lucerne’s ability to make e˜cient use of water to grow high quality forage is making it an increasingly popular plant in dryland East Coast farming systems.

The forage has undergone a renaissance in the past decade, as plant scientists such as Professor Derrick Moot of Lincoln University have encouraged farmers to graze – rather than cut and carry – their lucerne crops, and have de-bunked many of the management myths about the crop.

Speaking on Beef & Lamb NZ teleconference call, Derrick said the main reason for growing lucerne is its deep tap root, which can access soil moisture at a much deeper level than traditional ryegrass roots.

Because it ÿxes nitrogen (N), lucerne is never N deÿcient and is able to use every millimetre of water very e˜ciently. Water use e˜ciency in plants is dependent on nitrogen availability. “Pastures that are N deÿcient do not use water e˜ciently.”

Heading into spring, Derrick says farmers need to consider what moisture they have available within the soil proÿle.

This varies between soil types and winter rainfall – so a stony-type soil may be full after relatively low winter rainfall, while heavy Wakanui or Templeton-type soils may only be 30% full.

Derrick says that like any plant, lucerne will struggle to be productive when there is no moisture available.

Farmers with soil moisture deÿcits should just manage the lucerne as they normally would in spring, but cannot expect the same post-grazing recovery as they would get where there is su˜cient moisture available.

Because lucerne’s growing points are at the top of the plant, it should be rotationally grazed.

Derrick advises against set-stocking in spring, as stock will remove all the growing points. This will set the lucerne stand back by up to four weeks.

The exception is where farmers have a particularly large area in lucerne, and a small area can be sacriÿced for set-stocking ewes at lambing. In these instances, the crop should be very lightly set-stocked over a short period of time. “It cannot be nailed.”

In a typical rotational grazing situation, stock can be run onto the crop when it is 10–15cm high – ideally at a stocking rate of 14 ewes and lambs/ha – and moved to a new paddock every three to four days.

Derrick says farmers really need at least 20ha of lucerne before they can start a rotation that results in good livestock and forage growth rates – a 5ha paddock is really only a cut-and-carry proposition.

Over the past decade, Derrick has debunked the myth that lucerne needs to ˛ower in spring before it can be grazed.

He says lucerne responds to day length – so in spring and early summer, it can get very tall before it ˛owers and feed quality declines.

“If you wait until 10% of the stand is ˛owering, then the stem will be ligniÿed.”

In spring, the lucerne plant draws on its root reserves to bring 3T of carbon and N to the surface.

In late summer and autumn, the plant needs to have the opportunity to replenish these root reserves for the following season, so it needs to be spelled for six weeks while it is still actively growing.

Often the crop will ˛ower during this time.

Derrick says spelling the paddock any time from mid-January (before it goes dormant in winter) will allow the plant to produce to its potential the following spring.

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with your contractor & technical advisor

MAIZE CROPPING

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2017

Monitoring (chapter seven) will help determine if post emergence herbicides will be needed.

Your technical advisor will assist you in determining the best method for your conditions.

and technical advisor regarding your speciÿ c requirements, which may include:

 Most dairy farmers will need contractors to assist with some or all of these processes

SPRAYING

 Some contractors and technical advisors will o˜ er a crop management service  Communication and good planning are key to working with contractors and technical advisors Growing maize requires a range of operations from cultivation through to harvest. Most dairy farmers won’t have the specialist equipment required for growing maize and will therefore need to employ contractors for these tasks.

For those with limited time or experience, technical advisors from a range of merchant companies are available to o˜ er crop management services and/or advice.

There are specialist contractors and advisors who concentrate on only one aspect of maize production (e.g. spraying or fertilisers). Others provide a complete service from sowing to harvest.

The key to working with contractors and technical advisors is good communication.

Most have several hundred clients requiring the same service at much the same time.

WAYNE & ANDREA

Your spray contractor will need to know your sowing date so that they can plan when to spray out pasture, and later when herbicides will be required for the crop.

can organise soil tests and develop fertiliser plans. There are a number of di˜ erent methods of fertiliser application; bulk spreader for base fertiliser, sowing contractor for fertiliser applied through the drill, post emergence N - often referred to as side-dressing (kniÿ ng or broadcasting urea into the soil six to eight weeks after sowing).

Growing maize requires a range of operations:

CULTIVATION

Your cultivation contractor can advise and outline costs of cultivation methods; however, this will need to be done well in advance of the projected planting date.

SOWING

Your sowing contractor will need advance warning of both your intended sowing date and your fertiliser program.

Seed companies and rural supply ÿ rms will give advice on a suitable maize hybrid for your site, sowing date and planned harvest date. You should also discuss options regarding seed treatment for pest control.

FERTILISER

Notice of your intentions well in advance and then regular updates will improve the service they can provide.

Ensure you have a recent soil test, collected from 0-15 cm deep from your intended maize paddock. Paddocks coming out of long term pasture can supply up to 300 kg N/ha just from soil organic matter, so soil test for mineral nitrogen (0-60 cm) to determine post sowing urea applications.

You will need to talk with your contractor

Technical advisors and fertiliser companies

PRICE CONTRACTING

HARVESTING

Maize harvesting and stack building is an extremely busy and di˛ cult time for contractors; with large hectares to harvest, a short time frame and often adverse weather to contend with.

Maize is normally harvested between 30 to 40% dry matter. Let your contractor know your preference well in advance.

Determining maize silage maturity in the ÿ eld requires considerable experience.

Generally harvest contractors will monitor crop maturity and determine harvest time.

Technical advisors will also give guidance if required. Remember that stack sites and access areas must be prepared before harvest. Aim to get this done early in case the crop matures faster than expected.

Post-harvest planning e.g. sowing new pastures, is also crucial to continued success. Again your technical representative will be able to assist you with the best options for your site.

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Agreement plants seed of success for hemp The Ministry for Primary Industries is predicting hemp seeds could soon be a small but signiÿcant earner for New Zealand farmers.

The crop is already established in New Zealand but restricted to selling hemp oil, with the co-product hemp seed meal sold as an animal feed.

In its Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries (SOPI) Report for June 2017, MPI says there is a high chance of developing a new market after agreement was reached between the New Zealand and Australia food safety authorities to allow hemp seeds to be legalised as a food.

The change will allow greater value creation from the whole seed, further processing it in to food products, such as hemp °our and hemp protein as well as hulled seed and oil.

The change will provide the arable sector with access to a growing global market currently worth around $1 billion, it says.

“It is expected a large domestic market will also develop for the seed, considered a “super food” containing essential fatty acids and protein.”

Three domestic Acts need to be amended before hemp seed can legally be sold as a food, which may take up to 18 months, MPI says. Food Safety Minister David Bennett says it is estimated it will initially generate between $10 million and $20 million in export revenue.

research has put the farm gate revenue for hemp seed between $4000 and $5000 per hectare.

“This is an exciting new industry for New

“These seeds do not require either fertiliser or irrigation. Because of the low inputs,

The contract covers key aspects of a sales and purchase agreement including purchase price, amount to be supplied and payment conditions as well as issues such as increases in fuel prices or inability to supply because of crop losses from °oods or drought.

FROM SEEDS & CEREALS

Mike Parker of FAR developed the contract

with the ÿnal version approved by lawyers.

SUMMER FORAGE CROPS

With increasing interest in growing maize silage, Andrea Pearson, Research Co-ordinator for FAR, is encouraging all growers to make sure they have a contract with their buyer.

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“Growing maize silage is a major ÿnancial commitment so growers need to be sure they have a buyer for it.

“Unsold crops can be carried through for grain, but silage growers should be aware there is limited capacity to dry and store maize grain. We don’t want growers caught out with a crop they can’t sell.”

Zealand. The growth of the seeds will also lead to job creation in New Zealand from processing the seed crop into oil, °our, protein and hulled hemp seeds,” Mr Bennett says.

REAL ADVICE

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Paramedic’s career of firsts Masterton’s Marie Long has lived out a full career of firsts in her time as a paramedic for Wellington Free Ambulance (WFA).

She was the organisation’s first female paramedic, and the first woman to be promoted to a Senior Station Officer position as well as being the first woman to manage an ambulance service.

Marie began her career in the ambulance service when she was 16 years old in 1969 as a volunteer in her home town of Featherston.

She then went on to train at the National Ambulance Officers training school in Auckland, and in 1981, aged 28, she joined WFA after being encouraged to become a professional paramedic by her tutors.

“It was never something I thought about because I did not know there were professional female paramedics,” she said.

“I guess they decided it was time a woman got involved.

“I’ve been employed for my brain, not brawn.”

When asked about the challenges she faced, Marie said it was public perception more than anything.

“Initially, I took people by surprise and it was just a matter of being professional and getting the job done.

“My colleagues were fantastic. As soon as they realised I was there because I really

It was never something I thought about because I did not know there were professional female paramedics.

David and Marie Long when they were both in the service.

wanted to be an ambulance officer they were generous and supportive.

“I have very fond memories.”

Marie continued to have firsts during her career.

“She was the first female to be promoted to a Senior Station Officer position as well as being the first female to manage an Ambulance Service.

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The Wairarapa Ambulance Service was part of the Wairarapa District Health Board before WFA took over the contract.

Marie’s career in the Ambulance sector ended in 2005 when she moved into the disability sector.

Aside from saving lives, Marie also found love.

She met her future husband, David, at

weekend handovers when they were both auxiliary officers.

They became the first couple to train together as advanced care paramedics.

Marie’s husband still works for WFA, and their daughters are heavily involved with volunteering for St. John, one in Fielding and the other in Carterton.

Marie said that to become a paramedic, you’ve got to do it for the right reasons.

“It’s not about making a name for yourself, it’s about making a difference.

“You need to be prepared to put in the hard work.

“It was a fabulous stage in my life and I know I made a difference. I had a wonderful career.”

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Large appetite ruled monarch It’s Only Me

Graeme Burnard

On her wedding day, Queen Victoria had a 22-inch waist.

When she died, her waist measured 50 inches.

It is said she took to comfort eating after the death of her husband. This caused her to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and excessive flatulence.

What a sight it must have been, this 5ft 1” high, 50-inch round woman, dressed all in black, trumpeting her way along the corridors of Buckingham Palace.

And I can see the horses now, in the royal mews, drawing straws to see who had the job of carting her royal bulkage around old London town.

Her excessive eating actually started well before Albert died.

At the first official royal dinner, held after she was crowned, she served her guests, wait for it… a soup course, followed by a fish course which included red trout, dory, whiting and sole.

Next came the “removes”, steak, braised capon, roast lamb and baby chickens.

Then the entree was served, lamb cutlets, fillets of sole, four different chicken dishes, sweetbreads and puff pastry pies.

The entrée was followed by the main course. Roasted quail.

Then a second set of “removes” featuring German sausage, soufflé and omelettes.

Then of course we need the “entremets” of lobster salad, garden peas and artichokes before dessert which consisted of wine jelly, vanilla cream biscuits, cherry vol au vent, Chantilly turban, German cakes, sugar baskets and nougat.

A final course of fresh fruit, one

No banquet was too large.

of the Queen’s favourites, topped it all off.

In the first two weeks of her reign, her butcher supplied 4,000lbs of beef, 2,500lbs of mutton, 2,000lbs of veal, and 400lbs of lamb. Also included was 36 calves livers, 3 calves heads, and 204 calves feet.

I am so pleased it was an even number of feet. It would have bothered me if a spare foot was floating around somewhere.

And if you think that’s a little excessive, on one occasion when she was travelling, she asked for some sweet treats to take with her. Imagine her delight when

PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES

she opened her care package and found 16 chocolate sponges, 16 fondant biscuits, a box of wafers, 12 plain sponges, a rice cake, a box of fancy biscuits, a princess cake and 18 flat finger biscuits. It makes my thermos and an egg sandwich look a bit underwhelming!

Apparently one day her Majesty was travelling in an open carriage with an African leader to a state function when one of the horses lifted its tail and broke wind violently.

“Oh I do apologise,” Victoria said to her guest. He replied, “Apology accepted your Majesty, but I thought it was the horse!”.

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WELL DONE AND THANK YOU WAIRARAPA WITH YOUR HELP THERE IS HOPE

A big thank you to everyone who supported Daffodil Day 2017.

This includes: Growers, pickers, bunchers, telemarketers and all the people and businesses who bought fresh daffodils or paid advertising.

Thank you to all of you who gave a donation or purchased our merchandise and all those volunteers who helped make the day so successful.

Special thanks goes to our National sponsor ANZ, and local Sponsors Breadcraft, Wairarapa Times-Age, Fast Way couriers and Joes Meats. We would like to acknowledge and thank the Vintage Car Club Wairarapa for their fundraising event. We would also like to thank WBS for their generous donation.

All donations remain local and support services for the cancer community in the Wairarapa.

Kieran McAnulty and Alix Cooper collect outside Food for Thought (with Pepsi helping).

Errol Warren and Chris Lewis collect outside Paper Plus.

Gretel Dick, Greytown Daffodil Day Coordinator bunching flowers.

Jackie and Alistair Sutherland and bunching volunteers prepare for fresh daffodil delivery.

Bob Francis and Paul Hope address at the opening of the HOPE garden.

Pauline and Alan street collectors.

Brent Gare and Wendy Morrison (the More FM team) were BBQ experts outside the Warehouse using donated goods from Breadcraft /Joes Meats.

Collectors at New World.

Teddy bear Florence was so popular she sold out early morning.

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Chairperson Keith Hunt visited all sites on the day.

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Saving for your funeral offers financial advantages

PLANNING FOR TOMORROW

Less than ÿ ve percent of New Zealanders plan and pre-pay their funerals. That’s a statistic we need to change, says the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand (FDANZ) Chief Executive Katrina Shanks.

Ms Shanks says planning and saving for funerals is as important as saving for other events such as holidays and weddings.

“Kiwis really aren’t great at saving, although thanks to schemes such as KiwiSaver we are getting better at it.

But planning for funerals remains at the bottom of the list for most, despite it being an event we all face.

“Planning and pre-paying your funeral is a most unselÿ sh act, because you’re taking the pressure o° your family, making it easier for them to see you o° in a meaningful manner.

“I frequently hear funeral directors talking about the di˛ culty many families face when it comes to the death of a loved one. Sorting out funeral options, choices, and costs can be daunting at a time when people are grieving.

“It’s a reality we’re all faced with. Unless there has been planning and pre-payment, families are left to organise these things at the most di˛ cult of times.”

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As well as taking the ÿ nancial strain o° your loved ones, there are strong ÿ scal reasons for putting aside funds in a prepaid funeral plan, says Ms Shanks.

“Many people say they aren’t worried about the cost of a funeral because the proceeds of selling their house will cover it.

But there are two reasons this isn’t such a great plan.

“First, the settlement of an estate and sale of a property can take many months, leaving loved ones still having to ÿ nd the funds to pay in the meantime.

“Secondly, many of us will spend our latter years in a retirement village or residential care facility rather than in our own home.

The funds from the sale of the family home can get eaten up by the cost of that care, leaving uncertainty about what amount would be left to fund a funeral.

“But if you pre-pay your funeral, and if the need later arises for long-term residential care in a rest home or hospital, the value of that pre-paid funeral, up to $10,000, is excluded from the government’s ÿ nancial means assessment for the residential care subsidy.

“That means up to $10,000 that you might otherwise have had to spend on subsidising your care can be set aside for your funeral.”

Change your WILL if you change your relationship You should make a will when you marry or enter into a civil union or de facto relationship, or when you have children, says the New Zealand Law Society, If you marry or enter a civil union, any will made before that is automatically revoked (cancelled) unless it was made in contemplation of that particular marriage or civil union (which is best explicitly stated in the will itself).

This applies even if you marry or enter into a civil union with someone who is a beneÿ ciary under your existing will.

And you should revise your will if a relationship ends. If you separate from your spouse or civil union partner with the intention of ending the marriage or civil union, provisions in your will relating to your spouse or partner will remain valid until formal separation orders are made by the court or the marriage or civil union is legally dissolved (that is, you are “divorced”).

A separation agreement or relationship property agreement does not revoke your will. So you will have to change your will if you want to exclude your spouse or partner before a separation or dissolution order is made.

When you separate legally or “divorce”, any provisions made for your ex-spouse or civil union partner will be void unless you, as the will-maker, have made it clear in your will that you want them to remain valid.

The situation is di° erent for de facto partners. Entering a de facto relationship does not revoke an earlier will.

This means an existing will beneÿ ting someone other than your current partner remains valid and may disadvantage your current partner.

The ending of a de facto relationship does not revoke provisions in your will relating to your former partner. So, if you don’t want that person to administer your estate or to inherit, you must change your will.

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CARTERTON DAFFODIL FESTIVAL - SUN 10 SEPT

SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER

Another great Daffodil Festival coming up this Sunday!

Wairarapa’s annual spring celebration – the Carterton Da˜odil Festival – takes place this Sunday 10th September.

The Festival will again o˜er an abundance of activities including the famous Da˜odil picking at Middlerun, street markets, horse drawn surrey rides, the Big Wai Art Sale in the Carterton Events Centre and loads more.

Event Coordinator, Robyn Cherry-Campbell is delighted to welcome a new attraction this year.

In conjunction with the Huri Huri Wairarapa Bike Festival, there will be some ‘wheeley’ fun activities for the kids under Carterton’s Clock Tower.

This year’s Festival will also see the welcome return of the Da˜odil Express, an historic steam train that brings visitors from Wellington.

Operated by Steam Incorporated, the train will depart Wellington Railway Station and arrive around 10.30am.

Buses will be running throughout the day starting at 9.45am to shuttle people to and from Middle Run.

There will also be a chance to enjoy a short ride on the Da˜odil Express between Carterton and Masterton.

People are encouraged to leave their cars in town and make use of the FREE bus service with the bus stop located in Broadway.

People attending the Festival will also be able to view remarkable artwork at the Big Wai Art Sale in the Carterton Events Centre and participate in the on-going activities there including live music outside Wild Oats Café and the Carterton Events Centre.

A small fee is charged to pick the da˜odils with all proceeds going to the local charities of Plunket and St John.

The Festival’s street market will boast dozens of stalls featuring local arts & crafts, yummy treats, children’s rides and live entertainment.

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The Festival is organised by the Carterton District Council. The Street Market is proudly supported and coordinated by the Lions Club of Carterton.

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CARTERTON DAFFODIL FESTIVAL - SUN 10 SEPT Allen Batchelor painting the ÿ nal touches on the pipe designs to be mosaiced by the public at the Big Wai Art Sale

Bus now the best way to get to Middlerun Car parking at Middlerun will be extremely limited this year, so people wanting to pick da˜ odils at the historic farm are being advised to catch the free Da˜ odil Express bus from Carterton’s Broadway.

Due to the changes to the Health & Safety Act in 2016, Festival Organisers with the assistance of Tra° c Safe NZ have drafted a Tra° c Safety Management Plan which has identiÿ ed the stretch of road at the gateway to Middlerun as being an area for concern.

With the view of keeping pedestrians as safe as possible and ensuring all appropriate measures have been taken, car parking at Middlerun will be extremely limited as vehicles will not be able to park along the narrow roadside.

“With the large amount of rain we have experienced this winter, we cannot rely on ground conditions being suitable for car parking”, says Event Coordinator Robyn Cherry-Campbell.

“The best option for traveling out to Middlerun will be to catch one of the FREE buses from Broadway, as the buses will be on a continuous circuit from Carterton CBD to Middlerun.”

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Giant project a feature of Big Wai Art Sale An ambitious community art project is being launched and with luck completed at this year’s Big Wai Art Sale.

As well as the usual 1500 beautiful artworks in the huge cash and carry sale there will be an added element of the community trying their hand at creating their own art project.

Three large concrete pipes are being turned on their ends and have native ˝ ora and fauna images painted on them, which the public and professional artists are then going to mosaic.

“We have had over 50 people involved in the project design already and are hoping for around 500 people to participate in sticking the tiles on,” says Anna-Marie Kingsley, Wai Art Trustee and organiser of the Big Wai Art Sale.

“We have had generous ÿ nancial support for the project from the Carterton Creative Communities Scheme, and as always the Carterton Council have been extremely supportive and encouraging.”

The Wai Art Group had a brain storming session at their monthly meeting and came

up with some design ideas. Max Baylis, a talented graphic designer and also a Wai Art Trustee drew the ÿ nal designs. Melvin Pike from the Council helped source second hand culvert pipes to keep the costs down. When completed the pipes will be installed in a Carterton park.

Wai Art Trust aims to complete a set of three pipes every year for around 10 years, resulting in around 30 huge mosaic pipes in Carterton’s public landscape.

Wai Art would love you to visit the Big Wai Art Sale and while you are there stick on a few tiles – come along and become part of the community project. The Big Wai Art Sale giant cash and carry art sale will be held in the Carterton Event Centre over from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 September from 9am to 5pm each day. Entry is free.

A gala preview evening is being held on Thursday 7 September from 5.30pm with tickets $10 at the door.˙ Wine & ÿ nger food will be provided with the early bird opportunity to purchase artworks.˙

The Plunket Rooms at the Carterton Event Centre will be open and offering a space for parents and caregivers to feed, change, heat bottles for little ones etc.

There will also be a safe space for toddlers to play under the shade sail while their carers have a break.

There will also be some health promotions, with strong focus on injury prevention.

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CARTERTON DAFFODIL FESTIVAL - SUN 10 SEPT SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER

All aboard the

DAFFODIL EXPRESS! Carterton Da˜odil Festival will again welcome the return of the Da˜odil Express, an historic steam train that will bring visitors from Wellington.

Hauling the train will be coal ÿred steam loco Ja1271 which was built in Dunedin in 1956.

Steam Incorporated completed the restoration of the loco 20 years ago and has hauled many excursion trains all over the country since then.

The older carriages on the train are over 100 years old, being built in 1909 and 1912.

The younger carriages are from the 1930s and early 1940s. Apart from the guards van, all of the carriages on the train were built in New Zealand.

The train has been gradually growing in size as additional carriages are restored and included in the consist.

The Da˜odil Express is now up to 12 carriages plus a guards van, measuring 240 metres in length.

The train from Wellington is sold out again with over 500 passengers and 30 crew on board. It arrives at Carterton at 10.40am and heads back to Wellington at 3pm.

Also on o˜er is a short steam train ride from Carterton to Masterton and return. Seats are still available for this steam experience.

The train will depart Carterton at 10.55am sharp, arriving back at 1pm. Visit www. cartertonrailwaymuseum.org.nz for booking information.

Steam Incorporated is based at Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast and has a large collection of restored locomotives and carriages that they operate on the main line.

This includes WW1 Memorial Locomotive Ab608 “Passchendaele” which was restored three years ago in time for the World War I centenary.

Typically, ÿve excursions a year head to Wairarapa. The next one is a diesel hauled “Christmas Grand Circle Rail Cruise” that circumnavigates the Tararuas on 3rd December, followed by the “Eketahuna Express” running to Masterton via the Manawatu on 6th January next year.

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Picking da˜odils at Middle Run in the 1920s (Source Wairarapa Archive)

A passion for daffodils becomes a fund raising tradition The area now occupied

by Middlerun farm was once the central part of the extensive holdings of Wellington businessman, farmer, and Carterton benefactor Charles Rooking Carter (after whom Carterton is named).

When the Booth family extended their milling operations further north to Upper Hutt and Taratahi, Alfred and wife Mary moved to Carterton.

Surrey with a fringe on top returns Carterton Da˜odil Festival will again feature the beautiful surrey with a fringe on top.

wheelwrighting - making carriage wheels from wood and ÿre-forged metal.

Although his main farming e˜orts were pastoral with high class romney sheep and a renowned jersey stud, Alfred also followed agricultural and horticultural interests.

Restored by Eion Clarke, the historic horse drawn surrey will be taking passengers on short rides throughout the day for a donation which will go towards the upkeep of the surrey and charitable causes.

Mr°Clarke°continued wheelwrighting as a hobby after retiring in the early 1990s, beginning work on the surrey in 2013.

He grew oats and potatoes and erected three glasshouses. The ÿrst of these was devoted to begonias, the second to ferns, and the third to propagating new plants, especially his favourite ˝owers – da˜odils.

In 1947, at age 16, Eion joined Carterton business Masson Implement Company as a blacksmith’s apprenticeship, working there for over 40 years.

Alfred died in 1918 and the Middlerun property was subdivided among his three sons, Alf, Bert and Henry who inherited the homestead block.

Since then, the carriage has carried Mayor John Booth at the 140th anniversary of St Mark’s Church, World War II veterans at Carterton’s Anzac Day parade - and given rides to everyone from children to rest home residents.

It was at Massons that Mr°Clarke°learned

As well as being a keen rugby player and jersey stud breeder, Henry was also interested in his father’s da˜odil growing enterprise, and like his father took to breeding new varieties, also naming his best new varieties after family members. The Booth family still grow some of these.

In the 1920s Henry’s wife Alice decided to put the blooms in the original front paddock to good use for the community.

Groups of women picked the blooms which were sent to the Wellington vegetable and ˝ower market with local grower Willie Wong, the proceeds going to the recently formed Carterton branch of the Plunket Society.

In 1889 it was purchased by Alfred Booth, who had come to New Zealand with his parents William and Jane Booth in 1859.

In the 1950s, teams of volunteer pickers were replaced by an open day where the public picked their own for a small fee.

The Booth family were saw millers in the Ohariu Valley near Johnsonville and Alfred worked in the family mill.

Since then the Middlerun da˜odils have raised thousands of dollars for charity.

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Alpacas are truly valuable additions Ten years ago, Neville and Leonie Walker complemented their 350ha traditional sheep and beef hill country farm by adding alpacas.

With the traditional farming model and land use changing, the alpacas opened up new opportunities for their farming operation.

Since these soft-footed animals have been farmed on a large scale, the sheep numbers have reduced with the cattle numbers stable.

Every animal has a purpose and contributes to the feed and pasture management plan. Mustering is a dream – even with more than 700 alpacas, calling them is all that’s needed.

The Walkers are particular about health care and manage by knowing their animals, their environment, and being well-organised.

All livestock are checked regularly and TB tested. Trees provide natural shade and shelter.

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Alpacas are ‘pen mated’ allowing accurate birthing dates and the ability to manage the arrival of more than 350 ‘cria’ to suit the seasons.

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The Walker family still get excited by the arrival of the new cria.

Neville shears all the alpacas on the farm as well as a couple of hundred off the farm for other alpaca owners.

He has his own preferred process.

Getting through more than 900 alpacas is no mean feat.

The goal is to produce a cleanly shorn animal that will be comfortable in the summer heat and have no contamination in the fleece.

Unlike sheep wool that is sold through a wool buyer, the quantity of alpaca fibre produced means that the Walkers can deal directly with the wool scour and spinning mills.

This allows valuable feedback on the quality of the fibre, ensuring that the breeding program is on the right track.

For the Walker family, it was always about the wonderful alpaca fleece that just cried out to be turned into beautiful garments.

Selling alpaca products began from a cardboard box progressing to a now wellstocked shop.

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The Walkers are passionate about alpacas and would like to encourage more large-scale alpaca farming.

They feel that there is a great future for alpacas as a livestock business and the growing alpaca fibre industry is going in exciting directions.

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BY EMILY NORMAN Green Party leader James Shaw would love to take a swim in Wairarapa’s Ruamahanga River.

But he says he is unlikely to do so in the near future due to the symptoms of intensive farming.

He visited the region on Saturday to launch the party’s “game-changing” water policy which would see a nitrate pollution levy put on farmers.

This policy, he said, would encourage cleaner farming practices throughout New Zealand.

“We have twice as many cows on our farms as we did in 1990.

“We cram cows onto our farms like sardines – 6.6 million of them, each putting out as much waste as 14 people, but without sewerage treatment.

“Not only does E.coli from their poo end up in the rivers, which can cause some pretty nasty illnesses, but also nitrogen from their urine hits the ground at such speed that the grassroots can’t soak it up and it ends up in our groundwater and therefore in our rivers.”

He said too much nitrogen in waterways caused excessive weed growth, “makes the water toxic for fish, and it can lead to toxic algal blooms”.

For the policy announcement, Mr Shaw spoke from the wool shed of the Atkinson’s farm in Pirinoa, describing the certified organic beef, sheep, and deer farm as “a thing of beauty”. “[The Atkinsons] know that farming with the environment, not against it, pays off,” he said.

“All farmers know that the best way to stop polluting our rivers is to stop polluting our rivers.

“We can’t protect our waterways from

James Shaw announces the Green Party’s new water policy at a farm in Pirinoa.

pollution when 6.6 million cows are doing their business.”

He said the Green Party would put a price on nitrogen pollution, based on farmtailored data already captured through Overseer, a nutrient budgeting tool.

He estimated the levy would raise about $136.5m each year, costing farmers about $2 per kilogram of nitrate per hectare of farm, but no more than five per cent of their pre-tax profit.

This money would then go back into the farming community through funding sustainable and transformational farming programmes.

If farmers were able to work out how

to reduce that pollution into the soil, then they won’t pay the levy and it would not affect them, he said.

A moratorium would also be placed on new dairy farm conversions, Crown Irrigation investments would be wound up, and the importing of palm kernel will be phased out.

“To get our rivers back into the state that we once enjoyed… we’re going to have to put the brakes on dairy, and reduce the number of cows on our farms.

“I know that is a controversial point, but there is no point throwing money at curing the symptoms of poor water quality, if we don’t tackle the cause.”

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Mr Shaw said the Green Party was the only political party in this campaign that was “actually talking about how to address the reasons why our rivers are sick and not just giving them a lozenge and a tissue”.

Wairarapa’s Green Party candidate John Hart, who is a sheep and beef farmer, said he was “really excited by the possibilities” the policy would create.

“It’s a really good chance for us to do something really transformational for the farming industry.

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BY CHELSEA BOYLE Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy last week found himself off the beaten track in Wairarapa chatting to first year veterinary students, stopping by a dairy farm and visiting the new Manuka Health Factory.

Mr Guy is the National MP for Otaki and was keen look around Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre.

“I’m here because Taratahi has a great reputation for turning out students who are well trained and educated,” he said.

“We know we need about 50,000 extra people in the primary sector by 2025.”

The National Party remained focused on promoting a strong and stable economy, he said.

It was very supportive of the Wairarapa Water storage project, he said.

Joining him on the tour was National MP for Wairarapa Alastair Scott.

Mr Scott said he was hearing a lot of concern from farmers about the Labour Party’s water tax policy.

He said the policy was “unreasonable” and “discriminatory”.

They needed to get the message to Auckland to vote against it, he said.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS THURSDAY,SEPTEMBER 7 Book Group: Noon-1.30pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Sheridan (06) 308-9059.

Housie: At Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club (Carterton), behind the Clocktower, at 1.20 pm.

Call Pauline Hodgson 379-5923.

Masterton Petanque Club: Club day 1.30pm, in Queen Elizabeth Park. Call Miriam 377-7974.

Wairarapa Model Aero Club: 9am-noon, at the Masterton Aerodrome.

Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 5-7pm, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 370-2511, or Hugh 377-4880.

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

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

Oasis Network Inc: Free service for all who need advocacy and support for mental health issues and well-being. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Call Gaylene (06) 929-0961 or (0274) 604-796.

Feldenkrais: 5.45-6.45pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Rupert (027) 585-3822.

Yoga: 7.30-8.30pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Odette (021) 180-9452.

Westside Playcentre: 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224.

Martinborough Playcentre: 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068.

Carterton Playcentre: 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875.

Mums & Bubs Fit: Open to everyone, 10am. For details text ‘Fit Mums’ to (027) 349-8962.

Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton.

Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844.

Masterton Senior Citizens & Beneficiaries Association: Meet 1-3.30pm for cards, Scrabble and bowls, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton. Call Ngaire Walker 377-0342.

Wairarapa Fern & Thistle Pipe Band: Practice 6.30-8.30 pm 1st Floor, Savage Club Hall, Albert St, Masterton. Plus free drum lessons 6.30-7.30 pm on ground floor. All ages and experience. Bring your drum pad and sticks.

Tai chi for Health: Martinborough, St John’s Hall, 9.30-10.30am.

Chair Yoga: Breath lead movements. The Spot, 365 Queen St, 1.30pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132.

Yoga Beginners: Course-bookings essential, 5.30-7pm , St Andrews church, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296.

Yoga Works: Masterton 9.30am. Call Robyn 377-1802.

Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club: Association Croquet: 9.15am for 9.30 start. Call Veronica George 379-8644.

Aquarobics: 11am at Lansdowne Village.

Pilates: Power 9am, Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core Plus 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121.

Judo Classes: Kids (4 to 9) 5-6pm, Cadets (10 to 16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Masterton Toy Library: 2.30-4.30pm, at rear of Masterton YMCA, 162 Dixon St, Masterton.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Masterton, 7.30pm, Soulway Church, 227 High St. Call Darren (027) 334-2685.

Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Carterton: 6pm, at Carterton

South End School hall. Call Thomas Duncan (06) 308-8844 or (027) 302-8923.

Big Wai Art Sale: Carterton Event Centre, Holloway Street, Carterton. Opening night is Thursday 7 September, 5.30pm, $10 entry at the door.

FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER 8 Justice of the Peace: Service centre available at Carterton Library 11am-1pm.

Dance: At Carterton Club, Broadway, at 7.30pm.

Call Liz 379-5108.

Six Chairs Missing: From 7.30pm. Rock covers and classic hits, at Club Wairarapa, 20 Essex St, Masterton.

Gentle Yoga: 9.30-10.30am, bookings essential, at the studio, 268 High St N, Carterton.

Call Colleen (021) 177-1956.

Needlework & Craft Drop-in: 10am-noon, Featherston Community Centre. Call Virginia (06) 308-8392.

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

Big Wai Art Sale: Carterton Event Centre, Holloway Street, Carterton. Friday - Sunday 8-10 September, 9am-5pm, free entry to huge cash and carry sale.

Carterton Craft Market: Open 7 days, 10am2pm, High St, Carterton, opp Almo’s Book Shop.

Call Robyn 379-7099.

Kids’ Song And Story: Fun songs, finger plays and stories for under-5s, during school terms, 9.30-10.30am, at Epiphany Church Hall, High St South, Masterton. Call Jill 377-4614.

Greytown Music and Movement: For pre-schoolers, 10am, at St Luke’s Hall, Main St. Contact: email admin@stlukesgreytown.co.nz Wairarapa Steampunk: We meet as required, 10.30am-2pm, at Kingstreet Artworks. Call Gaylene 377-4865 evenings or (0274) 494-596.

Dance Fit: At Carrington Park, Carterton, at 6-7pm. If weather not good it’s in youth centre of Event Centre. Text dance groove to (022) 321-2643.

Masterton Social Badminton Club: Play 7-9pm, all year round, at Masterton YMCA gym (371 Queen St). Contact by text Hamish (021) 259-7684 or Sam (0210) 552-113.

Linedance: Greytown: 10.30-11.30am at St John’s Hall.

Hatha Yoga + Yin Mix: 5.30pm , St Johns Hall, Greytown. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296.

Yoga: Greytown: 9-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown. Call Nicki (06) 308-6598. Carterton: 9am, at Gain Momentum, opposite the Event Centre. Call Odette (021) 180-9452.

Pilates: Men Only 9am, Core 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core Plus 12.10pm, Core 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121.

Masterton Masters Swimming Club: Club night 6-7pm, Genesis Recreation Centre back pool. Call Graeme 377-0507 or Lucy (021) 0204-4144.

Masterton Croquet Club: Golf Croquet 9.15am, behind the Hosking Garden in the Park.

Call Norma Wilton 377-3165.

Carterton Senior Citizens: Meet 1.30-4pm, play cards, Rummikub and Scrabble, Senior Citizens Hall, 150 Main St, Carterton.

MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 11 Not Your Nanna’s Sewing Circle:7-9pm, Cobblestone’s Administration Room, 169 Main St, Greytown. Call Christine Healy (06) 304-8110 or Lynda Saint-Merat (06) 304-7026.

Yoga: St Johns Hall, Martinborough, Beginners/ Seniors 4-5.15pm; General 5.30-6.45pm. Call

Nicki (06) 308-6598.

Chair Yoga: Breath lead movements. The Spot, 365 Queen St, 1pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132.

Hatha Yoga: Suitable for anyone. REAP House, 6pm. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132.

Yoga and Pilates Fusion: For joint mobility and core strength, 11am, St John’s Hall, Martinborough. Call Odette (021) 180-9452.

Kundalini Yoga: 7-8pm, Carterton. Call Odette (021) 180-9452.

Pilates: Martinborough: 9am St Andrews Hall, Dublin St. Call Jane (027) 630-4132.

Pilates: Core Plus 8am, Core 9am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 12.10pm, Core 5.30pm, Beginners 6.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Masterton: 7.30pm, St Matthew’s Church Hall, 35 Church St. Call Anne 378-2338 or Pete (020) 4005-9740. Carterton: 8pm, Salvation Army Community Rooms, 210 High St. Call Dennis 377-5355 or Martin (06) 372-7764.

Girl Guiding: Brownies (7-10 years) 4.30-6pm.

Guides (9-14 years) 5.30-7.30pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646.

Self Defence/Ju Jitsu: 7.30-9pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Karate: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do, 6.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton.

Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738.

Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Greytown: St John Hall, 73 Main St, at 6pm. Call Paul Cantwell (06) 308-9839 or (027) 376-9804.

TUESDAY,SEPTEMBER 12 Wai Steampunk Tribal Dancing: 7-8.30pm, at Wairarapa Community Centre, 41 Perry St, Masterton. Open to all interested in Steampunk and music, dance, fun and creative style. Call Gaylene (0274) 494-596 or 377-4865.

Drop-in Centre: Sit and Get Fit with Keiko, 2-4pm. Call Pam Lloyd (06) 304-7997.

Chair Exercise: Gentle chair exercises, 2-2.45pm, at St John’s Hall, Greytown. This is combined with Drop-in club.

South Wairarapa Badminton Club: 7.30pm, at the Featherston Sports Stadium, Underhill Rd. Red Star Table Tennis Club: Meet 9am-noon, at Red Star Sports Association, 10 Herbert St, Masterton. Call John 370-2511, or Hugh 377-4880.

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

Juesday Art: 10am-1pm Featherston Community Centre. Call Julia (06) 308-8977.

Tai Chi for Health: 9.15-10.15am, St John’s Hall, Greytown.

Ceroc Dance Classes: 8pm, Carterton School hall. Call Mandy (021) 238-4230 or check Facebook group Ceroc Wairarapa for more info.

Carterton District Historical Society: 44 Holloway St, 2-4pm, or by appointment. Call 379-7150 or (027) 271-6280.

Clareville Badminton Club: Main Stadium at Clareville, 7.30pm -9pm. Call Steve 379-6999.

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

Carterton Playcentre: 9-noon, Belvedere Rd (next to Howard Booth Park). Call 379-7875.

Dance Fitness Classes: Greytown, school terms only, with Justine Eldred at Kuranui College Dance Studio, 6.30-7.30pm. Call Justine (0274) 761-996.

Masterton Taekwon-Do Club: 5.15-6.15pm, Te Runga Scout Den, 45 Harley St, Masterton.

Call Simon O’Hara 370-8844.

Masterton Senior Citizens and

Beneficiaries Association: Meet for social indoor bowls, 500 cards, or a chat 1-3pm. Call Ngaire 377-0342.

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

Woops A Daisy Marching Team: March for fun, friendship and fitness, 5-6pm. Call Cheryl 372-5522.

Yoga Works: Masterton 9.30am. Greytown 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802.

Hatha Flow Yoga: 5.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296.

Pilates: Power 9am, 50s Forward 9.30am (at Lansdowne Park), Beginners 10am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 2pm, Power 5.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121.

Karate Classes for Children: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do. 5.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton. Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738.

Judo Classes: Kids (4-9) 5pm to 6pm, Cadets (10-16) 6-7pm and Seniors (14+) 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Self Defence: Ju Jitsu, 7-8.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Martinborough: Martinborough Primary School Hall. Under-12s at 5-6pm. Call Corina Ngatai (027)432-6870. All at 6pm. Call Anna Börjesson (021) 163-8867.

Toy Library: Masterton -10am-noon, rear of YMCA, 162 Dixon St; Featherston: 10am-noon, in the Community Centre, 24 Wakefield St. South Wairarapa Workingmen’s Club: Games afternoon, including cards, board, darts, pool etc. Call Doff 304-9748.

Girl Guiding: Pippins (5-7 years) 3.45-5pm. Call Chrissy Warnock 372-7646.

Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club: Association Croquet at 1pm for 1.15pm start at clubrooms behind the Clock Tower, Carterton.

Call Helen Smith (06) 3048840 or Stella Smith 379-9259.

Masterton Croquet Club: Golf croquet 9.15am, behind the Hosking Garden in the park.

Call Norma Wilton 377-3165.

WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER 13 Ukulele Classes: 1-3pm, Featherston Community Centre. Call Neil (06) 308-9341.

Featherston Amateur Wrestling Gym: 52 Fitzherbert St (behind Totem), kids wrestling classes, term time only, 5.30pm, 5 to 8 years, 6.15pm, 8 and over, first class free. Call Dannii (027) 920-6751.

Masterton Senior Citizens and Beneficiaries Club: Craft and chat afternoon 1-3pm, bring your crafts or just come for some company, Senior Citizens Hall, Cole St, Masterton.

Whakaoriori Shufflers: Line dancing, Red Star clubrooms, Herbert St, Masterton, intermediate, 5.30-7pm. Call 377-5518 or 377-1135.

Kiddie Gym: For 0-3-year-olds, 9.30-11am, at St David’s Church, corner High and Victoria Sts, Carterton. Call Lorna or Abby 379-8325.

Longbush Playgroup: 9.30am-noon, school terms only, 1135 Longbush Rd, Masterton. Call Eileen (06) 372-7861.

Westside Playcentre: 9-noon, 165 Renall St, Masterton. Call 378-2224.

Martinborough Playcentre: 9-noon, 38 Venice St. Call (06) 306-9068.

Club Wairarapa Rockers: Rock’n’roll basic steps and more, 7.30-10pm, at Club Wairarapa, Masterton. Call (027) 333-1793.

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Wairarapa Spinners and Weavers: Meet 10am-2pm, in the Wool Shed, Dixon St, Masterton. Call Trish 378-8775 or Lynette 377-0236.

Masterton Art Club: 10am-2pm for browsing or painting, at 12 Victoria St. Call Sue 377-7019.

Dance Fit: 6pm at the YMCA Masterton. For details text ‘Dance Fit’ to (027) 349-8962.

Walk Fit: Open to everyone, 9.30am. For details text ‘Walk Fit’ to (027) 239-9001.

Age Concern: Sit and Be Fit, 1.30pm followed by gentle exercise class, Senior Citizens hall, Cole St, Masterton.

Wairarapa Asthma Society Inc: South Wairarapa, Easy Breathers Gentle Exercise Group, 10.30-11.30am, at the St John rooms. Call Sylvia 377-1175 or Cathy (027) 359-3625.

Club Carterton: Two-course barbecue meal, 6.30pm.

Belly Dance: 1-2pm, at St Johns Hall, Greytown. Call Tamara (06) 308-8343 or text (021) 022-31893.

The Dance Shed: 450 Belvedere Rd Carterton.

Rock N Roll Class, 7-9pm. Call Wendy or Don 379-6827 or (027) 319-9814.

Carterton Women’s Golf: 9-hole golf at 10.45am. Call Colleen 377-0841 or Alison 377-5709.

Quit Smoking Support Group: Run by Whaiora quit coaches, free, noon-1pm, at 22 Dixon St, Masterton.

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

Chair Yoga: At Wairarapa Village, 140 Chapel St, Masterton. Gentle movements, 9.30am. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132.

Yoga Works: Masterton 5.30pm. Call Robyn 377-1802.

Pilates: Core 9am, 50s Forward 11am, Core 5.30pm, Beginners 6.30pm at Bodymind Pilates, 6 Queen St, Masterton. Call 370-1121.

Tai Chi for Health: 9.30-10.30am, St Mark’s Church Hall, Carterton.

Yin yoga + Restore: 6.30pm, 22 Dixon St, Masterton. Txt Tulletha (022) 176-4296. Call 370-1121.

Beginners Yoga: 9am, Carterton. Call Odette (021) 180-9452.

Pregnancy Yoga: 12.30pm, Hot Yoga Studio, Kuripuni. Call Karina (021) 0820-0132.

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

Karate: Masterton Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-Do, 6.30pm, 49 Te Ore Ore Rd, Masterton.

Call Steve or Sharron Riley 378-8814 or (027) 680-7738.

Self Defence/Ju Jitsu: 8-9.30pm, Masterton Judo & Ju Jitsu Academy, 149 Queen St. Call Simon (021) 248-6111.

Wairarapa Singers: 6.45pm, at Rosewood, 417 Queen St, Masterton. Call Pete 370-4574.

Esperanto Club: 2pm, write to people using the international language worldwide. Call 377-0499.

Soulway Cooking and Crafts: 10am-noon, High St, Masterton. Call Nikki Smith 370-1604 (church office).

Alcoholics Anonymous: Martinborough, 7.30pm, 9 Jellicoe St. Call Mark 906) 306-6013 or (021) 02442870.

Karate-Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Wairarapa Inc: Featherston: Primary School Hall, at 6pm. Call Paul Cantwell (06) 308-9839 or (027) 376-9804.

Masterton Croquet Club: Association Croquet 9.15am and 12.45pm. Call Ian Wyeth 378-6425 or 377-5762. * To have an event listed please email event@age.co.nz

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Carterton School 2017 Enrolments The Carterton School BOT has some ‘Out of Zone Enrolment Places’ available for the remainder of 2017 across all school year levels.

Applications are now open for parents who wish to enrol their children at Carterton School in 2017 and live outside of our school zone. Enrolment at the school is governed by an enrolment scheme. Details are available from the school office.

Applications close on Thursday 21st September If the number of Out of Zone applications exceeds the number of places available, students will be selected by ballot.

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Employment FARM GENERAL A vacancy is available for the above position on our dairy farm just 5 minutes from Masterton.

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Sport

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

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Waicol first XI act as role models

FOOTBALL

The Wairarapa College first XI football squad have been helping develop the skills of younger players this season.

Benefitting from their assistance have been the Douglas Villa Magpies Under-9 team who relished having different

members of the squad coaching them on Wednesday nights.

The first XI players, who range from Year 9 to Year 13, also took on coaching and refereeing duties for other Wairarapa College sides through the 2017 season.

Waicol coach and assistant principal Aaron Perkins said his squad gained a lot

Semis indoor, final outdoors NETBALL

BY GARY CAFFELL The fate of Netball Wairarapa’s premier one competition will be decided over two series of games being played within a few hours of each other and at two very different venues in Masterton.

In what is a change from the norm, the two semi-finals will be staged indoors at the Trust House Recreation Centre on Friday night with the winners going forward to the grand final to be held outdoors at the Colombo Rd courts on Saturday afternoon, starting at 1pm.

The semi-finalists were decided on competition points over two rounds with

Harcourts going unbeaten over the 10 games and sitting on 30pts, followed by Celtic on 23, Carterton New World Red 17 and Gladstone Helloworld Gold 14.

Out of the reckoning were the two college sides, Wairarapa College A finishing on 11pts and St Matthew’s Collegiate on 0.

Top seeds Harcourts will play fourth seeds Gladstone Helloworld Gold in one of the semis with second seeds Celtic confronting Carterton New World Red in the other.

The premier one decider will, of course, be the feature match on finals day at Colombo Rd on Saturday and will be preceded by the premier reserve final between Carterton New World Legends and Harcourts Elite, starting at 11am.

from working with the younger boys and thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity.

“I believe it is important to give back to the community and be positive role models.

“It was a great experience for our team, working together to help young boys develop their skills,” Perkins said.

Wairarapa College ÿ rst XI and Douglas Villa Magpies players face the camera before a training run.

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Thriller in the Under-10s RUGBY

It was finals time in Wairarapa-Bush JAB rugby at the end of August, and arguably the most exciting of the games came in the Under-10 grade.

Greytown took on East Coast and in a thrilling match played on the artificial turf at Memorial Park where Greytown prevailed by 7-6.

Both teams played some grand rugby and it was almost right on fulltime when Greytown scored the vital try.

Try scorers for the southerners were Carlo Isaac (2), Dylan Fenwick (2), Xavier Cooke, Jethro Doherty and Jaxon Saunders.

The Under-11 final between a combined Greytown and Gladstone team and Carterton was also played at Memorial Park.

Cian Mclean scored two tries for the combined side which turned on a brave performance but it was Carterton who called the shots and deserved their 35-14 win.

Unbeaten Masterton Red Star Black started warm favourites in the Under-13 final against Greytown but with Conley Alexander and Joseph Hall scoring tries and William Cole kicking the conversions, Greytown led 14-7 in the first half.

Masterton Red Star dominated the second half to win well with their backs making a huge impression.

There was some stirring rugby played in the lower age groups as well.

The Gladstone Gold Under-8s were in grand form in their semi-final against Pioneer which they won 6-2 and this progressed them to the final against Masterton Red Star Black.

In an exciting game, it was Masterton Red Star who prevailed 7-3.

In the same grade, Gladstone Black had a battle royal with Eketahuna winning 3-0 in a game where the ball seemed to spend most of the time in a ruck or maul while Greytown

Benji Gardiner powers his way upfield for Gladstone Gold Under-8s. PHOTO/SUSAN JONAS

Greytown Under-10s celebrate their success.

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Carterton Under-11s celebrate their grand finals win.

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Gladstone-Greytown Under-11 halfback Sam Jonas puts the foot down. PHOTO/SUSAN JONAS

did themselves proud with an impressive win over Marist Green before a loss to Carterton, thereby placing fourth overall.

In the Under-9 grade, Gladstone took on Carterton with Carterton taking the honours there.

Player of the day for Gladstone was Ged Billing and most improved was Harry Rogers.

RON MARK

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YEAR 9 DIGITAL LEARNING CORE CLASS APPLICATIONS CLOSE 8TH SEPTEMBER 2017

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In 2018, Wairarapa College will introduce a new Digital Learning Core Class. The call will utilize digital devices brought from home to enhance their learning in the core subjects of English, Health and Physical Education, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. The presence of 1:1 devices will allow the Digital Learning Class to engage in a wider range of learning approaches such as inquiry learning, thematic learning and ° ipped learning, alongside the usual curriculum skills and competencies.

Students will need to apply for a place in this class as numbers are limited. There is likely to be a short listing process that will incorporate assessment of past experiences, current skills, suitability and motivation for being in the class.

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Sport

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Wairarapa Midweek

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One small step for Wai-Bush RUGBY

So, when you consider they scored five tries to one and came away with the maximum 5pts as a consequence, it’s fair to say this was a satisfactory day at the office for the home team.

Although they will still have to lift several notches if they are to have any chance of repeating last year’s effort of making the Meads Cup top four playoffs.

East Coast, in all honesty, were pretty average, yet for a brief period early in the second half the prospects of them pulling off an unlikely win could not be discounted.

From 17-0 down at halftime they picked up a converted try and a penalty to close the score to 17-10 within six minutes of the resumption of play, and were exposing holes in the WairarapaBush defence regularly enough to suggest there could be more to come.

It was pleasing, not only in the second half but in the first as well, to see Wairarapa-Bush not only create try scoring opportunities, but generally turn them into points on the board.

No 8 Tavita Isaac, in his Heartland

GARY CAFFELL Wairarapa-Bush’s 36-10 win over East Coast in their Heartland championship rugby match at Memorial Park, Masterton on Saturday, could best be described as a step in the right direction.

A small step maybe, but a step nevertheless.

Frankly, any sort of victory would probably have been seen as acceptable by a Wairarapa-Bush camp desperately needing a boost in confidence after their 79-7 drubbing by Wanganui the previous weekend.

Tavita Isaac crashes over for the first Wairarapa-Bush try.

debut and returning to the active scene after a lengthy break through concussion, scored the first of them with a typical charge for the line.

When he left the field after 29 minutes his replacement Chris Raymond crashed over for the second after the initial thrust had been made by fellow loosie Brendan Campbell.

It was young winger Soli Malatai who steadied the nerves for Wairarapa-Bush in the second spell after East Coast had dominated the opening stanzas with a try to Parekura Lalaga and a conversion and

Wairarapa-Bush midfield back Cyrus Baker on the attack.

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penalty to Kris Palmer, capitalising on a good pass from halfback Piri Weepu to cross for their third try.

And the fourth was scored by Inia Katia, not long after he had come off the reserve bench to replace Weepu.

The last of the five Wairarapa-Bush tries went to skipper Eddie Cranston and it was appropriate it should come after his pack had shunted their East Coast counterparts back several metres at a scrum, as of all the areas of the forward game where Wairarapa-Bush had an ascendancy this was the most marked.

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