Community Choir Concert

Now in it’s second year of concert giving, the Martinborough Community Choir will present our second concert on Tuesday eve, December 9th at 7.30pm. The concert will be in St Andrew’s Hall Dublin Street.

We welcome back Novella this year as our ‘support act’. Novella is a South Wairarapa women’s vocal quartet, who accompany themselves on guitar, ukulele and mandolin.

The concert will also feature a young tenor soloist, Griffin Nichol-Madill from Wellington. Griffin will sing three solos with the choir and join our tenor section for the rest of the concert. … Continue Reading

Martinborough Community Board

At the Community Board meeting on the 3rd November we considered the first of our twice yearly grant applications. We were thrilled to receive 5 applications and 4 of these were approved.

Life Education Trust
A grant of $500 for continued education services including an upgrade of the digital classroom.
Friends of Martinborough School

A grant of $200 to assist with the cost of running the Martinborough Guy Fawkes on 8 November 2014.
Rangatahi II Rangitira Martinborough

To approve payment to New World of up to $200 for sausages and condiments for fundraising activities, on the condition that Rangatahi II Rangitira Martinborough reimburse MCB from fundraising profits.
Plus to set aside $1,000 in the Community Board budget for future events.
Rural South Wairarapa Sports Inc. … Continue Reading

Christmas promises

Christmas is fast approaching with promises to our three-year-old boys of a supernatural visitor in the night. This is the first year the boys have been old enough to benefit from the fraud and so I, like millions of parents before me, have happily contributed to one of the most successful and benign conspiracies in human history.

I say benign knowing full well not everybody sees it that way (coca cola, consumerism, cholesterol, choose your objection) and indeed I’ve even heard parents wondering whether it’s okay to deceive their children. For me, as for most people, it was no difficult decision. Young children naturally inhabit the twilight world between fact and imagination. They are too busy decoding the crude rules of existence to yet bother with the sharper details of which patterns pertain to the real and which to the invented. … Continue Reading

Calf and Lamb Days

Kahutara Success – again
Kahutara students who took part in the South Featherston School Agricultural Day .All of these students took either their lamb or calf and competed in their appropriate grade.  
The Brough Cup was first presented in 1934 and named the Featherston Group Calf Club’.  South Featherston, Featherston, St Teresas, Kahutara-Tuhitarata and Kahutara Schools have all won the cup over those years, however consecutively, since 1998 Kahutara School have held the trophy! … Continue Reading