Tuhirangi JAB Rugby

The JAB rugby season has kicked off and this year Tuhirangi have children playing across 7 different teams.  In the Under 6 Rippa grade we have our own Tuhirangi team.  Our Under 8’s, Under 10’s and Under 11’s have combined with Martinborough. Our Under 9’s have combined with Greytown.  Unfortunately we have had to split our Under 13 players and we have some playing with the Greytown Southern team and the rest have combined with Gladstone.  Many thanks to the other rugby clubs that include our children in their teams to ensure they all get to play.

The Tuhirangi Old Timers Day is booked in for Saturday 9^th June and we are lucky enough to be having 4 of our JAB teams playing at home in Pirinoa before the senior’s game.   The Under 10’s are playing at 10.00am, followed by the Under 11’s at 11.30am.  The Under 13’s will kick off at 1.00pm and then the main game is at 2.30pm.

We have new members taking up positions on the committee this year.  Mark Clarkson is president, Mel Handyside the Treasurer and Victoria Shaw has taken over as Secretary.

We look forward to a great season ahead.

Malcolm Jaspers  Tuhirangi JAB Delegate

       Young Musicians’ Concert in Greytown  –  

 4pm Sunday 24 June

The Greytown Music Group’s next concert will be a varied programme of music by Schubert, Ravel, Chopin, Bach and John Psathas, presented by the Tararua Trio: pianist Noelle Dannenbring, cellist Bethany Angus, and violinist Nathan Pinkney.

Noelle, a former Sir Edmund Hillary scholar, has just completed her Masters degree in piano performance under Katherine Austin at the University of Waikato. Last year she was a semi-finalist in the 2017 National Wallace Piano Competition and the National Concerto Competition, and in 2016 she won the University of Waikato Concerto Competition. She has a strong passion for playing chamber music, and has done well in chamber music competitions.  

This year she is teaching piano at St Peter’s School in Cambridge, providing tuition to tertiary minor piano students, and is in demand as an accompanist. She has just made her debut with the Trust Waikato Symphony Orchestra, performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Ed and Juliet Cooke attended the concert, and were impressed by Noelle’s musicianship and performance. … Continue Reading

The bags have landed

In 2017 two motivated local women, Carolyn Irwin and Amanda Ritchie, introduced the Boomerang Bag model to Martinborough.  The community embraced the concept, donating fabric and countless sewing hours to create a wonderful array of over 1700 colourful bags for locals and visitors to use as an alternative to single use plastic bags.

After seeing enough piles of fabric, sewing bees and screen printing going between both Carolyn & Amanda’s homes, husbands got together and suggested the project be taken to the next level.  In late 2017, Boomerang Bags reached out to the community and within two weeks $23,000 was raised to import ten thousand, 100% organic, fair-trade certified cotton bags from India.

After a much anticipated wait, The Martinborough Bag has now landed!  And, with the arrival of these bags came the announcement that Pain & Kershaw will no longer provide single use plastic bags to their customers from 1st July. … Continue Reading

Thank you Martinborough

Day two of DIY Marae. What an amazing community we have. Our whānau do us proud. I have never seen our trustees smile so much. The mahi continues, with returning and new whānau each becoming part of our marae and making their mark. If your local in Marty take a drive along New York st and see the changes. Tênā koutou whanau xxx

Thank you Martinborough, I was feeling quite emotional when I wrote the above post, so proud of what we were achieving.  The DIY Team told us it was the easiest DIY they had done, which is a massive reflection of our get up and go as a community.  We managed to squeeze in a 100th birthday celebration (special thanks to Hawkins whānau who made the magnificent cake) for the DIY team, made especially poignant by the fact one of their key team members is moving on after 15 years..

The ringawera (kitchen helpers) had their work cut out providing kai for the four days for more than 100 people per day – breakfast from 6.30am  to dinner at 6.00pm. Our Army support couldn’t praise the kai highly enough and they are experts on DIY Marae Kai!

We need to acknowledge some of the local businesses who made our weekend so successful.  This is not the whole list but the beginning of a long list of thank you’s that the committee will be working through.

The financial contributors were Trust House Foundation, South Wairarapa District Council and private contributors.  Thank you all, it was a big relief to us as a committee when we reached our financial target. … Continue Reading