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Early settlers , Jessie Hibberd

Jessie Elizabeth Hibberd was born at Pirinoa in January 1892, the fourth child of Mr and Mrs Cornelius Hibberd. The Hibberds moved to Martinborough while Jessie quite young and she attended Waihinga School.

At the age of fourteen she  began work at the Featherston County Council office. Six years later she joined the staff of the solicitors  Gawith and Logan – later Gawith and Neild. She remained there for the next forty five years. … Continue Reading

Library News

“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham.

In today’s age of misinformation and “fake news”, here’s a handy (and cheeky) way of determining whether information is what it says it is – the CRAAP test:  Is the information CURRENT? Is it RELEVANT? Was it produced by someone with AUTHORITY? Is the information ACCURATE? What is the information’s PURPOSE?  Keep these simple questions in mind and it will be easy to sort the wheat from the chaff.

We’ve had a lot of people commenting recently on the number of plastic cards in our wallets these days.  Did you know you can check books out with your mobile phone?  We can help you to download the Wairarapa Library Service app and scan your library card into the app… that’s one less card you’ll have to worry about.

Here’s some of the things going on at the Library:

We host the Community Law Centre in the Library on the 4^th Tuesday of every month from 10am – 12pm. This is a free drop-in service to offer legal advice and assistance to the community.

Want to share that great book you’ve been reading?  Come and join our Book Club every 3^rd Thursday from 11am-12pm.  This is a friendly, informal way to meet with like-minded readers and find some new goodies to read.

Our preschool storytime is back!  Wā Korero is every Tuesday morning (during the school term), at the new time off 11.15-11.45am. Bring your wee ones in for some great stories and library fun.

We’ve got some great things going on, so pop in and ask us – we’re always happy to help our community.  Stay cool, stay safe and stay well-read.

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

Many thanks

Madcaps would like to acknowledge the huge amount of support that they received in running the highly successful Christmas Parade. From us it’s a big vote of thanks to the following companies and groups whose assistance made the event possible:

• South Wairarapa District Council, Brackenridge Country Retreat & Spa, Neighbourhood Coffee House & Roastery, Union Square Bistro & Bar, Peppers Parehua, Stonecutter Martinborough, 51 Jellicoe Smart Hub, Martinborough Hotel, Medici Café, Pain & Kershaw, Kitcheners Café, D’Vine Hair & Beauty, Scotty’s Meats, Good Times Food Truck, The Martinborough Sweet Shop, Fresh as a Daisy, It’s Quite Cool, The Bach, Wine Bank, OMG Café, The Grocer Martinborough, Colombo Vineyard,Lismore House & Vineyard, Moy Hall, Pete Doherty and The Fern &  Thistle Pipe Band, Resima Haulage, Fulton Hogan, Wairarapa Times Age, Masterton District Council. 
• Not to forget the large number of volunteers who worrked together to make this  such a fun event. 
• MADCAPS  is planning for this year’s Parade to be even bigger and better with worthwhile prizes for the best floats. So all you sports clubs , companies and other groups start pooling ideas for your great entry.

MARTINBOROUGH RUGBY CLUB

Firstly a huge congratulations to our Colts Sevens team who travelled to Palmerston North for the Mananwatu Invitational Sevens Tournament.  They won the Colts division with a nail biting final against Freyberg Old Boys 28-24 scoring a converted try in the last seconds to secure the win.  

They won 3 of the 4 pool games (vs Feilding Yellows, Whanganui Metro & Hutt Old Boys Marist) but lost to Freyberg so was great to face them again and win!  Thanks to Hatarei Brown who puts in a lot of time each summer to our Sevens.  He will be taking a Mens team to the Shannon Sevens tournament at the end of this month. … Continue Reading