Active Tennis Classes

Active Tennis Classes are now available in the Wairarapa. This very popular  new activity is not your ordinary tennis class, but an intensive tennis workout. Sessions are designed to improve your tennis and fitness using a non-stop drilling method.

Active Tennis Classes are great fun and accessible to young and old, from beginners to experienced players. The sessions can become very competitive and addictive.

Classes exist of 6 – 8 people and we keep you going for 1 hour or 1 ½ hour. … Continue Reading

Letters

Well Done School

I was delighted to read in the September Star that our year 1 – 6 school students are drinking milk daily, thanks to Fonterra. Even more pleasing was the carton and straw recycling project to create books and roofing tiles. Another bonus is the increase in awareness amongst our young residents of the need to reduce global warming. Fonterra need thanks too for providing recyclable containers. Just a shame that the giant company is negotiating to dig a coal mine in the Hunua Ranges near Auckland. Maybe they could have some of our famous Martinborough wind instead!

Maree Roy

Know your town

Plenty of room for sport in the 1900s

Over the last hundred years Martinborough has been the home of well over sixty sports clubs and community organisations. Some sports people have done very well, All Blacks, golf greats etc, even though “coming from a back water” as one representative put it.

A 1928 Martinborough promotion described Martinborough as being ‘eleven miles from Featherston with a population of 970. Excellent red deer stalking, pig and duck shooting within reasonable distances. Golf and tennis (no mention of other sports) and first class roads’. … Continue Reading

Know your Fire Fighters

Jamie Brock

Driving a fire truck is just another day at the office for Fire Fighter Jamie Brock, known to all as Brockie.  Always having worked in, on and around big machines he is often seen at the wheel of the fire truck on an emergency call out and easily becomes pump operator when he gets to the scene.
 
Born in Rotorua, his family moved to several places around the country as farmers.  Brockie took up shepherding and ran his own dogs before working as a mechanic at Gough’s in Palmerston North.  He moved with his family Martinborough 11 years ago and now is employed by Pakohe Agriculture based in Ruakokopatuna.  He drives and maintains tractors doing contract work for farmers all around the Wairarapa. … Continue Reading