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MARTINBOROUGH SCHOOL mathematicians Billy Jenkinson, Joshua Sherwood and Jack Lovell took out the Year 6 title at this year’s Matharapa competition.

WAIRARAPA Ploughing Match Association Annual Match is on the 5th October at 117 Gladstone Road Carterton. Ploughing Commences at 10.30 a.m.  Admission by  Gold Coin

NICKY HAGER’S father ran a large Levin clothing factory famous for its trendy 1960s bright floral/paisley shirts.

EVERY DAY 8.3 million people (the population of New York) fly by commercial airlines. Over three billion people a year.
‘IT CAN’T be easy trying to fund a political party these days. With politicians as popular as a wasp in a submarine you’d probably have more luck having a whip around for President Assad’ – commentator Charlie Brooker. … Continue Reading

Cooking Corner

Savoury pinwheel scones
Ingredients
3 cups self raising flour
½ teaspoon salt
50gr butter
½ cup grated tasty cheese
1 ½ cups milk
250gr cream cheese
1 tbsp capers chopped
1 cup rocket chopped
1 x 200gr can smoked salmon (drained)
Method
Preheat oven to 210 degrees
Grease and line a baking tray … Continue Reading

Conservation planting

Late last term the Kahutara School Year 5 and 6 children helped Friends of Onoke Spit and DOC plant 1000 plants.  It is great to see the development and growth that our previous years planting have made. They are looking at returning soon to place our school penguin boxes.
A further planting has been carried out at Wairio by eight Kahutara students, along with Mike Meehan and Linda Smith. They joined the Ducks Unlimited and Greater Wellington contractors Andrew Marshall and Don Bell to continue the ongoing wetlands planting at Wairio. This work has been going on for nine years now to help establish plant life in an area that floods easily.

Conor joins business group

Local business think-tank, the Wairarapa Development Group (WDG), has broadened its knowledgebase with the addition of three new members – John Booth, Carterton’s Deputy Mayor, Conor Kershaw of Martinborough’s Pain & Kershaw Ltd and Allan Pollard, CEO of Trust House Ltd. The new members bring with them sound business experience and take the Group’s number up to 14. Shane McManaway, WDG Chairman, says he is delighted the Group is growing and welcomes these experienced pairs of hands on board. … Continue Reading