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“Pass Wide And Slow” for horse, rider road safety

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A group of Martinborough horse riders will join a world-wide day of action mid-month, riding the streets to support a call for road safety awareness for both riders and their mounts.

“Pass Wide And Slow” (PWAS) by late August had more than 240 riders taking part in seven countries, from Britain and Ireland to South Africa and New Zealand, to ride for road safety. 

Ten Martinborough horse-and-rider teams are among the 38 signed on to take part country-wide, where the New Zealand Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) has confirmed no safety rules or  regulations are in place to safeguard horses being ridden on streets and roads.

Local organiser Anastasia Walsh said she and her colleaguees are constantly confronted by vehicles _ cars, vans, trucks _ showing no awareness of their impact on road-trekking horses and riders.

The group is circulating a petition to present to Parlament, seeking regulations to safeguard the  passage “of vulnerable road-users along roads and streets and amend the Land Transport Act to provide safety provision for horse riders and to help educate the road-using public. … Continue Reading

EVENTS  – September 2024

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Wellington Heritage Festival

When: October 26 – November 17 

Where: * Wellington Region – 140 events

                * Wairarapa for 1st time – 11 events

How: “Crowd-sourced” local events

Why: Honouring the Past, Inspiring the Future

Entry Price: Not stated.

Martinborough School Annual Production … Continue Reading

25 Helicopter missions fundraising target

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on 25 Helicopter missions fundraising target

Plans are well under way for a Wairarapa fundraising event for Life Flight on Friday 1

November at the Waihenga Centre in Martinborough.

The team organising the event – JC Baxter, Nick Arnold, Susan Arnold-Barron and

Susan Stephen, along with Seb Grodd and Caroline Lee from Life Flight, cvlaim they are very excited about the Cocktail Function and are hoping to raise $50,000 which equates to 25 helicopter

missions. … Continue Reading

How Well Do We Know People in our Community?

September 10, 2024 September 2024 Comments Off on How Well Do We Know People in our Community?

By Lyle Griffiths

Pierce Boyle of Le Coiffeur _ his mother is French, his father a New Zealander. Pierce was raised in

Versailles.

“Every Sunday was very special for me. My mother would collect my grandmother and cousin, who was just a little older than me. We would be allowed to play at the Jardin de Versailles. We could run wherever we wanted, play hide and seek, invent stories or become adventurers or spies. 

Our only restriction: balls must not go into the water! That didn’t stop my cousin from launching leaves and making little acorn boats float in the ponds.

My first school or Ecole Primaire, started at 8:00 a.m. and finished at 4:30 p.m. The Principal was always at the gate to greet all the children and school wardens were employed to ensure children were safe during recess and lunch. Just before lunch there was a 15-minute play break. … Continue Reading

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Martinborough golf by a hank – of wool

  We start at the end of the month, when the annual Baabraa Trophy between Martinborough and Eketahuna was fought out on a glorious Sunday in Martinborough. A field of 70 played a stableford round and the average stableford points for the two clubs were calculated. Eketahuna scored an average …

Lady golfers show Rosebowl winning ways

September has been an up and down month weatherwise for golfers, some beautiful early spring days followed by cold and rain. Thankfully for the important days the weather has mostly come to the party. Early in the month the Cotter Rosebowl was successfully defended at Carterton by Martinborough’s team of …

Stunning first 4 – 1 win for Marty Women’s FC

By All-knowing Football Reporter It was always going to happen. After a few draws, some losses the newly-formed MWFC won their first game. An impressive and resounding victory. It started with ‘The Fox in the Box,’ the striker who plays in the traditional Number 9 role of marauding the penalty …

Regular Features

From the Mayor

By Martin Connelly Water services have been a political football for some time. We associate …

EVENTS

Wellington Heritage Festival WHEN: October 26 – November 17  WHERE: * Wellington Region – 140 …

How Well Do We Know People in Our Community?

By Lyle Griffiths Pforzheim in Southern Germany was where Thomas Röckinger lived with his family, …

LETTER OF THE MONTH

Could ZERO growth be the answer?   So, Martinborough’s sewage woes continue, and have seriously …

THE STAR BOOK REVIEW

    By Brenda Channer – Martinborough Bookshop “Costanza” by Rachel Blackmore This is a …

THE STAR  BOOK  REVIEW  

By Brenda Channer –  Martinborough Bookshop “All the Colours of the Dark” by Chris Whittaker. …

EVENTS – October 2024

Discover Te Muna  WHEN:     Saturday, Sunday, October 19 – 20  TIME:      …

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