Biggest meeting Speedway NZ has ever held : Meeanee prepares for a stockcar storm
13 Jan, 2021 02:08 AM
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Harry Wall, a helper from Palmerston North, cuts grass in front of the speedway track ahead of the big meet. NEWS Photo / Warren Buckland
Harry Wall, a helper from Palmerston North, cuts grass in front of the speedway track ahead of the big meet. NEWS Photo / Warren Buckland
Meeanee is getting ready to host New Zealand biggest stockcar championship - by numbers - on Friday and Saturday.
Speedway promoter Bruce Robertson said the field of 233 cars for the Hawke s Bay Doors New Zealand Stockcar Championships is the biggest ever by miles for the national championship.
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Haulashore Island, once part of the Boulder Bank, marks the entrance to Port Nelson and volunteers hope to make it a home for little penguins. (File photo)
Nelson’s Haulashore Island could become a thriving little penguin habitat, with people able to watch the world’s smallest penguin return to the shore at dusk. The five-hectare island off Nelson s waterfront road has been the focus of renewed predator control efforts last year to protect the birdlife, thanks to a team of dedicated volunteers. The island is a major breeding site for pied shags and also home to the at-risk northern spotted skink. But it s the little penguin, often called the little blue penguin or kororā, that volunteers hope will return to nest there as they reduce the number of predators.
Robertson given Award of Merit by Commonwealth Sport Canada Saturday, 2 January 2021
Olympic medallist Bruce Robertson has received the Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) Award of Merit in recognition of his volunteer service with the organisation, it has been announced.
The Award recognises an individual who has made distinguished, lasting and valuable contributions to furthering the aims and objectives of Commonwealth Sport Canada and the Commonwealth Games Foundation of Canada (CGFC), both domestically and internationally .
Robertson won Olympic silver and bronze medals in the 100 metres butterfly and 4x100m medley at Munich 1972, as well as gold in the individual event at the 1973 World Championships in Belgrade.
WE write in strong support of the views expressed by MSPs Kate Forbes and Alasdair Allan for tough, positive action for Gaelic and the urgent need for local people to be able to buy, build or rent homes in their own island and rural communities ( Gaelic housing estates and regulating second homes… race is on to save a language , The Herald, December 26). The Vernacular report was a wake-up call to keep Gaelic as a living language in the islands but whilst welcomed in some quarters, it has been met with, at best, complacency, by Bord na Gàidhlig, the national agency entrusted with saving and promoting the language and culture.