A Taranaki resident is celebrating her 100th birthday, just a few kilometres from where she was born. Shirley Houston, who now lives in Eltham, turned 100.
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Games organiser Carl Waitoa said the antics drew an encouraging crowd of spectators. “People like to come and see us lift heavy things and throw them around.”
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Hinewai Anderson on the end of a caber demonstrates the power that made her the overall winner in the women s section of the Highland Games complementing the pipe band competitions in Palmerston North. The overall men’s winner on the day was Adam Miller, who won the New Zealand Rural Games competition in March, with Hinewai Anderson taking out the women’s section. The band winners for the set competition were the Manawatū Scottish No 1 in grade 1, Hamilton Caledonian Society in grade 2, City of Tauranga in grade 3 and Papakura in grade 4.