Whanganui news in brief: Gumboot kudos, rail bridge struck
14 Mar, 2021 05:40 PM
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Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards. Photo / file
Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards. Photo / file
Whanganui Chronicle
Gumboot kudos
Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards held in Palmerston North on Friday, March 12. Troon is a founding member and chairman of the New Zealand Boot Throwing Association and has promoted Taihape as a destination of the sport for many years. For the past five years he has been a member of the North Island team and has competed in the men s open, North Island champs and was
The finals are to be held on Friday, March 12, at Awapuni Function Centre, the night before the New Zealand Rural Games begin in Palmerston North. but this is now uncertain due to changing Covid-19 alert levels. “I’ve been involved with sheep trialling for 40 years starting as a youngster shepherding. I’ve picked up administration stuff in recent years,” Mallinson said. Secretary of the Hilton/Gapes Valley Collie club for 17 years, she has helped organise South Island and New Zealand championships and has been editor of the New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Association newsletter for 13 years. The newsletter is distributed in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.