Fatal Central Hawke s Bay quad bike crash latest in devastating trend
16 Jan, 2021 09:54 PM
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Federated Farmers Hawke s Bay president Jim Galloway thinks more might be able to be done to prevent quad bike accidents. Photo / Warren Buckland
Federated Farmers Hawke s Bay president Jim Galloway thinks more might be able to be done to prevent quad bike accidents. Photo / Warren Buckland
The Central Hawke s Bay farming community is in mourning again after a fatal quad bike crash on a farm in Omakere on Saturday.
A man went out on the bike in the morning and failed to return. His body was located shortly before 10pm.
A and P Show gets all the help a small town can muster in Wairoa
12 Jan, 2021 11:34 PM
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Some of the riders may be falling, but entries are on the rise for the rodeo at the Wairoa A and P Show on Friday and Saturday. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
A forecast for more than a week of fine weather mixed with all the help a small town can muster have become a boost for Wairoa as it stages the 122nd annual A and P Show this week.
It s a particularly important week, with the town having lost its parallel major event of the year, the annual races. They would have been held next month but have vanished in a major shakeup of horse racing nationwide.
Fatal Hawke s Bay farm vehicle roll: Outpouring of grief at loss of young rodeo talent
10 Jan, 2021 08:44 PM
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Police have released the name of the young woman who died following a farm vehicle rolling near Waipukurau on Sunday. Photo / Supplied
Police have released the name of the young woman who died following a farm vehicle rolling near Waipukurau on Sunday. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Tributes are pouring in from around New Zealand for a young woman and horse enthusiast who died when a farm vehicle rolled near Waipukurau on Saturday.
Twenty-year-old Samara Windle, from the Ruapehu area, was well known throughout the rodeo and equestrian communities.