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.