Covid 19: Anxious wait for region as as locations woman visited revealed
24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
Bendon Outlet in Whangārei was among 30 places the woman who tested positive for Covid visited.
Photo / Adam Pearse
AP
Northlanders becoming blase about using the Covid tracer app have had a wake-up call after a woman from the region tested positive after twice returning negative results at a quarantine facility.
The woman, 56, lives just south of Whangārei and travelled with her husband in the southern parts of Northland, to about 30 places around Mangawhai, Dargaville and Helensville, and became symptomatic on January 15.
Shear guts: Shearer puts in marathon effort to help injured mate
23 Dec, 2020 01:00 AM
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Ariki Hawkins shears in the middle of the night to his tally of 1052. Photo / Doug Laing
Hawkes Bay Today
It was a deserved a beer for Hawke s Bay shearer Ariki Hawkins, even if it was 6am on Wednesday morning.
It had been the biggest day and night of his shearing career.
On Wednesday, Hawkins completed two-standard eight-hour woolshed days back-to-back, starting at 7am on Tuesday and finishing at 3.45am on Wednesday after running out of sheep.
He broke some personal records along the way, shearing 500 in a day for the first time with a 7am-5pm tally of 585, shearing 1000 lambs two hours ahead of time and finishing with 1052 lambs in 14hrs 45mins.