Star-date: Last Thursday at 8pm. I left Cambridge with 157k to travel to the North Shore of Auckland. I was aware that I had the use of the 110km Waikato Expressway and the Auckland Motorway. Both my leaving point and destination were close to on/off ramps. I estimated 1hour 40mins for the trip - without
A dramatic afternoon is expected as King Country shearer Sacha Bond battles her way through a World women’s nine-hours strongwool ewes shearing record bid in a Northern Southland woolshed. Starting at 5am, and originally forecast by some as .
Taumarunui farm stock manager Miri Haig went 26 years almost completely out of the woolhandling scene but showed she hadn’t lost the touch when she won the Waitangi Day Sports Open final near the isolated King Country township of Aria on Tuesday. .
Four of New Zealand’s fastest shearers are making a flying trip to Australia, which could end up with one of them winning A$20,000 for barely a minute’s.