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Current president John Herlihy and his rival Bryan Ramage are looking forward to the Whangamomona Republic Day election on Saturday.
A trio of garden gnomes is contesting the Whangamomona Republic Day election on Saturday. The biennial vote is held on the anniversary of the republic being formed in 1989 after locals revolted against regional boundary changes that meant their town was no longer part of Taranaki and would be classed as Manawatū/ Whanganui.
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Gnomes Ta and Ko, pictured on a statue in the remote town s main street, are standing for the presidency of the Whangamomona Republic on Saturday.
Gibbs was also the Provincial Chairman of Federated Farmers for Nelson and Tasman from 1995 to 1999 and helped set up the Top of the South Rural Support Trust – chairing the organisation from 2000 to 2017. In recent years he has been a Wakefield Community Council Trustee, the current farming representative on the Tasman District Council s Dry Weather Task Force, and was involved with the response to the 2019 Pigeon Valley Fires.
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Colin Gibbs, pictured here in 2008 at the Motueka A&P Show Sheepdog Trials. Gibbs has been a member of the Waimea/Tapawera Dog Trial Club since 1965. Of all his achievements Gibbs said he was probably most proud of his work with the Rural Support Trust, helping farmers get through events like floods and droughts, as well as personal adversity.
Rural Support Trust advises care as drought threatens Waimate and North Otago
20 Dec, 2020 11:00 PM
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Otago Daily Times
Farmers in the Waimate and North Otago districts are being urged to keep an eye on each other as the area becomes critically dry .
Affected areas included Waimate, Waihaorunga and through the Hakataramea Valley and coastal North Otago, Otago Rural Support Trust co-ordinator Lindsay Purvis said.
Stock seemed to be in good order, which was often the case when drought started, and some farmers were weaning lambs at 8 weeks old, Purvis said.
There seemed to be a market from Dunedin south for store lambs, although the store beef market had virtually collapsed .