'It's come home': Wairarapa woman reunited with lost ring 36 years later 13 Jan, 2021 10:24 PM 3 minutes to read Jillian Hammond lost the ring at her family farm 36 years ago. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age Wairarapa Times-Age By: Tom Taylor Thirty-six years ago, Jillian Hammond was trimming a macrocarpa hedge on the family farm in Ponatahi, in South Wairarapa, when she took her gloves off to brush a spider off her head. In removing the gloves, her wedding ring was flung off, and Hammond never saw it again. That is, until Monday, when she received a call from the farm's present owners, the Morrisons. "I couldn't believe it," Hammond said.