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Pahiatua Shears celebrates 50th jubilee this month 18 Feb, 2021 07:52 PM 6 minutes to read Bush Telegraph By: Steve Carle Pic: BTG080310JackFagan Caption: Jack Fagan, a chip off the old block, at Pahiatua Shears in 2010. Pic: BTG220221SHEARS3 Caption: Balfour was the venue the Pahiatua Shears for many years, seen in its heydays. By Steve Carle Pahiatua Shears will be having its 50th shearing competition on the last Sunday of this month on February 28. Gordon (Flash) Duxfield is the chairman/convener. Advertisement Founding committee member Philip Morrison has not missed a competition in the last 49 years. Foundation committee members: Dave Wolland with a Golden Lister shearing hand-piece with a Predator comb he used while shearing in England with Philip Morrison holding a Pahiatua Shears ribbon in Pahiatua. ....
Fire-scorched cargo unloaded from Napier ship, more than a month after blaze 4 Feb, 2021 02:12 AM 2 minutes to read The Kota Bahagia as work continues on Thursday afternoon. Photo / Paul Taylor Hawkes Bay Today An operation to unload a hold ravaged by fire aboard cargo ship the Kota Bahagia started at the Port of Napier on Thursday. While local cargo had previously been discharged, the latest operation involves removal of windfarm turbines in the hold when it erupted in flames dockside at the port on the morning of December 18. Details were unconfirmed but what was thought to be the first load left the port about 2pm, a large shrink-wrapped load on a truck and trailer with a wide-load escort. At least three other trucks were at the port awaiting loading. ....