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NZ s first rodeo related prosecution sees Northland farmer fined for animal cruelty
21 Jan, 2021 10:12 PM
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Northland farmer Derek Robinson was sentenced in the Whangārei District Court on Friday for ill-treating cattle at a rodeo. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Northland farmer Derek Robinson was sentenced in the Whangārei District Court on Friday for ill-treating cattle at a rodeo. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Multimedia journalist for the Northern Advocatekarina.cooper@nzme.co.nz
A Northland farmer of great character convicted of using a live electric prodder on two distressed steers at a rodeo was an example of good people breaking the law, a judge has found.
A and P Show gets all the help a small town can muster in Wairoa
12 Jan, 2021 11:34 PM
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Some of the riders may be falling, but entries are on the rise for the rodeo at the Wairoa A and P Show on Friday and Saturday. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
A forecast for more than a week of fine weather mixed with all the help a small town can muster have become a boost for Wairoa as it stages the 122nd annual A and P Show this week.
It s a particularly important week, with the town having lost its parallel major event of the year, the annual races. They would have been held next month but have vanished in a major shakeup of horse racing nationwide.
Fatal Hawke s Bay farm vehicle roll: Outpouring of grief at loss of young rodeo talent
10 Jan, 2021 08:44 PM
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Police have released the name of the young woman who died following a farm vehicle rolling near Waipukurau on Sunday. Photo / Supplied
Police have released the name of the young woman who died following a farm vehicle rolling near Waipukurau on Sunday. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Tributes are pouring in from around New Zealand for a young woman and horse enthusiast who died when a farm vehicle rolled near Waipukurau on Saturday.
Twenty-year-old Samara Windle, from the Ruapehu area, was well known throughout the rodeo and equestrian communities.