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Bucket list moment : Pair finally win at North Island dog trials 13 May, 2021 03:00 AM 4 minutes to read Grant Plaisted with Coke (left), and Mike Evans with Dawn. Photo / Supplied Otago Daily Times Two North Canterbury dog triallists were surprised to win North Island titles last month. Grant Plaisted, of Waikari, and Mike Bones Evans, of Greta Valley, have been travelling up to the North Island sheep dog championships together for years, but have never brought back the silverware - until now. The straight hunt final was won by Plaisted and his dog Coke, while Evans and his dog Dawn won the short head and yard. ....
Letters Problems Dave Vincent admits to having problems grasping the CPGB’s position on some issues - relating mainly to the kind of party that should be established and the nature of socialism (Letters, January 21). He seems to agree that “all Marxists should unite in one party with a programme along the lines suggested by the CPGB” - in other words, a Marxist party. But he adds that the CPGB “frowns upon the setting up of any other party of the working class, which it always derides as being a ‘Labour Party mark two’”. Well, if the left did unite in a single, democratic-centralist Marxist party, I can assure you we would more than welcome that! Our central organisational aim is the achievement of such a party and we will work in any political grouping where we believe that cause can be advanced. Over the years our comrades have participated in Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Alliance, Respect and Left Unity, to name just a few ....