Last year she won numerous competitions, including some against top shooters from around the country. She also had wins against teams from Great Britain and the United States. After winning the youth award she said she was grateful for all the opportunities she had, and it was cool to see what a girl from a small town like Dannevirke could achieve. “I hope I can shoot some more bullseyes next year.” She hoped to be selected for the New Zealand team for the Oceania games, as well as the North Island open, junior and women’s shooting teams, where she can then qualify for New Zealand teams. She also planned to become the top secondary school shooter at the national secondary school championships in September.
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Monday, 8 March 2021, 9:14 am
Te Marae o Hine Palmerston North’s Square will ring to
the sound of chainsaws and wood chopping, alongside many
other farm animal noises, from sheep and horses to miniature
ponies and working sheepdogs, for three days from
Friday.
The
Ford Ranger New Zealand Rural Games is back and this
time there is a heavy focus on youth to lift interest in the
booming rural economy and rural sports.
Rural Games
founder Steve Hollander said we’ve introduced several new
initiatives like the Westpac Agri Futures careers day and
expanded youth-related championships.
“We hope to
nurture the next generation of rural sporting athletes and
The finals are to be held on Friday, March 12, at Awapuni Function Centre, the night before the New Zealand Rural Games begin in Palmerston North. but this is now uncertain due to changing Covid-19 alert levels. “I’ve been involved with sheep trialling for 40 years starting as a youngster shepherding. I’ve picked up administration stuff in recent years,” Mallinson said. Secretary of the Hilton/Gapes Valley Collie club for 17 years, she has helped organise South Island and New Zealand championships and has been editor of the New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Association newsletter for 13 years. The newsletter is distributed in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Games organiser Carl Waitoa said the antics drew an encouraging crowd of spectators. “People like to come and see us lift heavy things and throw them around.”
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Hinewai Anderson on the end of a caber demonstrates the power that made her the overall winner in the women s section of the Highland Games complementing the pipe band competitions in Palmerston North. The overall men’s winner on the day was Adam Miller, who won the New Zealand Rural Games competition in March, with Hinewai Anderson taking out the women’s section. The band winners for the set competition were the Manawatū Scottish No 1 in grade 1, Hamilton Caledonian Society in grade 2, City of Tauranga in grade 3 and Papakura in grade 4.