December 2011

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Community News

Happy Christmas Everyone!

We wish our readers all the joys of the Festive Season. Good company, excited children, nice food and a time of relaxation.…

Dec 2011

Community News

Barrel Rolling great fun

The biggest ever crowd turned out in beautiful conditions to enjoy plenty of laughs and plenty of laughs is what they got.…

Dec 2011

Community News

Community Board notes

The last Martinborough Community Board meeting for this year was held on 21 November – it’s hard to believe that we won’t…

Dec 2011

Community News

COUNCILLORS COMMENTS

Town Hall It was a great turnout at the Town Hall for the Public Meeting to discuss the way forward with the…

Dec 2011

Regular Features

Cooking corner

Sausage and cabbage pie. A popular dish in Lombardy, Italy Ingredients: 2 sheets of frozen pre rolled pasty (defrosted) 6 standard sized…

Dec 2011

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Did You Know?

THAT the Martinborough Christmas parade will be held on Sunday 18th December commencing from the Martinborough Transport yard at 5pm. THAT 60%…

Dec 2011

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Fire Brigade

On November the 11th the brigade was called to a rubbish fire in Regent Street. The next day a call was received…

Dec 2011

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From the Mayor

I recently had the privilege of joining a local government study tour to Japan. There were nine attendees, seven from Australia and…

Dec 2011

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Know your town

WW1 Cannon Following World War One it was a common practice for the Army to bring home captured German equipment which was…

Dec 2011

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Letters

Improvement needed It was with some amusement we read of the SWDC vision to be “the Best little Council in NZ”. We…

Dec 2011

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Library News

Libraries to open all day Saturdays Old news perhaps to the worldly folks of Masterton but in the South Wairarapa this is…

Dec 2011

Sports

MARTINBOROUGH GOLF CLUB NEWS

By Kevin Campbell This is my last write-up for the year and the club certainly has finished the year on a high…

Dec 2011

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