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New Villas for Wharekaka

Martinborough residents will have been following with interest the new buildings going up on Suez St behind the Wharekaka Residential Home. These…

Aug 2019

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Inner Wheel Club of South Wairarapa

The Greytown Shared Pantry is now up and running thanks to a joint effort by the following South Wairarapa organisations: Rotary, Inner…

Aug 2019

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News from First Church

Weekly Sunday gatherings are taking place in our hall from till the end of September. The cosier relaxed setting works very well…

Aug 2019

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Maree’s musings collecting is cool

What is it about collecting stuff? I’d challenge my readers to identify a single person who doesn’t have a collection of anything;…

Aug 2019

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Know your town MacGregor’s Glasgow House

Alec MacGregor erected the building now know as Kitchener’s in 1906. Alec was born in Glasgow in 1872. He entered the fabric…

Aug 2019

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Community Garden News

It is said “that one of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a packet of seeds and a spade”, and this…

Aug 2019

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Letters

Rate rises The latest SWDC rates newsletter congratulates the Council on a rates increase of 5.48% — which it describes as “slightly…

Aug 2019

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Did you know

24,767 PEOPLE tried to vote at the last election only to find that they had not enrolled. 7.6% of New Zealanders who…

Aug 2019

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Cooking Corner

Spicy beef, kiwifruit and avocado Ingredients 150 gr Beef fillet (in one piece) 3 golden kiwifruit 1 ripe but firm avocado 1…

Aug 2019

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Waihinga Centre

Fundraising Success Fundraising efforts are go and so far it has been lots of fun! The Square of Gold kept on rolling…

Jun 2019

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Museum news

There’s been quite a buzz recently about the discovery of million year old moa footprints in a river in the South Island.…

Jun 2019

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Know your town

George Pain corner For those who think Pain and Kershaw’s was established on the Square in Martinborough in 1873 , please think…

Jun 2019

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