Not a patch on Pumpkin
Pablo Collier, known as Pumpkin, was the donkey of the day at the Donkey and Mule Society's North Island Show at Timona Park, Feilding, yesterday.Daring cliff-face rescue saves pair
By LEE MATTHEWS - The Manawatu Standard
A tiny ledge on a steep slip and a calm day saved the lives of two hunters airlifted to safety out of the Ruahine Range by The Square Trust Rescue Helicopter crew.
Property values on the rise
By LEE MATTHEWS - The Manawatu Standard
Property values have gone up 5.6 per cent in Palmerston North, compared with the same time last year.
Professor: Education standards fail pupils
By MARIKA HILL - The Manawatu Standard
A Palmerston North professor has blasted the Government's national standards policy, but academics are divided on whether the policy will help lift students' performance.
Builders pay back with fales
By JILL GALLOWAY - The Manawatu Standard
About 25 builders gathered yesterday to partly pre-build houses for Samoan tsunami victims who lost everything in the September disaster.
That's the trick
The National Juggling Convention, which attracted more than 100 jugglers, street performers and unicyclists, plus dozens of others giving it a go, was held in perfect weather at the Levin Show Grounds.
Warning against sky lanterns
Palmerston North City Council is urging residents not to use sky lanterns for celebrations this summer because they can blow away and cause fires.
Five years for rape
Major Dad
Action at Turakina
The annual Turakina Highland Games had some strong levels of competition with competitors coming from all over the North Island to take part during the weekend.
Free lunch for city teens
Teens may have caused some trouble in Palmerston North over the summer holidays, but all their discretions were forgotten over a free feed of fish and chips in The Square.
Croquet results
Choral Society update
Croquet
Croquet Manawatu
Golf Croquet Interclub Competition - Week 1
Youngheart drop way down table
Youngheart Manawatu no longer have their New Zealand Football Championship playoff ambitions in their own hands.
Horgan and Ellery to clash in quarterfinals
Manawatu representatives Pat Horgan and Ross Ellery are the only name players left to fight for the centre singles title at Terrace End at the weekend.
Heroics have the Hawke Cup in reach
Joblin brothers more than flag racers
Blowing the the wind
Former Winter Olympic snowboarding coach Olly Brunton says kite sports are going to be a major player on the New Zealand sporting landscape in years to come.
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Flying new flag a step forward
Waitangi Day passed with little more than a whimper this year, partly because it fell on a Saturday, and partly because the simmering political tensions that have boiled over in the past have cooled somewhat.
Not much 'closure' for the Pike family
You often hear the word "closure" at the end of high-profile court cases. At the sentencing phase of the justice system, victims' families and friends are often asked the question.
Head-scratching suppression
Trust back doing what it does best
Open justice gets thrown aside
If there were any lingering doubts that the guidelines for suppressing names in this country needed strengthening, the case detailed in today's Manawatu Standard should shatter them.
Coal deal challenges pledge
Prime Minister John Key's insistence that New Zealand can close an income gap with Australia has been dealt a further blow, with the signing of an $85 billion deal to export coal to China.
Deutsche eyes NZ's Craigs Investments
Global giant Deutsche Bank is understood to be eyeing a slice of local share broking firm Craigs Investment Partners.
Warehouse seeks to raise $100m
NZX slips at open
Agriculture outlook positive
Rabobank says New Zealand agriculture should benefit from continuing global economic recovery this year.
Vet scheme expansion
A new wider cash bonus for veterinary graduates, who work with farm animals, could make rural practice more inviting.
Weather hits shearing
It's meant the season has been a stop-start affair, while the sale of wool only covers the costs of shearing.
All that water is just gold
New kid on the organic block
It's flystrike season again
The continuing wet and warm weather is the perfect storm for flystrike, and it is likely to be having an impact on lambs in the region, says farm advisor Garry Massicks from Feilding-based Stantiall and Keeling.
Labour's man gets around
Iain Lees-Galloway is always up for a good cause, Grant Miller writes.
A cut above
Gabrielle Bundy-Cooke is a bundle of energy and hairdressing expertise. Emma Goodwin asks what makes her tick.
Bicycle bonanza
Terrors of the kitchen
Making a difference with youth
Senior Constable Bob Filbee has been educating school students on safety for the past 18 years and was awarded a Queen's Service Medal in the New Year Honours. Marika Hill delves into his life outside the police force.
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