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Eight Ball: it’s talk, not chalk

Members of the Eight Ball Group are used to being quizzed on the origins of their name. The reason has more to do with physiology than pool, it seems, because the four men who started…

An eye for the horses

Nathan Pearson isn’t your average teenage horse-enthusiast. His passion for horses began when he saddled up, aged four, for his lessons at Greenhithe Riding for the Disabled in Auckland. “I’d never seen him sit and…

The lava in the moon

Did you know that the “man on the moon” is actually made of enormous lava flows? I’m talking about the darker patches on the moon that aren’t as bright as the rest of the surface…

The need for deregulation

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand speech on January 30 didn’t shine much light on what the bank might do with the Official Cash Rate on February 28. So economists and bankers are still speculating….

The consequence of delay

Two columns in The Cambridge News (January 18) drew attention to the massive problems facing New Zealand as a result of decades of short-term planning and under-funding of the county’s infrastructure at both the national…

Cambridge gets a taste

As distilleries go, the laundry did the job, but a purpose-designed facility is a huge and significant upgrade, says the co-founder of a Cambridge gin distillery. James Coote, who is also a Rowing NZ coach,…

Back to school for Pieta

Ōhaupō university student Pieta Bouma – who became a paraplegic in 2019 – was guest speaker at Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Hamilton last week. Pieta, then aged 19, was on a gap year and…

Size doesn’t matter

Yvonne Steel called The News office on Monday because she was excited at the success of her work in the vege patch. Her beefsteak tomatoes were huge – and the behemoth pumpkin seeds from  Mitre…

Gymnasts face a hurdle

Cambridge’s gymnastics club is not struggling for members but without some more community support it might be forced to close its doors at the end of the term. The rental at its Shakespeare Street facility…

The carnival is over…

And just like that, the 125th birthday party is over. The ‘Summer of Celebration’ for Cambridge Bowling Club started in November last year with afternoon tea for dignitaries and life members and ended on Sunday…

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