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07 April  Wairarapa shearer David Buick has brought off possibly one of the most amazing comebacks in New Zealand sport by winning the New Zealand Shears Open shearing final in Te Kuiti, less than three years after a farm accident left ...

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Cooling off: Leon Samuel and Graham Robinson, 4, enjoy a cool drink of water on a hot Monday, June 26. Temperatures reached the low 90s on Monday, and are expected to reach the high 90s today before rising further to 100 degrees on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Samuel said he and Graham enjoyed some time at the MAD Playscape before stopping to cool off.

EDITOR: Even as we here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are distinctly floundering under a pervasive cloud of blight, weighted down by and entangled in the weeds of economic stagnation which is the product of governmental mismanagement by the ULP under the leadership of Ralph Gonsalves who has declared himself to be “WORLD BOSS” there is a bright star in the eastern Caribbean, “The Republic of Barbados”, led by …

EDITOR: Even as we here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are distinctly floundering under a pervasive cloud of blight, weighted down by and entangled in the weeds of economic stagnation which is the product of governmental mismanagement by the ULP under the leadership of Ralph Gonsalves who has declared himself to be “WORLD BOSS” there is a bright star in the eastern Caribbean, “The Republic of Barbados”, led by …

“Everybody’s going to be on their A game.” Samuels will compete in the open section with fellow Southlanders Brett Roberts, Ringakaha Paewai and Nathan Stratford. The quartet would be in a group of at least 10 Southland shearers and wool handlers at the championships. Raised in south Waikato, Samuels moved to Invercargill 23 years ago. “I grew up in the wool shed, and I’m still in the wool shed,” he said. “I try to shear as much as I can ... I follow the sheep everywhere.” ...