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Mataura Licensing Trust president says staff are being verbally and physically assaulted for enforcing Covid 19 rules in bars - and it won't be tolerated.
Uncertainty around Covid-19 traffic light system means the Southern Field Days committee have cancelled the event for the first time in 40 years in what is a significant blow to Southland economically.
Bagrie-Howley is enjoying his best year in bowls. In March, he was in the team that gave Southland its first National Men s Intercentre tournament win in the event s 51-year history. That team was named Team of the Year at last Friday’s ILT Southland Sports Awards in Invercargill. Funding from the Mataura Licensing Trust and being able to get time off from employer, Croydon Aircraft Company, when bowling commitments arose, had helped Bagrie-Howley’s progress in the sport. Some high performance training camps would concentrate on adapting to the much-slower English greens, Bronwyn Stevens, of Otapiri, said. To do that, training will be done on croquet greens. Bowls officials believe croquet greens provide similar surfaces to UK bowling greens.
Close to 8000 people took to the new hydroslides at Splash Palace through the first two they were open, and council staff say the numbers have remained steady.