We re selling everything we can make : boat buying booms in Hawke s Bay
7 Jan, 2021 12:40 AM
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Firmans Marine Centre and Profile boats owner Brian Firman said they are the busiest they ve ever been. Photo / Warren Buckland
Firmans Marine Centre and Profile boats owner Brian Firman said they are the busiest they ve ever been. Photo / Warren Buckland
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Louise Gould
There is plenty of movement on the water as Hawke s Bay s boating scene becomes increasingly popular amid New Zealand s travel restrictions.
With the borders not open the region s people are spending their dollars on boats.
Firmans Marine Centre owner Brian Firman, who makes his own brand of Profile boats, said everything they are making at the moment is pre-sold.
Wairarapa community rallies around house fire victims that lost everything
5 Jan, 2021 10:23 PM
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Joe Sorenson, Donna Gray, and Bianca Hawea looking through a bag of donations from the community. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
Joe Sorenson, Donna Gray, and Bianca Hawea looking through a bag of donations from the community. Photo / Wairarapa Times-Age
Wairarapa Times-Age
By: Grace Prior
House-fire victim Bianca Hawea has seen an outpouring of support from the Wairarapa community after her family home burned down on Sunday morning.
Hawea and her family have set up a temporary home with beds and bedding donated over the past two days.
Saturday, 02 January 2021 - 10:29
England fly to Sri Lanka on Saturday evening with a psychologist in their ranks and an insistence from their captain, Joe Root, that the emergence of any Covid-19 cases will not automatically trigger an end to the tour.
The two-Test series that begins on 14 January, rearranged from March when the pandemic cut short the trip. This kickstarts nearly three months on the subcontinent for the men’s national teams, with a full tour of India to follow that features four Tests, five Twenty20s and three one-day internationals.
Root described the South Africa cancellation as “a unique situation” and stressed the decision was made above their heads. But he added that Sri Lanka and India represents “a level up” as regards the challenge of touring during the pandemic.