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Project Marton members vote to bring the group to an end. She and three other committee members had tendered their resignation in the past three months, leaving the group without enough leaders to meet their legal obligations. Thirty-one members of the community, including current and former district councillors, gathered to either volunteer themselves for the positions or decide to wind it up.. Lawyer Kirsten Harper, who helped the group pro bono, said she had assisted Feilding & District Promotion when they had gone through similar difficulties. Warwick Smith/Stuff Lawyer Kisten Harper p...

Participants enjoy samples of local produce, including oils, cheeses and homemade feijoa ice cream. He said he was visiting Manawatū to explore export opportunities, as well as agri-tech and food research partnerships between New Zealand and Israel. He came to the market because “at the end of it, [agri-tech] is about farmers and the produce”. Each participant was given a box full of local produce, combined to form six samplings. In the Sheepish Snack, Cartwheel Creamery’s marama camembert from Pohangina Valley met the Baked Dane’s cracker from Levin, and was topped with a pear f...

Sinead Gill10:22, May 03 2021 WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Seth with his father Ben Maats among the bustle in the Manchester School hall which was packed with people looking for a bargain supporting the two year old. Some were there for a bargain, but most of them were simply there for a little boy. Hundreds of people swarmed a market fundraiser at Manchester School on Saturday to support the family of toddler Seth Maats, who has a rare form of cancer. The two year old was diagnosed with wilms tumour in December, after his parents noticed a lump protruding from his stomach. The illness attacks the k...

Warwick Smith/Stuff Hilary Humphrey is unimpressed changes to the district’s long term plan will affect funding for community groups. The vision of a district council has been slammed as short-sighted for asking ratepayers to focus on two “tiny” proposals while ignoring long-term issues affecting the community’s wellbeing. Hilary Humphrey has challenged her colleagues on Manawatū District Council to think bigger, while questioning why its consultation document for the next decade proposed slashing community event funding to provide incentives for commercial landlords to bring their ...

A bloody towel was left at the scene, which owner Jamil Hammoud found the next day. Hammoud said something needed to be done to improve security, and he believed a single security guard was not enough. “The town is well looked after, it's clean and the flowers look nice, [but] we need to make sure we look after the security.” Especially as Feilding's population had grown, he said. WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Jamil Hammoud's Saleyards Cafe has been damaged after someone attempted to break in. Hammoud lost sleep after the incident and went to work early in case another one occurred.