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That was 20 years ago. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff Opunake High School acting principal Andrea Hooper arrived in Opunake 20 years ago. “Out of all the places we have visited, Opunake, Taranaki, is just paradise – where the community really does raise a child. The black sand, seaside town is on the southwest coast of Taranaki, 61 kilometres from New Plymouth and an hour-and-a-half drive from Whanganui. And if a base salary ranging from $95,175 to $166,272 isn't enough to make you move to this secluded town, maybe the community will. The town has connections to some of New Zealand's most well-k...

Joe Allison/Getty Images Richie Mo'unga of the Crusaders passes the ball against the Highlanders, kicked a lot in the latter stages of the game. OPINION: The Crusaders don’t kick the ball in the last 20 minutes of a match. They just don’t. The Crusaders keep on moving men and possession into space until the opposition runs out of breath and defenders. And then the earth stopped turning. In the final quarter of the match against the Highlanders, Richie Mo’unga kicked and kicked and kicked. Tactically, it was not a terrible idea, but it was not the plan of the Crusaders’ coaches who ha...

Whanganui athletes take part in Snell's Mile Challenge at Cooks Gardens 31 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Six weeks after his fifth hip operation, the concept of walking a mile on crutches didn't faze Whanganui athletics coach Alec McNab. McNab was one of around a dozen keen athletes in the over-60 category at the Snell's Mile Challenge event on Sunday, taking to the famous Cooks Gardens track alongside his wife Susan. The event is held every year to commemorate Kiwi runner the late Sir Peter Snell breaking the world mile record at the ground in 1962. Participants from all age groups co...

Sunday, 31 January 2021, 6:16 am Few athletics venues in the world are as synonymous with the mile as Cooks Gardens in Whanganui, and Camille Buscomb and Sam Tanner lived up to that rich tradition by claiming the New Zealand Mile Championship titles on a historic night of action at the Cooks Classic. After a 52-year absence, both national mile crowns were re-introduced with the men’s race following the script as the gifted 20-year-old Tanner added the national title over the ‘classic distance’ to the New Zealand 3000m crown he snared last weekend in Hastings. Producing a performance th...

There are 2 cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation to report in New Zealand since our last media statement yesterday. There have been no new cases in the community to report New border case details Arrival date   From   Via   ...