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1st XV are Rugby champions

By Aaron MeredithThe Wainuiomata High School 1st XV are rugby champions after a strong first half performance was enough to see off Newlands

College. The team went into the game after being unbeaten in the premier third grade of the Wellington Secondary Schools rugby championship.

In the first half Wainuiomata showed why, dominating on attack, especially from deep in their own half. Continued on page 2

SCHOOL PRIDE: The First XV performs the school Haka after their victory on Saturday.

SKILLS: Joshua Onekawa sums up the defence on another Wainuiomata counter attack

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Continued from page 1Many attacks were started from

inside their own 22 metre line, with Wainuiomata using their pace to easily break through the Newlands defence.

This gave Wainuiomata a well-deserved 20-3 halftime lead, that was before Newlands started to climb back into the match in the second half.

An early try bought the score back to 20-10 before some des-perate Wainuiomata defence saved another try that would have fully swung the momentum in Newlands favour.

After that Wainuiomata fi-nally got themselves going again, dominating possession and terri-tory to see the game out, and give Wainuiomata the Paul Cameron Cup.

In what was the last game for many of the players before they leave school, the relief was clear on many of their faces when the fi nal whistle blew.

After the game, team captain Pala Mailagi thanked everyone involved in the game, including the opposition.

“Thanks to the coaches and the managers for everything this season, we couldn’t have done it without them,” he says.

The team then celebrated by

performing the school haka, which was well received by the large contingent of supporters that made the trip up to St Pats Silverstream for the fi nal.

Now the planning begins again for next year, with a solid core of the squad remaining at the school, the team will be hopeful of a promotion next year.

CELEBRTATIONS: The team just after winning the Paul Cameron Cup against Newlands on Saturday.

1st XV are the Champions

By Aaron Meredith

Everything is set for the biggest weekend in Arakura School’s history, when former and current staff and students celebrate the schools 50th Jubilee.

All things planned for 50th JubileeThis Labour Weekend is al-

ready planned out, with enough activities to keep everyone busy throughout the entirety, showcas-ing the best Arakura School and Wainuiomata has to offer.

The school opened in 1965, and is still going strong all these years later, which is something that the school is proud of.

The plans for the celebrations include a mix and mingle on Friday night, where the school is encouraging everyone to catch up with old school friends that they

may not have seen in many years.On Saturday there is a school

Gala, which is also acting as a fundraiser for the school.

Students along with members of the community will be having stalls selling products and art work, in what will be a reminder of what school galas used to be like.

On Sunday there will be a bus tour of Wainuiomata, including seeing old school sites, and some of Wainuiomata’s popular sites.

Offi ce Manager Bonnie Mac-

Beth says that some of the at-tendees would not have seen the valley since the mergers took place.

“They will not know what places look like now, Pencarrow is now a subdivision, and so is Sun Valley School,” she says.

People who want to attend the Jubilee or have a stall at the Gala Day, must register by September 4, so the school can finalise numbers for catering.To register please contact the school.

3Wednesday August 26, 2015

inbriefnews

By Aaron Meredith

Those fi ghting the fi res are not the only ones that are at the scene of crimes from the Wainuiomata Volunteer Fire Brigade.

Operational Support is always there as well, the dif-ference is, instead of fi ghting the fi res, they are keeping everyone safe.

Unlike the actual brigade, Operational Support does not get funded by the Gov-ernment, they have to apply for grants and fundraise for everything themselves.

The team needs $30,000 in order to bring their equip-

ment up to standard, and buy signage that they do not have yet, all of which helps Operational Support help the community.

Wayne Nicholson and Rod Wealleans say that current lights on their engine are not up to standard, and need replacing.

“We want to replace the current halogen lights with LCD lights, which take less power to work, and produce more light,” says Wayne.

“All the lights are powered by generators, so if we went to LCD we could power more of them.”

The team also needs to

replace the radios they cur-rently have, which are also extremely old.

“The Radios are over 15 years old, so some updated ones would be nice.”

More items they need in-clude road signage, of which they have none.

“These items would help us close roads when we need to,” says Rod.

“We also could use these items for the likes of Christ-mas Parades, as well as Anzac Day, where we light up the Memorial Garden at the end of Hine Road.”

One upcoming fundraising venture they are having, is

holding a Monster Garage Sale at the Fire Station, and are looking for as many unwanted items as possible.

“Any items that people don’t want around their house, if they could drop it down so we can sell them off and raise some money for us,” says Rod.

This helps everyone.It is easy to get rid of some-

thing that you do not use anymore, it raises money for Operational Support and someone else gets something they need.

“It really is the community helping us so we can help them out,” says Wayne.

Operational Support needs your help

By Aaron Meredith

Students from Wainuiomata High School got a treat last

week, getting hosted by Chris Bishop at Parliament.

The Year 12 and 13 Econom-ics students were shown a

FUTURE MP’S: Chris Bishop and Hon Paul Goldsmith (Minister of Commerce and Consumer A� airs) with Wainuiomata High School Year 12 and 13 economics classes.

High School visits ParliamentSelect Committee room and learned what it was like to be an MP, before asking Chris Bishop and Minister of Commerce Paul Goldsmith many questions.

Some of the topics that came up included obesity, infl ation and economic growth, all of which provided valuable infor-mation for the students.

The 22 students represented the school well, and Mr Bishop was very pleased with how the trip went, and says that the students all enjoyed it as well.

The students are now prepar-ing themselves for the mid-year exams which are taking place in week eight of this term.

This trip will be hopefully to have provided some inspira-

tion for the students as they now buckle down for the busy part of the year, when NCEA becomes even more part of their lives.

During these exam times, students will only be required to be at the school when they have an exam or workshop timetabled, although it is en-couraged that they study while they are at home.

The mid-year exams will be providing a chance for students to find out where they are before the NCEA exams take place at the end of the year.

It also provides teachers with a chance to see where students need to concentrate before the exams start.

In what would surprise many in the valley, Wainuiomata has its very own chess grandmaster in Murray Chandler.

Murray was a foundation pupil of Arakura School, and then went on to Wainuiomata Intermediate after � nishing there.

He qualified as an International Master in 1977 and represented New Zealand up until 1980 before switching his allegiance to England.

Thank you to Bonnie MacBeth, the O� ce Manager from Arakura Primary who found out while looking up former students of the school for Arakura’s 50th Jubilee.

If you have any other famous Wai-nuiomata Residents, past or present, please send them in to [email protected].

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Wainuiomata High School Head Girl Jade Humphrey will be swapping her school uniform for a New Zealand Indoor Cricket uniform.

Jade has been selected to travel to Bris-bane at the end of next month to compete in the Junior Indoor Cricket World Cup.

She will now be competing against some of the world’s best, with countries like South Africa also attending the tournament, all vying to topple the hosts Australia who Jade expects to meet in the tournament.

“Australia is the best country, we have already been told to expect to face them in the fi nal,” she says.

Friends and family have all been encour-aging Jade along the way, she says her Dad was the most supportive.

“When I told him I made the squad, he said that he knew I would make it in,” she says.

Jade has been playing indoor for about

four years, originally using it to keep her practice up for the outdoor game, but has found they are totally different sports.

“The games are really different, they are both still cricket but the skills required are different,” she says.

“Most indoor players do play outdoor though as well.”

One of the obstacles in front of Jade before the World Cup starts is the fact that she has to pay for pretty much everything while over there.

“I have to pay for flights, uniform, accommodation, everything, it is really pricey,” says Jade.

“They say it is going to cost around $3600 but I think it will be closer to $4000.”

To make sure that she is going to be able to afford the trip she has set up a give a little page called help send Jade to Indoor Cricket World Cup.

The link for the website is https://giveal-ittle.co.nz/cause/jadescricketdream

Jade’s taking on the world

CRICKETING STAR: Jade Humphrey is about to head over to Australia to play for New Zealand in the Junior Indoor Cricket World Cup.

After two weeks of fi erce com-petition the inaugural winner of the SWEET AS Hutt Chocolate Challenge has been found.

Gotham café on Margaret Street, Lower Hutt took out the title with Tears of the Joker, a butterscotch hot chocolate creation one customer described as the “sweetest of the sweet”.

It was a closely fought battle between the 10 cafes taking part with less than 30 points sepa-rating fi rst and second place. Council’s CBD Development Manager Cyndi Christensen

says the challenge was an op-portunity to inspire local cafes to be creative and attract people to the Lower Hutt CBD to sample the results.

“All ten cafes reported an increase in customers with Gotham’s owner estimating a jump of more than 80 per cent in hot chocolate orders during the challenge compared with the two weeks prior.

“The challenge has been a fantastic success and a great way to warm up the CBD during winter. We collected more than

1000 offi cial challenge entries but numbers reported by the cafés suggested we had three times that number take part.

“These results set the scene for round two and hot chocolate lovers should mark in their cal-endars the dates for next year, 15 July – 30 July 2016.

“We’re also working on plans for a summer challenge where cafes will be asked to create something COOL AS - think milkshakes, iced teas and frap-pes.”

One lucky participant (who

chose not to be publicly named) drawn randomly from all the entries took home a prize pack including vouchers from all the participating cafes, SHOTT syrups, a box of chocolate fi sh, 2 commemorative mugs and a voucher to upcoming ice rink in Dowse Square. Two par-ticipants who chose to enter via selfi e also won commemorative mugs.

Some of the stand-out com-ments received from customers were:

“Amazing! I compare this

experience with reading Harry Potter series…life changing. Please make it permanent item on the menu!”

“Amazing hot chocolate, actu-ally almost like a dessert. I`d travel here especially for this again. Friendly café, awesome hot chocolate.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed this competition and I’m sure the cafes did too. I went to so many cafes I had never been before. Great way to showcase the awesome stuff Lower Hutt has to offer. Awesome work.”

Winner of the Hutt Chocolate Challenge SWEET AS!

6 Wednesday August 26, 2015

Question: What would you do to improve the Wainuiomata Mall?

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Caitlyn Bragger:Wainuiomata

I would not shut most of the shops down

Matthew Lesniak:Wainuiomata

To change the perception from there is potential to there is promise

Erikk Keepa-Matangaro:Wainuiomata

More clothing shops.

Kaya Keepa-Matangaro:Wainuiomata

A playground or something like that to get more families down.

Katelyn Bryan:Wainuiomata

Not put as much $2 shops in here

Reg Porter-Samuels: Wainuiomata

Find a method that gets more families invested in the mall

Reg Porter-Samuels: Reg Porter-Samuels: Matthew Lesniak:Matthew Lesniak: Caitlyn Bragger:Caitlyn Bragger: Katelyn Bryan:Katelyn Bryan: Kaya Keepa-Matangaro:Kaya Keepa-Matangaro: Erikk Keepa-Matangaro:Erikk Keepa-Matangaro:

Letters on issues of community interest are welcomed. Guidelines are that they should be no longer than 150 words. They must be signed and a street address provided to show good faith, even if a nom de plume is provided for publication.The editor reserves the right to abridge letters or withhold unsuitable letters from publication. Send or fax them to the address on page two, or email them to [email protected]. Please note that your name and street address must also be provided in e mails.

LETTERS to the editor

WAINUIOMATA COMMUNITY BOARD

The Board will be meeting on

Wednesday 2 Septemberbeginning at 7:00pm

in the Wainuiomata Chambers, Wainuiomata Library,

Queen St, Wainuiomata.

You are very welcome to attend

Keep up with what’s happening in your community

Dear Ed, I hope that the com-munity comes up with some de-cent suggestions in what to name the Summit Bridge, it is a great chance to get some real input on something in our community.

The bridge is something that could be a real asset to the com-munity, and something that we could all use.

I just hope that everyone comes up with some more imaginative

suggestions than Wainuiomata Bridge.

There are some great people that come out of Wainuiomata, some great things about Wai-nuiomata, things we should all be proud of.

I hope that we can come up with a great idea, this is a great chance to think of something amazing.

R.BenjaminsWainuiomata

In need of great suggestionsDear Ed, I had a wee smile when I read the story

'naming the bridge is up to you'. Nothing as simple as The Wainuiomata Hill Bridge would do eh?

Patty High

Bridge naming

By Aaron Meredith

The Wainuiomata Flower Show is coming up again, and organisers want to get more children involved in the competition.

This year the Wainuiomata Garden Club is holding a workshop for children, so they can work on their decorative art work for the competition.

This will take place on Saturday Sep-tember 12 between 10am and 12noon and all will be ready for the competition at the show the next day.

This is all taking place at the Wainuio-mata Primary School Hall, which will be open to public viewing between 2pm and 3.30pm on the Sunday.

Entries are free for the children and only

30 cents for adults, plus public entry is free so it is a great cheap afternoon out for the family.

People wishing to enter, or have children who want to attend the workshop need to contact Wendy for more information.

Her email is [email protected], or you can contact her by phone on 5641497 or 021429932.

The Wainuiomata Garden Show has been happening for many decades, and is always well attended.

“It is a really good community event, I love it, and the community loves it,” says Wendy.

She is hoping that the workshops will encourage more children to enter this years competition, and get more inter-ested in gardening.

Children wanted for garden show

Isn’t it great that spring has nearly sprung, all the lambs bouncing about, the fl owers sprouting, such a site.

I hope it means we will get a beautiful summer. Cecil Smith

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"Much Admired Home"For sale for the first time, this home has great

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Building apprentice Bryce Pemberton has been named the Wellington & Wairarapa Registered Master Builders Carters Ap-prentice of the Year 2015.

The 22-year-old from Lower Hutt trained through BCITO, and works for Fletcher Construction.

Judges say Bryce was enthusiastic and very passionate about his apprenticeship.

“During the site visit it was evident that he is a team player, a leader and well respected by his fellow work colleagues,” they say.

“Bryce is a planner and a forward thinker. His employer has identified him to go forward to the next level of training and leadership.”

Bryce says that since starting with Fletcher Construction in 2012, he has been commit-ted to developing a range of skills in order to complete the apprenticeship.

“I worked hard to develop my leadership and communication skills to become a well-respected builder and to deliver a high quality fi nish,” he says.

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RMBA Chief Executive David Kelly says the outstanding group of contenders this year refl ects a real commitment from the construction industry to apprenticeships.

“It’s been fantastic to see the skill and commitment of these 145 young apprentices

as they make their way towards becoming Master Builders,” he says.

“This competition gives us a glimpse of the capability and determination amongst New Zealand’s apprentices, and has given them a chance to demonstrate their hard work and passion for construction.”

Mr Kelly says the growth in apprentice numbers was a real step forward for the sector.

Carters Chief Executive Mike Guy says supporting Apprentice of the Year not only demonstrates Carters' commitment to on-going education, but also recognises the new talent entering the construction industry.

Carters National Sales Manager Rob Watson places importance on constructing lasting partnerships with the future leaders of the building trade.

“As the building industry continues to grow, the training and mentorship of new talent is vital to the future of our industry. Apprentice of the Year supports that excel-lence, and helps apprentices gain invaluable recognition in the industry,” he says.

Bryce will compete against the winners from the other nine regions at the national competition in Auckland, on 8 and 9 Oc-tober.

The winner of the Registered Master Builders Carters 2015 Apprentice of the Year will then be announced at an awards dinner at The Cloud that evening.

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Car break in affects doctors pick-up service By Aaron Meredith

Patients will be suffering now after Whai Oranga’s patients service car was broken into last Wednesday night.

The car is used to pickup and drop of mem-bers of the community that cannot make it to the doctors themselves for various reasons.

The break in now means that the Doc-tors cannot do this service, affecting what services they can provide for their patients.

“The longer we don’t have a car the longer it affects the community,” say the staff at the hospital.

“It is local Whanau that suffer, it may be the friends and family of those who did

this.”Although the car was not stolen, the dam-

age is enough to take the car off the road, including a broken passenger side window, and ignition that has clearly been tampered with.

This happened after Hammer Hardware was broken into the night before, and United Video has also been broken into lately.

Whai Oranga is a cheaper service than a regular GP, so the clinic does not have enough money to repair the damage to the car.

If anyone has any information about this crime, please contact police or crimestop-pers.

TERRIBLE CRIME: The community services car that was broken into on Wednesday Night outside Whai Oranga.

By Aaron Meredith

Wainuiomata is surrounded by hills and trees, we all know that fact, what we don’t know is how much wildlife is in those hills.

We have many, many native birds around Wainuiomata, not just in the hills but also around the valley itself.

It is not uncommon to see a New Zealand Pigeon or Kereru sitting on the power lines around the village, the lines bending way down due to the size of the usually overweight birds.

We have Tui everywhere, especially in the summer months, usually they fl ock around the many Kowhai Trees around the valley, getting effectively drunk off the nectar.

Outside of the valley, there is a large Kiwi population, although these usually shy birds will never be seen by human eyes, some nights you can hear them if you are lucky.

In the hills, there are many deer around the valley, these have even been seen in some people’s backyards over the years, and there is always a good chance you will see one on a bush walk.

There are several varieties of snails around the valley, many with some

crazy ways of eating, and different shell patterns.

There is also a thriving trout population in the Wainuiomata River, especially the further down the Coast Road you go.

There is a seal colony on the Wainuio-mata Coast, which is within 45 minutes of the car park at the end of the road. If there are any other species of wild-life you know of, please email [email protected] and let us know.Zealand Pigeon or Kereru sitting on the

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By Aaron Meredith

Wainuiomata High keeps producing high quality sports people, with three more representing Wel-lington later on this year.

Sieni Samau and Brooke Tauaneai have both been selected for the Welling-ton Under 18 womens rugby side, while Paris Coleman has been se-lected for the Wellington Under 15 Hockey side.

All three are all stoked with getting selected for representative squads in their respective sports, all achieving goals they set at the start of the year.

“I was really excited when I got selected, I felt that I had achieved what I wanted to,” says Paris.

“My family was very supportive as well.”

Paris was selected for the team after trials that hap-pened earlier in the year, as well as off her form playing for both Wainuio-mata High School and the Wainuiomata Hockey Club.

Sieni and Brooke were both selected after their solid form throughout the season, also playing for both club and school.

All three say their game has improved immensely

thanks to playing for both teams, which has meant that the girls had all had to play two games a week-end.

Brooke and Sieni say that playing against senior opposition helps develop their game further.

“Their skills are a lot more developed and they understand the game more,” says Brooke.

They then fi nd that they are another step up when it comes to the school level, which all believe has helped them be se-lected for further honours.

All three look up to lo-cal stars, the rugby girls

look up to Black Fern Jackie Patea, who played with the team during the second half of the club season.

Paris looks up to Ani-waka Roberts, who rep-resents the Black Sticks.

All three see themselves pulling on the silver fern in the future, and even possibly winning Olympic gold medals down the road.

“I would have to get a lot more fi t to do that,” joke Brooke and Sieni.

“I just want to go as far as it takes me, hopefully it means representing New Zealand,” Paris says.

WELLINGTON REPS: Brooke Tauaneai, Sieni Samau and Paris Coleman have all been selected for Wellington Rep teams, Brooke and Sieni for the Wellington Rugby Under 18 side and Paris for the Wellington Under 15 Hockey side.

Wainuiomata producing more sporting talent

By Aaron Meredith

The Wainuiomata Capital Two side had a well-deserved victory this week-end against Upper Hutt City.

After the game was transferred to Maidstone Park’s Turf, both teams put on a display of footballing brilliance with Wainuiomata winning 5-3 in the end.

Wainuiomata remain in fifth spot however, a spot they have been stuck in for a while now.

The 28 points Wainuiomata has gathered over the year is nine less than fourth place, and fi ve points ahead on sixth place.

The second side also had a victory, defeating the Victoria University Stal-lions 4-3 at Anderson Park.

The team is in sixth place now with 23 points.

The Undertakers couldn’t quite keep the good run going however, going down 2-1 to Stop Out.

The result means that Wainuiomata stays on 14 points in eighth on the table.

There were contrasting results in Capital 11, Halfbaked defeated the Island Bay United Piglets 4-1.

The Roundballs were easily defeated by the Island Bay United Pirates 7-0 however.

Both teams are in the bottom half of the table, Halfbaked is seventh with 11 points, while the Roundballs are last with only two points.

The Women did not have a game this week.

Footballers kick their way to victory

By Aaron Meredith

The Wainuiomata High School Girls 1st XV were only one point away from winning the Premier One Grade this year.

In what was a very competitive game throughout, Wainuiomata fell by 30-29 to Aotea College at Porirua Park on Thursday night.

In front of what was a boisterous crowd, both teams played their hearts out, and put on a showcase of rugby that rivalled any Test Match.

Wainuiomata came into the final only after upsetting the top of the table Porirua College the week before, so came into the game as underdogs.

This was not an obvious sight though as Wainuiomata matched their rivals play for play throughout the match.

Wainuiomata however were just trail-ing Aotea throughout the match, but had a chance to win the game at the end with a kick, but missed unfortunately.

The girls should be proud of what they achieved, in what has been a fantastic season for the team.

All the girls played a great game, and it was their teamwork that kept them in the contest throughout the game, much more than Aotea who played a bit more individually.

The team will be happy to know that a good core of the team will be continuing at the school for next year, so there will be high hopes the team will be just as good as this year.

So close but so far

By Aaron Meredith

The Wainuiomata High School teams had mixed results over the weekend in their fi nals days.

In Collegiate One Wainuio-mata 2 went down in their fi nal by 36-33, disappointing

after the girls had been so dominant over the year.

In Collegiate Six, the girls went down in a low scoring game 16-10 to Hutt Valley High School 14.

Wainuiomata Four turned things around however in Collegiate 7, defeating Raph-

ael House 1 by 30-15 to win their grade.

Wainuiomata 5 then contin-ued this by holding off Taita 5 in their fi nal.

The girls held on to a 23-17 win to be crowned Collegiate 8 winners.

This year has been a rather

successful one for the High School, with all the teams performing well throughout the year.

It shows the hard work and dedication all the players and coaches have put into the season has paid off for them all.

Two wins and two losses on fi nals day

15Wednesday August 26, 2015SPORT

Sports with Aaron Meredith

By Aaron Meredith

Wainuiomata’s hockey club has made it to the fi nals.

The team qualifi ed thanks to a Jo Martin goal giving them a 1-0 victory over YMCA 1 on Sunday.

The two sides were evenly matched throughout the game, and this was refl ected in the scoreless fi rst half at Fraser Park.

Wainuiomata then created some good chances in the second half, and will be happy to have put away the winner.

The fi nal is due to be played next Sunday at 11.40am at the National Hockey Centre in Berhampore.

The team is hoping to get lots of support from Wai-nuiomata to help them lift for the fi nal.

In other games the Wainuio-mata High School side went down fi ghting 2-1 to Aotea College on Friday Night.

In Junior Hockey the Years 3/4 side defeated Rata Street School by 7-2, Blaize Foster and Lania Vaireka were play-ers of the day.

SPRINTING AWAY: Kazmia Morgan-Rako shows some great speed in last weeks Semi� nal.

Hockey side off to the fi nals

The Year 5/6 side went down 9-0 to Eastern Hutt, but Heidi and Sherree played really well.

The Year 7/8 side were mas-

sive winners, thumping Karori 10-0, with Leigh Gray being named player of the day.

The Senior side also held

a Fundraiser last Saturday Night, and were very pleased with how it went, and lots or money was raised.

Ok, before the stressful stuff of a World Cup Semifi nal, it is time for the fun stuff, who will be in the All Blacks squad?

That is not an easy answer but hopefully I can shed some light on some of the deci-sions that the selectors will be making as you read this.

The way I see it, there are only a few spots open, The fourth wing or fullback, the third fi rst fi ve, the third halfback, and a handful of forward spots.

We should start off at the back, it is the easiest in my opinion to see.

Currently the three on form are Ben Smith, Julian Savea and Nehe Miner-Skudder, that means you have a group of players fi ghting for what I imagine is one spot.

I’ll break it down to two straight away, it’s down to Cory Jane and Charles Piutau, both have their pros and cons.

For Cory he simply hasn’t played enough rugby lately to be guaranteed a place. If he was fi t and playing, I’m sure he would go, as his experience and calmness is something you can’t exclude.

Charles is on form, the question is can the coaches trust him in the big games, either choice is fi ne, it’s just where do they want to take the risk.

The choice for the back three is directly linked to the choice for the third fi rst fi ve, as I imagine both Dan Carter and Beauden Barrett are already penciled in.

Beauden can play fullback at a pinch so there is another cover for the back three, if they select Colin Slade that is another one, but then you have Lima Sopoaga.

He is a solid goal kicker, has a nice pass, but is untried other than once in Johan-nesburg, Colin Slade has been there and done that multiple times.

Those are only a couple of positions, who knows what is going through Steve Hansen’s mind when he selects the team, all I know is we should trust him, he knows what he is doing, I hope.

All Blacks Squad announced this Sunday

By Nikki Brani� -Jones

Wainuiomata put on a great day for the annual Wellington road running championships on Saturday, which has been hosted by the Wainuiomata Harrier club for the last six years.

Athletes from all over the Wellington region competed in the event, and as it is a

selection race for the Na-tional Championships being held in Tauranga on the September 5, athletes were looking for a good result on the usually fast course on Waterworks Road.

The club's best result came from Georgina Cox, who fi nished sixth in the masters women 10km race in a time of 43.47 minutes.

This was the last interclub race this season, and for the first time Athletics Wel-lington presented medals for points accumulated over the four main interclub races.

Four Wainuiomata Har-riers' received these med-als; Georgina Cox silver and Nikki Braniff-Jones bronze, both in the masters women 35+ grade, as well

as Presleigh Winter, bronze in the girls under 15 grade, and her sister Mackenzie Winter also bronze, in the girls under 11 grade.

Other results included Sam Lightfoot placing eighth in the under 18 women, Ash-den Brew fi nished ninth in the under 11 boys and there were multiple other great fi nishes.

Wainuiomata hosts Road Running Champs

SEASON WINNERS: Presleigh Winter, Nikki Brani� -Jones and Mackenzie Winter, all of whom won medals for overall interclub points for the season.

Wainuiomata Boxer Raymond Seu-manu has conquered Australia, win-ning the Australian Golden Gloves last week.Raymond competed in the tournament in Brisbane last week, and defeated the best boxers from both Australia and New Zealand in his grade.The 13 year old is a member of the Wainuiomata Boxing Club and has been featured in the Wainuiomata News on many occasions throughout the last couple of years.All of us here at the Wainuiomata News congratulate Raymond on this achievement.Raymond arrived back in the country today, so if you see him, congratulate him on what is the biggest achieve-ment you can get in boxing at his age.

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GLENDALE 6 Tipperary Grove. Investors. Tenant Wants To Stay. Split Level. Good Size Bedrooms


Donna Tschurtschenthalerp 04 564 5315 e [email protected]

PARKWAY 28 Kawatiri Grove. 5 Bedrooms. 3 Bathrooms. Triple Garage. 2 Living Areas

For sale by BEO $490,000Online redcoats.co.nz/RED16291


Linda Turner021 645 098

Luke Jansen027 241 1048

Ben McLennan027 626 5003

Donna Tschurtschenthaler 027 220 7495

Paul Butcher 021 209 5645

Ginny Cawthra 027 531 2550

Judy Robinson 021 536 671

Wayne Barton & Tui Reid021 744 116

Sharyn Paaka-Palelei 027 858 2199

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Wainuiomata News 25-08-15

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