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• Men, women on course together

  Northern Wairoa Golf Club hosted the Northland Champ of Champions on Sunday, January 21.

• EDITORIAL Ardern legacy: Inspirational Prime Minister

  With that now famous cheery smile and a wave of the hand, Jacinda Ardern stepped into her Crown car to depart Parliament and her post as Prime Minister at 10am yesterday.

• Perham catches eye of coach

  Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo is set to drop selection bombshell, reportedly snubbing Jake Averillo at fullback for a new recruit.

• Sailing towards a third decade

  The 20th anniversary edition of NZ’s biggest multi-day keelboat regatta — Bay of Islands Sailing Week is under way. Racing takes place throughout the Bay of Islands over three days from Wednesday the 25th to Friday.

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

  Ballet blues for Kaitaia It truly saddens me to see that the NZ ballet is not coming to Kaitaia. Some years ago when the ballet company decided to tour the provinces again after a break, my husband Norman guaranteed the $10,000 needed to bring them to Kaitaia, and the Kaitaia Dramatic Society built then dismantled the stage extension that was needed. This happened for several tours.

• Onwards, upwards for Silver Ferns

  The Silver Ferns earned their place alongside Australia in the final of the Netball Quad Series after a hard-fought 55-45 win over the England Roses in Cape Town yesterday.

• Milk truck hits house

  A retired Oamaru barber is used to close shaves, but this one was a little too close for comfort.

• INSIDE

  Local News 1-5, 10-11

• Bell’s heritage project is a peach

  When Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Hokianga property lead Alex Bell took 30 heritage peach trees to the recent Bay of Islands A&P Show, he wasn’t sure how things would go.

• MAXIM INSTITUTE Chris Hipkins’ trust challenge

  They say a week is a long time in politics — what a week it’s been. Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister shocked many, given that she said she had “no plans to quit her job”. Her resignation wasn’t the only surprise; now we have a new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins. Many commentators are now suggesting that Labour will abandon identity politics and move to the “bread-and-butter” right.

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• INSIDE AN IWI A vital role for UN instruments

  Last week, I began sharing extracts from an article penned by one of our most courageous speakers of truth to power, Moana Jackson. In his article, A Challenge not a Threat, Moana looks back on the history of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and at why...

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  Act is calling on all parties in Parliament to renounce the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....

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• Whangaroa rāhuiToday we had 40-plus people attend our hui in Kāeo around this kaupapa to set a rāhui on our scallops from Takou to Taemaro....

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• Looking back at 2020

  July2 — One stray dog is blamed for the deaths of five kiwi in the Ōkaihau area. A property owner at Matapōuri has closed access to Te Araroa, citing potential damage to her reforestation project....

• Says who?I’m grateful for the enlightenment provided by your Pukenui correspondent, WJ Morris (Look again, letters January 14), who tells me that “There is now a very great deal of hard evidence, easily found, that the risk of serious injury and death is roughly halved by wearing a seat belt.”...