Collie Club notches up 75 years

• Published date: 17 April 2024
• Publication title: Whanganui Midweek

This trial was held on Glencorran (M & K Gee-Taylor’s farm) and Paki-iti (A & F Morton’s farm) in Manamako Rd, Rangiwahia

There were record entries with 219 heading dogs and 211 huntaways strutting their stuff.

Josh Brennan provided the sheep for the event — beautiful, well-grown male and female lambs.

The hospitality at the Ruahine club is second to none, with the Rangiwahia Playgroup doing the catering on the two days.

Long-serving secretary-treasurer Greg Clifton stopped the competition for an hour on Saturday afternoon for the cutting of the jubilee cake and a gathering of past and present members of the club, plus all the liberators came down off the hills to join in, as did all those who were waiting to have their runs.

The Ruahine-Rangiwahia club had its first trial at the Lands & Survey Block in Mangarapa Rd, then moved to its present site, where it has been held since.

Isabel Hall, now 92, was at that very first trial.

She would have been 17 then, so has had a long association with the club...