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October

Tikokino District Gardens Open

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Date:Labour Weekend (24 October 2009)
Venue: Various
Location: State Highway 50, Tikokino
Contact: (06) 856 5546
Beautiful large woodland gardens to picturesque smaller cottage gardens open to the public.

Duathlon - Mike Brown Memorial
Date: Sunday 4 October 2009
Venue: Stephenson’s Transport Yard
Location: Ruataniwha St, Waipawa

Time: 9.00am
Contact: (06) 858 6336

Email:   Click here to Email

Entries close 3 October.

Mike Brown Memorial 2009 is sponsored by Stephensons Transport Ltd. Click here for Registration form.pdf

New this year 3 courses.

 A short course for entry level competitors 2km run 9km ride 1km run,

Genuine 1/2 Mike Brown 3.2km run 25km ride 3.2km run

Full Mike Brown Memorial 6.4km run 50km ride 6.4km run. View Course Map; Click here

 

 

A Vote for Cynthia   - brought to you by In The Paddock Productions

Date: Sunday 4th October 2009

Location: 212 Argyll Rd, Otane

Time: 4.00pm

Cost: $25 p.p.

Contact: 06 856 8367 Mary Kippenberger & Peter Charlton Jones,

Starring Helen Moulder as Miss Cynthia Fortitude

The Great Travelling Opera Diva, Miss Cynthia fortitude has returned at last to NZ.  After an illuminating experience on Paekakariki Beach, Miss Fortitude has decided to form a political party and write an opera about the experience.

Waipawa Spring Festival
Date: Saturday 10 October 2009
Venue: Nelly Jull Park
Location: Islington Drive, Waipawa
Contact: (06) 857 8138

Time: 10am
Stalls, tug of war and plenty of entertainment at Nelly Jull Park, prior to the annual duck race on the Waipawa River. Purchase a ticket for a numbered plastic duck and watch it float to the finish line. Extra event for the children 'Make your own duck", use any materials you wish, only exception NO decoy's.  Come and have a quacker of a day!

 

CHB Music Society presents An Afternoon with Instrumentalists

Date: Sunday 18 October 2009

Time: 2.00pm

Venue: St Andrew's Hall, Waipukurau

Location: Porangahau Rd, Waipukurau

Contact: 06 857 7890

Cost:

Enjoy the musical strains of Hawke's Bay musicians Geert Gelling, Anike Gelling and Nicola Harrison

 

Waipukurau St Joseph's School Gala Day

Date: Sunday 18 October 2009

Venue: St Joseph's School

Location: Russell Street, Waipukurau

Time: 11.00am - 2.00pm

 

 

Central Hawkes Bay Country Market

Date: Sunday 25 October 2009 (every Sunday in summer)

Venue: Madge Hunter Park

Location: Harker St, Waipawa (beside Waipawa Pool)

Time; 9.00am - 12.00pm

Contact: Louise 06 857 8558 

Email: Click here to Email

Buy fresh home grown produce and quality crafted wares !

Relax in the park where kids are free to play.

Local musicians add to the ambience.

What a great way to shop and support our communities.

Do you grow produce, flowers or plants?  Get a group and have a stall

Registration form download here

'CHB Community Fireworks Display'

in association with Central Hawke's Bay Youth Charitable Trust & Eastcoast Fireworks

Date: Saturday 31 October 2009

Venue: Coronation Park

Location: Ruataniwha Street, Waipawa

Time; Gates open 6.00pm. Main display 9.00pm

Cost: Family $30  / Adult $10  / 5-12 years $5  / Under 5yrs free

Bring the family and friends, a chair and blanket and watch the skies light up with a magical display of spectacular fireworks.

Support another wonderful district event.

Central and Southern Hawkes Bay

1 Day Event

Date: 31st October and 1st November 2009

Venue: Arran Station

Location: Fraser Road, Takapau

Contact: (06) 857 7910

Entry free

A great opportunity to see our very best New Zealand equestrians compete in Central Hawke's Bay.

The NZ Trans-Tasman Team will be riding at their last practise before travelling to Australia to compete against Australia's team.

Bring a picnic and enjoy the spectacle.

Food and coffee will be available.

Entry Free.

 

 

 

Waipukurau Little Theatre presents 'The Daylight Atheist'

Date: 29 - 31 October - 4 - 7 November 2009 (Saturday 7 dinner night)

Venue: Waipukurau Little Theatre

Location: Ruataniwha St, Waipukurau

Tickets: Colour Plus Waipukurau

Contact: 06 858 7116

Cost: Ad $25 / Senior & Student $20 / Dinner & Play $42

Written by NZ playwright Tom Scott, directed by Lisa Jane Hay. This one man play is loosely based on the life of Tom Scott's father.  Danny Moffat played by John Foster, retraces his life from Irish boyhood to WW11 airman to new Zealand immigrant. 

A blistering funny play.

 

 

Lime Rock Wines Cellar Door Open

Date:  Summer weekend - 31 October 2009    

Location: 601 Tikokino Road, Waipawa.

Times: 11.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Entry: Gold coin donation to the local library

Website:Click here to see our website

Launching ‘The Landscape of New Zealand Wine” by Kevin Judd – a stunning pictorial book on the wines of New Zealand, featuring a photograph of LIME ROCK WINES on the cover.

Superb wines by glass, tasty barbeque foods provided by the CHB Friends of The Library throughout the day, music wafting through the vines.

Bring your visitors, do your Christmas shopping.

Cellar Door open on weekends.  Please phone to visit at other times.                   

 

 

 

 

2010 - Waipawa's 150 Years!

Grand Ball at Waipawa Municipal Theatre

Date: Saturday 9 October 2010

Venue: Waipawa Municipal Theatre

Location: Kenilworth Street, Waipawa

The Grand Ball will be held in the newly renovated Waipawa Municipal Theatre, built in the early 1900's and very much a treasured building in Central Hawke's Bay.

For more information click here.

 

 

 

 

 


Blo-karts on Porangahau Beach


Jazz at the WETA Festival