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APRIL 6, 2023
We’ve found our marbles When the world championship of marbles rolls off in England tomorrow – Good Friday – there will be a Te Awamutu flavour to it. The Te Awamutu Menzshed has made two crowns to be used at the championships, being held on Tinsley Green, West Sussex. President Richard Cato said members had been asked to make a flat crown with 22 holes. The request came from Te Awamutu resident, Royal watcher and photographer Julia McCarthy-Fox, who has returned to England with the crowns, to be used as part of the competition. She organises the event, which returned last year after a two-year break and was won by the Yorkshire Meds. Her late husband Sam organised the it for 40 years. A Menzshed member drew up a pattern of a crown, then the English oak plywood was cut out with an electric fret-saw, sanded and stained. Wikipedia reports the marbles competition dates back to 1588 and is a Good Friday tradition. The current event began in 1932. To play the game a crown is laid in the centre of a 1.8-metre raised concrete ring covered with firm, flat sand. The marbles are placed in the holes and the crown is lifted leaving the marbles in place, in the form of a crown. It’s particularly significant this year because the competition comes a month ahead of King Charles’ coronation. The competition is a speed test to see how many marbles the competitor can dislodge with his “shooter” marble from the edge of the circle in a given time. “It’s one of the more unusual requests we have had,” Mr Cato said.
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Online and growing… Te Awamutu News has pipped its Cambridge sister publication in the website stats for March thanks to a story about the Alpha Hotel in Kihikihi. It is a first for the newspaper – Cambridge News’ website regularly gains more hits. The News’ editor Roy Pilott is chuffed. It was his front-page story on March 1 which accounted for over half the page views last month and lifted numbers by 96 per cent over the same month last year. Another Kihikihi-related story on resident Takena Stirling’s suspension as a lawyer and subsequent resignation from Waipā District Council was second in the standings with 14 per cent of the visits. Rounding out the top five were our story on Audit NZ’s rebuke of the council, columnist Janine Krippner handing back a stone axe to iwi and Waipā councillors getting yesterday’s rubbish served up to them for morning tea. “The figures are an indication of the growth in our product across Waipā,” said Pilott. “We are also delivering more than 23,500 free copies of the sister papers into letter boxes every Thursday. Readers tell us they appreciate having access to a real newspaper with relevant Waipā news.”
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