30 June 2023, Issue 1166 ** Turn to pages 8-9 for commemorative event details for the 60th anniversary of New Zealand’s worst domestic air accident, plus how another part of the DC-3 has been brought ‘home’ this week, and a witness account of the wreckage of Flight 441 in the Kaimai Range six decades ago.
Western Bay of Plenty residents have front seats to watch the best Kiwi gymnasts tumble, dance, jump, twist their bodies and master apparatus at 2023’s New Zealand Gymnastics Championships next week. The championships will showcase NZ’s best gymnasts across the five codes – aerobics, men’s and women’s artistic,
rhythmic, and trampoline gymnastics – all under one roof at Mercury Baypark from July 5-8. Among Tauranga-based gymnasts to compete is Adelle King, pictured, with Provincial National’s Committee member Jana Bennett saying having the event return to Tauranga for the first time since 2018 has got Bay
of Plenty’s 52 competitors fired up and very excited to participate in front of family and the community at home. However, with only four weeks to prepare, it also brings more pressure to perform. Find out more and, how you can get along with watch the breath-taking spectacle that is competitive gymnastics, on page 17. Photo: John Borren.