Lot 24 R705 sold on Friday for $92,500 – a record-breaking bull price for the South Island.
The sellers, the Giddings family of Meadowslea Farm in Fairlie, began breeding Angus cattle in the 1980s and say their bulls usually sell for around $10,000.
The bull was bought by a breeder in the Wairarapa.
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Perhaps the Wellington-centred media, who have been promulgating the idea that New Zealand is stuck in a slough of despond, need to get out more. The world’s always going to look miserable from a dyspeptic capital that is itself mired in the doldrums.
As anyone who has used public transport knows, it’s a bit of a horror show. Hence it’s refreshing to see a journalist, a senior writer for the New Zealand Herald, no less, in agreement. Did you hear? Auckland has invented train travel. Last month, the new City Rail
The victory has secured her place at the 75th Miss Universe competition in Puerto Rico in November, 43 years after Lorraine Downes won the international title in 1983.
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Dai Henwood died holding the hands of his family in Auckland Hospital on Tuesday morning.
The word for today is… effrontery (noun) - : shameless boldness : insolence Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : To the Romans, the shameless were "without forehead," at least figuratively. Effrontery derives from Latin effrons, a word that combines the prefix ex- (meaning "out" or "without") and frons (meaning
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart:
