Malcolm Gayfer

From the Farming Desk – Good News! A major international competition is coming to the southern regions. New Zealand has been chosen to host The World Ploughing Championships, but we’ll have to wait a bit before it comes around….these championships will be held in 2028. The World Ploughing Champs wil

Hi there team. A follower of this column just let me know that today is the 34th anniversary of the release of Bon Jovi’s monumental album Slippery When Wet. The album blasted through what was going around at the time and became one of the biggest things going in the late 80’s and still sells […]

Hiya team, as you’ve gathered by the headline, Split Enz album True Colours turns 40 this year! In my opinion this work should on anyone’s list of top albums. Every track is a pure gem…..no weak links. This was Split Enz’s finest hour. To cap the birthday celebrations the remixed version is No 1 on

Hi there team, welcome to another month of Mal’s Music Memory’s with Little Fire MusicWorks. As it’s August it’s Novelty Songs that made it big or maybe not so big as the case may be. They don’t seem to make novelty songs anymore….. But let’s start as we mean to go on with two of […]

Wheels are starting to turn with the job of relocating the old Mataura Railway Station building. In June last year whatsoninvers reported that the Gore District Council voted to buy the old building from KiwiRail for $1. The building was surplus to requirements for KiwiRail although they still have

Hiya team, here we are at the end of July. We’ll wind up our series of Mal’s Music Memory – 50 Years Ago 1970 with a couple of Kiwi Crackers. A few notes from New Zealand history on what happened here in Godzone in 1970 – Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister. Winston Peters said the […]

A good ol’ fashioned town hall pre-election meeting. One way to describe Friday’s gathering at the Invercargill WorkingMen’s Club with the Right Hon. Winston Peters. The meeting attracted good numbers, in fact very good numbers considering it was a work day and the weather hardly favourable. The lea

Hiya team. How’s the week been treating you? We’ll keep on keepin’ on looking back at the songs that made it big in 1970 – 50 years ago. First up it’s English band Mungo Jerry who took the world by storm with In The Summertime. Incidentally the song has been rerecorded with Mungo’s frontman and […]