Malcolm Gayfer

From the Sports Desk. Hi there team. Another supa-dupa weekend of top level sports ahead of us and there’ll be an early start for many tomorrow (Sun) Possibly the biggest deal will be the Rugby League World Cup final between Samoa and Australia. That game is being played at The Old Trafford, Manches

A Billion dollar profit for Westpac NZ Westpac New Zealand made a billion-dollar full year profit, boosted by strong revenue growth and the sale of Westpac Life. Net profit $1.05b vs $931m up 12% Revenue $2.71b vs $2.46b up 10% Chief executive Catherine McGrath said the result put the bank in a stro

Armistice day today was marked in Invercargill this morning at bang on 1100hrs (11am) . Armistice Day goes back to the end of World War 1. Many, many Southlanders served in what was termed The Great War …On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. When the guns fell silent, we […]

Wow, and double Wow! Is this going to be the biggest sporting gig on our soil this year?  Reckon so. Tonight it’s the Rugby World Cup Women’s final between our Black Ferns and England, the Red Roses. One thing is a cert, it’ll be a double dip cracker. Eden Park is sold out with 40,000plus […]

Sky watchers get your cameras and binoculars for a lunar eclipse tonight (tues) A lunar eclipse happens when the moon travels through the Earth’s shadow. If the moon only partly makes it into the shadow, that’s a partial eclipse. In a total eclipse, the moon becomes fully immersed and takes on a red

Today is the big day for trotting and harness racing in NZ with the running of the IRT NZ Trotting Cup at Christchurch’s  Addington Raceway. (IRT stands for International Racehorse Transport.) IRT have instrumental in bringing some top Aussie trotters over for the race which has a stake of $600,000

Phew. Just when I thought that we’d covered most things going on in Invers I come across some more. Here’s a few to be going on with. As we’ve reported, work has started on the Hawthorndale Care Village. An entrance way is being created on Tay Street while this old beauty, the Hawthorndale Scout Hal

Two business’s that have a significant  presence in Invers are marking major milestones this weekend. Automotive parts company Repco are celebrating 100 years in the automotive game and still going strong. Repco started in a tin shed in Collingwood Australia and grew in to the Replacement Parts Comp