The Southland Tribune; Edition #160

Opinion: Six election night predictions to ponder/Spotlight on Southland Sport: Friday Edition/Australia’s iconic Draculas show opens in Invercargill/Extraordinary community volunteer honoured

Oct 12, 2023

Opinion: Six election night predictions to ponder
Spotlight on Southland Sport: Friday Edition
Australia’s iconic Draculas show opens in Invercargill
Extraordinary community volunteer honoured with award
Invercargill's important CCTV installation delayed
Today’s Poll… Who do you feel was the strongest in the final leaders debate?
Out & About… ILT Rugby Fan Zone

Opinion: Six election night predictions to ponder

We are a day out from election day when the country gets a chance to have its say on the makeup of the next Government. Tribune editor Logan Savory throws out six predictions on what might happen following election day. How many will stick? (READ MORE HERE).

Spotlight on Southland Sport: Friday Edition

In today’s edition, we highlight the key All Blacks selection news through the eyes of a Southlander. We also catch up with 23-year-old darts star Kayden Milne ahead of the ILT Southland Darts Masters this weekend, we take a look at the 3x3 Cup basketball draw, as well as report on the NZ and Australia teams named for the event in Invercargill. On top of that, we also bring you another Magic Moment in our athletics series. (READ MORE HERE).

Australia’s iconic Draculas show opens in Invercargill

Australia’s iconic vaudevillian variety show Draculas has opened in Invercargill with the first of four shows at the Civic Theatre preformed on Thursday night. Following Australia Dracula’s: The Resurrection Tour is visiting Auckland, Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. (READ MORE HERE).

Extraordinary community volunteer honoured with award

Raewyn Black’s extraordinary contribution to her community has been recognised with a Community Service Award. The Gropers Bush volunteer has been deeply involved in a long list of organisations and activities in Western Southland for more than 40 years. (READ MORE HERE).

Invercargill's important CCTV installation delayed

“While we originally hoped to have stage one of the CCTV installation underway in December, we are now committed to commencing work in April 2024 with a go-live date of June 2024.” (READ MORE HERE).

Note from the Editor….

There will be a change of tact on Sunday folks. Our usual Spotlight on Southland Sport: Sunday Special will be taking a breather.

Instead, we’ll be sending out a Tribune election special where we will take a look at how election day unfolded on Saturday. In particular how the deep south electorates played out.

Quick Quiz… (World Cup Special)

Which primary school did All Black Damian McKenzie attend in Southland?
Leicester Rutledge was part of the coaching group of what country in the lead-up to the 2003 World Cup?
Southland physiotherapist Karl McDonald worked for which country at the current World Cup in France?
How many points did Simon Culhane score for the All Blacks against Japan at the 1995 World Cup?
Name the former Southland Stags first five-eighth who played for Samoa at the current World Cup?
(SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR ANSWERS)

Today’s Poll…

Out & About…

ILT Rugby Fan Zone - Invercargill Central - Oct 14 to Oct 29

Immerse yourself in the world of rugby at the ILT Rugby Fan Zone, a collaboration between Great South, Invercargill City Council, ILT, Invercargill Central, and Rugby Southland.

This activation will be located on the ground floor of Invercargill Central, between Majestic and Bánh Mì, from the 14th to the 29th of October. This coincides with the quarterfinals to finals period of the Rugby World Cup. The Fan Zone will be open throughout this period for the same hours as Invercargill Central mall (Monday - Saturday 9.00am to 6.00pm, Sunday 10.00am to 5.00pm) and filled with a bunch of fun, family-friendly activities such as colouring in walls, puzzles, memory games, photo boards, and more.

Great South and Rugby Southland are also running a series of interactive rugby-themed activations on weekends to keep the kids entertained.

The first is a Rugby Ball Biscuit Icing on Saturday, 14 October. Freshly made, delicious rugby ball-shaped biscuits will be provided for participants to ice in their own creative style with handy icing pens.

Schedule:

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In case you missed it…

Reduction in voting age? A couple of Invercargill city councillors have suggested 16 and 17-year-olds brains simply are not developed enough to warrant lowering the voting. Although it’s received some push back. (READ MORE HERE).

Southland’s newest world champion: “I started off as the slow one in a corporate pursuit team having not done much exercise at all for the previous decade. But I really enjoyed the speed of sprinting on the velodrome and got hooked.” (READ MORE HERE)

Quiz Answers….

Edendale Primary School 2. Italy 3. Japan 4. 45 points 5. Lima Sopoaga